The question of theatre blogging... - By N.L. Belardes
I was on Drama Rama a little bit ago and I read a post by Brian Lyons. If you don't know who Brian Lyons is, don't worry. Neither do I. What I do know about Drama Rama is that several people from the theatre community run the blog and use it more for promoting upcoming shows rather than writing articles and stories on actors, events, real life drama, rehearsals, etc. etc. With that said, here's Mr. Lyons post from June 20th. Yes, that is correct, from June 20th... that would be four days ago.
Just a note....I check this blog almost everyday for something new and interesting in Bakersfield Theatre, and.........nothing. I get nothing. Why aren't we all talking and getting to know each other? Why aren't we talking about what's going on in theatre? Nothing about the Tony Awards; Nothing about how great "Big, The Musical" at Spotlight was; Nothing about Helen Prine stepping in as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl", two and a half weeks before the show opened at Stars Theatre; Nothing about the waiting and anticipation for the opening and a review of The Empty Space's "Closer." It depresses me.
Anybody care to cheer me up with some Theatre fun?
Hold onto your buns, because there was a rather uneducated NASCAR response:
This is Bakersfield, NASCAR, Big trucks rule. We don't need no stinking culture. Now on the coast, they have a bit more interest. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, I hear that they are building a melodrama theatre out in Rosedale around Allen road. And recently at South High, there was lots of kid theatre, which apparently filled parking lots for a few days, great support! . This is hopeful, perhaps someday Bakersfield will be more than just big trucks.
There were some other responses too, including from Julie Jordan Scott who is the only consistent theatre blogger I have discovered on the scene. She cross promotes, cross examines, and generally has positive remarks (kind of like me, only much nicer).
With that said, here is my straightforward response to the Drama Rama theatre blog and why lately it's been a dismal information wasteland floating in the wide-open Bakersfield blogging sea:
Just a NASCAR town? That's bullshit. No it isn't. Yes why doesn't Drama Rama compete with www.nlbelardes.com? I would welcome it. I hit theatre now and then but mostly focus on music. It only takes one fired up person to blog consistently. But there is only one of me and many many many musicians and theatre folk. Theatre does have a lot going on, and surely many many stories to tell of shows, behind the scenes, actors, ideas, and so on... If I focused on theatre I could write five stories a day, easy... I hate to say it, but drama rama appears to be a political blog, run by the big politicians of local theatre, and perhaps those aren't the kind of people who get down on my level, in the trenches, where I talk about music, people, theatre, and so forth in stories about the common artist in each of us... in all reality there should be a hundred theatre blogs and a hundred music blogs all in a cacaphony of writings about the goings-on that we all know are happening even as I type....
Just a note....I check this blog almost everyday for something new and interesting in Bakersfield Theatre, and.........nothing. I get nothing. Why aren't we all talking and getting to know each other? Why aren't we talking about what's going on in theatre? Nothing about the Tony Awards; Nothing about how great "Big, The Musical" at Spotlight was; Nothing about Helen Prine stepping in as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl", two and a half weeks before the show opened at Stars Theatre; Nothing about the waiting and anticipation for the opening and a review of The Empty Space's "Closer." It depresses me.
Anybody care to cheer me up with some Theatre fun?
Hold onto your buns, because there was a rather uneducated NASCAR response:
This is Bakersfield, NASCAR, Big trucks rule. We don't need no stinking culture. Now on the coast, they have a bit more interest. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, I hear that they are building a melodrama theatre out in Rosedale around Allen road. And recently at South High, there was lots of kid theatre, which apparently filled parking lots for a few days, great support! . This is hopeful, perhaps someday Bakersfield will be more than just big trucks.
There were some other responses too, including from Julie Jordan Scott who is the only consistent theatre blogger I have discovered on the scene. She cross promotes, cross examines, and generally has positive remarks (kind of like me, only much nicer).
With that said, here is my straightforward response to the Drama Rama theatre blog and why lately it's been a dismal information wasteland floating in the wide-open Bakersfield blogging sea:
Just a NASCAR town? That's bullshit. No it isn't. Yes why doesn't Drama Rama compete with www.nlbelardes.com? I would welcome it. I hit theatre now and then but mostly focus on music. It only takes one fired up person to blog consistently. But there is only one of me and many many many musicians and theatre folk. Theatre does have a lot going on, and surely many many stories to tell of shows, behind the scenes, actors, ideas, and so on... If I focused on theatre I could write five stories a day, easy... I hate to say it, but drama rama appears to be a political blog, run by the big politicians of local theatre, and perhaps those aren't the kind of people who get down on my level, in the trenches, where I talk about music, people, theatre, and so forth in stories about the common artist in each of us... in all reality there should be a hundred theatre blogs and a hundred music blogs all in a cacaphony of writings about the goings-on that we all know are happening even as I type....
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