We're blogging some of the events in Prague HERE:

http://everydayperformance.wordpress.com/

We hope to get some better photos up soon, by which I mean things that aren't backlit, snapped from my phone.

The show opens tonight! Thanks for all your help! Be sure to think of us at 18:30 local time...

This was LAST WEEK'S update:

If we're supposed to send you a postcard or post a photo from one of the cities in which we're performing, we're going to need your information sooner rather than later at this point! We open in exactly two days (cue panicking... NOW!).

Send me your address or photo request at my personal email (if you've got it) or at contact@badsoviethabits.org if you don't.

See you at the show!

This is THIS WEEK'S update:

We opened LAST WEEK! I'm still trying to get the video footage together so that I can start thinking about editing together a DVD for the archives (and for the big backers - you know who you are!). Meantime, Andy jacked his shoulder in the OTHER show that he's in (that two-timing little...), so we're taking it easy in rehearsals this week.

Last night we discussed, considered, and ran some possible press shots for the MN Fringe, thanks to our stage manager Kelly who's pretty handy with a camera, turns out. Tonight we work trouble spots (like that transition where I left the props on the opposite side of the stage from where Andy needed them).

We've got TWO shows left in Milwaukee, and if you want a postcard FROM Milwaukee, you'd best get us your address ASAP. Contact@badsoviethabits.org is all you need.

see you at the Fringes!

Kurt

If we're supposed to send you a postcard or post a photo from one of the cities in which we're performing, we're going to need your information sooner rather than later at this point! We open in exactly two days (cue panicking... NOW!).

Send me your address or photo request at my personal email (if you've got it) or at contact@badsoviethabits.org if you don't.

See you at the show!

Your contributions really kick in on May 23 for Kurt and May 25 for Andy, when we board our respective planes, but we're starting everything off next Thursday, May 6 and getting our show into shape.

If you're local to us, we'd love to see you at the show!

This is a sort of pay-it-forward scenario.

I didn't know about Kickstarter until the good folks at The Hinterlands posted that they were seeking funds to produce their ambitious ISAAC NEWTON IS OUR DJ for their inaugural Milwaukee performance that took place last January. When Andy and I began working on THE HEART OF A DOG, we decided that we'd try and raise some funds this way as well. Not having any idea of what our parameters and expectations might be, we set our sights low and asked for a quarter of our overall budget, which you've all more than generously beat.

One of the people who donated is Jonathan West, who used to run a company in Milwaukee called Bialystock & Bloom. He closed the theater down just before I could direct Sam Shepard's GOD OF HELL on account of ever-declining ticket sales, which made many, many people in Milwaukee sad. Not least of which was me, because that would've been a great production.

Jonathan is now the managing director at the Sunset Playhouse, where he's quite happy, and he blogs irregularly at artsyschmartsy.com. Like me with The Hinterlands, he liked the idea of a micro-financing website and decided to give it a go. In just over 48 hours, his project "The Return of Something Great (It's Time To Have Fun Again)" has raised the $2,000 he needs to cover the rights to David Sedaris' THE SANTALAND DIARIES. So he and actor Tom Klubertanz are producing it again in December 2010.

Stoked.