For those of you who haven’t seen this on my YouTube Channel or Facebook Page, here is my one act play “A Date with an Anime Princess” that was performed at Carrollwood Players. It was part of their One Act Weekend on August 25 – 28, 2011.
My 10 minute play “A Date with an Anime Princess” will be presented by Carrollwood Players as part of their One Act Weekend on August 26 – 28, 2011.
The backstory for the play involves Princess Luna Kitty, a fictional anime series about a schoolgirl who is also a warrior princess. Sound familiar? I wanted to write a comedy and “Anime Princess” is what came out.
Of course, an anime needs a theme song, so I wrote one. A couple of verses of the song is sung by one of the characters in my play, and although it’s sung a capella, I wrote the melody. Actually, I went all out and created the entire song with orchestration.
I thought it came out good, but I’m biased. I hope it’s okay. It is meant to be simple and silly – just right for a Saturday morning cartoon show – no offense to anime fans.
So much for that idea. I received ONE (1) – yes, count it, one response for my request for feedback about "Legacy".
I have come to the conclusion that asking for favors on blogs and social networks like Facebook does not work. You may get one or two responses, but that’s nothing when you are talking about a network of hundreds. It would seem that the old-fashioned, face-to-face method works best when asking people to take action.
This is not just from personal experience. I’ve seen others on Facebook begging for others to do them some small service and from the repeated postings, it seems only a few respond. I’m not sure yet if this is a good or bad thing. It just seems to indicate that when asking for a favor, personal interaction in real life is the best method.
As far as the feedback on "Legacy" The person who did respond (Thanks, Mary Ann) had very good instincts. I wrote the short play as an experiment for a much larger project I hope to write. You’ll probably see references to the "Solar Flair Series" at some point.
"Legacy" does have a few problems. Because it’s about a much larger story, the characters are not well developed, and the action seems rushed. I could rewrite it to fix this, and it would make the one act longer, but I’m not sure I want to do that, since it’s going to be part of a much larger drama anyway.
For now, I’ll just set the play aside.
I have had trouble getting other projects started this week. I did do some work on an idea about the very first Cinderella story (its Egyptian), but I’m worried there might be some racial themes in the story that today’s America might not be able to deal with, especially since I’m writing the play for young actors. I’ll see if I can remove any offending themes, but I think it lessens the story’s overall impact.
Some of you may know that a short one act play (more like a 10 minute play) I wrote has been selected to be produced as part of Carrollwood Players’ One Act Weekend. "A Date with an Anime Princess" will be performed, along with seven other one acts, on August 26 – 28, 2011.
What most people don’t know is that "Anime Princess" was my second submission for the event. The first play I sent in was entitled "Legacy". From what I have heard, it was also going to be selected to be performed, but when I sent in the second play, the committee decided that it was a better choice.
I am currently working on several plays and working on an outline for a possible performing arts programs for young people. However, no one is going to see anything I’ve created until the last weekend in August, and I want to get my name out there now. I want to show that I can write plays that my target group wants to perform and audiences want to see.
I can’t judge that entirely on my own. I would like others to give me some feedback on my work. So, what I’ve decided to do is to put "Legacy" online for a short time. I invite you to read it and let me know what you think.
I know I may be shooting myself in the foot by doing this. Someone could copy the play and use it or even claim it as their own, but more importantly, you could find that I’m a terrible writer.
Anyway, before I give you the link:
Mean, Ugly, Legal, Stuff
NOTICE: "Legacy" is a copyrighted work. I, Robert J. Moran, own all rights to the script and using it in any way without my permission is a violation of United States copyright law. Just because something is published on the Internet does not make it public domain. If you use my play without my permission, I shall take every action available to me by law to make you pay for it.
Okay, now that that’s over, let me say, I’d probably give anyone permission, although it will cost you (I’ve heard up to 1000 cents!).
You can view or download a PDF of "Legacy" here. (THE DOCUMENT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE!)
If you find it interesting, or you think you might like to produce it with your theatre group or class, please let me know. I have several other plays already written and am working on many more. Some are short one acts like this; others are longer scripts.
This script will only be online for a short time. Perhaps, I’ll publish others online for you to read, but we’ll see how this goes first.
If you’re looking for local Tampa Bay theatre news and the show and audition calendar, it’s all been moved to its own website. Please visit Tampa Bay Callboard and be sure to bookmark it. You’ll find an updated calendar with new options, and more features are in development.
This website (BobMoran.com) will revert back to my own personal blog. You might want to be sure to bookmark the new site, because once this becomes personal, you may not want to see some of the things I write here. I sometimes go on long rants, and since I’m an atheist hermit, many of my opinions differ from the majority. Just giving you fair warning 
I do hope to start blogging about my journey towards becoming a writer/playwright/children’s artistic director. I’m working on plays and other projects. Hopefully, I can come up with some useful scripts for teachers, community theatres, and other organizations and people running performing arts programs.
On Friday, July 1st, I published a new website called The Tampa Bay Callboard. The Theatre events like shows and auditions notices that have appeared on the Calendar page here on my blog will now be listed on the show calendar at that website.
If you click on the Calendar link above, you’ll now be redirected to the new Show Calendar on the new site. It is color coded, so you’ll be able to easily tell the difference between auditions and shows. You can even choose to view different categories of events separately.
Theatre news and events for the Tampa Bay area will no longer appear here, but on the new website. I hope those of you who came here to visit will bookmark the new site and visit it often.
I can now go back to using this blog to rant and rave about personal manners. Actually, I’ll be writing about my attempts to be a playwright and start a children’s theatre program. I hope you’ll follow my progress.
Thank you for your support thus far.
Director Crystal Solana will be holding a second round of auditions
for West Coast Player’s first show of our 2011-12 season, the comedy
“The Constant Wife”, by Somerset Maugham, on Saturday, June 25, 11am.
Production dates are August 12-28. The cast consists of a total of
five women and four men – to be cast:
Barbara Fawcett – F, 40
Mrs Culver – F, 60′s and up
Bentley – M, over 50: typical British butler
John Middleton – M, 44: A successful surgeon and philandering husband
Bernard Kersal – M, 45: successful businessman and former suitor of
Constance
Mortimer Durham – M, 40: (a fabulous small role) He becomes aware of
his wife’s affair with John and makes a scene!
Maugham’s popular comedy of modern manners espouses that so long as a wife is supported by her husband she must remain faithful, but when the tables are turned freedom becomes the currency with which both must pay.
For more information please visit our web site, www.wcplayers.org,
email wcplayers[at]gmail.com, or call 727-437-2363.
The theatre is located at 21905 US 19 North: U.S. 19 to Drew Street.
Turn east toward Best Buy. Turn north at light at Best Buy. Follow
access road around & turn right into first group of units
Masque Community Theatre in Temple Terrace is offering an “Evening of Workshops” this Saturday from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. The workshops are being held at the company’s black box theater, located at 8917 N. 56th Street.
Four workshops are being conducted simultaneously:
The cost for a workshop is $10.00. The community theatre group is asking that anyone interested in attending a workshop RSVP via email: info (at) masquetheatre.net.
Details can be found on Masque’s Facebook Group Page.
Due to popular demand, American Stage Theatre Company announced another Tuesday “Pay What You Can Night” for Tony Award winner Terrence McNally’s romantic comedy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, on June 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Each year, the professional theatre companies in the Tampa area hold unified auditions. This event gives local actors the opportunity to audition for most of the area’s paying theatre compaies at one time.
The companies involve are Gorilla Theatre, New American Theater, Stageworks, freeFall Theatre, American Stage, Spanish Lyric Theatre, Eckerd Theater Company, Blue Scarf Collective, and A Simple Theatre, with possibly others being added before the audition date. These companies pay their actors, many of whom are members of Equity.
This year’s auditions will be held on July 9, 2011 at HCC’s Performing Arts Building, on East Palm Avenue between 14th & 15th Streets in Tampa (Ybor City). Actors must register for an audition time. Registration information, rules, and instructions can be found on Facebook and the New American Theater Company website.