Tag: 34 Days of Drama 3/4

Day 34: A.S.S. Stage to Screen

THIS PROGRAM IS INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. We made it! Holy crappoli, was this a crazy flip through the scrapbook. Or, like, twenty scrapbooks. Yes, it’s Day 34 of our 34 Days, and in covering everything we’ve covered, as much as we’ve mentioned A.S.S. (Another Showcase Showdown), we haven’t really given […]

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Day 33: COMING SOON from D34

As we near the end of our 34-day asset appraisal, we turn our attention to the future, and try to imagine what our industry will look like when the non-essential workers (us) get back to their non-essential work. It’s not an easy thing to predict. The paradigm is already shifting, and this campaign has even […]

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Day 32: Silent Story

“In the end, everything is a gag.” Charlie Chaplin Chaplin said this some years after the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, when the silent film industry was booming. Maybe all of us entertainers should think of this as a light at the end of the projection booth. Fast forward over ¾ of a century (that’s three-quarters, […]

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Day 31: Fortune Rookie

We’ve spent the last month (although, what is “time” anymore, really?) digging back as far as 1991 to reflect on the history of Drama 3/4, but today we only have to dig, like, a small, uh… like, scrape off the top layer. This is not a useful metaphor. What we’re saying is, Fortune Rookie came […]

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Day 30: Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Before he made The Basement and the Kitchen, David Fickas was honored to collaborate with Spiritsmanship Productions and the “Hands and Words Are Not for Hurting” Project to make a gripping, moving, educational short film about the ultimate price of domestic violence. The filmmakers chose not to approach the issue academically, but to let viewers […]

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Day 29: I Hate My 30’s

Exactly how the stars aligned for Drama 3/4 to have its first TV show is hard to say. It was partly due to our past work, especially Deliverance, the Musical, which had ended up on desks around MTV networks; our live show, A.S.S. (Another Showcase Showdown), which had recently relaunched bigger and better after TV […]

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