Photo by Dylan Jon Wade Cox
This odd foray into internalized stereotypes and personal psychological hangups has a script which bounces from a park to a nightclub to the 1920’s to an upscale restaurant, so my sound design had to be similarly dexterous. I used a modern jazz style to introduce and frame the whole thing, and then individual scenes got what they needed, be it thumpa-thumpa or the Charleston. I also wrote “The Dance of the Seven Lettuces” (Apologies to R. Strauss), for the dance scene, and a “Saladfall” number for descending lettuce. The preshow and intermission cues were variously about salad or relationship problems, or both. It is, in fact, as odd a play as it sounds, but it turned out to be hilarious fun.
Urbanite’s page for Women Laughing Alone With Salad is here.
Talkin’ Broadway had a lovely review (despite spelling my name wrong) here!
A Play by Sheila Callaghan
Directed by Ria Cooper
Set Designer – Jeff Weber
Lighting Design – Ryan E. Finzelber
Projections and Video – Daniel Kelly
Costume Design – Frank Chavez
Properties Design – Marlene Whitney
Stage Manager – Amanda LaForge