The kind people over at Theater in Chicago had us in for a chat about our new show: That Sordid Little Story!
Check out the entire show in the audio section of the That Sordid Little Story page, and you should also check out Theater in Chicago page for Sordid.
If you live in Chicago or any other city with Groupon, you know how awesome they are. Well they are even more awesome because they are sponsoring a special fundraiser just for The New Colony! Holy smokes, that goes out to more than half a million people. This is BIG!
Basically, they are doing a fundraiserer campaign, through The Point (Groupon’s Daddy company) to help us get to New York for the Fringe Festival. In return we will be doing a special performance of our show Hears Full of Blood (formerly Calls To Blood) ONLY for people who donate via The Point. It will be on Sunday August 15 at 3:00pm and todays Groupon Side-Deal, Sweet and Savories, will be providing us with a catered reception! So you can think of it as less a donation and more like buying a ticket early. Which is a good idea because there are only 3 performances.
And those of you in NYC, we will be running August 24-29, I hope you will come out.
So if you are in Chicago, please donate and come see the show join us for the reception. There will also be a show on August 13 and 14, but those won’t have the reception. And if you are not in Chicago and you work for a theater company, maybe you will donate and then hire us to come do a show there!
So here are the details on how you can help:
*To get the details visit today’s side deal and scroll down to the SUPPORT LOCAL THEATER on the right hand side. Click it and then i’m sure you will figure it out. CLICK HERE FOR GROUPON!!!!
*Forward on the link and tell your peeps that a really amazing theater company needs your help…and your friend/relative/co-worker works for them.
*Post us on your facebook wall if you are so inclined
*After today, if you want to direct people to the campaign or visit yourself, go here:CLICK HERE FOR THE POINT CAMPAIGN!
We are all really excited about this show. It was one of our most exciting and successful shows to date and we can’t wait to share it with New York. Oh, and if you can’t give anything right now, don’t feel bad, but visit thenewcolony.org and check out what we are up to.
That Sordid Little Story is up, and the the reviews are flooding in! Here’s what the folks are saying:
NewCity-
“Could The New Colony’s “That Sordid Little Story” be one of the best original musicals that Chicago has produced in years? I certainly think so…dramatically gripping, musically soaring and oftentimes emotionally devastating…“That Sordid Little Story” is a brilliant piece of total theater, and if there’s any justice in the world it will have a long life beyond Chicago. See it here first.”
Read Full Review Here
Steadstyle Chicago-
“Never have I experienced such a moving theatrical experience as I did watching The New Colony’s world premiere of “That Sordid Little Story”...This show has a score that is just as solid as any other and has a unique perspective that is hard to find in the mainstream. Am I saying that “That Sordid Little Story” would be a huge Broadway success? I don’t know. Should some producer give this show one hell of a good chance? Absolutely.”
Read Full Review Here
Chicago Reader-
“I’ve seen most of the handful of productions The New Colony has mounted and haven’t been sorry yet…The company members are talented, clever, charming, and skilled—a solid percentage of them exceptionally so. They communicate a sense of ensemble rapport that makes everything they do more interesting.”
Read Full Review Here
Chicago Critic-
“New Colony is quickly becoming a fine theatre troupe deft at storytelling with a fresh voice and fine production values. That Sordid Little Story is wonderful storytelling with outstanding original bluegrass tunes. This is the discovery of the summer – don’t miss it! You’ll love the surprise ending.”
Read Full Review Here
Chicago Theater Blog-
“This is a four-star score, lyrically and melodically. Heart-wrenching at times, uplifting at others,”
Read Full Review Here
The New Colony is spring cleaning on June 12th. Teaming up with the folks at Nettelhorst school, their combined rummage sale equals buried treasures for you and some much needed closet space for them.
What: Yardless Yardsale at Nettelhorst School
Date: Saturday, June 12th
Rain Date: June 13th
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location : Nettelhorst School, Back Play Lot: 3252 North Broadway Street (Broadway at Aldine)
Our good friends at Collaboraction are once again hosting The New Colony and several other fantastic Chicago artists for their annual Sketchbook Festival. Those of you not familiar with this awesomely good time should jump on this opportunity. It starts up June 10th at the Chopin Theatre with 8pm performance times. This year, Collaboraction will be debuting the X Pass in lieu of tickets. The X PASS provides unlimited access to every performance throughout the run with the exception of closing night. The X PASS is $25 for the general public and $20 for students. More Ticket Info Here!
We’re pretty excited to be presenting a very powerful story about five lesbians eating a quiche and we’re calling it….. Five Lesbians Eating A Quiche! It’s devised by Evan Linder and starring Sarah Gitenstein, Mary Hollis Inboden, Meg John, Beth Stelling, and Maari Suorsa. For a complete listing of all the shows at this years Sketchbook, click the link below.
Poster Image from TNC’s Sketchbook 9 entry, A Domestic Disturbance at Little Fat Charlie’s 7th Birthday
On Saturday May 15th, we launched our website to the internet. It took many diagrams and a long time to build, but we are proud of it’s construction. Our website’s construction is so sound and its exterior is so durable, that it will apparently not be returning from its voyage to the internet. It has ejected the tubes that bring it back inside. If you are in your e-mail or another internet reading platform, and you see http://www.thenewcolony.org typed there, this “hyper-link” will take you to wherever in the internet thenewcolony.org currently is. We ourselves will be checking our website’s status often via this “hyper-link” to the internet. If you’d like to do the same, feel free to use this “hyper-link” for yourself. It will be difficult to ever truly pinpoint at any given moment where in the internet the website is, but you should always be able to see it and the new messages we are sending by using http://www.thenewcolony.org. While we may never again know where our website is, we should always be able to know when it is: now. New words, pictures, videos, and other messages will be delivered to the internet via http://www.thenewcolony.org on a regular basis. Please enjoy.
