Here's one more from Elliot. One of my favorite poses from this production, which started us off really well.

I'm deeply grateful for the legacy this show initiated.

Charlie

Wow… MORE photos from Elliot.

Come on, folks… I KNOW you have TONS of photos to upload here… and NO I'm not going to upload them for you!

Now's the time. Add what you have!

Charlie

Friends,

The Great Dr. Elliot must have had a photophobia tonight. Uploading images is SO simple here in our Archive.

Here are the first few images he sent to me tonight.

Charlie

This is an image that made up the bulk of a poster for Jesus Christ Superstar put on in Cohen Auditorium in 2000.

Here's how to upload photos:

1. When you login to the software, click on Write (just as you do to post a blog) and scroll down to "Upload."

2. Click the Browse Button to find the photo on your own computer. I know jpgs work… not sure about others.

3. I also know that there is a Size Restriction and though I've seen the warning message telling me the size is too big, I've never found the location to change that requirement, so for now we're stuck with it. I usually resize to under 400 pixels as my longest side, and then let the software show the thumbnail within the article but a larger version if someone clicks on it. I have better examples of this at http://www.StageMagazineOnline.com/reviews for the review of State Fair. Clearly photos larger than this can be uploaded, as is already seen on the site… but this is a good target.

4. Once the image is uploaded you will see some options and a "Send to Editor" button. I leave the options as Thumbnail and File (so that the image in the article stays small and the images stay "attached" to your article and are always available for you to add or take off later).

5. Clicking "Send to Editor" puts the code of the image into the on-site wordprocessor and will display your photo at the top. You CAN change the location of your photos within an article, but that will take more practice so it's best to leave them there for now.

OK…. now just to show you how to start an article in email and let people read it on the site, I've put this whole article on the site. Usually you publish an article, get the "permalink" code and paste it in the article at a key point so that people will read the beginning of your article and then transfer to the site to finish it. Then they may leave comments and we'll never lose all of the thoughts that usually would go back and forth in emails and then are lost forever.

Like the chatter about helping to fund TTII…. unless someone is really good at keeping old emails, most of that give-and-take will be lost. And certainly years from now NO ONE will know what people said because the emails are not available to them.

So… let's try it next time. Write your thoughts into the site, click on Permalink to get the code, and then go write a short email to "the list" which ends with the Permalink. People can read the article (even if they haven't signed up yet) and leave a comment about it. Great way to get all of this online archiving hopping!

And remember: always "sign" your article at the end. Several articles on the site only show the login of the person who wrote the article and that doesn't always tell your friends who you are. And if you want to include up to two links in your "signature file" below your name, go ahead… let us know what you are up to!

Charlie Seymour, Jr.
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I have a surprising number of production materials from my time at Tufts stored on my computer for no clear reason. I lost a large number of items in the dreaded computer crash of 2003 (no more Rocky Horror pictures, alas), but I'll post some of the items that I still have and find interesting in due course. I'll start with a poster from West Side Story, spring 2001:

When I was at Tufts (1992-1997), my first introduction to Torn Ticket II was that first week at orientation.  Narnia was the orientation musical, and I was hooked.  I did a little help for Godspell that first semester (okay, I helped put in and break down the set, nothing spectacular, but I know they needed the help), and then got cast in the spring department production, which that year just happened to be a musical:  The Threepenny Opera.

Even though I was in the Tufts/NEC double-degree program and therefore had very little free time, I still spent every free minute near Balch Arena Theatre over the next five years, and indeed ended up with a Drama degree rather than the Biology degree I originally thought I could swing.  During my time at Tufts, I filled the roles of costume designer/consultant, music director, stage director, and actor.  There was even one night, during the final dress rehearsal for Once On This Island, that our Ti Moune lost her voice completely, and we had no understudy, so I sang her part from the pit while conducting the orchestra as the actress lip-synched on stage.

My core set of friends made up the board of Torn Ticket II, and we were all very gung-ho about trying to keep the flagging group in business.  We tried to stretch the envelope and bring new students, not people necessarily in the Drama track, into our fold.

Nowadays, I no longer do so much musical theater as just plain music with a little theater.  I sing professionally in choruses in Philadelphia and New York, and in fact, I will be performing in a concert version of an opera called Sancta Susanna by Hindemith with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti.  Here are the performance dates and times (all performances are at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center):

Thursday, June 7, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 9, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

It's not musical theater, that's for sure, but it still will be a night filled with drama.  But you should come see it and support a fellow Torn Ticket II-er!

- Maren Montalbano ('97)

Here are the comments I made at the Reunion on April 22, 2007.

Friends,

Have you ever gone to a reunion? Were you filled with a bit of trepidation along with anticipation?

I sure was over the weekend of April 21, 22, 2007.

Elliot Rosenstein, Dave Hastings, and current Board President Brie Graber arranged a GREAT weekend for us… and all the present students were great to meet and they performed with super energy on Sunday afternoon.

To see Kate, G. Peter, Ross, John, Dave, Elliot, Anne, Janet, former roommate and fellow-founding-board-member, Tom, and so many others from our first year was head-spinningly awesome. (Do you get the idea I had a great time?)

And the theater looked great and the campus even more beautiful than I remembered (some new buildings are beautiful too). And the facilities that are now on campus for the arts are almost overwhelming!

I'll add my recorded comments when I download them from my iPod.

Who knew all those years ago how this would go on? We HOPED it would, and from seeing the talent on campus, it's in GREAT hands.

Pax et Lux.

As our Muse, Stephen S., has told us: Friends this long has to mean something's strong……
We now have a new venue to continue that friendship and, especially for those still interested in theater, to keep up-to-date on events in the theater world.

More information will be forthcoming.