"More Fog, Please": 31 Years Directing Community and High School Musicals - Softcover

Jordan, Susan Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517585074 ISBN 13: 9781517585075

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

“More Fog, Please” – 31 Years Directing Community and High School Musicals -- is exactly that, memories of over thirty of the eighty musical theater shows Susan Moore Jordan directed from 1984 to 2015. “There’s no question where the buck stops in a theater production,” Jordan says, but she adds, “There are many people mentioned in these pages, because none of these shows could have happened without them.” Each chapter begins with the “Director’s Note” that appeared in the printed program for the show, and Jordan informally discusses the productions. She highlights the events – some exciting, some stressful, some humorous, some anxious, some frightening, some sad – that confirmed the old saying “the show must go on.” Woven throughout the book are “adventures” with stage fog, which the author loved to use. An intriguing look into the world of amateur theater and the people who make it happen, from one director’s point of view.

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About the Author

After growing up in the unique town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Susan Moore Jordan attended the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati as a vocal performance major. She also served on the administrative staff of the Edgecliff Academy of Fine Arts and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. In 1971 she moved with her late husband, a tenor, and three young children to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Several years later, she established a private voice studio that has sent its students on to leading schools of music and opera or musical theater companies around the world. Jordan began directing musical productions for community groups and high schools in 1984 and directed eighty shows through 2015. In October 2013, she published her first novel, How I Grew Up, followed by Eli's Heart in June, 2014, and You Are My Song, published in January, 2015. All of her novels are drawn from her life experiences as a voice teacher and stage director and are inspired by real people she has encountered.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517585074
• ISBN 13: 9781517585075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192