"Director Robert Buseick has assembled a cast of 24 student and community actors for this production."
"Seven of the eight actors in our ensemble"
ANGEL: I've got seemingly endless financial resources? Of course that angel is going to fly! I'll strap a jet pack on her and make it look like magic angel dust if I want to. Seriously though, it's a very pivotal moment and deserves as much spectacle as possible.
"So the angel got stuck in the fly rail"
"The only real problems with the show are the visual effects that ANGELS requires. City Lights simply doesn't have the space or the money to pull it off."
NUDITY: If I'm putting up Angels in America, then I know this is not a family affair. It is a brutal, offensive, and true play. I wouldn't have it any other way. If you can't take the human body- the one everybody is born with- then go see something else.
"When I suggested dropping the nudity, we discussed the context of the medical examination in which it occurred and concluded that the rest of the play romanticized AIDS too much. Without a visual encounter with the humility of real physical exposure and ravaging disease, the audience would not "get" the truth."
"Reverend Joseph R. Chambers publicly denounced the play, threatening to have the cast arrested for "indecent exposure.""
LANGUAGE: Fuck that. No one so dares as touches the script with bowdlerizing thoughts.
Maybe the character is established with these words. Without them, the audience may get the wrong idea.
"... explicit dialogue still rankled me. It is the one scene in our production that I did not feel I had adequately solved as a director, though I believe the students were right to insist upon it."
"This play is filled with vulgarity, filled with explicit scenes, filled with unsafe sex," Chambers spewed when contacted by the New York Times.
INTERMISSIONS: Two intermissions will work.We don't want the audience getting antsy after all. An intermission between Act II and III works well because Act III is three days later. An intermission after Act I is good because it has the audience leaving on a very powerful line, and the audience coming back to a very powerful moment.
"I stood outside during the intermissions"
"...the one intermission"
