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Grant Malcolm · 6 April 2008
UPDATE 4/4/2026: Test UPDATE 13/5/2008: The migration is all but finished. There will be another outage in the early hours of Thursdy morning and perhaps some tuning over the next few days. Othe…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 28 September 2006
For those struggling to plumb the depths of El's more cryptic than usual and most recent blog, I can cast some illumination on the murkier depths of pear-shaped hiccups. :-) I was in the midst of rehe…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 28 August 2006
... well, I wish. Casting for Cosi is, more accurately, almost complete. Complete enough that I figure I can publish the known cast list and just hope that the last remaining role will be confirmed in…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 21 August 2006
You'd think it would be a director's dream to be swamped with choices after a productive round of auditions but it really is a mixed blessing. I'm coming to the end of a couple of weeks of auditions f…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 20 August 2006
It's been genuinely exciting to have to add an extra evening of auditions to accommodate the interest of nearly fifty people looking to audition for Cosi and I can honestly say I've been having a ball…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 20 August 2006
A week later and it's time for round two of the auditions. Or, at least, the seond group of auditions. Earlier in the week, with the second week of auditions filling fast, we booked Monday 21 August i…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 13 August 2006
Morning of the first round of auditions. Woke early and been running through the checklists. Scripts? Check. Photocopies of some extracts? Check. List of today's auuditionees? Check. Mobile charged an…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 11 August 2006
... hmm ... if I'm not exactly a virgin director, what does that make me? Auditions are approaching at an extraordinary rate - this Sunday and next Sunday , note it in your diaries! - and althou…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 3 April 2006
I think anyone who's worked on some backstage aspect of a production knows the nature of the "snowball". What starts out as a simple-looking task that will take a short while to accomplish b…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 17 March 2006
Responses to the new website have been... mixed. A few have responded very enthusiastically while some other responses have bordered on abusive. But then, I know how I would feel if someone wandered i…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 16 March 2006
I must be nuts undertaking such a major upgrade with a new baby in the house! My beloved has demonstrated the patience of pantheon of saints, tolerating my swerving in the direction of our home PC at…
Read more →Grant Malcolm · 16 March 2006
Probably should be! This is the most significant update to this website in its eight year history and things are only partway there. But I'm plodding through all the issues that didn't show up during…
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