NBC Morning Show features "Love Negotiated"

For those of you not awake and watching tellie at 5:45am, then you missed our feature on NBC Early Morning News with Jason Austell. But no worries! Your loving A.D./Producer woke up at the ungodly hour of 4:00am and picked up your nervous-grumpy-not-a-morning-person-playwright Kevin Six and delivered him to the NBC Studios where our professional and chronically-early-everywhere-actress Savvy Scopelleti was waiting, and within moments we were joined by equally professional arriving-with-coffee-in-hand-actor Tom Hall. Phew. Ok Kevin, you can relax now!!!!

Just in case my camera wouldn't be allowed on set, we took this picture as we waited in the lobby for our escort to bring us into the studio:

(note how great everyone looks for 5:00 in the morning!)

We went down the hall of editing rooms and sound rooms and rounded the corner of newsroom cubicles and right into the live taping studio. I must have missed the red "on the air" light, because they were broadcasting live as we shuffled in and our host gathered chairs for us. Here's the co-anchor leading in to the weather update:



Speaking of lead-ins, or "teasers", that's just what they had our two actors do before the commercial break. Here's the tape from my angle, which was fun to watch as the camera man was having fun with their shot:



Well finally, the moment arrived, and they were ready to air the live interview! Just one thing though. Kevin had to get to his spot:



There, much better!



Ok, now everyone is in place and, it's GO TIME! (remember, it's all LIVE on air!)

First, Jason Austell interviews the playwright Kevin Six, who explains that the show is about lawyers, non-lawyers, and people just trying to figure out what love is. He says basically it's about relationships, and we hope that's funny!





So 30 seconds of that then a preview scene from the show by our talented actors. Fortunately for us, it just so happens that both Savvy and Tom have backgrounds in broadcasting, so they knew exactly how to stand, what to do, what to say, and how to get it all out in exactly 60 seconds. They were awesome. I mean, just look at them, they're naturals!





Notice behind them, outside, how dark it is? Yep, the sun had not even risen yet, and before you could even say "breakfast", it was a wrap!

So where's the tape of the actors doing the scene, you ask? Well, if you weren't up at 5:00am to watch it on tv for yourself, then you'll just have to come see the show!

Love Negotiated on TV

Love Negotiated will be the subject of a story on NBC 7/39's Morning News on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Now, here's the fun part. Actors Thomas Hall and Savvy Scopelleti are doing a scene from the show (one of the few that can be done on TV) and they're interviewing playwright Kevin Six.

We're on at5:35 a.m. So! Warm up the recording devices or look for a link here late Tuesday. We'll see you on TV!

Nasty Divorce

Here's a divorce settlement that would have all the lawyers in Love Negotiated working over time. Check it out.

Madoff investor Steven Simkin sues ex-wife for post judgment equitable distribution

Love Negotiated Takes Second Place

Tulsa, OK

The Heller Theatre has announced the winners for their 2008 Heller Theatre Playwriting contest. Love Negotiated by Kevin Six came in second. See the results here.

The management of the Heller Theatre a nice note detailing how Love Negotiated might take first place in 2009 and possibly be produced. The good news is that changes made for the upcoming San Diego production have already been made and will result in a crisper, better play and a possible future production.

Kate's Website

Kate's Website is done. Kate is a character in Love Negotiated. See it here:

Kathryn H. Kugelbrecher

Bonus points to anyone who can translate her last name...

Crunch time

So we're starting tech, technically this Saturday. Tech is always the most interesting time of a show, I feel, because here is where your ideas about a show and the reality of your space really meet for the first time. Having been in a few and seeing some big and small (done some backstage work at La Jolla Playhouse, Lamb's Players Theatre and San Diego Rep), it's always "interesting" to see how the show evolves at this point. Oh, yes, that idea about having that over there won't work because we can't move that light over because this thingy is blocking the light from the ceiling, yes, that thingy is the sprinkler system, and no we can't move it.

You need to have your sense of humor when going into tech.

As an actor, I know that I need to have my patience. I'm here for the designers so they can do their thing, their art, their vital contribution to the piece. Here is where the magic happens, the set emerges, the lights come up and tada, it all comes together.
Or not....
But regardless, we open on February 14th. That's the beautiful thing about theatre, one of the ONLY industries that has a deadline and meets it EVERY TIME. That curtain will rise, and there will be a show.
So whether the ideas about the thingies work or not, the light hangs this way or that way, or that curtain that was supposed to look like...well...whatever, it's happening.

And we're all a part of it.

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Here is the Love Negotiated Postcard/Flyer/Poster/E-mail

Love Negotiated Marketing Piece