Lucky, Lucky Me

Maya - one of the three performers for this piece is a teacher and is currently on her summer break. This means her schedule is free and clear until school's back in session in August. Ding!

On Monday, we're meeting to do a preliminary rehearsal (maybe more to come) to start to feel out the movement and ideas we're going to work with.

Maya, Teresa, Anne and I also discussed rehearsal schedules hopefully being on Sunday (late)mornings or Wednesday evenings. The main objective is to bang this out in 2-3, 4 months tops. Then we can put it in our pocket to keep for later.

I am also fortunate to have a couple of friends who are incredibly talented in their lines of work and that seem willing to lend themselves to wrapping this project up in a nice little bow. We're talking RESOURCEFUL to the max!

We Got Something Coming in the Mail!

It's a Classic Bread & Baking Industry Film and Commercials film from the 1930's and 1940's, brought to yours truly form some person in Michigan who's got a stockpile of them on eBay. I hope there are good images, jingles or instructions on baking techniques. To be sure, it's definitely a crapshoot...but, we shall see.

This is an image from the posting. The others were gigundo and blurry.

Included:

In the Dough (1931)-A film all about baking the perfect loaf of bread. You'll learn all you want to know after this reel. All about diastases, Lintner's tests, and dough fermentation. this is a riot for bakers, a head scratcher for everyone else.

Baking Industry, The (1946)- Vocational film about careers in baking.

Wonder Bread Commercial
County Fair Bread Commercial
Fischers Bread Commercial
Sunbeam Bread Commercial

Sadly it's all about bread and not at all about our beloved cakes and baking thereof, but an educational film at the very least!

What?What? What's that you say?

Ah yes, please let me explain.

Bake You A Cake will be a performance equipped with sweet, sweet treats, the baking thereof, delightful dishes, trays and jars in bright colors and an old fashioned radio. To be performed by three lovely ladies dressed in their finest baking dresses and a much needed apron. Music is yet to be determined, but will likely involve old commercials and at least three pieces of music.

I just don't quite know yet.

Please to Have

One more cake stand in green preferably. White would also do.
Already have one bright blue and one white fancy falutin one.
Need three total. One for each lady baking a cake.

The Cake is Decidedly So

In a recent trip to New Mexico on a Southwest flight, I perused the SkyMall catalogue like any good airway traveller.

What, you say, did I find in the fabulous catalogue full of lawn furniture, ornamental rocks for your unsightly garden hose nozel, and nose hair trimmers?

Nothing short of a cake pan in the shape of a giant cupcake!

This cake pan is destined to be our ending product for Bake You a Cake.

First I must purchase said pan and do many experiments to determine it's (and my) ability to bake a decent looking (and tasting) baked good in an oddly shaped situation. But, do not fear, we are both learned in our abilities of baking goods and baking the goods and we shall not fail.