re: Nominations 	 Todd 	 3:09 am thursday november 1, 2001 
Don't worry--the best of no shame will be in the regular space--
plenty of intimacy for all.

And we are almost finished working out the archives--we'll post 
the lists soon, and be ready for the inevitable corrections.

Come to No Shame this week, as we will be talking to people about 
the best of lists too--we'll need to confirm availability.

Not everyone is putting contact info on their scripts, so please 
let's start--it also helps if you date them and put page numbers 
on them...

Todd

Best Of No Shame INFO 	 Todd Ristau 	 3:50 pm thursday november 1, 2001 
The 1st Charlottesville Best of No Shame is now locked in.

Performances will be on November 15th and 16th in the Lab Space 
at 8:00pm each night.  The order will be the same each night.  
Tickets will be $7.00.  On the Friday performance, the regular 
weekly No Shame will follow the BONS performance.

All scripts chosen to be part of the line up for BONS are the 
responsibility of the author's to "produce", neaning get your 
actors, props, etc.  You are called one hour before the 
performance (7:00) so that we can check you in.  You don't need 
to stay the whole hour before the show, but we need time to 
track you down if you don't show for the call.  Tracking down 
will be followed by butt kicking, so show up for the call.

There will be a dress rehearsal on Wednesday the 14th.  This is 
a closed rehearsal, and mostly a cue to cue to make sure that 
lights and transitions between pieces will be smooth.  Make sure 
you tape west wing, in case you don't get out soon enough to 
watch.  I suspect that there will be a field trip to Court 
Square following the rehearsal to "drum up business".

Please do spread the word about the BONS, we need this to be 
well attended.

Now...the business of the chosen ones.

This has been a really really hard process.  We got by email, 
the message board, and called in threats over 43 nominations.  
Given that we have been doing this every single week since April 
27th, there was a lot to choose from.  Also, we have a lot of 
people who do very good work week after week--some who do up to 
three pieces a week!  :)

A lot of factors are going into the choices, and unfortunately 
one of the big ones is the availablity of the authors and 
performers.  Many of our core No Shamers have left 
Charlottesville, so we won't be able to include those pieces.

We narrowed the list down to around 20 finalists.  Email me with 
support or threats over pieces we didn't include.  Everything 
will be given due consideration.

This list is not in any order of ranking, and not the order in 
which the pieces will be done on the night--we have to keep the 
show to two hours or less with no intermission.  This means that 
not everything on this list will make the final cut.  The really 
important thing is that if you or someone you know is on the 
list, they have to contact us IMMEDIATELY about whether or not 
they can perform on both dates AND attend the rehearsal.  

1)Jones--the bridge piece

ok,just kidding, you don't need to build two more bridges to 
destroy.

1) Best-Tomato #1
2) Ristau-Mortichi Krabel, semi-professional Jesus impersonator
3) Hays-The Leg (1st Prop Piece)
4) Milione-The Christmas Song
5) Johnston-The Poem
6) Marcus-After the End
7) Ristau-How I Didn't Lose My Virginity -or-Why I stopped 
smoking pot--not sure which--any votes?
8) Johnston-Uva Girls/Hot Girls
9) Man with Soundtrack
10)Dempsy-Dinosaur
11)Jones- Uncouth
12)Chandler-Highway workers
13)Parr-Three Envelopes
14)Milione-How Could I know?
15)Nine Foot Sway
16)Moyer-Toyotathon
17)Donovan-Unity
18)Johnston-Everything you feel is wrong
19)Ristau-Drunk School
20)Johnston-Last $5

Let us know ASAP if you agree, disagree with these choices or 
really really want some others.

The Belly Dancer got strong support, but knee surgery knocked 
her out of the line up.  Clinton had a lot of great pieces, but 
we should get him to do the Clinton variety show sometime with 
all his pieces and songs in one magic evening.  Sal already has 
his own show coming up in December--so we only took two of his 
songs.  The badly mauled chest got goos support, but was 
narrowly edged out.  We got requests for Moyer's "thank you, I 
knew you'd understand" but toyotathon edged it out.  Then there 
were all the people who aren't in town anymore....well it was 
fun going through all the archives, but dang hard to put the 
list together.  A lot of the pieces are short, but some are 
long, I'm not sure if all 20 will fit in the two hours.  

And as for the archives, we will be posting lists soon, but in 
the mean time, when we got all the folders together, like a 
cartoon about putting a dismantled car back together we had some 
pieces left over.

Anyone who remembers the order for June 1st, we could use your 
help.  Also, anyone who remembers anything about the piece I did 
that ended with the line "Just one country" could you tell me 
what it was about...the last line is all I wrote down and I 
can't remember it at all.  Also, what night did Best do his 
Reading Kafka piece?  What night did I do a two man piece in a 
bar with two guys breaking up?  What night did I do "my life, my 
heart, f*ck you and yours."  (its the one about a street kid 
named nicholas, but if you call him that you get a nosebleed)

Ok, I am running out of steam here--looking forward to responses-
-and get more people coming to No Shame!

Todd 
9) 

 re: Best Of No Shame INFO 	 lee 	 4:45 am friday november 2, 2001 
Looks good to me.
Missing it will hurt Allison, but it will only serve to make her 
stronger.

Am I right in thinking the piece of Jane's labelled "Uncouth" is 
the duet of derogitory terms?

I didn't see any Puberty Shriek on that list. How ya gonna pack the 
house without some fetishwear and heroin?

And how did the Vitamin C snorting get omitted? I just know those 
young lads are looking forward to 2 nights of living hell...

See you on the morrow,
-Lee

re: Best Of No Shame INFO 	 Justin Wolf 	 5:36 am friday november 2, 2001 
I knew somebody was going to do that! You people are sick...(but 
then again, I did do that didn't I?...)
justin

 Check the other boards! 	 Todd Ristau 	 5:49 pm friday november 2, 2001 
Hey guys, 

Lets not be isolationist.

There are a lot of other no shames out there and I'd like to 
encourage you to look at their boards and interact with them as 
well.  I want to really push the idea of the no shame network 
beign a real community where we help each other out.  That 
starts by showing interest.

If you go to the Iowa City message board you will see a thread I 
started about a national no shame convention in Iowa sometime 
down the road.  Would any of our locals be interested in 
attending such a thingy?

Todd

 slack ass 	 sean chandler 	 8:25 pm friday november 2, 2001 
O.K.  I took Todd advise and went to other No Shame boards, and 
when I saw how some were suffering, I felt so slack about how 
I've been about supporting our own awesome crew.  I'll be there 
tonight after rehearsal. If I'm not you can beat with a prop of 
your choice.

- sean

 To my fellow No Shamers 	 Luke Pingel 	 1:43 am saturday november 3, 2001 
Hey everyone, this is Luke Pingel, one of the founders of No 
Shame Cedar Falls. This talk of having a national No Shame has 
got me very, very excited, partly due to the fact that our own 
No Shame is really just starting to become noteworthy around 
here. I personally would love to take part, and Todd, if you 
need help with anything, I'd love to help make this a reality.

I totally agree with Todd that I would like to see more of a 
community between the groups. One thing that I think would be 
completely awesome would be to send scripts via email back and 
forth. I am looking to go into writing after I graduate and 
would love to see what other folks are doing, as well as be able 
to get some comments on the things I'm working on. So this is an 
open invitation for anyone who would be interested in this to 
send me an email.

If this kind of networking becomes a success, the possibilities 
really are endless. We could have collaboration between the No 
Shame sites...have works debut on the same night in several 
different parts of the country...culminating in a weeklong party 
of shamelessness? think about it everyone. and please reply.

Luke

wonderfully shameless 	 Joe Schepps 	 8:52 pm saturday november 3, 2001 
I want to extend a big thank you to everyone involved in making 
this happen. Unlike a typical open-mike at a bar, where people 
are only partially interested, No-Shame provides a venue where 
people come just to see original theatre. The audience is 
supportive and full of shameless individuals just like me. Keep 
up the good work and looking forward to seeing you next time.
                                       Thanks Joe
 
 John Wayne Bobbitt! 	 Annaliese 	 4:30 pm sunday november 4, 2001 
I must toss in a late nomination for Justin Wolf's piece from the 
most recent No Shame, John Wayne Bobbitt.

Keep on jogging, baby.

Order for the First Night 	 Todd Ristau 	 11:37 pm monday november 5, 2001 
I'm working on the archives and will be posting orders for our 
Fridays here.

I believe that if you have actual scripts in an email-able form 
you can send them to the noshame webmaster, indicating date 
performed, title, author, and that it was the Charlottesville No 
Shame and the script will be posted (with a copyright notice that 
no one can perform or copy it without your written permission).

check the other no shames for how they do their script archives.

The one thing I can say is I don't have time to re-type all your 
scripts, so you will have to email them yourselves.

April 27th Order:

1) Emily Tiller--Jeb and the Bank Loan;  A weird little three 
scene play about a guy geting a bank loan.  Todd Ristau, Joan 
Ruelle, Paul Southerington and Rod Waterman acted the scene.

2) Jeff Syte -- Hands; a hand mime jive to classical music.

3) Laura Storm -- Untitled scene on a bus acted by Joan Ruelle 
and Todd Ristau

4) Sal Milione -- Thoughts; song with guitar "Right Brain Spatial 
Relationship Musings put into words....something like that..."

5)Christina Sayer -- Me -&- My Shadow; not a song and dance 
routine, but sort of scary piece toying with the lack of light.

6)Mary Fries -- Fumes in a Dark Room; 

7)Sage Merritt -- Untitled piece with a phone

8)Todd Ristau -- The Green Man; Yes, its an oldie but a goodie.  
The hospital worker who runs the incinerator.

Time: Tue, 06-Nov-2001 16:44:51 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.91

I just wanted to say thank you to Jeff Goode.  You 
Charlottesville folks don't know him, but he is one of the 
original No Shamers from Iowa City back in the dark ages.  Jeff 
has very nicely volunteered to be the message board admistrator 
for our site, since I couldn't figure out how to make the 
message board work properly.

He will also be managing the the Charlottesville web page for 
us.  He's already slugged up some archive materials.  
Annaliesse, thanks for the No Shame archive photos, Jeff is 
going to be setting up links to your website and so forth--if 
you'd like to continue the photo documentation of 
Charlottesville No Shame that would be great, you can send 
pictures directly to him using the email link on the script 
library page.

As to the script library page, I really want to encourage people 
to start sending scripts to Jeff--please include the date 
performed and which of the no shames it is coming from so he can 
put it in the script libraray--contact info and a list of 
performers might be nice too.

The Iowa City no shame has a who's who page, I'm sure we could 
do that too if people would like to network by putting up links 
to their own personal or professional pages from here.

Again, thanks Jeff, for providing all these No Shame websites--
its the best thing to happen to No Shame since No Shame.

Todd

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 21:54:40 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

The order for the 2nd No Shame in C'ville was:

1) Vanessa Nickens: Wanted;  a monologue about a want ad

2) Todd Ely: Untitled; 3 minutes of Todd staring into the 
audience with deep concentration, ending with a gesture and a 
question about "the bags".  It rocked.

3) Alison Taylor: Cutting from the smoking play

4) Clinton Johnston: Taking Sides; a nice monolgue which was 
hurt by the actress announcing unexpectedly before the monologue 
that she was not a racist.  This really undercut the the 
effectiveness of the piece.  Clinton hammered back several 
beers.  This one deserves a second chance with an actress who 
doesn't grossly underestimate the audince's ability to seperate 
character from actor on stage.

5) Jennifer Funk: No Title; great monologue about a kid 
who "does bad things."  Spooky.  Come back Jennifer Funk!

6) Laura Storm: I Always Loved Teaching"; monologue about a 
teacher confronting school violence.

7) Ayesha Muhammad: My Job; A guardian Angel is frustrated at 
work.

8) Todd Ristau: Rabbit; yes, the one I can do blind drunk and 
half asleep--and have done a number of times...its an oldie but 
a goodie and everything is new in Charlottesville.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:08:09 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

No Shame #3 went like this:

1) Ristau: Bench; two masked characters, one woman feeding 
pigeons and one homless man who she teaches to feed pigeons 
though all he wants to do is eat the bread himself.  You think 
its romance, but of course its murder instead.

2) Justin Wolf, Morgan Shook: Soap Opera; Our first multi media 
peice with a monitor and camera focusing on the audience while 
the actors provide narration.  Very wonderful.

3) Clinton Johnston: Letter to Major Oglethhorpe, Army 
Intelligence.  Read by Scott Silet.  A high ranking general is 
pissed about Survivor the tv show demonstrating that gay men and 
women represent the superior elements of our nation's population.

4) Jennifer Funk: Scary Kid at Home; the kid from last week 
interacts with his sister....he still does bad things.  

5) Sal Milione: All Your Love; Song with nifty light cues and 
stage antics.

6) Dan Best: Tomato #1; a tomato grows, dies, and grows again.

7) Sage Merritt: The Lifeguard; A lifeguard shares her regrets 
and existential pain.

8) Todd Ristau: Fire Bug; ruminations of a guy who likes fires.

9) Sarah Clark: Poems

10) T.Q. Jabari: "Popular"; a battered girlfriend tells about 
the death of her abuser and the circumstances leading to the 
action she took.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:14:55 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

No Shame #4 went something like this:

1) Ristau: Dishwasher; read by Sean, a dishwasher tells why his 
job ain's so bad.  Very popular among the food service industry 
professionals in the audience.  

2) Allison Taylor: The Pursuit of Happiness--"you swear you're 
not screwing some poor high school chick?"

3) Clinton Johnston: Improv about going to the testing place.  
Would have been a short evening without it--thank you clinton 
for breaking your theatre acting fast to do the piece.  It was, 
as always, brilliant.

4)Ristau: Cutting from Thunder Without Rain; Coyote and Old 
Woman argue--about whether he loves her enough to hate her.

5) Ristau: (good thing I brought extra pieces!) $80 a week; 
discussion of masturbation and payments by the University for 
Sperm Donations

6) Leon Salidas: Untitled Monologue; welcome Leon--you don't 
know him, but you are the Dan Lane of Charlottesville.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:23:33 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

#5 went like this.....


1) Ristau: And Now the News; (oh my god, he wrote a new one!) a 
parody of the local Channel 29 news team reading stories pulled 
from Third Eye Over Iowa.  Acted by Todd and Joan.

2) Sal Milione: Song--"The Building"

3) Justin Wolf: The Singing Saw, Dancer, Guitar and Fiddle

4) Alison Taylor: The Cure for Insomnia; "So, what does mono do 
anyway?"

5) Clinton Johnston: The Poem...wow...that was amazing, a parody 
of how poetry is too often read, but a great poem anyway!

6) Alison Taylor: (not sure--no script)

7) Fred Norberg: Monologue about coming to grips with a dead 
parent, read by Scott Silet.

8) Ristau: Piece for Memorial Day 2001; wow, 2 new pieces in one 
night.  Soldier in full ww2 US army uniform and an M1 garand 
rifle writes a letter home to mother about Anzio...

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:25:40 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

Pushed send too soon--

9) Leon Salidas: "Something Tells Me This Isn't an Orignal Idea"; 
another weird and wonderful Salidas event.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:30:01 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

We don't have a complete record of this night.  We have some 
scripts we think might have been on that night--

1) Ristau: Me and Dad; a parody of that commercial for the metal 
detectors, only the father and son are grave robbers with 
shovels.  "And the excercise?  That's good for both of us."

4) Ristau: George Donner's Dying Thoughts; a not very good poem 
about freezing to death.  

5) Dan Best: Bird; An egg becomes bird, bird is fed, it grows, 
it flies, it eats tomato seeds, it dies a painful death, it 
rots, a tomato grows....

6) Sal Milione: Blues Improv on guitar.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:44:31 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.207

#7 was like:

1) Salidas: an improv?  No script on file

2) Rod Waterman: Fishing; A story teller tells the story of two 
guys fishing--Bobby Ed and Ivor.

3) Ristau: Benched: Two old guys talk about being old and the 
virtue or vice of trying to stay young.

4) Parr: Quittin' Time at the Virgin Factory or A History of 
Human Sexuality in Five Minutes"

5) Sal Milione: Song on Guitar--not sure which one

6) Joan Ruelle: Black Book; a woman about to be married disses 
her exes.

7) Rod Waterman: Never Came; Kind of an homage to Godot, with a 
Lost Girl and a Hip Priest.

8) Greg Hays; The Leg.  The first winner of the prop closet door 
prize delivers an amazing speech as recipient of the 
International Triumph of the Human Spirit Award after surviving 
an avalanche on the north face of K3...while holding the leg of 
a member of his party who didn't....

9) Clinton Johnston: no script

10) Ristau: Chicken Sunday; another oldie pulled out of the 
closet, man recounts his free chicken dinner at the Goodwill on 
Ashland Ave. in Chicago.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:54:30 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

#8 went a little like:

1) Morgan Shook and Justin Wolf: A Study of Blantant 
Homosexuality; "oh for the love of Pete!"

2) Jessica McCoy: Turning 24; it really was her birthday!

3) Clinton Johnston: "Walking Down The Mall"; a song 

4) Justin Wolf and Morgan Shook: no script available

5) Todd Ristau: Mortichi Krable, semi professional Jesus 
impersonator; a 38 year old man in loin cloth and crown of 
thorns carries his cross and considers a career change.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 22:59:19 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine---

Turn me on, Dead Man


1) Clinton Johnston: Tis Better; a two person scene about giving 
and getting.

2) Alison Taylor: At The Drive Thru; an English man contends 
with a voice on the other end of one of those drive through 
speaker phones.  Will it be love, will it be food, will it just 
be abuse?  15 pages, ranking as the longest No Shame piece ever 
at C'ville, but we only had 3 that night and it was good so 
nobody sent out the hook at 5 minutes.

3) Nathan Piazza: The Negotiations; an intersting examination of 
music industry insidership and conspiracy.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:09:29 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

Oh my god, we've lasted 10 WEEKS!

1) Dan Best and Clinton Johnston: pairs improv

2) Lindsey and Wheeler: The very popular Belly Dancer

3) Donovan: Door Prize winner, THE GUN; "Ideas pull the trigger, 
but instinct loads the gun."

4) Clinton Johnston: To Give Than To Receive; companion piece 
to "Tis Better"

5) Alison Taylor: Poe; An homage to UVA's favorite drop out.

6) Dan Best: Being and Nothingness II

7) Marcus: After the End

8) Clinton Johnston: UVA Girls/Hot Girls; songs about their 
titles.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:15:13 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

Order for 7.06.01  (in case you missed the reference, 706 Union 
Avenue is the address of Sun Studios in Memphis.)  How come 
nobody wants to fly me to memphis for 2 months to set up a no 
shame there????

1) Clinton Johnston: Audience Generated scene

2) Lee Moyer: Heaven's Gate

3) Chernila: Cheshire Cats and Meteorologists

4) Justin Wolf and Adam Smith: Beat Boy? Best Box?--there is a 
reason we ask for these things to be typed, you know....

Where the heck has Todd been the last few weeks?  He is over the 
mountain playing Prince Hal in an outdoor production of King 
Henry IV.  He has a very funny hair cut, too.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:22:13 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

Friday the 13th.....spoooooooky......

Return of Ristau....spooooookier!

1) Milione: So Far Away; Song

2) Girard: The Antlers Piece

3) Clinton Johnston: Focus Group "Judith"

4) Michael Bickett: Untitled

5) Jones and Sylvia: no script available

6) Rothman: Gunplay; "Shit, my dick is bigger than that gun."

7) Leon Salidas: no script available

8) Ristau: How I Didn't Lose My Virginity; title says it all.

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:27:40 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

No Shame the 13th

1) Milione: Song

2) Jane Jones: Untitled; woman talks about life and new husband

3) Scott Silet: Sunday Afternoon in the Park With George; the 
badly mauled chest makes its return.

4) Kitchen: untitled

5) Salidas: Song  (was this Leon or his brother?)

6) Beery: Improv

7) Ristau: "just one country" was the last line, I have no idea 
what the piece was about--if anyone remembers, let me know!!

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:35:18 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

Ok, #14---and a big stack to go.....


1) Milione: Baby Whatcha Do To Me; song and musical improvisation

2) Ian and Patrick Yott, vocal coaching by Quincy Yott: 14 Year-
Old's Morning Day and Night; Instant messaging madness, quite 
wonderful!

3) Not sure--no script, no order sheet available

4) Chandler: "I'm not here to hit on anybody"

5) Ralph Canon: All I Wanna Be is a Lesbian; a very funny song 
whose theme is in the title.  Ian and Quincy Yott covered their 
ears.

6) Alison Taylor: "What do I want?"

7) Beery: "And I can't move on until I'm over her."

8) Ristau: What was I thinking? or "Why I Stopped Smoking Pot."; 
The memoir pieces begin.....

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:46:45 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

As Guy Snodgrass' Mother used to say, "shut up and drink your 
whiskey."

1) Clinton Johnston: Line 6; A minor functionary in Hell places 
a call to coporate executive.

2) Gromadzki: Door Prize Reprise; the inflatable snake comes 
back--pardon the pun.

3) Lee Moyer: An Experiment in Reportage; examination of news 
media

4) Gilfillan: Untitled

5) Cannon: The Pork Song; sung advertisment for pork products 
interrupts broadcast of Charlotte's Web.

6) Greg Hays: Republican Shopping Network; Hilarious home 
shopping network parody with Clinton Johnston playing Governor 
Jim Gilman's wife Roxanne peddling products as alternative 
sources of funding for things like social programs and education.

7) Alison Taylor: "I would kill for just one day to be a guy."

8) Johnston: Announcements-- a Judith piece

Time: Wed, 07-Nov-2001 23:51:38 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

One more and then I'm taking a break....


1) Clinton Johnston: The Steely Dan Piece

2) Alison Taylor: "You better spit out your gum."

3) missing

4) Chandler: The Highway worker piece--prop prize comes back in 
form of shovel.

5) Clinton Johnston: Billboard

6) Milione: Cool Touch; song

7) Ristau: The Haircut; another memoir about my dad and a hair 
cut I didn't want while Clinton shaved my head with clippers.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 00:00:01 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.176

OK, the ad has been placed in C-ville, it cost a fortune, but is 
worth many times what we placed to place it--thank you Lee for 
your wonderful work!

Now, we are committed to having a show.  The audience will come, 
but we need to confirm our pieces.

Here is the list again of the pieces chosen--people are not 
putting contact info on their scripts, so tracking people down 
isn't as easy as it should be.  We WILL have a full evening of 
great pieces, but I'd like to know what they will be by the end 
of the day tomorrow.

Remember, you need to confirm you will be performing the piece, 
and you need to come to the rehearsal on Wednesday the 14th.  We 
have invited press to come and review the rehearsal, so its 
important.  The best of isn't so much the No Shame Emmy's as it 
is a chance for us to present a sampler plate to people who have 
not been to No Shame before, and to get more people involved in 
our wonderful unique venue....well, and to get to see some of 
our favorite pieces again.

We added a piece to the list below, and if the ones that are not 
confirmed don't confirm ASAP, we will have to draw from our 
runner's up list--a show WILL happen, we just don't know exactly 
what yet--isn't that just like No Shame?

Here is the list:
1) Best-Tomato #1
2) Ristau-Mortichi Krabel, semi-professional Jesus 
impersonator  (confirmed)
3) Hays-The Leg (1st Prop Piece)
4) Milione-The Christmas Song (confirmed)
5) Johnston-The Poem (confirmed) 
6) Marcus-After the End (confirmed) 
7) Ristau-How I Didn't Lose My Virginity -or-Why I stopped 
smoking pot--not sure which--any votes?  (confirmed) 
8) Johnston-Uva Girls/Hot Girls (confirmed) 
9) Man with Soundtrack
10)Dempsy-Dinosaur (confirmed) 
11)Jones- Uncouth (confirmed) 
12)Chandler-Highway workers
13)Parr-Three Envelopes (confirmed)
14)Milione-How Could I know? (confirmed)
15)Nine Foot Sway (confirmed)
16)Moyer-Toyotathon (confirmed)
17)Donovan-Unity
18)Johnston-Everything you feel is wrong (confirmed)
19)Ristau-Drunk School (confirmed)
20)Johnston-Last $5 (confirmed)
21)Wolf- Bobbit jogging for Jesus

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 08:45:39 GMT     IP: 128.143.3.159

I hope everyone is telling everyone they know about the upcoming 
NOSHAME gala-- I feel like we should all bake cookies to save the 
local orphanage.  Oprah-bridge, whatever.  Farms are mostly on 
sale.

When's the rehearsal Wednesday?  That's what I want to know, 
since I have to be there.

Thanks,
James

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 14:30:09 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.164

Rehearsal call is the same time as the call for the performances, 
which is 7:30.  We will have the order established by then, and 
we will do the whole show if we have press show up, we will do a 
cue to cue if we have no press there to impress.  I'll be 
producing the event, but certainly not acting like a director for 
the individual pieces.  That won't keep me from making 
suggestions though, but if they are dumb, please ignore them.

We have some new confirmations:  Greg Hays will be there with his 
leg of color, Dan Best is a go, and Justin and his Dad are 
definitely in.

Sweet!  The show is coming together.  Also, there has been a 
suggestion of Dan Best and Clinton doing some improv warm ups 
before the show--maybe Justin could play a ditty or two on the 
saw in the lobby.  Clinton, I'd like you to emcee the show, if 
you would, opening the show with an abbreviated spiel, thank the 
audience, and give the order (there will be no programs).  After 
the show, kick everybody out, but tell them that if they keep 
their ticket stub they can get into the regular Friday Night no 
shame on the 16th for free. 

Todd

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 21:14:56 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

No Shame number 17--our golden day, we were 17 weeks on the 17th 
of the month....

1) Clinton Johnston and Scott Silet: group writing scene

2) no script available, but it was performed by Kirsten Thorsen

3) Hinman: A Taste of Something

4) Clinton Johnston: And Now a Word from Our Sponsor; "You gotta 
buy STUFF"

5) Todd Ristau: OK, I'm an Idiot, but Will You Still Go Out With 
Me?"; memoir piece about The Girl in the Union Pantry--and I was 
NOT stalking her.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:18:46 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

# 18

1) Wolf and Shook: Not Suitable for Children; snorting En-er-C

2) Ristau: Divine; weird thing about two guys talking about some 
sort of jesus guy--I don't know what it means, I wrote it during 
a writing class with Mac Wellman, what do you want?

3) Clinton Johnston: The Model Choreographer Interview

4) Ristau: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; memoir piece 
about when I got arrested for drunk driving and was wearing my 
grandpa's shirt.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:27:57 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

Hey 19....

1) Ristau: NOT A MEMOIR PIECE; this is the one about they guy who 
wants to be in a movie--the one where he tells about the kids in 
school tying an airconditioner to his neck with barbed wire and 
throwing him in the swimming pool.  

2) Allison and Ely: "They Stole That From Shakespeare!" but they 
had a nice bike part in there.

3) Leon Salidas: Improved scene

4) Maisels: Gabrielle's Monologue; "two ficus trees--oo-la-la"

5) Johnston and Silet: Audience generated peice

6) Gary Galbraith: Standup Routine, Why do Gay Men Like Liza So 
Much?"

7) Milione: How Could I Know You Was Gone, If You Didn't Even Say 
Goodbye?"; song on guitar with story.

8) French; There's Absoultely Nothing You Can Do; wonderful and 
fast poem.

9) Brandon Allison; Headlight Philosphy

10) Ristau: Sometimes Its Not Who You Are Or What You're Wearing, 
but What You're Willing to Be" or "Drunk School."; a memoir piece 
about the Red Stallion in coralville, the night I graduated from 
drunk school.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:35:55 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

You're not a teen weeker anymore

#20

1) Ristau: The Huns Story; boring long multimedia piece with the 
Huns playing behind me.  Not the best memoir piece.

2) Brandon Allison: England; BFE

3) Salidas and Salidas: Reference to the Stars

4) Standord: Walks off stage

5) Millione: Song

6) Dempsy: To Be Free?

7) Johnston: Good Morning Children; The Church of Judith examines 
Mister Rogers

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:41:26 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

This was the first no shame after the terrorist attacks on 9-11. 
We weren't sure anyone would come, we weren't sure if anyone 
would write, we did know it was important to have the venue there 
if people did come.  It was a great great evening.

1) Scott Silet: Improv discussion on the events of the week

2) Mingeetsu et al: Improv and music

3) White: "Son, you're going to amount to Jack-Shit."

4) Jane Jones: scene about love and ravioli

5) Westbrook: "I can still hear her crying at night"

6) Ristau: The End of the World

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:46:17 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

No Shame the 22nd

1) Beth Dovel: "My memory is gone"

2) Jane Jones: Uncouth

3) Clinton Johnston: Couple Verses of WAR

4) Lea Marshall: Nine (11) Foot Sway

5) Clinton Johnston: "If all the worlds a stage..."

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 22:51:35 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

No Shame # 23

1) Ristau: Puberty Shriek the werewolf play, episode 1

2) Milione: Christmas is Near; song with props

3) Johnston: Time Lost; beatniky performance art examination of 
existentialism....zowie.  

4) Moyer: "Thank you Thank you, I know you'll understand"; 
examination of the effects of 9-11, vet talks to a man 

5) Clinton Johnston: Improv

6) Ristau: Remember when I told you about my pot smoking days?; 
memoir piece which was a reading from a journal written in 1984 
while actually under the influence of the demon weed.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 23:00:07 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

No shame #24

1) Ristau: Puberty Shriek, the werewolf play episode 2; max and 
candy are in the woods.  Max wants to do Candy, but she wants to 
save herself for marriage.  She leaves him in the dark without a 
way home.

2)Salidas: Improv with grunting and a bench; I loved this one. 

3)Jane Jones: Reiterate, Regurgitate

4)Franca: Debbie is Holding a Baby; The gal who won the baby 
finally returns!  (don't tell the cops we gave away a kid as a 
door prize last month)

5)Davis: No Shame Piece?

6)Milione: Blues Improv Submitted on Cocktail Napkin

7)Jane Jones: I wasn't the same person any more

8)Lee Moyer: Words by any other name

9)Reed and Dempsy: Dinosaur

10)Jane Jones: My Sexually Active Friends

11)Johnston: Everything You Feel Is Wrong!; game show themed 
examination of patriotism and self esteem.

Time: Thu, 08-Nov-2001 23:11:14 GMT     IP: 65.210.98.94

Have had some thoughts going through the archives and posting, 
and have had contact with some people I thought were not 
available but are.  If the show is too long, I'm willing to drop 
one of mine from the line up, but a lot of these are under 5 
minutes so I think we will be ok.

Again, this is not the No Shame Emmy's so don't get a big head.

also, if you see your name and it says unconfirmed by it you need 
to tell us if you can or can't do it ASAP, like by tomorrow night 
end of regular no shame.  (and come to that so I can give you 
BONS posters to hand out)

These are not ranked nor the order in which they will go.

Those who may not yet know, the shows are on the 15th and 16th, 
at 8:00 sharp. Call for performers is 7:30. Tickets go on sale at 
7:00 at the door and are $7.00.  As usual, if you take a seat you 
have to pay for it, it will be crowded in the green room and in 
the lobby, so dress warm in case you need to stand outside or 
something--maybe they will take pity on us if there is no show 
and we can use the main stage space as a green room--I don't 
know, we will see what happens, but I am NOT renting a tent.

Also, and this is important, there is a rehearsal on Wednesday at 
8:00, with call at 7:30.  We will establish the order then and 
work out what the technical problems are of the green room and 
general lack of backstage area in the lab.

1) Best-Tomato #1 (confirmed)
2) Ristau-Mortichi Krabel, semi-professional Jesus 
      impersonator  (confirmed)
3) Hays-The Leg of Color (1st Prop Piece) (confirmed)
4) Milione-The Christmas Song (confirmed)
5) Johnston-The Poem (confirmed) 
6) Marcus-After the End (confirmed) 
7) Ristau-How I Didn't Lose My Virginity -or-Why I stopped 
      smoking pot--not sure which--any votes?  (confirmed) 
8) Johnston-Uva Girls/Hot Girls (confirmed) 
9) Papa Wolf-Man with Soundtrack (confirmed)
10)Dempsy-Dinosaur (confirmed) 
11)Jones- Uncouth (confirmed) 
12)Chandler-Highway workers (confirmed)
13)Parr-Three Envelopes (confirmed)
14)Milione-How Could I know? (confirmed)
15)Nine Foot Sway (confirmed)
16)Moyer-Toyotathon (confirmed)
17)Donovan-Unity
18)Johnston-Everything you feel is wrong (confirmed)
19)Ristau-Drunk School (confirmed)
20)Johnston-Last $5 (confirmed)
21)Wolf- Bobbit jogging for Jesus (confirmed)
22)Amanda French-that really fast poem you did the 1st time
23)Sage Merritt-Lifeguard

Dan Best and Clinton may be doing some improv things to warm up 
the audience and maybe Justin can play his saw in the lobby for 
pre show.

Dang, this is going to be super neato.  Almost everyone is 
confirmed.  HOW DO YOU FIND BREMEN DONOVAN??????

Be sure to tell everyone you know to come.  We want packed 
houses.

Todd

Time: Thu, 15-Nov-2001 00:00:56 GMT     IP: 134.161.140.174

just wanted to drop a quick note saying to have a great Best 
Of!! Go Charlottesville!!

Luke

Time: Fri, 16-Nov-2001 22:57:39 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.202

Best of went pretty well last night--learned a few things and 
had a great time--the show really went off well, great audience 
response and good flow between pieces!  Great work everyone!

Here is the order for the first night--Given that it was long 
enough to have an intermission we are rearranging some things 
for night two--but for the archives:

  1.Preshow--Clinton and Dan doing pairs, Justin on Saw 
  2."announcements" Hello and welcome to No Shame! 
  3.Todd Ristau-Memoir Piece 
  4.Sal Milione-How Could I know? (or whatever sal wants to call 
it now) 
  5.Dan Best-Tomato #1 (confirmed) 
  6.Amanda French-Habitrail 
  7.Todd Ristau-green man(confirmed) 
  8.Greg Hays-Acceptance Speech 
  9.BK Marcus-After the End (confirmed) 
10.Clinton Johnston-A Poem (confirmed) 
11.James Parr-The Envelope (confirmed) 
12.Sean Nichtman-Personal Soundtrack (confirmed) 
13.Clinton Johnston-Uva Girls/Hot Girls (confirmed) 
14.Lea Marshall-Nine Foot Sway (confirmed) 
15.Bremen Donovan-Unity 
16.Lee Moyer-Toyotathon (confirmed) 
17.Clinton Johnston-Everything you feel is wrong (confirmed) 
18.Justin Wolf-Public Service Announcement 
19.Jane Jones- Uncouth (confirmed) 
20.Greg Hays-Republican Shopping network (confirmed) 
21.Sal Milione-The Christmas Song (confirmed) 
22.Todd Ristau-Mortichi Krabel 
23.Clinton Johnston-Last $5 (confirmed) 
24.(floater, not in order) Dempsy-Dinosaur (confirmed) 

Time: Sat, 17-Nov-2001 06:38:50 GMT     IP: 64.4.115.157

Well, 5 HOURS after it began, The BEST OF NO SHAME and regular 
Friday NO SHAME combo has finally wound to an end. It feels like a 
race is over, and that C'Ville No Shame won.

When you consider there were more than 30 pieces performed, the 
consistant level of quality is pretty amazing. The mix of Newbies, 
bigwigs and regulars seemed to be just the ticket.

If we can convince Amanda and Greg to do more pieces soon, so much 
the better...
And maybe more series a la Joggers for Jesus need to be 
contemplated. Clinton's Church of Judith pieces also fit that 
profile.

I hope those that performed will add their pieces to the archives. 
It's surely an affair to remember, and I'm thrilled to have been a 
part of it.

Thanks!

Time: Sun, 18-Nov-2001 10:52:55 GMT     IP: 128.143.3.175

was amazing.  I was really happy to be a part of so many cool 
pieces, people, ideas, etc.

Special shout-out to Todd--thanks for making Charlottesville a 
better place.

Looking forward to more excitement--

James

Time: Mon, 19-Nov-2001 01:40:06 GMT     IP: 216.12.0.28

    Sorry about the last message, hit the tab button to indent, 
and it sent the message along sans content...

    Hey everybody!  Thanks for the opportunity to revive the 
Tomato!

    As most of you know, I videotaped the show on Friday night.  
I only had two hours of tape, so I'm sorry to say I had to make 
some hard decisions about not taping a few pieces (and I humbly 
apologize to those that did not get included).  Also Mortimer 
Krabble (sp?) got cut off near the middle--at about the five 
minute mark--unfortunately just before the great passion play 
segment. 
    
    Forgetting initially that tape was limited, I did thankfully 
get much of the pre-show sawing music and Clinton's introductory 
ranting.  And the quality of the tape is really pretty good.

    So I'd like to offer any performer who would like a copy of 
the tape, well, a copy of the tape.  Just email me and let me 
know how you would like me to get it to you.  In the spirit of 
my old (very...) Grateful Dead bootlegging days, I will provide 
the copy free of charge, with the understanding that it not be 
recopied or sold or provided to any government agency, local, 
state, or federal.

    Todd and Clinton, I have already made copies for you.  So 
email/call me!

    Maybe we can have a viewing party and one of you-all out 
there would like to host it.

    Lastly, Todd has proposed the idea of having the tape shown 
on public access, so if there's any performer who does not want 
to be sent out over the airwaves, please let him know before we 
do the dirty deed.

    It was great fun performing with you all.

    Thank you Todd for what you have created here in 
Charlottesville.  And thanks to everyone for being willing to 
step out there and show your stuff!

    See you on stage! 

Shameless, I remain, Dan Best

Time: Mon, 19-Nov-2001 20:01:53 GMT     IP: 64.4.118.157

Thanks Dan - sign us up for a copy of the tape. As for a viewing 
party, we'd love not only to see it happen, but we'd be happy to 
host it. Anyone else interested? Until Edward the Second is over, 
it would have to be a Sunday or Monday evening for me.

A

Time: Wed, 21-Nov-2001 03:41:39 GMT     IP: 216.12.0.28

Hey Annaliese!

Thanks for you offer of hosting a viewing party.

I'm thinking a Saturday night would be best because we could mix 
the viewing with drink (and Friday night is of course No Shame 
night).  When is EII over and what do you think?

Should have tapes for you and the others who asked at either this 
Friday's show or the one after that.

Dan

Time: Thu, 29-Nov-2001 22:16:54 GMT     IP: 65.210.97.132

Ok, 

The call goes out folks.  Some of you may or may not know that we 
at Live Arts also have something called the Playwright's LAb, 
which is writers for the theatre wanting to get together to share 
ideas and experience and in general, write a bunch of good plays.

We currently meet the 1st Sunday of every month in the LAB space, 
and this month's meeting is real important for anyone who is 
interested in writing some work that is longer than NO SHAME.

The meeting this week is going to be to begin discussion of the 
Live Arts 10 minute play festival--pending approval--which is 
slated to go up for a week in Februrary.  The idea has been 
approved by the LAB programming committee and only needs two 
things to get finalized--writers with plays and John Gibson's 
approval.  We can't get the final final approval until we have 
enough writers and enough plays to fill an evening or two.

Here is the deal.  Come on the first Sunday of December--which I 
guess is this Sunday-- to the LAB space (If LATTE is in there we 
will meet someplace else)and state your interest and get the full 
skinny on the event.

Essentially it will work like this.  All those who come to the 
meeting, or who have a good excuse to miss and contact me before 
the 2nd Sunday of December, will write a 10 minute play suitable 
to be performed in the LAB space, using essentially NO SHAME 
style rules, but if you want to impose the rules of some other 
contest (like Louisville's for example) on yourself you can, if 
you want to submit it other places.

The play should have minimal production elements and small casts.

I will be available during LAB office hours (5:30 every Monday) 
to discuss the works in progress if people need some guidence.

On the 1st Sunday of January we will have a reading of all the 10 
minute plays--people should get their own readers for the 
readings, and invite people who would be interested in acting or 
directing or designing a 10 minute play to come watch all the 
readings.  

After the readings there will be discussion and contact info 
passed around.  In the private lab discussion we will have a more 
detailed discussion of the texts and how to go about choosing 
directors and designers.

By the 1st Sunday of February all the plays should have a 
designer and director, and other production team members.  They 
will probably also have had a rewrite based on preproduction 
discussions with the production team.  We will have a stage 
manager for the whole evening, but individual shows might want to 
have their own stage manager, though with 10 minute plays that 
might not be necessary.

We will publicize the heck out of this reading so that everyone 
who might be interested in auditioning can come hear the plays 
read.  They won't be read by actors, but by the production team 
and member playwrights from the Lab.  Then we announce the 
audition times.

After the readings we will talk about the plays, how the various 
production teams are working, and in general discuss how 
playwrights and directors work together, and how the designers 
come into the picture, and answer any questions that have come up 
and try to problem solve.  

I think we should have cattle call auditions for all the plays on 
the same nights, and I very much encourage double casting.

On the second Sunday of Feb, we meet again, to hammer out casting 
decisions and based on those choices determine the order of the 
plays.  Then you have a week to contact actors and have a few 
rehearsals.

On the Third Sunday of Feb, we meet again, to hear the plays read 
by the actors that have been cast, and after the readings we send 
the actors home and we have another production meeting with 
playwrights and directors.  Monday we have a dry tech rehearsal. 
Then on Tuesday we have our first dress rehearsal.  Then on 
Wednesday we have our second dress rehearsal.  We run Thursday 
through Sunday.

Ambitious?

Yes.

Doable?  Well, that is up to you.

Don't let me forget to announce this at No Shame on Friday-Ok?  
First we need the playwrights to commit, then we need good plays, 
then we need John's approval and then we fly fly fly by the seat 
of our pants.  The gauntlet has been thrown.

Todd

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 05:44:52 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

OK, since I managed to kick myself out of the Iowa City sandbox, 
I may as well get my too active fingers catching up on the old 
orders from the archives instead of stirring up trouble halfway 
across the country.

Short night--Number 17

1) Johnston and Silet--audience generated script

2) Blatant plagiarism, performed at gunpoint by Kirsten Thorsen
   (Desperate times call for Desperate Measures)

3) Hinman (Untitled monologue--"A taste of something I haven't 
had in a while."

4) Clinton Johnston--"And Now A Word From Our Sponsor"

5) Ristau--"Ok, I'm an idiot, but will you still go out with me?"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 05:50:10 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame #18

1) Wolf and Shook--"Snorting Ener-Gen-C"

2) Ristau--"Divine"

3) Chernilla--Improv--"As long as I still love her"

4) Nichtman--"Personal Soundtrack"

5) No script in archive

6) Johnston--"Yes, I'm a Model Choreographer"

7) No Script in archive

8) Ristau--"The night they drove old Dixie down"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 05:57:17 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame #19

1) Ristau--"Theatre is Ephemeral"

2) Allsion and Ely--"stealing from Shakespeare"  I think I 
listed this one before, but if I did, it was this night, not the 
earlier one.  I have the actual script in front of me.

3) Leon Salidis--I have the script here, but I still have no 
idea what it is...an Improv.

4) Maisels--Gabrielle's Monologue.  (The one with teh ficus 
trees)

5) Johnston and Silet--audience generated scene

6) Gare Galbraith--Standup routine--"Why do Gay Men Like Liza So 
Much?"

7) Sal Milione--"How could I know you was gone, If You Didn't 
Even Say Goodbye"  Song with story

8) Amanda French--"Habitrail"

9) Brandon Allison--Headlight Philosphy

10)Ristau--"Drunk School"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:02:27 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame turns 20

1) Ristau--"The Huns Story"  Monologue about the Huns with video 
documentary about the band playing behind.

2) Brandon Allison--"England"

3) Salidas and Salidas--Improv-- "reference to the stars"

4) Stanford 

5) No Script in Archive

6) Jay Dempsey--"To Be Free?"

7) Johnston--"Corporate Sponsorship for Our Worship"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:05:04 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No wonder those seemed eerily familiar.

I had already typed up to October.

Damn damn damn.

What am I still doing up anyway?

todd

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:13:13 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame #25

1) Ristau--Puberty Shriek episode 3 (OLD MAN meets CANDY in the 
woods and shouts a lot about the Mooooon, the God Damned 
Mooooon!, then bonks her on the head.)

2) Parr--"Three Envelopes"

3) Bremen Donovan--"Unity"

4) Clinton Johnston--"Last Five Dollars" Blues tune

5) Justin Wolf--"Jogging for Jesus"

6) Jane Jones--"Scream"

7) Ristau--"My Mom is Here Tonight"  (Another memoir piece)

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:17:24 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame #26

1) Ristau--Puberty Shriek Episode 4 (Julian is tied in a chair 
and screaming for heroin injection, Lindsey is being foul 
mouthed and sexy in mohawk and leather.)

2) Johnston and Best--Pairs exercise

3) Jay Dempsey--Improv about forgetting lines

4) Amanda French--Poem--"Heterosexuality"

5) Clinton Johnston--"Behind the Scenes"

6) Ristau--Memoir piece--"I used to work in prisons"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:22:26 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

1) Ristau--Puberty Shriek Episode 5--(Uncle Carl--whom we all 
know as John MacFaddin--is arguing from his porch with a voice 
on the wind...)

2) Lee Moyer--Viagra Song--sung by Clinton Johnston

3) Jane Jones--"Bridge Over the River Why"

4) Sal Milione--Children's song--"Walking in a Creepy Forest"

5) Miller--"Pretty as an Airport"

6) Lee Moyer--"Death of a Superman"

7) Clinton Johnston--Song--"When the Layoffs Came"

8) Ristau--"My Dean Martin Vision"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:28:04 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

No Shame#28

1) Ristau-- Puberty Shriek Episode 6--Julian and Lindsey bring 
Max inside the house, Julian screams for the injection, Linsdey 
fondles and licks Max, and then Mary comes in wearing a wedding 
dress and knocks Max out by hitting him in the head with a 
shovel.

2) Ryan--Standup routine--The Self Referential Manifesto

3) Sal Milione--Song--Carry On

4) Justin Wolf--John Bobbit is Jogging 4 Jesus

5) Browder--Master Blaster song.  

6) Lee Moyer--"NO SHAME?  No Question!"

7) Ristau--memoir piece--"Why My Brother Hated Me"

Time: Fri, 30-Nov-2001 06:31:01 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.184

I'll finish with the archives tomorrow--but for now its 
important that you scroll down and read the post from earlier 
today on the upcoming 10 minute play festival we are planning to 
host in Februrary.

I posted the info earlier today and then buried it under all 
these order rosters.

Have a look and spread the word.  Then do the work.

We're looking for a few good plays!

Todd