Auditions for this season!

Hello Earth is a grass roots community enterprise formed with the intention of presenting free entertainment in outdoor spaces. Both previous Star Trek episodes, “The Naked Time” and “This Side of Paradise”, were great successes and this year will be even more spectacular.

Needed: Actors to fill all roles (except Kirk and Spock), which will be cast without regard to the gender or race of the original series characters. We are not looking for impersonation. We are looking for creative people who want to be part of the process both on and off stage.

Auditions: Sunday, April 21st from 7-10 pm OR Monday, April 22nd from 7-10 pm

Location: Theatre Puget Sound, Armory/Center House, Seattle Center, Room E (Sunday, April 21st) and Room B (Monday, April 22nd)

Auditions will consist of cold readings. Please be prepared to stay for the entire time; we may not need you for that long but we will be holding callbacks after hearing everyone.

Performances will take place at the end of July and beginning of August outside at Blanche Lavizzo Park.

Please contact us at helloearthseattle@gmail.com with any questions, or if you wish to help with the production in another capacity. And pass this notice on!

Second Weekend Summary

Wow! Our second weekend was even better than the first!

Saturday was a gorgeous one in Seattle, not too hot, not too cold. AND we started to play a new game on Twitter: #thetreklebowski. You take a quote from the Coen Brothers' classic film and reconfigure it for the Star Trek universe.

"I mean, say what you like about the tenets of IDIC, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
"Vulcanian is not the preferred nomenclature. Vulcan-American, please."
You can play, too, if you have a Twitter account!

Sunday we thought it was going to rain, but then it didn't, and as the show continued the sun broke through the clouds, until we were left with a brilliant blue sky. We counted 150 people in our audience. . . going where no Outdoor Trek has gone before in terms of crowd. You can see some great pictures from one of Sunday's audience members below.

Final Weekend! and photos

This Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 2 are our last two shows of the year. If you haven't seen us, or told your friends, now is the time. We've had a great time so far and hope you'll join us next year.

In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here are some photos taken by James Brendlinger of Sunday's performance. Enjoy!

Our house band, The Redshirts!

"Another dream that failed..."

Elias Sandoval informs the away team of this perfect world.

Mr. Spock and the spores.

Kirk won't cooperate. Spock is not impressed.

But he is pretty happy anyway.

Kirk's turn. Maybe he just wants his own crown.

Sulu and Leslie discuss horticultural matters.

Back on the bridge, Kirk makes an inspiring speech. No one is impressed.

Let's Talk About You

You are great! You came out in droves the first weekend to see "This Side of Paradise"- in spite of some seriously intense heat and sun on Sunday.

You told your friends! You wrote nice things about us on the internet!

It seems like everyone is so enthusiastic about our show. We've heard from just about everyone–

Wait, did Spock call in at all?

Spock? Mr. Spock?!

I suppose you can't hope to impress everybody.

See you at Dr. Blanche Lavizzo Park this weekend, Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 2pm!

Continuous improvements

We are also on Twitter. Everyone say hello to Paul. He's the guy tweeting on our Twitter account, @hello_earth.

Hi, Paul! Hi, Twitter!

Now follow us. It's fun!

Also, check out our new pages (above post, below header) for show dates, times, and locations.

Hi, Logistics!

Props!

So this is the week before the show, which in theater-time is when everything actually starts coming together. Last night, we finally had all of our props for the show, and it was. . . very exciting.

Our show's aesthetic is sort of minimalist for both practical and artistic reasons. Practically speaking, lots of good-looking props cost money, and this is a free show. But the more artistic reason is that the production wants to focus on the human drama, and there's the concern that it's sometimes hard to focus on that when your eyes are being dazzled by special effects. We spent a lot of time exploring relationships between characters, hoping to incorporate the full weight of series history. These human experiences, and what they tell us about ourselves are paramount. (Incidentally, they are also Paramount™)

Also, there's nothing worse than a prop that looks like it's trying for realism and landed on ridiculous. I vividly remember a middle school production with a pie of poorly constructed papier mache, and the fact that it drew more laughs when it appeared than when it hit someone in the face. So instead of realism, we went for whimsy. But even so, having a physical object and a final vision reinforced that THIS IS TECH WEEK and WE ARE OPENING and just that immediacy is enough to make you excited and make your performance more "real." So from here on out, we just keep adding things.

Tonight: costumes!

Tomorrow: audience!

This is Your Captain Speaking!

Kris here, to bring you some delightful tidbits. Once again, Stevie Van Bronkhorst has created an amazing poster for us, to the delight no doubt of many windows and telephone poles around town.

And as a further treat, Justin Robinson has put together a teaser from last year's show (filmed by Greg Brotherton), advertising this one. Please pass it around, if you want to make your non-Seattle friends envious.

Don't forget! We open in four days, and you want to beat the crowds.