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Things are going pretty well in NYC. The audiences have been
VERY responsive to the show. We’ve been asking them to fill out a
questionnaire and 93 percent say they’d recommend the show to a friend. One
12-17 year old kid said that it was the greatest show he had ever seen!
And while all of our invited potential [...]

Well, this is it. After 11 years of tweaking, a season of touring the country, and a backers’ audition in New York in January, Chad Nichols and I broke down and completely rewrote the entire Intergalactic Nemesis (the original one, not the sequels). Based on feedback from the road, feedback from our backers’ audition, and [...]

As everyone reading this probably knows, I helped found Salvage Vanguard Theater thirteen years ago. And in that time almost everything we’ve created has been right here in Austin. Over the years we’ve received a little bit of national attention for our work, but sometimes it feels that on a national level we’re creating work [...]

So, the upshot of the NY visit is that we have geniune interest in the show from venue managers, publicists, marketing people, some NY press, and producers. Based on meetings after our presentation, here’s the feedback I got:
1. The show works on a small scale, keep it that way but add set design. In other [...]

Great question, Jason!
About six weeks ago, we brought Seth Goldstein, our general manager for the NY production; Michael Coco from New World Stages; and Jeremy Lee, all around great guy from NYC to Austin to work with the Austin team, including the cast, Derek Rosenstrauch, Tim Doyle, and a couple of veteran marketing guys Gregory [...]