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Lou and Candy and I (Kelly Walsh - Madison's Grill Catering and Events Coordinator) worked on a program for the last WSMDH show, and I am wondering if anyone had any feedback about the programs themselves, or if we should continue with them or try something else? Sounds like Lou might have something slicker in mind. Thanks everyone! -Kelly
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Posted 2006-07-31 at 18:36:23
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Well I paid Entercom their rather lofty check today to get some radio coverage on both Charlie and Kisn starting next month. I will have an outline soon and will post it as to what all we are getting but the marketing person we bought it from knows and loves Susan and Lou...who dosen't? So needles to say were getting a more than fair deal with a more than fair payment structure. Loren
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Posted 2006-07-27 at 02:21:21
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I'm sorry we missed getting together before your report although my show, Who Stole My Dead Husband was doing a "tweener" at the time. We had recently closed the show down in an attempt to re-tool. The short history of the show is this; somewhere back in 2004 I was contacted by Rowdy Roody Piper about doing a dinner theater out at Portland Meadows. I had been involved with doing private "Soprano-esque" parties that were pretty successful and we had recently performed one of these events at Portland Meadows. That venture ended due to a lack of funding after a 4 month run. A year later we entered into an agreement with Steve Brown, proprietor of Madison's Grill in Southeast P-town. I was a bit reluctant to open with the same show since I built it specifically for the Meadows. With that said, we tried it anyway and I was convinced that we needed to re-tool. The feedback from guests at the show were always extremely positive despite our obvious flaws. I decided that it was worth going out for funding and developing a plan that actually stood a chance at survival. I found Loren Castillo, a local real estate broker who also invests in small business's. We struck a deal and drew up that much needed plan. I knew the people who had the right experience at putting this thing back together and with Loren's commitment, that's what we did. We've hired several key people including Susan Crow who has a great reputation in the industry. She also spent 3 years working on bringing Tony& Tina to Portland. And we also hired Stan Foote as Director and who could bring a fresh look to the show. The cast is made up of local talent and many Drammy award winners including, Jim Caputo, Ernie Casciato, Dani Baldwin, Corey Brunish, Chrisse Roccaro and features young high school talents including Alex Lankford who shared the stage with me at the Symphony during their performances of Music Man and Camelot. This show is a tribute to growing up Italian in Brooklyn, New York as well as a tribute to my rather zany family. The audience is made to feel like family and everything is built around the music of Sinatra, Lou Monte, Louis Prima and the works of various othe artists. I play the boss, Luigi Fishetti, why not, I wrote it, I might has well be the boss, Capisce? One of Luigi's goals during each event is to welcome every person with a kiss as the night goes on. Men and women alike, because that's Italian. We hope that we will get to see you at one of our media nights. We'll be in touch regarding dates. If you'd like to continue a conversation, please write to louispallotta@netzero.net or by phone at 503-519-2198.
Thank you. Lou Pallotta
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Posted 2006-07-26 at 19:30:52
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Thanks for the meeting Monday, Loren and Susan. It's so nice to have the two of you be part of the team that Lou has put together!
I'll do all I can to assure that the food, facility, bar and service are top notch for our guests. I very much look forward to a successful season.
Steve
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Posted 2006-07-25 at 20:22:48
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Well its 12am and the day isn't over yet. It started with Susan and I meeting with Kelly from Entercom (Charlie/Kisn FM) and struck a golden deal for us to get as much radio coverage as possible for our buck. Its going to be over both stations and be heavily promoted at all events as well. After that we met with Amir from Passport Unlimited which is a dinner card company and since we serve dinner we qualify to be one of the members. Now all the card carriers will get an email telling them about us and get a small discount for using it. We will also be listed in their directory. Steve the owner of Madison's, caterer for the show and biggest supporter and I figured out a lot of stuff today that needed to get taken care of. We decided to make the wait staff part of the show now and hire them ourselves and pay them ourselves. And in doing that we also decided to use the auto gratuity to pay for that and whatever else we need it to go twords. Were also going to add another entre to the show to make it a 4 course meal. We need to do a little bit more work on what exactly its going to be and look like but we'll get arround to it before the show I'm sure. Well thats it for now. Also anybody reading this is more than welcome to leave comments and questions on here so please feel free to. If you don't have the username and password email me @ Loren@portlandpowersearch.com
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Posted 2006-07-25 at 03:17:01
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What a dissapointment to see an article, that initally appears to be about local dinner theaters, not featuring the best show in town! Who Stole My Dead Husband is an interactive dinner theater built around the bustling and quirky day of an Italian mobster family trying to put one of their own to rest, capisce? The entertainment value alone is worth the admission ($50-60 depending on where you're seated) with a cast that draws you in to the family without making you feel like you're on the spot. Dinner is traditional Italian fare served family style that gives you plenty of quantity along with quality and a complementary glass of wine when you first arrive gets things started off right. The show includes singing, dancing (for audience members too), and a one of a kind story line that is a bit unique every show due to audience participation and the improvisions of the cast (which includes several Drammy winners). The show has been on a break for a couple of months while a new producer has steped in to put the finishing touches on the details of the show. A mostly Italian cast is looking to start the show back up at their regular location, Madison's Grill on August 19th. Info can be obtained about the show at the website www.whostolemydeadhusband.com or by calling 503-736-2178.
Hopefully this will be posted soon! It's sad that we were left out, but hopefully we can make some noise and get some publicity anyway from this!! -Darlene
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Posted 2006-07-20 at 23:54:49
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As many of you might know their was an article recently about Dinner Theaters in Portland by Tiffany Lee Brown. If you haven't read the article here it is Willamette Week. I encourage all of you to read it and at the bottom you have the opportunity to leave a comment. You could say something like, "nice article" or, "it lacked something". But what I'd really like to see is, "WE ARE THE BEST DINNER THEATER IN TOWN" something along those lines. I will be writing her tonight and calling her in the morning so all of you helping would be hugely appreciated! Loren
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Posted 2006-07-20 at 23:33:22
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Stan Foote has accepted our offer to become part of the family and will be the acting director for the show. Lou and I just met with him and are every excited to start working with him. If you'r not familure with Stan or his work here is a blurb about him from a web site, Stan is the Artistic Director for OCT. He has taught and directed in Portland for 25-plus years for OCT, Lakewood Theatre Company, Triangle! Productions and ART. Stan is a Drammy award-winner who most recently directed Ferdinand the Bull, The Former One-on-One Basketball Champion, The Velveteen Rabbit, Cyrano and Holes for OCT, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Miracle Theatre) and The Gondoliers (Mock's Crest). Lou and I ask that you please help him feel welcome to our production. Loren
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Posted 2006-07-20 at 23:21:22
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We have a start date and its August 19th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check the cast calendar soon for rehersal dates but as of right now its looking like evenings Mon-Thurs and Sunday afternoons July 31st through the 19th are all possible dates. Loren
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Posted 2006-07-20 at 23:15:15
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Hi guys. I've started booking holiday parties already. One of my clients is interested in the holiday version of the dinner show for Saturday, December 16th. I'm not sure what price to present to him. Any ideas on what price we are shooting for?
This will be a private show for 50 guests. Should we set a minimum show price or minimum guest count?
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Posted 2006-07-19 at 13:23:35
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A lot happend today for he show, I hired a great web designer from Prolific Media in fact the owner Peter who is a great guy who I think can do a great job. I'm excited to see what he can do. This is a huge piece to our reopening as the ticket sales is attatched to our site so we need that asap. Lou and I also have a meeting with Stan on Thursday as well as one with Kayla tomorrow. Susan also set up an appointment for us to meet with one of the radio families on Monday! So besides that and before I pass out I'm going to start working on our alocation for funds. This should be done by tomorrow since I'm staying home to get this done. Loren
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Posted 2006-07-19 at 01:50:27
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Who Stole My Dead Husband Calendar
This will work for the mean time and will allow e-mail notifications for additions or changes. Let me know if it needs to be tweaked. I can add new categories with color coding if there is something you want and it isn’t there. Thanks!!!
-Darlene
darlenea@gmail.com
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Posted 2006-07-18 at 22:10:13
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This in an interactive portal for information sharing between anyone involved in the show for use of betterment for the whole. This blog is a beta that were using and will get better as time goes on, we'll have individual sign in names and passwords, email notification and hopefully the calendar to post events as well. So make sure that your not adding a comment and going to http://www.localcents.com/blog/blogbackend.php to sign in and post everything. Other wise you can only post a comment and most likely nobody will see that. So how you use this blog is to sighn in using the username and password. When posting click on the button that says, "create new post" to the right. After that click ok when it askes what kind of post you want to do, the default will be set and its not the business one. Then type in your title and body. Be sure to let everyone know who you are either at the top or bottom since their is no other way to differentiate who wrote anything. Once you are done hit, "update entry" at the bottom, after the screen changes hit the "publish" button to the left. This will post it to the blog for everyone to see. Then to see it hit "view my blog" to the left and it will take you to it. You may have to hit your refresh button if you don't see it showing up. Well thats it for now and I'll send you all emails with the username and password for the blog. Also save the URL in your fovorites because you'll want to use it all the time and its rediculasely long to type in! Thanks Loren
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Posted 2006-07-18 at 20:44:02
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