LEGANDALL

Conceived by: Summer Shapiro
Created and performed with Peter Musante

Sound Design by: Peter Musante & Jeremy Shapiro
Lighting: Ian W Hill
Sound & Lighting Technician: Zea Barker
Music Contributions by:
Jordan Woods-Robinson – strings
Kalen Allmanginger – Bird’s Eye Theme
Brandi Brandes – original score

“Lazy Lover” by: Brazilian Girls
“Prendi Una Matita” by: Mina
“Sun will Set” by: Zoe Keating

Wonderful piece of physical clown theatre, which really moves it into this new area of “Clown Dance Theatre,” which it seems a few people, are moving towards. Legsandall brings it home really defining and refining this new area very well. Peter Musante sets the mood, creating their strange world and with great simple funny original physical clown theatre bits. When Summer Shapiro appears the relationships and conflicts between these two clowns is set and they take us on an experience of a journey, growing the conflicts and difficulties. Big hand to the sound designer Peter Musante & Jeremy Shapiro, the sound and music was wonderfully built into the piece. It is great that they are using an original score for the piece, the music never taking over the piece but helping it, being part of Legsandall. Lighting by Ian W. Hill was also excellent – simple and very effective allowing the performers to work with the lighting enabling the lighting to be part of the show in ways we usually do not see it used. An important point the lighting was simple enough to do in a festival setting where one has very little rehearsal time to work with lighting.

There were original genius little moments working with the props, which I am not going to mention because I do not want to spoil the surprises. You can tell they spent wonderful fun time working with, discovering and playing with. Nit picking a little there were a few moments in the beginning where Summer I felt was playing at being her clown rather than being her clown. Peter was always totally his clown from the first moment on stage. This is a great show and for those who first saw Summer at the first Brooklyn Clown Theater Festival she has shown wonderful creative growth. Go see Legsandall.
Next shows Saturday September 18th at 10 PM and Friday September 24th at 11 PM.