This post is from the currently-in-route-to-the-Outer-Banks Peter Shanahan. Peter is a UNCSA graduate from the School of the Music and a second-year member of the Open Dream Ensemble.
On Tuesday morning, the Open Dream Ensemble will perform Dream Machines at First Flight Elementary School right next to Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, N.C. The elementary school is only a few hundred yards from where Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to create and fly the world's first heavier-than-air flying machine! Since our play tells their story, and the story of those closest to them, I feel an amazing honor to perform the show right next to the spot where all of this history happened.
Just over a year ago, Open Dream performed another play at First Flight Middle School. The beginnings of Dream Machines were just coming about, but our cast knew that the show would be about the Wright brothers. Even back then, I had a secret desire to see the new show performed "on location!"
Now, after dozens of shows and six months of rehearsal and performing, that secret desire is is no longer secret. It will be among the most satisfying experiences of my artistic life!
Kitty Hawk, N.C. -- Here we come!
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