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| Norm's
films showing on Video & TV (Current) Theatre Show Schedule (Current) Review...... What they say...... Sound Design Show Control |
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Crazy Dream Sound Productions has sold and installed an SFX show control sound system for Berkeley Repertory Theatre's new 2005-6 season. The season includes OUR TOWN, FINN IN THE UNDERWORLD, COMEDY ON THE BRIDGE / BRUNDIBAR, 9 PARTS OF DESIRE, ZORRO IN HELL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and THE MISER. This is the fifth system installed after Marin Theatre Company, Center Repertory Company, San Jose Stage Company, and Magic Theatre. We are the authorized dealer for Stage Research, and system demo can be requested by email us. Please contact us if your theatres are interested in leasing/purchasing options (October 1, 2005).
World Premiere River's End opens September 13, 2005 at the Marin Theatre Company Mill Valley, Ca. The world premiere musical features the story about Colorodo River rafting, a newlywed couple Glen and Bessie Hyde vanished without a trace. The terrific sound design will provide the audiance the realistic environment of the rafting experience at the Grand Canyon (August 24, 2005).
EV ® SxA360™ & Plasma™ Powered Loudspeakers Installed at Marin Theatre Company
World Premiere Fortune opens January 18, 2005 at the Marin Theatre Company Mill Valley, Ca. The terrific sound design will be featured as one important character (January 7, 2005).
We
are sorry to find the news about the passing of Mr. Stephen Mallatratt on November
22. His play of the Susan Hill's ghost novel "The Woman in Black" will
always be remembered (December 8, 2004).
Stage Company conjures up scary Christmas tradition (November 27, 2004).
We are doing four productions back to back before Christmas 2004: The Right Kind of People (Magic Theatre), The Woman in Black (San Jose Stage Company), She Loves Me (Napa Valley Repertory Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Center Repertory Company) (November 2, 2004).
Crazy Dream Sound Productions purchased new hardware and software for music composer sound designer Norman Kern. The studio can further offer the top original score and sound design quality for the independent film makers (October 6, 2004).
Independent
Film - Park Day DVD will be released on August
24. Leading Actor: Hill Harper Norm
is excited to work on sound design for the classic comedy Bus
Stop (Marin Theatre Company) and looking forward to the collaboration with
Director Michael Butler
(August 5, 2004). What
a busy and challenging season it is for us! Norm has completed 3 original scores
and 13 sound designs (including 3 musicals) for 9 directors in 3 theatres this
season. His show control systems have operated over 800 shows in ten venus
(May 30, 2004). Napa
Valley Repertory Theatre's "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged"
received standing ovation last night at the Napa Valley Opera House.
Norm put together an hour of pre show music and there is an incredible intermission
piece you will not want to miss. After 13 productions this season, we are ready
to take a break. (May 29, 2004). Approaching
to the end of 2003/4 season, Norm is busy preparing 3 sound designs in May: Communicating
Doors for Marin Theatre Company, Cowgirls for Center Repertory Company, and The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare for Napa Valley Repertory at the Napa Valley
Opera House (April 13, 2004). Norm
was nominated for the best Sound Design Syncopation in the 2003
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Congratulation to our
friends for their nominations: Anthony Fusco, Domenique Lozano, Joy Carlin, Charles
Dean, Darren Bridgett, James Carpenter, Mark Phillips, Rod Gnapp, Guilio Cesare
Perrone, Jim Cave, Kurt Landisman, Anna Oliver, Lawrence Ewing, Julie James, Michael
Babin, Andrea Bechert, and Tom Langguth (March 2, 2004). The
Last Schwartz tech is going so smooth, and the Marin Theatre Company box office
is breaking record (over 80% sold). This show is going to be a hit. The performance
preview begins tonight and opens on January 13. Next, I will be working on Rocket
Man and Anna Christie for Director Lee Sankowich at Center Rep Walnut Creek (January
8, 2004). Congratulate
Napa Valley Repertory Theatre's 1776 production recieved total 11 Dean Goodman
Choice Award (January 8, 2004).
2003
is definitely a busy year for Norm. He accomplished total of twelve sound designs
for five Bay Area theatres. All of the designs were operated
by his show control systems. Two systems are permanently
installed at Marin Theatre Company and Center Repertory Theatre Company . Over
five hundred performances had been operated by his show control systems so far.
Two productions Chosen and Blue Surge were extended to ten weeks performance.
2004 will be an exciting year for Norm's work starting with Marin's West Coast
premiere The Last Schwartz by Deborah Zoe Laufer (December 30, 2003).
I
am looking forward to design Rocket Man by Steven Dietz, one of America's most
widely produced contemporary playwrights. Steven had written twenty-plus plays
since 1983 for over one hundred regional theatres including Off-Broadway. International
productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden,
Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Singapore, and South Africa. His work has been
translated into seven languages (November 12, 2003). Marin
Theatre Company in Mill Valley announced the Jan 2004 production The
Last Schwartz
by Deborah Zoe Laufer. Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker from L.A. Law will
be the principle performers (October 10, 2003). Napa
Valley Repertory Theatre announced 2004 Season Schedule for Relatively Speaking
by Alan Ayckbourn, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, abridged by Adam
Long, Daniel Singer, & Jess Winfield, The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, Translated
by David Mamet, and She Loves Me by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Performances
will be held in Napa Valley Opera House and Native Sons of the Golden West (October
1, 2003).
Please
come check out my sound design and experience my theatre sound designer show control
system (August 9, 2003): My
new Season 2003-4 will begin with a challenge September
- sound design three productions for three directors at three different theatres
in San Francisco Bay Area. Artistic
Director Lee Sankowich (Marin Theatre Company) begins the season with a musical
Me
and My Girl, Director
Domenique Lozano will start The
Countess (the longest running Off-Broadway drama of the 1999-2000
season) at the Center Repertory
Company in Walnut Creek, and the Napa Valley Repertory Theatre will perform
the musical 1776 at the Napa Opera House (July 24, 2003). Director
Domenique Lozano will start the CenterRep 2003-4 season open production "The
Countess". After a taste of my show control sound system for "Pygmalion",
CenterRep Walnut Creek has requested a quotation to custom build a system for
them. Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley is also in process of purchasing my
system for their theater (June 23, 2003). I
used my orginal music composition for the Napa Valley Rep's "On the Verge".
We overcame all the obsticles and had a great opening. Last design of the season
"Pygmalion" opened successfully last Saturday. After two awards, thirteen
designs, and six theatres this season, I am ready to take a break this summer
so I will design greater shows for the next challenging Season 2003-4 (June
2, 2003). The
popular computer game SimCity
4 from Maxis is released this year. My sound
design was featured and credited for this new release (May 21,
2003). My
last project this season will be the Center REPertory Company Production Pygmalion
5/29-6/28. I am glad to work with the amazing Director Amy Glazer for the third
production this season after "The Music Lesson" and "Blue Surge".
My theatre show control system will be introduced for this production. Center
REP is the 6th Bay Area theater using my system (May 13, 2003). Second
design this year is extended. The Chosen had three weeks extentions and closed
on 3/30/2003 for total 10 weeks run . Now, we are proud that "Blue Surge"
is extended FIVE weeks through 5/25/03 at Magic Theatre (total 9 weeks run). (April
29, 2003). Dr.
Richie Moore passed
away Feb. 16 this year. Norm wishes to dedicate his 11th design of the season
(Visions of Kerouac - Marin Theatre Company production) to his sound engineering
mentor who taught him the approach to audio problem-solving and creative tenacity
in the face of challenges (April 4, 2003). Good
news came this morning. Norm is now two time winner of the Bay
Area Critics Circle Awards for the Outstanding Sound Design "The Music
Lesson" and "The Woman in Black". Congratulation to the Marin Theatre
Company for the total of 7 winners of "The Music Lesson (4)" and "Wonderful
Town (3)": Norman Kern (Best Sound Design), Lorri Holt and Ron Campbell (Best
Principal Performance), and Amy Glazer (Best Director). Congratulation to 3 winers
for Wonderful Town: Laura Hazlett (Costume Design), Rob Hotzenbeller (Supporting
Performance), and the Ensemble Performance of The Wonderful Town. We'd also like
to congratulate Jeri Lynn Cohen for winning of the Supporting Performance
in The House of Blue Leaves (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), to James
Carpenter for winning of the Supporting Performance in The Seagull (California
Shakespeare Festival), to Jim Cave winning of the lighting design of The Entertainer
(Aurora Theatre), and to Pamela Gray for her lighting
design winning for Evita (American Musical Theatre of San Jose) (April 1, 2003). Norm
was nominated for his Sound Design The Music Lesson in
the 2002
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Congratulation to the
Marin Theatre Company for the 22 nominations for Hairy Ape (3), The Music Lesson
(7), and Wonderful Town (12). The winners will be posted on KGO-AM
810 NewsTalk's site by April 15. Congratulation to Amy Glazer (The Music Lesson)
and Lee Sankowich (Wonderful Town) for the nominations
in the Director category. Congratulation to Domenique Lozano for
the nomination of the Principle Performance in The Winter's Tale. Congratulation
to James Carpenter for the nomination of the Supporting Performance in The Seagull.
Congratulation to Jeri Lynn Cohen for the nomination of the Supporting Performance
in The House of Blue Leaves. Congratulation to Pamela Gray for her lighting design
nomination for Evita and Kurt
Landisman for the four nominations of lighting design - The Hairy Ape, She
Loves Me, On the Town, and Wonderful Town (March 18, 2003). I
was just notified about my winning of the 2002 Dean Goodman Choice
Award for my sound design - The Music Lesson (March 5, 2003). The
Real Thing opened last night with great feedback to my sound design.
The audience really enjoyed the music I selected for the play (March 2, 2003). The
Chosen will be extended 3/13 at Magic Theater San Francisco I
am looking forward to work with Rebecca Gilman for the West Coast Premiere, BLUE
SURGE. It will be the third time design for my favorite director Amy Glazer,
and Magic Theatre will be the fifth Bay Area professional theatre using my theatre
sound design show control system (February 19, 2003). Sound
design for Marin Theatre Company's Syncopation is a challenge. I did research
for the authentic period music (1911's tango and waltz). The design is almost
complete. This MTC production, opening in March, is optioned for Broadway New
York. (February 13, 2003). Consecutively,
San Francisco Chronicle had given FIVE excellent reviews (APPLAUSE) to the plays
I designed: THE CHOSEN, WONDERFUL TOWN, THE MUSIC LESSON, TWO FOR THE SEESAW,
and LADY IN THE DARK Counting my theatre show control sound system involvement,
the rediscovered Tennessee Williams' early play FUGITIVE KIND marks the 6th in
a row excellency from the SF Chronicle (January 27, 2003). The
Chosen is now successfully operated with my theatre show control system. It is
the 8th production and the 4th theatre (A.C.T., Marin Theatre Company, Napa Valley
Repertory Theatre, and A Traveling Jewish Theatre) the show control systems have
been operating successful in the Bay Area. My next two projects will be The Real
Thing with
Napa Valley Repertory Theatre and Syncopation with Marin Theatre
Company. (January 18, 2003). Happy
Holiday! My seventh sound design this season, the production from A
Traveling Jewish Theatre - the Chosen, will be shown from 1/15-3/2, 2003 in
San Francisco & Berkeley. Exiciting multimedia design with video and sound
are included in the production (December 30, 2002).
The pre-release review:
"With easily understandable dialogue, some excellent hip-hop and jazz scoring,
and a wealth of atmospheric attributes, the sonic situations are first-class."
"the dream sequences ..... are magnificently realized, filled
with well-crafted imagery that sells the shimmering, sinister quality intrinsic
to each other worldly experience."
Crazy Dream Sound Productions purchased 5 additional
Countryman
Isomax EarSets
Microphones, smallest and lightest professional headset
in the world (see
pictures below). The World Premiere Musical "Beggar's
Holiday" will feature the best sound design with the
best sound quality ever with our new mics and the newly designed/installed superb
quality fully digital state-of-the-art sound system.
Beggar's
Holiday, written by Dale Wasserman and music by Duke Ellington, opens September
14th (previews start 9/9/04) at Marin
Theatre Company, Mill Valley (August 17, 2004).
Norm will be design the thriller The Woman in Black for the fourth
time at the San Jose Stage. Our broadway quality show control system
is proposed for the theatre to run the design. The system is capable to run the
light cues as well. It will be the 11th Bay Area venues featuring our show control
system (July 29, 2004).
1776
Tartuffe
Speaking
Doors
Works
Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D South Side (March 1, 2003).