Theater


AMI has been successfully producing and editing music videos since the launch of MTV. Okay, that might date us, but the point is that our experience gives us an unusual bag of dazzling tricks. Because we've seen the evolution of the music video since day one, we know how to deliver the unique visual styles and concepts that keep things fresh and interesting.

Goddess Wheel

From the Wagner College production of Galt MacDermot and Matty Selman's great new work, Goddess Wheel.

Airswimming

 

 

in association with 
Fallen Angel Theatre Company

Airswimming

by Charlotte Jones

directed by John Keating



Set in 1920's England, Charlotte Jones's Airswimming is based on the true story of two women (Miss Kitson and Miss Baker), who have been incarcerated in a hospital for the "criminally insane" for having borne illegitimate children. Forgotten by their families and not released until the 1970's, Dora and Persephone adopt alter-egos, Dorph and Porph, to enact their fantasies and survive the silence of incarceration. By turns very funny and moving, Airswimming reminds us of the forgotten women of these generations in both Britain and Ireland.

Aedín Moloney and Rachel Pickup, seen in The Irish Rep's 2011 revival of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, star as Dora and Persephone, respectively.

 

Complexions: The United State of Dance

Diery Prudent, an American Montage associate, directed Juan Proano, vice chairman of the dance ensemble Complexions to Eric Marciano and AMI to oversee the filming of their 2002 Gala Fundraiser “Live and Let Dance.” Complexions was founded by artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, and concieved with the intent to bring together artists of many different races, cultures, sizes and background.American Montage captured the spectacular event with a three-camera shoot or fundraising and archival purposes. Complexions asked that AMI pay special attention and care to dance movement, ensemble interaction and staging of the choreography.

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Client: Complexions
Cameras: Joe Piazzo, Fred Hatt, Eric Marciano
Editor: Emilie Agniel

Williamstown Theater Festival's Sweet Bird of Youth

 

This excerpt is from an edit for “Sweet Bird of Youth” featuring Charles Durning as Boss Finley. It  was directed by Tarquin Cordona and was done for a 1988 staging of the Tennessee Williams classic that was at both the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, before a summer run at the Williamstown Theater Festival. The clip was produced for Nikos Psacharopoulos the then artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival. It was filmed in 16mm black and white film and edited on ¾” Umatic videotape. Oh those were the days!

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Directed by Tarquin Cordona
Produced by Nikos Psacharopoulos
Edited by Eric Marciano

Legends

This promo was made for our old friends at Friends in Deed, Cynthia O'Neal and Robert MacNamara in 2009. Please visit their web site www.friendsindeed.org. 

Playwright James Kirkwood’s Legends! made it to New York on March 23 with the help of drag divas Charles Busch and John Epperson (a.k.a. Lypsinka) and Broadway alum/currentMad Men star Bryan Batt. The now infamous play about two Hollywood archrivals forced to work together to revive their careers originally starred icons Mary Martin and Carol Channing during its Broadway-bound national tour in 1986, but closed before making it to the Big Apple due to all the real-life backstage drama. History repeated itself in 2007, when dueling divas Joan Collins and Linda Evans revived the work, also falling victim to behind-the-scenes dramatics before making it to Broadway. Fortunately, there was no such trouble backstage at New York’s Town Hall, where the one-night-only reading took place, for Busch, Epperson and Batt—unless you consider visits from Broadway names like Christine Ebersole a problem! In the spirit of irony, all proceeds from the night went to benefit the organization

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Filmed and Directed by Eric Marciano
Edited by Eric Marciano