Things I learned at the opening night party for the Yale Rep’s Autumn Sonata, April 21 at the Study hotel on Chapel Street:
- Michael McQuilken and Chad Raines, who played bandmates in McQuilken’s rock musical Jib, hope to form a band in real life. Both are graduating for the Yale School of Drama next month. Both are looking to do theater things in New York, but Raines—who was a New Haven resident for years before hitching his star to Yale, and who has raised a family and a band (the awesome The Simple Pleasure) here, won’t be leaving town right away.
- There is another drummer named Michael McQuilken, who is no relation to the Yale Michael McQuilken. (“He’s at michaelmcquilken.com. I’m michaelmcquilken.net,” says the Yale one.)
- Rebecca Henderson, who plays Eva in Autumn Sonata, did not known how to play piano before this show, and mastered the Chopin piece she plays solo in the show in a matter of months.
- Director Robert Woodruff has a long gray ponytail that isn’t really noticeable in photographs of him.
- Those opening receptions at heirloom (the restaurant at the study) really do run hot or cold. I’ve been to some pretty spare affairs there, but this one was spectacular, foodwise. Dips and dumplings and breads and salads and brownies and chips and little sweet sugar-covered cone things… Really makes you sad it’s the end of the Rep mainstage season.
- Michael Attias (in photo above, from the All About Jazz website) guaranteed that he won’t be doing anything at the Rep next season. A pity, but let’s count our blessings. Attias was a musician/actor in Woodruff’s production of Notes from Underground. Then he returned as translator and soundscaper for another collaboration with Woodruff, on Battle for Blacks and Dogs. I remember interviewing him and the show’s dramaturg, Amy Boratko, at the Book Trader Café just before Black and Dogs premiered. The Rep’s 2010-11 season had just been announced, and Boratko and I were prodding Attias to be a part of Woodruff’s Autumn Sonata, which he hadn’t even heard was happening. Next thing you know, he was composing an original score for the show. At the party, I asked Attias if he’d been holding back on us during that interview. “No!,” he grinned. “I really didn’t know.” We’ll miss our encounters with Michael Attias—he’s not one of those hermitty theater homebodies; we’ve run into him at coffeeshops and the Yale Cabaret—and we’re hopeful that if the Rep doesn’t have him next season, perhaps Firehouse 12 (another place he’s played in town) might.
- Or, we can always go find Michael Attias—or Michael McQuilken, or Chad Raines—playing in New York.
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