I cant wrap my head around this. I always imagined that, some decades from now, the bunch of people I came up with would be standing around at IOs 50th, wrinkled and grey, and marvel that we got to be a small part of the history of the theater. And Jason? Hed be there, with this giant tome that chronicled the enormous list of shows he produced through all those years. I remember Del saying of some improviser -- maybe Melanie Blue? -- She plays the game, she plays the game hard, and shell beat your ass at it. Jason was like that about everything. He played comic books hard. He played Star Wars hard. He played producer -- hard! And he played improv hardest of all. Jason was the guy who created and drove my single favorite IO experience - Dinner for Six, Fortune Cookie Included (the first one that nobody saw upstairs in the DCT, not the later iterations) (No slight here, just carbon-dating). The idea for Jedi was born in the midst of a USA Network marathon of the trilogy at a stray-dog Christmas in my apartment on Addison. Hed be on the edges of every show at IO, his eyes always alive with mischief and the joy of not knowing exactly what would happen next. I hadnt seen Jason recently, like last-couple-of-years recently. I regret that. The selfish part of all of this is that I know I missed out. I wish he wasnt gone.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:52:03 +0000
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