NBC Morning Show features "Love Negotiated"
For those of you not awake and watching tellie at 5:45am, then you missed our feature on NBC Early Morning News with Jason Austell. But no worries! Your loving A.D./Producer woke up at the ungodly hour of 4:00am and picked up your nervous-grumpy-not-a-morning-person-playwright Kevin Six and delivered him to the NBC Studios where our professional and chronically-early-everywhere-actress Savvy Scopelleti was waiting, and within moments we were joined by equally professional arriving-with-coffee-in-hand-actor Tom Hall. Phew. Ok Kevin, you can relax now!!!!
Just
in case my camera wouldn't be allowed on set, we took this picture as
we waited in the lobby for our escort to bring us into the studio:
(note how great everyone looks for 5:00 in the morning!)
We went down the hall of editing rooms and sound rooms and rounded the corner of newsroom cubicles and right into the live taping studio. I must have missed the red "on the air" light, because they were broadcasting live as we shuffled in and our host gathered chairs for us. Here's the co-anchor leading in to the weather update:
Speaking of lead-ins, or "teasers", that's just what they had our two actors do before the commercial break. Here's the tape from my angle, which was fun to watch as the camera man was having fun with their shot:
Well finally, the moment arrived, and they were ready to air the live interview! Just one thing though. Kevin had to get to his spot:
There, much better!
Ok, now everyone is in place and, it's GO TIME! (remember, it's all LIVE on air!)
First, Jason Austell interviews the playwright Kevin Six, who explains that the show is about lawyers, non-lawyers, and people just trying to figure out what love is. He says basically it's about relationships, and we hope that's funny!
So 30 seconds of that then a preview scene from the show by our talented actors. Fortunately for us, it just so happens that both Savvy and Tom have backgrounds in broadcasting, so they knew exactly how to stand, what to do, what to say, and how to get it all out in exactly 60 seconds. They were awesome. I mean, just look at them, they're naturals!
Notice behind them, outside, how dark it is? Yep, the sun had not even risen yet, and before you could even say "breakfast", it was a wrap!
So where's the tape of the actors doing the scene, you ask? Well, if you weren't up at 5:00am to watch it on tv for yourself, then you'll just have to come see the show!
