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Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical opens this week at the Arsenal in Watertown
Beacon Hill resident and technical director, Katie Riker, talks about her upcoming production of Ordinary Days, opening this week.
The Opposite of People, a new theater company in the greater Boston area, presents Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical, opening this week at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.
One of musical theatre’s most exciting new composers, Adam Gwon, creates a score of vibrant and memorable songs, capturing with stinging clarity that uneasy moment in youth when doubts begin to cloud hopes for a future of unlimited possibility, and the connections that, knowingly or not, help you find your way. Ordinary Days is a refreshingly honest and funny musical that tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love, a cab, and a lost notebook.
Beacon Hill resident Katie Riker is the production’s Technical Director, who’s been hard at work creating the set. This is Riker’s second time providing technical direction for the musical, having done it previously at Tufts University.
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“Ordinary Days is an excellent musical for anyone who wonders what they’re doing in life, and if its what’s you’re supposed to be doing,” Riker says, ”It reminds you that all of us are just stumbling around trying to do the best we can, and that’s the point of it all! ”
Throughout the show, the character Warren hands out flyers to passersby imprinted with inspirational messages. These messages, though occasionally kitschy, speak to the characters as they go through their own personal ordeals . In the spirit of Warren, Riker shared a message that spoke to her.
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”Be as happy as a bird with a french fry.”
Riker says it inspires her to find joy in the smallest things and enjoy life as it comes.
When she’s not helping bring theatrical productions to life, she works as a UX Designer and loves gardening on her small patio.
Ordinary Days runs July 30 - August 1 at 8pm and August 1 - 2 at 2pm at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA.
Tickets are available for all performances through Brown Paper Tickets: http://theoppositeofpeople.brownpapertickets.comor on The Opposite of People’s website: http://theoppositeofpeople.org
The Opposite of People (TOP) is a newly established theater company that is dedicated to bringing accessible, unconventional theater and little known shows to the Boston-area community
