Photos of my characters from Little Shop of Horrors

November 8, 2013Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

We closed the show a week ago and I have had a few days to decompress.

I feel really good about the work we did and happy to have been involved in this project as a performer and Stage Manager.

Here are a few photos of my characters in the ensemble:

Crazy Cat Lady of Skid Row:

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Mrs. Luce (Claire Boothe Luce is a personal hero of mine, so it was fun to play the Little Shop version of her persona!)

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My Husband Paul came over to the theatre one night after the show and took 250 photos. Click HERE to view them on drop box.

SUU News did a nice write up in the campus paper HERE.

The Father of the actor who played Seymour took a ton of photos during our closing night performance. His photo stream is located HERE.

And Dean, who played Mushnik took photos the same night that Paul showed up for his shoot. His photos stream is HERE.

Dean took a picture of Paul while he shot the cast:

For the finale the ensemble was Zombified, so here I am in my zombie makeup after opening night:

I did about ten blog entries of the show using video and still pictures that I took myself during rehearsals. I should have asked permission to share this content because some of the cast did not want to be associated with my Blog because of my views on various issues. So I deleted all of that material and have only included a few shots that are mostly just me, with a few cast members in the background.

Here are some final thoughts about this show….

I have watched Little Shop of Horrors live several times, mostly after being produced by high schools and amateur groups. I have watched the movie several times and in preparing to be the Stage Manager for this production I watched and listened to various You Tube clips literally dozens of times. As the show embedded itself into my brain over the past few months I have come to believe it is a redemption show, much more than just a creepy musical.

The desires of Audrey and Seymour to be parents and live a normal domestic life, the Faustian themes of selling our life blood to evil entities who end up eating us in the end, the willingness of Seymour to forgive Audrey for her past, and the chills that ran up and down my spine every time I heard Suddenly Seymour sung by our leads…this is a wonderful show with amazing music and I was so happy to be a part of it.

I am grateful for my families support while I was away rehearsing every night these past few weeks and for the wonderful help from Paul and Shelly who took over the kitchen while I have a few months of doing what I love most. It was a great experience….

Now back to my kitchen…

Jenny Hatch

Jenny Hatch As the Crazy Cat Bag Lady of SKID ROW Little Shop of Horrors Promotions

Have you heard about the Tea Party Conspiracy?

October 28, 2013Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

They want to:

Take Over.
Stop Stealing our Money.
Restore our Liberty.

And then leave everybody the hell alone.

Jenny Hatch
PROUD Teaparty Organizer and Supporter

My favorite talks from General Conference

October 13, 2013Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

I loved so many of the talks from General Conference. Three of them were favorites that I will embed in this post. Jeffrey Holland talked about emotional illness. I have always believed that we should be as open about mental illness as we are about physical illness.

Which is why I have been so willing to share my own healing story in so many different places.

I experienced a Post Partum Psychosis after the birth of my first child and wrote a book detailing how I was able to extricate myself from the claws of Psychiatry.

To purchase my book on Kindle, click HERE.

Before I took the time to write my own book, I shared my medical records and journal with a writer named Kathy Kendall Tackett. She wrote a textbook for nurses in 1991 and included my story as the final chapter in her book. A few years ago she contacted me and said she was doing a second edition of her book and wanted to include my story with an update.

That book was published and can be found HERE.

My story was also featured on the cover of the Boulder Daily Cameras Fit Magazine the summer of 1996 and My Story was a sidebar article in an issue of Mothering Magazine feature story on Post Partum Psychosis.

Jenny Hatch after 2 Years of “Treatment” by Psychiatry

My next favorite talk was Elder Cooks.

And I truly loved Elder Andersens talk:

Jenny Hatch

Sherri Dew: What do LDS Women Get?

October 11, 2013Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Hatch Children at Pearl Street Mall in 1997

I do not have anything to add, simply perfect! Love you Sherri!

Jenny Hatch

The talk by Linda Burton is located HERE!

A comment on Joanna Brooks Blog regarding “Equality is not a feeling”

October 8, 2013Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Here is a little chat I had with a gal in the comment section of Joanna Brooks Blog. It further clarifies my position.

Jenny Marie Hatch

“I am wondering who is paying Joanna and Kate to organize and agitate naive young LDS Women… Click HERE.

Sara Anne to Jenny Marie Hatch

I don’t even consider myself a part of the Ordain Women movement, and I still find your thoughts in this post offensive. I also can’t believe that you could possibly fault someone for her “well timed book rollout” and public appearances when the entire right hand side of your blog is filled from top to bottom with self-promoting advertisements for your own financial endeavors and public appearances.

Jenny Marie Hatch to sara anne

Sara Anne,

Media appearances on the level that Joanna has enjoyed are never an accident. They ALWAYS further someones agenda. The elites reserve a unique level of hate for the happy and contented Home Maker, because she stands at the crossroads of all of their agendas and plans for the collapse of the American Family.

I have no problem with anyone promoting, selling, or writing books on any topic. The common themes for all of my work is “Mother, get your butt back in the Kitchen”, so Joanna and her feminist friends are my ideological foes.

I have a deep understanding of psychological media campaigns designed to breed discontent in certain populations. And I am just cynical enough to believe that the contented mormon homemaker would be high on Madison Avenues list to target.

LDS Men are the kindest, most well behaved, gentle souls on Planet Earth. And the sisters of the church would do well to get on their knees every night to thank God for the blessing of having them in their lives.”

Go read all of the comments on the blog, it will provide quite a cross section of thoughts on this topic.

Jenny Hatch