Arts Eclectic turns the spotlight on happenings in the arts and culture scene in and around the Austin area. Through interviews with local musicians, dancers, singers, and artists, Arts Eclectic aims to bring locals to the forefront and highlight community cultural events.Support for Arts Eclectic comes from Broadway Bank, The Contemporary Austin, and The Blanton.The Bearcreator and director Lex Okeke. “I love the cast.
“But… I've kind of taken that concept of the Harold and translated it into a five-course meal, right? So we have our aperitif, which is the drink that you have at the beginning of the meal, we've got appetizers, we have an entree, we have a dessert,” Okeke says, “and all of that kind of captures the fast paced of the show, the groundedness of the characters, the increasingly wacky and chaotic nature of the different situations that take place on the show.
It's an ambitious and complicated format, so Okeke devised a way to help keep things on track during each show. “I have some some stylistic pieces that I've added where I'm off to the side and I shout ‘order up!’ and I give each order, which would be the name of each scene,” she says, “like a funky kind of name that signals to my cast,
okay, this is this particular scene. We're gonna return back to that in the entree course and we're gonna return back to that in the dessert courseis also a tribute to the real people who work in real restaurants. “There's so many ways that we wanna pay homage to this industry that keeps all of us fed, keeps all of us, you know, keeps everyone going,” she says.