Donna Rae continued
Together, Davidson and Jones have written two one-act and four full-length musicals. They have received several commissions, including My Dog Never Says Please for Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. They won the Poncho Artistic Pick Award at the 2002 Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival for Claudia Kelly's 500 Hats, a show based on a well-known Pike Place Market merchant. The show was produced at Seattle's Bathhouse Theatre in 2003 where again Donna Rae's talents were praised as "dazzlingly innovative," (Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly).
Donna Rae's current project, The North Arcade represents her most personal work to date. This lively revue, featuring music composed by Rob Jones, pays tribute to Seattle's famous Pike Place Market, a treasured hub of local farmers, fish mongers and brilliant but extremely wacky textile, visual, and performing artists. In 1995 she wrote Act I, but other projects pulled her away, including writing a baseball musical, The Show, for a local celebrity, and working 14 months as Josephine Vitale in Tony and Tina's Wedding. But in March 2005, Market crafts people presented her with an amazing token of their confidence in her talents, funding her way to the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Chicago. Donna Rae has since poured her efforts into this production, earning the support of Seattle's Visual Media Productions to create a marketable DVD based on this work; the support of the Market Theater's non-profit theater company to co-produce the play; and that of countless friends and market vendors who eagerly await the show's production in 2007--the Pike Place Market's centennial year. < BACK
