[Hidden-tech] Call for Writers/Historians - please forward

[Robin MacRostie]

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear  to  
them except in the form of bread.
																	- M. Ghandi
Robin MacRostie
Choreo  G R A P H I C  Design

where YOU're the show & tell

413.461.6655
choreographicdesign.com



Call for Writers / Students – Interested in American History,  
Biography and Theater
  As an actor, director, theater technician, producer, and  
administrator Jim MacRostie  has always relished sharing his vast and  
eclectic accumulation of facts, knowledge and experience.  Now retired  
and battling Parkinson’s disease, he regrets that he will not complete  
his doctorate. However, passing on his research would be for him a  
sense of closure and gratification.  He hopes that a student of  
theatre or American history candidate or an author would be inspired  
by curiosity and carry this research in biography and history to  
publication.
Frank Mayo and Davy Crockett
When Jim became director of operations for University of Massachusetts  
Fine Arts Center, he put aside research for a doctoral thesis on 19th  
century American actor, Frank Mayo and the play, Davy Crockett or Be  
Sure You’re Right and Then Go Ahead. The intent of the research was to  
publish an examination of the success of the play as it relate to its  
time and a comprehensive biography of Frank Mayo.

David Crockett, frontiersman and legend of the Alamo, has no  
connection with the play other than to lend it his name.  The plot, an  
unabashed theft of Sir Walter Scott’s Lochinvar, features standard  
elements of popular 19th century melodrama: romance, abduction,  
villainous machinations, questionable financial obligations, rustic  
characters and, of course, the wholesome hero.

In over 2000 performances, actor-manager Frank Mayo [1839-1896] toured  
Davy Crockett all over America. For over two decades, audiences never  
tired of the climax as Davy, with “the strong arm of a Backwoodsman,”  
bars the door of the cabin as howling wolves throw themselves at the  
door and the heroine swoons.

Not only did Mayo succeed in producing a play that spoke to the spirit  
of the time, but also he introduced the American stage to an  
effective, natural style of acting.

Jim MacRostie
  In 1975 Jim MacRostie arrived in Amherst to open the Umass Fine Arts  
Center Concert Hall.   For over 30 years as director of operations, he  
was instrumental in continual retrofits and upgrades to the FAC and  
multiple commencements every year.  Among other activities [major  
acting roles and stage design] Jim, who is known as The Voice of the  
Minuteman Marching Band traveled with the band to football games for  
over a decade.

For more information contact:
Jim & Robin MacRostie
413.549.6403      rmacr at choreographicdesign.com
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