{"id":2195,"date":"2010-10-01T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:51","slug":"iow-ladies-lead-the-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"IOW: LADIES lead the charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the weeks leading up to the debut of <strong>LEADING LADIES<\/strong> in <strong>Champaign<\/strong>, we realized that <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> had yet to show <em>anything <\/em>from the production even though we\u2019ve been title-dropping it for some time now! To correct our sorry wrongs, we present the official trailer below which gives you a good look at the principals, played by <strong>Melanie LaPatin, Laurel Vail, Shannon Lea Smith, Benji Schwimmer<\/strong>, and <strong>Nicole Dionne<\/strong>, along with several redressed C-U settings including the just-closed <strong>Jerry\u2019s Round Barn IGA<\/strong> grocery store, <strong>Village Inn Pizza Parlor<\/strong>, the gymnasium of <strong>Franklin Middle School<\/strong>, and the long dormant movie house, the <strong>Rialto Theater<\/strong>, transformed with mondo bohemian aplomb into an underground swing club called \u201cThe Top\u201d:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xiwCYPiNX4w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xiwCYPiNX4w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hopefully a small influx of <strong>LADIES <\/strong>material will make its way to <strong>CUBlog <\/strong>in the coming months, peppered with quality screen grabs and on-set photography to illustrate what <strong>Team Beahm<\/strong> and friends accomplished in the summer of 2009. Until we get our mitts on the gems, take a gander at what little your humble editor has been able to salvage from picture-taking during the Rialto shoot, which possibly resulted in the most <em>chiaroscuro<\/em>-plagued images that he\u2019s ever snapped. Don\u2019t take this as visually representative of what you\u2019ll witness when <strong>LEADING LADIES<\/strong> plays in a darkened theater near you, but it does help you understand to what lengths the producers were willing to go to set the scene:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"On the set of LEADING LADIES in the former Rialto Theater in downtown Champaign. (Photo: JaPan)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_leadingladies_rialtoA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Toni (Laurel Vail) and Mona (Nicole Dionne) become intimate on the dance floor of The Top during shooting of LEADING LADIES in the former Rialto Theater. (Photo: JaPan)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_leadingladies_rialtoB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"609\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Co-director Erika Randall Beahm (rear left) and UI theater instructor Lisa Gaye Dixon (center) work with dancers and crew on the set of LEADING LADIES in the former Rialto Theater. (Photo: JaPan)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_leadingladies_rialtoC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Dancers and extras await their turn while camera and lighting are adjusted on the set of LEADING LADIES in the former Rialto Theater. (Photo: JaPan)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_leadingladies_rialtoD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Laurel Vail (center) and Nicole Dionne (right) have their hair and make-up retouched on the set of LEADING LADIES in the former Rialto Theater. (Photo: JaPan)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_leadingladies_rialtoE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"704\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So much for doggedly stretching the use of consumer 35mm beyond reason\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Get a load of our favorite LEADING LADIES by watching the trailer! Also, take a look behind the scenes of the Rialto Theater sequence via never-before-seen photos, which arguably are still kind of hard to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,441],"tags":[235,480,191,479],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-videos-du-c-u","category-c-u-confidential-youtube","tag-daniel-beahm","tag-erika-randall-beahm","tag-leading-ladies","tag-the-rialto-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}