Dover. A Christmas Story "A Story of Faith, Hope & a Honda Rebel Motorcycle" Presented byFirst Southern Baptist Church ofDover An Original Christmas Musical written by Everett DeMorier Directed by Dave Aubrey Everett DeMorier Jenn Holmes Vacant building and the "Rebel" Sets Designed and Executed by Eddy Seger A fifty-by-eighteen-foot trapezoidal thrust stage in the sanctuary with no proscenium, no wings, no fly space and no theater lighting. But a determined and generous congregation with a heart as big as all outdoors joined with a writer, directors and pastors with a message and a mission to create a powerful force. They asked Seger to design a full-stage Loockerman Street, a full-stage Bethlehem, and the interiors of a garage, living room, Old State House and a mall scene. He responded with thirty-six 3'x 12' flats that became twelve periaktoi, three platforms and a painted scrim. With the help of many hands, the set was completed in just four weeks. To top it off, when he suggested better lighting for next year, they asked him to draw up what he needed. The next day, bars and cable were installed along with ten ellipsoidals. A powerful force. Seger fashioned a star from a velvet-covered board, clear light bulb, dimmer, paper and some scrim - suspending it behind a scrim painted to look like the tree lights of Loockerman. The Baby Jesus was fashioned from two milk cartons filled with Christmas lights and wrapped in muslin. The dimmer-controlled lights provided the only illumination on the faces of Mary and Joseph. The Mall. The Cast sings with gusto in front of the Bank. Bethlehem and The Star. The Old State House Museum. Of all the painting Seger did on the set, this aroused the most admiration and comment The Garage. Mary contemplates the birth of Jesus. Mary is joined by two women in Bethlehem. Frank makes a point for Hayden in the Old Stae House Museum. The Bank. Periaktoi in mid-scene. The House. A Law Office. All of Loockerman is filled with “The Spirit.” December 2010 Hayden, Frank and Annie discuss the Rebel.
Born in Binghamton and raised in the area, Everett De Morier's family owned several businesses, including The Gem Diner, Bennett Electronics and The Mermaid Aquarium. He married here, both his kids were born here and the majority of his life has been lived here. And although his company relocated him out of state in 2007, author De Morier set his first novel, "Thirty-three Cecils," in his hometown. "When I first started writing this book, it just made sense," he said. "Place the character where you know." The time is also one with which he is familiar: 1992. "The Binghamton area was easy to write about," De Morier said. "I know those streets and places very well, so I just let the character go where I was comfortable. My old apartment on Mather Street, The Belmar Pub across the street, Lanes Deli, all the places I knew as a young man." De Morier is also the author of two nonfiction books, has written six theatrical productions and is the editor-in-chief of the web magazine 543skills. But this book is his first novel. He'll attend a reading and signing event at 6:30 p.m. Friday at RiverRead Books (5 Court St. in Binghamton). "The book focuses on two characters," De Morier said. "They both are from different parts of the country and are living different lives. And when their paths cross, they realize that the world isn't as complicated as they thought. So they shift a few things around." The book can be found at Blydynsquarebooks.com and Amazon.com, as well as RiverRead. De Morier now lives in Dover, Del., with his wife and two children. SOURCE: https://www.pressconnects.com/story/entertainment/2015/06/08/novel-local-native-set-binghamton/28704727/
When Everett De Morier isn't serving as the territory sales engineer at HIWIN in Huntley, he's writing. Courtesy of J.R. Via J.R. Via The industrial linear motion control products HIWIN Corporation manufactures and distributes from Huntley seem a world away from Hollywood's motion picture industry -- unless you factor in Everett De Morier. As HIWIN's territory sales engineer, De Morier visits Huntley once a quarter from his home office in Delaware to report on company projects in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. But, in his off time, he writes. After writing "Crib Notes for the First Year of Marriage: A Survival Guide for Newlyweds" and "Crib Notes for the First Year of Fatherhood: A Survival Guide for New Fathers" in the 1990s, De Morier (who has appeared on CNN, PBS, etc.) spent nearly a decade periodically working on his novel "Thirty-three Cecils," a fictional thriller set during the pre-smartphone era of 1992. "I picked it up and put it down several times," says De Morier of his novel writing process. "For me, all writing projects just start with the beginning, then you fine tune it, and then begin to attach other things to it. You just keep focusing on the part you're working on now and it begins to create a path. Then you follow it." The path led to publishing "Thirty-three Cecils" in 2015 when it won the top fiction prize at The London Book Festival and was named book-of-the-year by Heroic Magazine. So when the film rights were sold, De Morier began adapting the novel into a screenplay. "I've written seven original full-length theatrical plays, all of them were produced," continues De Morier. "By being the author of the novel the film was based on, and having written so many scripts for the stage, I thought writing a screenplay would be a breeze." Yet adapting the work was anything but as De Morier soon found. "There are a lot of rules as far as screenplay format," the author explains. "You have to keep the films budget constantly in mind -- and what works on the page or on the stage, may not work on film." Fortunately, fellow writers Brian Esquivel and Robinson McGiffin contributed to De Morier's screenplay which is being produced by Sunset River Productions, where it is currently in development with plans for a 2019 release. In the meantime, "Thirty-three Cecils" is available in book form at Amazon or Blydyn Square Books. SOURCE: http://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20171023/one-day-job-seven-plays-and-thirty-three-cecils
