As of today, we have one more performance of all five shows here at BVT. In addition to these performances, the supervisors of each department (makeup, costumes, etc.) are updating guidelines for future companies. We will also be doing inventory again, and cleaning both the theater and the residence. The plan, as of now, is to be dismissed around 2:00pm this Tuesday.
In other news, Ames is flooded! Margaux, Jeff and I are all very interested in what we'll find when we return home.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
August?!
Um, hi... I've been meaning to update you, really. Yeah, I know it's been quite a while. Ok, longer than quite a while. No, I haven't been spending more time with facebook! Alright, I've spent some time with facebook instead of you-BUT, I was thinking about you the whole time! I just - I've just been... busy, alright? Look, can we just start over? Thanks.
Nearly a month has passed since my last post, which leads me to believe that my five followers have probably given up their following. Sorry guys. I'm here now though, ready to update you on the very few things that have happened recently.
We get a lot more days off now. Usually Monday-Wednesday along with Thursday and sometimes Friday mornings. It's great to have a chance to relax after the weekends, which now contain six (!!!) shows each.
I ordered some of my textbooks online yesterday, reminding myself of the real world and my inevitable return to it.
... and that's what's new. Pretty boring, right? It sure would be nice to have a visitor or two... or five to spice things up around here...
Nearly a month has passed since my last post, which leads me to believe that my five followers have probably given up their following. Sorry guys. I'm here now though, ready to update you on the very few things that have happened recently.
We get a lot more days off now. Usually Monday-Wednesday along with Thursday and sometimes Friday mornings. It's great to have a chance to relax after the weekends, which now contain six (!!!) shows each.
I ordered some of my textbooks online yesterday, reminding myself of the real world and my inevitable return to it.
... and that's what's new. Pretty boring, right? It sure would be nice to have a visitor or two... or five to spice things up around here...
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Quick update
All five shows are open now. Yay.
We found a cat. Her name is Garbage, but I call her Harold.
TOMORROW IS OUR FIRST DAY OFF.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Nightmares
I spoke too soon. I awoke several times between 3:00 and 5:00 this morning, thinking I had missed a light cue.
"Burning Man," the fire which has recently consumed my life.
It's been a while. Sorry. I think it goes without saying that a lot has happened since my last post, over two weeks ago. Oops. If it makes you feel better, my loyal five followers, I've been neglecting facebook just as much as I have this blog. Let's not even get into email.
Where do I begin? We experienced our first four-show weekend and survived, barely. This weekend included a Friday 7:30 performance of Snoopy!!!, a Saturday matinee of Grand Prize, a 7:30 Home is Where Your Clothes Are on the same day, and a Sunday matinee of Snoopy!!!. Gah. This weekend also included a visit from my parents AND my roommates, which was awesome. Getting to unwind with Sonic and some serious girl-talk was an uncommon luxury. We, the company, also experienced and enjoyed the world's most receptive audience - Home ran somewhere around forty minutes longer than usual because we were holding for so many laughs. Yay!
Well before that intense weekend, we began rehearsals for Burning Man, the show for which I am the Script Supervisor. My responsibilities include running rehearsals (woodshedding, combo-ing, the lot), calling light and sound cues, collecting actors, overseeing line bashes, and more. Basically, I'm a glorified stage manager. I've never done any stage managing before. so this new task has proved a little daunting. The work itself seemed simple enough, but after a couple of days of rehearsals I began having nightmares, waking up around 5:00 am thinking I had missed a call for line. This continued for a quite a few nights, but I'm happy to say that I've now been nightmare-free for over 48 hours. Today was our first (and last) full dress rehearsal for Burning Man. I'm still relishing the fact that I get a headset backstage to call light cues. Having a headset, I feel, is about the only thing that really makes a stage manager legit. So, I'm legit. And it feels good. Somehow this headset has the power to make me feel that the hours sitting in a hard, wooden chair while listening to the same scene six consecutive times, only to continue to the next scene six more, the running up and down stairs to collect actors from the shop, the hours of lost sleep due to rehearsal nightmares, and the meals I've tried to eat between feeding lines to actors at a break-time line bash, were all worth it. And you know what? Maybe they actually were...
Where do I begin? We experienced our first four-show weekend and survived, barely. This weekend included a Friday 7:30 performance of Snoopy!!!, a Saturday matinee of Grand Prize, a 7:30 Home is Where Your Clothes Are on the same day, and a Sunday matinee of Snoopy!!!. Gah. This weekend also included a visit from my parents AND my roommates, which was awesome. Getting to unwind with Sonic and some serious girl-talk was an uncommon luxury. We, the company, also experienced and enjoyed the world's most receptive audience - Home ran somewhere around forty minutes longer than usual because we were holding for so many laughs. Yay!
Well before that intense weekend, we began rehearsals for Burning Man, the show for which I am the Script Supervisor. My responsibilities include running rehearsals (woodshedding, combo-ing, the lot), calling light and sound cues, collecting actors, overseeing line bashes, and more. Basically, I'm a glorified stage manager. I've never done any stage managing before. so this new task has proved a little daunting. The work itself seemed simple enough, but after a couple of days of rehearsals I began having nightmares, waking up around 5:00 am thinking I had missed a call for line. This continued for a quite a few nights, but I'm happy to say that I've now been nightmare-free for over 48 hours. Today was our first (and last) full dress rehearsal for Burning Man. I'm still relishing the fact that I get a headset backstage to call light cues. Having a headset, I feel, is about the only thing that really makes a stage manager legit. So, I'm legit. And it feels good. Somehow this headset has the power to make me feel that the hours sitting in a hard, wooden chair while listening to the same scene six consecutive times, only to continue to the next scene six more, the running up and down stairs to collect actors from the shop, the hours of lost sleep due to rehearsal nightmares, and the meals I've tried to eat between feeding lines to actors at a break-time line bash, were all worth it. And you know what? Maybe they actually were...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Things to Know if You Visit Brownville, in no particular order
1. Tickets do sell pretty well, so call ahead for reservations. The number is at the bottom of the website.
2. We don't take credit or debit payment. Check or cash only.
3. Get here on time, but don't expect the show to start at the designated curtain time. Doc (the boss) does a curtain talk that usually lasts a while.
4. Leave some time to explore the bookstores in town. The Antiquarium is my favorite.
5. If you're coming through Rockport, leave some extra time. The bridge over the Missouri River is under construction so you'll probably have to wait at a stoplight there for about 5 minutes.
6. Wear bug spray if you're coming to a nighttime performance. There will be a reception outside after the show and the bugs are horrible here.
7. If you want to come say hi to the actors before the show, we'll be busy, but you're welcome to come in the basement box office door and hang out.
8. If you're a brokecollegestudentfriendofmine and want to stay in the house I live in, give me a heads up because I need to ask the boss first.
I hope to see some friends out here this summer :) "Snoopy!!!" opens this Saturday!
2. We don't take credit or debit payment. Check or cash only.
3. Get here on time, but don't expect the show to start at the designated curtain time. Doc (the boss) does a curtain talk that usually lasts a while.
4. Leave some time to explore the bookstores in town. The Antiquarium is my favorite.
5. If you're coming through Rockport, leave some extra time. The bridge over the Missouri River is under construction so you'll probably have to wait at a stoplight there for about 5 minutes.
6. Wear bug spray if you're coming to a nighttime performance. There will be a reception outside after the show and the bugs are horrible here.
7. If you want to come say hi to the actors before the show, we'll be busy, but you're welcome to come in the basement box office door and hang out.
8. If you're a brokecollegestudentfriendofmine and want to stay in the house I live in, give me a heads up because I need to ask the boss first.
I hope to see some friends out here this summer :) "Snoopy!!!" opens this Saturday!
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