The view from the roof. I wish I could get a picture of it at night with all the stars.
Mia and I in her Godspell costume.
The view on the walk to/from the theatre
There are bumblebees everywhere here!!
Friday, August 29, 2008
New Hampshire
Mia and I in her Godspell costume.
The view on the walk to/from the theatreThere are bumblebees everywhere here!!
Random pictures
Waiting for the parade.
The theatre's float.
working on the porch
The carnival
View from the house at the mandatory company cocktail party.
The house
more random pics
It's the cocktail party house! As seen from the lake.
Blueberry Island. It's about a 30 min paddle out there by kayak.
Our Kayaks on Blueberry Island.
I wish I lived in that house.
Ok, not blueberry island, but a random dumpster full of books and old national geographics that was sitting next to the library. Sad.
Breakfast on the beach.
It is officially fall here. Days when it's warm enough to wear short sleeves are no longer the norm. And hardley any trees have not started changing color.
The red house.
The scene and costume shop.
Balloons and flowers Emily bought me for my birthday.
Me and Emily at the cocktail party.
There was glitter on this appitizer. Glitter!!
More trees.
More views from the party.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
catch up!
Ok, so where to start?
I believe I last left off with Millie, which leaves me 3 shows to catch up on.
My Fair Lady started off great. I really, really, really love that show. I was looking forward to it all summer and it didn't disapoint. I thought the lighting turned out great, I thought all the actors did a great job, I absolutely loved the director, who by the way is in Chicago Shakespeare's Amadeus this fall, so if anyone's in Chicago go see it. He's a pretty great actor who has worked with an amazing list of people who all love him, so it should be great.
The week after My Fair Lady opened I went to New York, so I spent few days after it opened trying to put things in order so that I could leave. I arranged to have Jacque co-design with me and got her started meeting with directors and figuring out when she could make it to rehersals. I figured out who would be running kid's shows, and had Jacque to do that. Then on Saturday, Jacque got sick. She has a stress-related disorder that can flare up and has put her in the hospital before. It kinda flared up out of nowhere, and she went home, telling me that she'd be back by tomorrow. When she didn't show up on Sun, I decided to train two non-electricians, JR my stage manager, who was actually calling the show, and Brandon the publicity guy, who wasn't doing anything during the show and could possibly run it, in a crash course in what to do to run shows, design the kid's show, and take care of all the lights while I was gone. This turned out to be a good idea, becuase after teching Grand Night on Sun I found out that Jaque was indeed not coming back for at least a few more days. I grabbed JR and quickly showed him what needed to be done for Grand Night, then went home and packed. Monday morning I was off to New York.
New York was great. I got there by 4pm, and immediately found myself a burrito. Satisfied by mexican food I found a coffee shop and settled down to figure out the schedule for the next few days. I managed to get ahold of Kelly O, who I was staying with, and met up with her. I also got ahold of Joe, the director and guy who got me this job in the first place, and was supposed to meet up with him, but my phone died and I ended up missing him. I went back to Kelly's apt and checked up on what was happening back in New London. Apparently the lights were acting up a little, but that was nothing new. Also, Kelly has a pretty great job right now and just got a new apt in Astoria and it's beautiful.
I went to rehersal the next morning/afternoon. It was so awesome. The show was great. I absolutely love being in rehersals. I had a blast. Afterwards I met up with Kelly again and another girl who went to Webster with us, Sunny. We hung out untill I was supposed to meet up with Joe. Unfortunatly my night kept getting interrupted with calls and texts from New London about things going wrong.
Next day is the day we're in the theatre. It was pretty intense. Because the fringe festival has so many plays in it, you only get 6 hours in the theatre to tech your whole show, and then 15 mins to load your set/props/actors in and out of the theatre. So I had the first hour we were in there to quickly study the rep plot, write all my cues, and give them to the stage manager so he knew where to call them, plus train the spot ops who had not only never run spot before but have never seen this show. The people working for the fringe said no one else had cued as fast as me. Anyway, we spent the rest of the day teching at breakneck speed, and managed to get thru the whole show. It was really intense, but really fun. And throughout the whole day I kept getting texts from new London. Apparently things were going wrong there in a big way. I went back and met up with Kelly and got some food, not having eaten more than a couple cups of coffee all day, and decided to go back to New London the next morning rather than Fri.
It ended up that both my buses got majorly delayed so by the time I got into NH they had gotten someone else to fix the lights, but it did help that I was already there on Fri morning to get started on Fiddler, for which I was majorly unprepared. Not only was I expecting Jacque to design it, or at least help, but I also didn't have her to help me prep everything. So I was trying to get up to speed design wise and doing all my ME jobs plus running the show every night. For changeover Jacque did come in to help, but only for Sunday night, monday morning. After that I was on my own, plus you could tell she was still not quite up to full strength yet. So I did half of Fiddler changeover on my own, on top of designing. I tried to pull people here and there when I absolutely needed another person, and luckily everyone was really helpful. So Fiddler got up and running, the final kid's show and grand night were put together, and just when I thought I could relax a little and start to get everything prepared for the last changeover and the end of the season, people start to leave. The stage manager left, which granted I knew about, but changing SMs in the middle of a run is kinda a big deal, so we had to deal with that. And then the sound op, spot op, and ASM all left, leaving the run crew severely shorthanded. We ended up calling Jacque and all but begging for her to come in and help up run shows. By the time that was all cleared up it was time to start working on the next show.
So the last show is not designed by me, they brought in a guest designer, Richard Winkler. So i spent the week leading up to this show trying to get all the paperwork he needed, trying to rent all the lights he wanted (guest designers don't really get a budget), and trying to just prepare for changeover. Even though in theory this should be an easier changeover for me because I wasn't designing, it was actually harder because since we were renting so many lights we were actually doing a much bigger changeover than we had attemped before. Not to mention since he didn't have to keep it a rep plot any more, Richard re-focused every single light that did stay up. And Jacque still left on Mon. So changeover was still pretty rough.
Since then, I've been fixing various problems that are still arising here and there, trying to get everything in order and cleaned up before I leave for the summer, and when I can helping Emily, who is the wardrobe head and the only costumer left, return rentals.
So I guess that's about up to speed with where I have disapeared to for the last 3 weeks. I've managed to schedule in a couple of mornings where I could sneak away to the lake down the road for a few hours, which is always a nice break on those seldomly warm days. I spent my birthday running two shows and tracking down a problem that was making 2 of the lights blink. And that was my whole day. So I apologize for disapearing, it's just been a very busy, very stressfull couple of weeks. And I'll be home soon and really really miss New England, this theatre, and especially the people I met here, but it's like my friend and costume designer here said, "We're friends on facebook and I'll work with you again in like 8 years. I know how this business works." So true.
I believe I last left off with Millie, which leaves me 3 shows to catch up on.
My Fair Lady started off great. I really, really, really love that show. I was looking forward to it all summer and it didn't disapoint. I thought the lighting turned out great, I thought all the actors did a great job, I absolutely loved the director, who by the way is in Chicago Shakespeare's Amadeus this fall, so if anyone's in Chicago go see it. He's a pretty great actor who has worked with an amazing list of people who all love him, so it should be great.
The week after My Fair Lady opened I went to New York, so I spent few days after it opened trying to put things in order so that I could leave. I arranged to have Jacque co-design with me and got her started meeting with directors and figuring out when she could make it to rehersals. I figured out who would be running kid's shows, and had Jacque to do that. Then on Saturday, Jacque got sick. She has a stress-related disorder that can flare up and has put her in the hospital before. It kinda flared up out of nowhere, and she went home, telling me that she'd be back by tomorrow. When she didn't show up on Sun, I decided to train two non-electricians, JR my stage manager, who was actually calling the show, and Brandon the publicity guy, who wasn't doing anything during the show and could possibly run it, in a crash course in what to do to run shows, design the kid's show, and take care of all the lights while I was gone. This turned out to be a good idea, becuase after teching Grand Night on Sun I found out that Jaque was indeed not coming back for at least a few more days. I grabbed JR and quickly showed him what needed to be done for Grand Night, then went home and packed. Monday morning I was off to New York.
New York was great. I got there by 4pm, and immediately found myself a burrito. Satisfied by mexican food I found a coffee shop and settled down to figure out the schedule for the next few days. I managed to get ahold of Kelly O, who I was staying with, and met up with her. I also got ahold of Joe, the director and guy who got me this job in the first place, and was supposed to meet up with him, but my phone died and I ended up missing him. I went back to Kelly's apt and checked up on what was happening back in New London. Apparently the lights were acting up a little, but that was nothing new. Also, Kelly has a pretty great job right now and just got a new apt in Astoria and it's beautiful.
I went to rehersal the next morning/afternoon. It was so awesome. The show was great. I absolutely love being in rehersals. I had a blast. Afterwards I met up with Kelly again and another girl who went to Webster with us, Sunny. We hung out untill I was supposed to meet up with Joe. Unfortunatly my night kept getting interrupted with calls and texts from New London about things going wrong.
Next day is the day we're in the theatre. It was pretty intense. Because the fringe festival has so many plays in it, you only get 6 hours in the theatre to tech your whole show, and then 15 mins to load your set/props/actors in and out of the theatre. So I had the first hour we were in there to quickly study the rep plot, write all my cues, and give them to the stage manager so he knew where to call them, plus train the spot ops who had not only never run spot before but have never seen this show. The people working for the fringe said no one else had cued as fast as me. Anyway, we spent the rest of the day teching at breakneck speed, and managed to get thru the whole show. It was really intense, but really fun. And throughout the whole day I kept getting texts from new London. Apparently things were going wrong there in a big way. I went back and met up with Kelly and got some food, not having eaten more than a couple cups of coffee all day, and decided to go back to New London the next morning rather than Fri.
It ended up that both my buses got majorly delayed so by the time I got into NH they had gotten someone else to fix the lights, but it did help that I was already there on Fri morning to get started on Fiddler, for which I was majorly unprepared. Not only was I expecting Jacque to design it, or at least help, but I also didn't have her to help me prep everything. So I was trying to get up to speed design wise and doing all my ME jobs plus running the show every night. For changeover Jacque did come in to help, but only for Sunday night, monday morning. After that I was on my own, plus you could tell she was still not quite up to full strength yet. So I did half of Fiddler changeover on my own, on top of designing. I tried to pull people here and there when I absolutely needed another person, and luckily everyone was really helpful. So Fiddler got up and running, the final kid's show and grand night were put together, and just when I thought I could relax a little and start to get everything prepared for the last changeover and the end of the season, people start to leave. The stage manager left, which granted I knew about, but changing SMs in the middle of a run is kinda a big deal, so we had to deal with that. And then the sound op, spot op, and ASM all left, leaving the run crew severely shorthanded. We ended up calling Jacque and all but begging for her to come in and help up run shows. By the time that was all cleared up it was time to start working on the next show.
So the last show is not designed by me, they brought in a guest designer, Richard Winkler. So i spent the week leading up to this show trying to get all the paperwork he needed, trying to rent all the lights he wanted (guest designers don't really get a budget), and trying to just prepare for changeover. Even though in theory this should be an easier changeover for me because I wasn't designing, it was actually harder because since we were renting so many lights we were actually doing a much bigger changeover than we had attemped before. Not to mention since he didn't have to keep it a rep plot any more, Richard re-focused every single light that did stay up. And Jacque still left on Mon. So changeover was still pretty rough.
Since then, I've been fixing various problems that are still arising here and there, trying to get everything in order and cleaned up before I leave for the summer, and when I can helping Emily, who is the wardrobe head and the only costumer left, return rentals.
So I guess that's about up to speed with where I have disapeared to for the last 3 weeks. I've managed to schedule in a couple of mornings where I could sneak away to the lake down the road for a few hours, which is always a nice break on those seldomly warm days. I spent my birthday running two shows and tracking down a problem that was making 2 of the lights blink. And that was my whole day. So I apologize for disapearing, it's just been a very busy, very stressfull couple of weeks. And I'll be home soon and really really miss New England, this theatre, and especially the people I met here, but it's like my friend and costume designer here said, "We're friends on facebook and I'll work with you again in like 8 years. I know how this business works." So true.
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