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5/20/19 10:30 PM

DAY EIGHTEEN Today was show day! I'm going to talk more about the day leading up to the show because I'll talk about the show a lot in my 1000 word reflection. Margaret and I started pretty early, doing some organization of the space then a run through. I decided to move my script from a binder to staples so it would be easier to carry. Then, we cleaned the black box and set up chairs. I moved all the lighting stuff that was still out away and did some final cord management. We realized that because UPS had lost an order of chairs in the mail, the second late one they gave us was a different type of chair. The floor also began to bubble up. Overall, the black box needs some help. We did another run through and then Margaret left to go get her cats. In that time, I got moving boxes, glasses, worked out some sound stuff, and finalized and printed programs. Grant Green and Cedar helped me fold the programs, and Nelson came by and volunteered to play piano for us during the show
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Week Three

This week was a long one. With the musical happening and getting just a few days away from our show, it was tough to find time to breath. There's a reason they call this time "hell week." It was weird  to spend so much time in one space. Because we get dinner in the green room this week, I only ever left for lunch in the dining hall (sometimes). Every day was a flurry of light notes, run throughs of proof, tech for proof, and rehearsal and other odd jobs for OOTI. The OOTI performance went really well, though. Even though the turnout wasn't spectacular on Saturday night I felt like we had two really solid performances of a great show. Now, Proof is tomorrow and Margaret and I have a lot of work to do together. With everything being so exhausting recently the thing we've been missing most was running the show. The tech is done, lights hung, set built, programs printed, now we just have to figure out how we say what we say (haha). I wish there was more to say abou
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5/17/19 8:23

DAY SEVENTEEN I had hours galore today. They sort of snuck up on me through the day. I started strong because of polar swim. At 7:00 I was wide awake and went to the theater to finish my box. That took me way longer than I expected because the wood was too thin and weak for screws and I am a danger to everything around me with a hammer. Nonetheless, I finished it and its working great. The extension cord situation is not fantastic though, so far I only have two lights plugged in but all of them hung. I have to come up with a way to hide at least a little the extension cords candy striping the bars, though. They are brighter than the lights themselves. The performance is coming fast, and Margaret and I are bracing for impact. It's time to drill. I would write more but there's not much to the light hanging process, its just a lot of darkness and heights. It takes a long time, but once you get the hang of it it's not too complicated. I did have a big mishap when Margaret poi
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5/16/19 11:00 PM

DAY SIXTEEN Much progress today! Last night, I completed the poster and this morning looked at it with Margaret to put it in the program and edit it. Overall, I'm thrilled with it. We're super grateful for the development office for printing them out for us on nice large paper. We're both keeping one, one has been put on the door to the black box, and the other seven we will hang tomorrow. Bill was gracious enough to lend us his lights until we strike our set. As a thank you, I'm building a little box to put his dimmers in. We'll use it, and if he likes it it's all his. I'll hang those tomorrow as well and hopefully get that aspect done and dusted. The technical aspects of our show should be great, we just have to make sure we can get enough runs in before Monday. Crunch time is coming! TODAY'S HOURS: 4 TOTAL: 47.5
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5/15/19 10:56 PM

DAY FIFTEEN A long while spent with Mike the electrician has confirmed our fear - the black box lighting will not be fixed in time for our performance. Long story short, it was not the board or the circuits, but the box and the cords that link them... sort of. It's not that exactly, but I don't know the proper terms to describe it all and theres still some gray areas in our understanding. I went to see Bill, but he was not in his studio so I emailed him bout his lights. A conversation has started so hopefully we can work something out. Without lighting to work on, I turned myself to a new task: The poster and playbill. Both are near completion, and once this blog is published I'll keep working on them. I hope to have them done by tomorrow with an image for the post and one on the door of the black box. TODAY'S HOURS: 4.5 TOTAL: 43.5
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5/14/19 11:13 PM

DAY FOURTEEN Well, the lights are still not working. In the morning I worked on costumes for Hal, setting everything up for each scene and making sure I knew what to wear when. Margaret got up another wall, and the set is looking amazing. Another light board was brought in in hopes it would fix some communication issue. It did not. There were so many moments I thought we were one step away from getting it working and then nothing happened. Tomorrow I will talk with Bill and (hopefully) get his stuff set up. Margaret and I also did a full blocked run through today which was a ton of fun. I'm definitely getting excited for the show, but its a very stressful time with the musical coming up. TODAY'S HOURS: 4 TOTAL HOURS: 39
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5/13/19 10:23 PM

DAY THIRTEEN What a roller coaster of a day! So many emotions. Heartbreak, hope, pain -- We did it all. In the morning, I went downstairs ready to hang some lights. The genie was there, the DMX cable had arrived and the board was set up, but fate had a different plan for me today. At first when I plugged the lights in and nothing happened I thought I was making a foolish mistake; Some switch somewhere must have been turned off and I wasn't seeing it. When I had lost all hope and proposed a new plan involving tons of desk lamps (much to Margaret's dismay), I saw Terry. She explained to me that in the mechanical closet there is a small box that controls the dimmers in the black box, it had probably been unplugged or turned off in the many years out of commission. Well, we called maintenance with hopeful voices and they opened it up for us. Every breaker was working, the box was plugged in, the switches were flipped on. Nothing should have been wrong. A red error light was flash
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