The end is approaching!

Its hard to believe that this summer is over!!!!
156 Bug Bites
60 Performances
5 Shows
3 Characters
1 Bald Cap
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!!! Oh wait.... :)

After tonight's performance of Burning Man, there are only 3 shows left in the season! Then we take a day or so to inventory and put the theatre to sleep for the winter. I will be sure to put up pictures from the last part of the season. For now, I bid you farewell.

More Pictures!!

Roommate Heather! In our Snoopy costumes.
In our Grand Prize costumes. :)
Ryan and I. (He plays Snoopy.)
Heather trying to wrangle my lovely hair. :)


Here are the rest of the promised pictures! We opened Snoopy a few weekends ago now. We have had a LOT of positive feedback on it. I had a little boy come up and take a picture with me as Peppermint Patty bc he has freckles in real life and wanted to have a picture with my pretend ones. It was ADORABLE. :)
We have been working on the last two shows to open next weekend. Its been a lot of hard work, but we are almost there! We have our first full day off coming up soon which will be amazing. Once all the shows are opened next weekend we will be doing 7-8 performances a week!
One on thursdays, two on friday, two on saturday, and two on sunday. Then depending on the week we have special performances on monday and tuesday nights. Exhausting!!!
I am really tired of switching all the sets. We change out of one set and bring up the next set right after!
Once all the shows are open family and friends will start visiting. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!
I miss people in the outside world. haha

I will post more pics sometime soon!

-M

Pictures!

This is where we eat everyday!

Mulberry stains on the cement.
This is the theatre!

Opening Weekend!!

Opening night has arrived!!!!
Yesterday we had our first dress rehearsal which was CHAOS backstage. As this show is a farce, there are costume changes and props galore. So I was madly taking notes for order of props to basically toss at people as they run by me backstage! At first it was really stressful for me to keep it all organized, but now I have it super organized and ready to open tonight!
We have been cleaning and weeding and making the theatre look its best for our first audience of the season!
I will make sure to take some more pictures and post them soon.
Off to rest before our last dress rehearsal!

two left hands

I have been running around like crazy the last few days.
I am props designer for Home is Where Your Clothes Are. So in the last few days I have, sewed a curtain, designed a British payphone, sewed 2 drawstring bags, printed off English pounds, painted some set, swept berries..... (Mulberries to be specific) *shakes fist at tree* as soon as you sweep, 10 more fall from the tree.... that tree is just lucky the berries taste great.
I'm glad i am not in this show. I had a bit of a break this week to find props, so I went to Omaha to get more supplies, and hopefully (cross your fingers), am done shopping for the most part.
Its gonna be a big week. We open our first two shows this weekend!!!!!! Woo!

Woodshedding

Hello really crazy rehearsal schedules! What's up?
So we had an 8 hour rehearsal of snoopy the other day. then a read through of grand prize after.
then the next day we started official grand prize rehearsals. we block six beats then do what is called woodshedding. which means to memorize and shed the script. basically you do one beat and run it 6 times until its memorized. then you combo different beats together. its a BIG job.
yikes.
an interesting process all the same.
i'm tired all the time...
i hope my body gets used to this schedule real soon!!!!

ps.
i found a snake yesterday that had been run over by a semi.
it looked cool.

It's Snoopy Time!

Hello everyone! I am also at Brownville Village Theatre along with Heather and Jeff. We spent the day in Omaha yesterday buying supplies for our different committees (I am working in the props section.) We had to buy items for each of the 5 different shows we are doing this summer. We are going to have to create a lot of objects which should be interesting. For example: An antler chandler, hand puppets, a prop dummy/mannequin, x-rays etc. It has been an exhausting last 5 days. We only get about 5 hours off for food breaks, otherwise from 9am-11:30pm we are working nonstop! Crazy!

Today we have been working on Snoopy all day and tonight we are doing a read through for Grand Prize. Woo memorization!!