Another day in props land.

It was another beautiful day here and a fun(ish) day in props. I spend the whole day working on these pennants for Spelling Bee:

There are nine of them, in different colors. I cut and sewed them and the picture and writing I'm projecting and tracing onto all of them....it's been rather frustrating and time consuming and tedious but hopefully they'll look pretty cool when they're all done.

This is the podium I made yesterday, or whenever that was...

The base had to look like a steering wheel because at some point in the show they flip it upside down and use it as a steering wheel, apparently. Those are the fun kinds of things you have to deal with when building for the theatre.

So, here's the deal with a repertory theatre. CRT is doing (I think) five shows on the mainstage this summer, but instead of doing them all separately, they do all of them all throughout the summer on a rotating schedule. Honestly, I'm not even completely clear on the whole thing, I'm not even sure how many of the shows are on the mainstage and which ones are in the Studio. So basically there is a different show every day and sometimes more than one a day. Which means after every show we have to change over the set to the next one that goes up. It's pretty crazy. It also means we are building for more than one show at a time. Right now we're focused of course on the first one that opens which is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I went to the read/sing-through which is where the actors and director etc. get together for the first time and read through the play. It's a musical and it is hilarious. I can't wait to see it all together.

I'm going to try to sneak into the rehearsal hall at some point and take pictures of my table and the posters so I'll post them if I get around to it. Another work day tomorrow!