Andrew's CAS

The musical went really well on Thursday with Colonel Mustard brandishing the revolver and the lights going on and off when they were supposed to. It was an interesting experience being behind the scenes during the actual performance especially since this was the real deal now and any noise I made while crawling behind the set could distract someone in the audience. It has been an overall enlightening experience with my involvement in theater, which I previously discounted as something I was only interested in consuming than producing. The necessity for each person involved to work together and do their part for the entire production to work brings this new appreciation for the larger and grander plays I see. Everything seemed to go well and I have to give thanks to all the hard work that the actors put in as well as the rest of the crew.

Everyone came into the theater over the weekend to set up the lights and set for the dress rehearsals and the final performance at the end of the week. It has been really interesting seeing everything slowly but surely come together. Jack and Connor M are in charge of the lighting effects and changes that will occur throughout the musical and I helped them set up the direction, the orientation, and the gels to change the color of the lights. This was much more difficult the I imagined as we had to work within the limitations of the number of lights as well as where they were positioned. It took some trial and error, but eventually we got it positioned and set the way we wanted it for the show. There is also a switchboard that operates all of the lights at the theater and which looks to be extremely complicated, but it seems that the two have it figured out or at least will have it all figured out by the show. I am getting pretty excited for the actual performance as everything is comin...

Over the past few days I have been working with Brandon, Leighla, Ms. Bowman and the cast on rehearsing the lines and staging in the musical. I have learned more of the great amount of work that goes into these productions, but have had a lot of fun so far seeing the actors improve and remember more and more of their lines and steps. A difficulty so far has been trying to get everyone to attend rehearsal at the same time as often times there is one member (there only eight characters, so each person has a large part) who is not able to make one day and Brandon or I have to fill in. I have been on book most of the time so far and have had to make sure that I am paying attention to what is being said and to quickly infer if an actor has forgotten something and needs a slight push or if they have it but need a little more time to remember. Also while paying attention to the actors, I would occasionally lose my place on the page and have to quickly find it again in order to move on. This w...