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| A very wet Wendy and Alfred waiting for the show to start back up for Act II |
I have a saying when working a show: stage managers do not
sleep during tech week. This was certainly the case for Crazy For You. One night
during tech I was up around 3:30 in the morning perusing the interwebs and
happened to see a video from Playbill about a production of Titanic the Musical
set on the water where they would actually sink the boat.
Um…what?
Clearly I needed this in my life. I have a dear friend whose
absolute favorite show in the world is Titanic the Musical so we HAD TO GO. To
make the deal even sweeter they were doing a child focused daytime show of Peter
Pan. Due to my name I’m kind of a fan…my friend is the boy who never grew up
and has over 200 copies of the book. Not to mention our birthdays are just a
few days apart and in August.
So I sent him a message in the middle of the night and said “now
understand I am COMPLETELY serious when I suggest this…” From there we planned
a quick jaunt to Atlanta to investigate this theatre.
Neither of us knew what to expect and this story will
rightfully get its own post sometime in the future because it was too
spectacular not to, but the highlights were this: the Coca Cola museum and
Beverly (if you’ve been there you know what I mean), a very wet performance of
an amazing musical, meeting some absolutely incredible theatre fans who we will
likely travel with in the future, a fun time at a reimagined Peter Pan, and a
ridiculous flight delay that led us to a plane diversion for refueling.
August also brought one of my dear friends moving to
Connecticut (can I say how jealous I am of her?), but not without a sushi date
and a musical and a brunch date the next morning.
Before school started I logged more hours than I care to
count (and more money too…) to completely overhaul my classroom. I had wonderful
friends without whom the project would not have been finished. The most fun
part was making all the things for the room the week before and hiding them for
back to school night, then spending 12+ hours working to put it all together so
they would walk into a theatre wonderland on the first day. I knew that I would
be spending most of my waking hours in that room so I needed it to be somewhere
I wanted to be, but I also wanted it to be a home away from home for my
students…a place where they felt completely comfortable to be exactly who they
are. I’m pretty sure I achieved that as the little jerks won’t leave me alone!
The biggest news of the month was being asked to direct my first
adult show at Butterfield in Gainesville: The Savannah Sipping Society. That won’t
be until March, but expect more info to come.
We also auditioned for The Mousetrap at ALT which was show
number two in a row to stage manage…more on that in…
September (or, ouch and the worst theatre experience)
BONUS PHOTO
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| It's a bit more lived in and I still have work to do on that back wall, but I love it, and the kids love it and that's all that matters. |
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