I usually am pretty regular-but I’ve been helping backstage with a production of Dracula over in Bainbridge (about 30 min away or so) with a theater group I’m on the board of. We’ve had technical rehearsals every night this week from 630 until 11 or so, and then the show runs tonight through Sunday. So I’ve been busy.
Add to that the house had completely fallen apart and required a lot of attention to get it back to just messy rather than destroyed, the fact that I had volunteered to help with a few small things for the church Harvest Dinner, and that I had a few annual doctors appointments (optometrist etc). All that adds up to no posts!
Sounds like ‘life’ to me! Hey, the “Dracula” production…I saw “Dracula” on Broadway years ago with Frank Langella. All the sets were in black and white…except in each, there was one small red item. It was fun trying to find it. Are your sets like that?
Nope, they didn’t go that route. This is a local community theater group, so the budget is limited. They used set dressing like different bedspreads etc to change whose “bedroom” they were in, and the “count’s castle” also doubled as the insane asylum. It works pretty well. I like that idea of one red thing though, it must have looked so neat.
I used to live in Bainbridge. Is your group meeting in that old town hall building, near the bank?
Yes, as a matter of fact the “Out of the Woodwork Players” do indeed put their plays on in the “old town theater” upstairs from the town hall. It is a beautiful old space, with pressed tin ceilings and a nice ambience (apparently it was restored a while back). It’s a little weird though when you have rehearsal for a play upstairs and there is traffic court going on downstairs!