Prairie Rep Theatre stuff

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been blogging that much, we just had a show open last weekend, and are getting ready to open the second one in two days! So basically what we do here is that 9 hours a day we work on ultimately 4 shows, either rehearsing or building and doing tech stuff. We had a successful run of Church Basement Ladies at the SDSU auditorium with only minor fixes I had to quickly fix before the first couple of nights. Sunday was the big day, because we had to strike CBL and put up Arsenic and Old Lace which consists of 4 platforms 8 feet in the air plus a fancy staircase and a lot of flats that have to be put in funky angles. This process took a total of 5 plus hours counting the loading of a set from the shop and having like a 30min dinner break.

Note: I will never complain about a 3 hour strike at Iowa State ever, because at State all we have to do is tear it down, here we have to just take it apart and go store it and put up an entirely new set. Do summer stock or rep and you'll know.

AOL is the next show and opens in a couple days, I play Officer Brophy in the play and I love it, we have had a total of 15 rehearsals counting today in less than 4 weeks. And I believe we have a great show to put on. However, we only get 5 performances before we load in the next one and continue the cycle. I'm Master Carpenter for the next show so I'll be real busy finishing the touches on that when I'm not performing.

It has been a month since I have started working and it's crazy, but I wouldn't want to be doing anything else. I'm working in the theatre all day everyday and the people are great and the pace that this goes at is right up my alley. We hardly have any down time right now and when I get back to school in the fall, it's going to feel real sluggish when we have 6 weeks to put up one show. I'm learning a lot about time management when it comes to theatre and the whole process that goes with putting on 4 completely different shows.

These blogs can't express how much fun I'm having with all of this and unfortunately it's going too fast. The only down fall is that there is a lot of Taco John's and McDonald's in my meal line up, because I don't have any time for anything else...hopefully that'll change.

Peace out everyone!

-Sterzy