Corinna and crew are down at the University Church right now doing the first rehearsal In The Space. I went in briefly to drop off Gravy 2.0. You know, I was never a theater kid in high school. I never did theater in college. I don’t come from Theater People. I mean, I take that […]
Archives for February 2017
Plays are work… call it a night!
I was in my first play in second grade. It was called Iron John and, because I had a natural aptitude for being precise and bossy, I was cast as the lead narrator. Two days before the show, we had a disastrous rehearsal. We missed cues, we missed, entrances—I’m pretty sure one of the princesses […]
Paul Takes The Cake
So at last weekend’s prop build, I made the saddest prop cake in the entire world. And not on purpose, either. This week I took another crack at it and it came out much better. There are two cakes in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. The most important one is the sad cake that Emily makes […]
Hitting the Gravy and Dropping the Babies
As the prop person, my active involvement in the production is coming to an end. The vast majority of the props have now been assembled; there are a few I forgot to bring yesterday, and a few that are still being tracked down by the prop elves. We don’t know yet how the gravy will […]
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT THEN? TELL ME! WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?
Corinna said it was OK for the production team to contribute to the Bette and Boo Blog. So I, who am in charge of props for the show, am posting about my scientific investigation of the Gravy Problem. Emily has to spill the gravy. The gravy has to sit there on the floor, ugly and […]
Free stuff and here we go!
Ask for free stuff and you shall receive… Thus far, I have been very successful in procuring free stuff to fit into our close to $0 budget. I hope my luck holds. The Revels kindly passed along a wedding dress when their show finished last Saturday. Rockefeller Chapel graciously agreed to lend us a robe […]