The Pretzel

The front part of the set for Seussical is what we call the pretzel. It's made out of Styrofoam that fits onto the front of the main piece there which we call the Death Star. Today the front of the pretzel actually got attached to the front of the Death Star which is very exciting! The students are hand carving the Styrofoam, which look really great in the end. It should be painted tomorrow so I'm excited to see what will look like!


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Another day without a blog!

So here's a short entry that has nothing to do with Seussical. This weekend I traveled to Kansas City to see a production of Legally Blonde the musical. The reason I did this is because I will be directing the St. Louis non-equity premiere this summer. This was the first high school production and I was really interested to see what they would do. The production was at Raymore Peculiar high school, a small high school situated between the towns of Raymore Missouri and Peculiar Missouri -hence the name. The director they have there has built up an incredibly respected and well-known a theater department and I was very excited to see the show. I love watching other people work. Directors don't really get to see other people work because usually we're in rehearsal of our own. We were able to stay in the theater after the performance and see photo call and a couple of technical things that I had questions about. Afterwords the director very kindly sat down with us for a few hours at a local restaurant and talked about the different challenges of the shower. Who knows maybe one day you'll
see Legally Blonde the musical on the ECC


stage !


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I have failed..

At blogging this week! My apologies- its been a very hectic week. Last night we were able to run Act One almost all the way through without stopping (a major accomplishment). We still have a month to go, so we are actually a little ahead of schedule. Thank goodness, because it looks like it might snow next week! Today Ill be sitting down with my lighting designer to start talking about what the cues will look like, we've got a production meeting and a long list of props to work on as well as my teaching duties. We will also be testing some of the special effects for Seussical that haven't been used in any other show previously. I think that's my favorite part of today- being able to see something new that the audience will experience also. Sometimes something I take for granted will really produce a reaction in an audience- and that's a really wonderful thing!


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An explanation...

of Friday's picture!

For Seussical, we purchased two intelligent lighting instruments. Intelligent lighting moves by itself, can switch colors, gobos and do a host of other cool things. They're fairly pricey so we started with 2 and we're hoping to add to them as the years go on.
These lights went on quite a journey to get here- they shuld have been here about a month ago. part of the happiness Turk is expressing comes from the fact that we thought they were lost for a while!
You will DEFINETELY notice these lights in Seuss- they are super dramatic and make a great addition to our lighting inventory!

This picture...

Needs more explanation- but that will have to wait till Monday.


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Hot glue and leaves

It is no secret that higher Ed is in a budget crisis- and ECC is no exception. For Seussical, we're trying to save as much as we can on costumes while not compromising artistic integrity. In that vein- I created this hat today from plastic leaves, Christmas decorations and hot glue. It will appear in Seussical in the circus- keep your eyes peeled!


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Another day...

another blog! This one also features Turk (who gives me a lot to write about.) This is a shot of his desk covered in various things we'll be using in Seussical... Including mousetraps!


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