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May 8, 2023
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“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
…they rise and they fall (or that time life got shut down along with school and our production.)
Hello from the other side of the rainbow! Take a look behind the curtain or just below into the orchestra pit.
There’s a lot to do in the life of a techie! We are the beautiful swans of the ugly duckling’s tale.
October came and went lickety split. Probably because we had a week off school, a half week of school.
Tonight was opening night for “How Does a Thing Like That Get Started?”
This post is hard for me to write. Mostly because it’s hard to describe the experience with words. For those of you know the kind of experience I had with my senior theatre project at Cedarville then you understand exactly the kind of emotions, awe, and wonder that this production evoked. It truly was a midsummer night’s dream. NOT intentionally PUNNY! (The hot season in the Phils or summer is from from March to May. Our play was April 24-26. :o) The great thing about Shakespeare is that it a blank canvas, you can do whatever you want with it. But I’ve come to realize that the blank canvas can also be TOTALLY overwhelming when you aren’t an abstract thinker. Thankfully, I had willing people around me who stepped up to help brainstorm, design, choreograph, buy fabric, paint, sew, and tell me the ideas I did have weren’t crazy (even when they were). I felt like the luckiest director in the world as I sat in the audience and watched our creation come to life.
When I got back to Faith last August I had just had a whirlwind of a summer with no real time for reading plays. So, I began my frantic search for a script that would meet my ultimate goal of “display the talents of this particular group of kids.” Finding scripts is a daunting task. For me as a director it is absolutely the WORST part of the process of producing a play. We aren’t auditioning the world here only our world and that does limit what’s available to us. Sometimes content limits script use particularly when copyrights do not allow for editing. Sometimes the set or costumes or music limits us because what is needed is too elaborate for what we can accomplish. Sometimes we don’t have the right number of males vs females. And sometimes, frustratingly, we are unable to obtain the rights to produce a show because we are outside of America. I find this to be the silliest of all reasons. So sometimes you settle for something you aren’t totally thrilled with but figure you can make work and the process of making it something everyone involved will be thrilled with begins.
This article has been sitting unpublished for quite sometime. I’m not entire sure why 🙁 I will post some up to date stuff soon!
April 14-16, 2011 Faith Academy Presented Annie as it’s spring musical. It was a pretty spectacular show (if I do say so myself). I prepared graphics, did some painting and ran the backstage crew. Woot, go stage crew! It’s been such a sweet experience to be here for this show. Chelsea, who played Annie, was in my drama class in 8th grade as Cindy Lu Who. She sang with same gorgeous voice now as she did then. It seems amazing to me that 13 of the students I had in my drama classes before were in the cast as well as 1 hardcore techie (GO LOGAN!) and several of my elementary students. So great! 2 of my current students, Alex and Heidi) were also in the show.
(As I was running the stage crew all of these production shots were taken by my wonderful friend Chris Kuhlow!)
Chelsea McDougal – Annie, Whitney Bauck – Miss Hannigan