Saturday began with a 7 am run to the grocery store to get water and ice for MHT volunteers at the Lower Town Art and Music Festival. Over 20 volunteers worked in 3 hour shifts to help serve food for the Buzzard Brothers and help MHT raise money to help with operating costs. A crew of volunteers helped setup on Friday for the weekend event. The first shift started at 9:30 am Saturday and the last shift ended at 10 pm.
While the Lower Town activity was going on MHT had the final performances of the Footlights troupes for the year. The High School troupe performed a comedy improv show in the studio theatre at 11 a.m. The elementary troupe performed 2 shows in the afternoon at 2 p.m. and 2:50 p.m. in the studio theatre. By the end of the day just under one hundred people participated in some type of MHT activity and over 200 people attended as audience members.
In addition to all that Wizard of Oz choreographer Katy Miller was working with individual performers to brush up their dance moves in preparation for the June 4th opening of the Wizard of Oz.
I wrapped up the day about midnight last night after working on marketing materials for the Wizard of Oz show opening.
Today the Lower Town festival will have 2 shifts of workers and the elementary footlights troupe presents a performance at 2 p.m. Katy will work with dancers again this afternoon and more work will be done on the set and props for Wizard of Oz. On Memorial Day the work doesn't slow down as there is a full day of painting and building and then rehearsal in the evening. We open in 12 days!
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