streets, costumes, and seats

April began the morning with the first rehearsal of her drama camp on the main stage. She had a boom box and her computer hooked up to playback the sound from the show that will be presented Friday evening at 5 pm. The show is by Bad Wolf Press called Character Matters Too. The premise of the show is the fairy tale council has a meeting and they address concerns raised by some of the fairy tale creatures. There are songs about gratitude, and it pays to be polite. In the polite song the witch who eats children is taught not to eat those children who come to her house because it pays to be polite. The show has some very funny writing that also gets the point across that the "character" of a person is important.

As April was getting ready I was finding out about the street closings from a group at the Market Square Coffee shop. I left the coffee shop and contacted the Parks department which has the official word and map of what streets are closed and when they are closed. This is crucial for our 5 pm show this Friday that parents can drop young children off at the stage door of the theatre without a major street being blocked. After the rumors were put to rest and the real information was received we then went to work on getting ready for the show. However April discovered that the stage air conditioning unit wasn't working. We installed a safety shut off last year to keep the drain pans from overflowing onto the ceilings above the dressing rooms. The safety worked perfectly when the drain was clogged and the pan was full of water. Jim spent about an hour cleaning out the drain and flushing the pipes to get the system back up and working.

Meanwhile Janice Peterson is hard at work with the help of couple of other volunteers to make the costumes for Character Matters Too. I saw some of the costumes modeled by my daughter and they look terrific.

Marsha and Rhiannon have been working on assigning seats for Season Ticket holders. We are down to the last couple of performances. Several people have been extremely generous and moved their seats to help us prepare for the new seats we plan to install in the fall. We only have two performances now where we need people to change their seats in order to accommodate everyone in the new wider seats. Marsha has been calling people and many people have been extremely nice in helping us get this done. They started printing the tickets this afternoon and we will have restaurant discount cards printed this next week hopefully.

Rehearsal for Smoke on the Mountain is off for tonight and resumes tomorrow. I'm still trying to contact sponsors and program advertisers to get our next season off to a great start. If you know of someone who is interested in sponsoring a play have them email me at the theatre. Non Musicals are $1,750 and Musicals are $3,000. You get approximately 30 tickets to the play you sponsor and get promotional credit on all advertising for the show.

If you are downtown on Saturday for the Kids Day in the Arts at the Quilters Museum check out Aprils Japanese storytelling. She has some great stories for kids and they are told in a an ancient form of story telling that is lots of fun. April told me about one of the new stories that she has which is about a man who takes a wife with an unusual talent. The talent is so unusual the man wants to immediately take her back to her family because he is so embarrassed. I can't wait to hear her tell that story! If you want to know what the talent is you will have to come and hear her. She tells stories on the half hour all day Saturday!