Holidays

The theatre closed for the holidays at 5 pm on Wednesday Dec. 23 and will reopen on Tuesday Jan. 5. The Monday before we closed Jim Keeney and I unbolted all of the old chairs and created the single aisle chairs for pick up. We had a couple of doubles, one triple and one 4 chair "row" that we moved to the corner building so those who wanted to pick them up in time for Christmas could do so. I got back into town today and went down to the theatre to see what mail had come in over the holidays. I was pleased to see that the newsletter made it out to mailboxes. This helps us get the word out about footlights classes starting and auditions for Boy in the Girls Bathroom. Jim and I have a lot of work to get done before the end of January with installing the new seats. Doing a thorough check of the lighting system. We hope to take down all of the lighting instruments and clean the lenses and check the lamp bases. Some of the lights are close to 50 years old and they are showing their age.

While on break I read 6 scripts. All of them are being considered for next season. We have romantic comedies, farces, murder mysteries, thrillers and a couple of great musicals to choose from. The play selection committee will present their slate of plays to the board of directors in January for a vote. The rights will be applied for and the season announced to public in early March. I am looking at several possibilities for some additional productions in the studio theatre. We took a break this season and did not schedule any adult studio productions so we could look at some alternative funding ideas. I'm hoping that we can have studio productions announced in March along with the main stage season.

Also while we were on vacation I purchased some equipment that I found on sale for April to use in her classes. She has had a real problem hauling all of her sound equipment around. I found a great small system with a big output of sound that she can play with a remote using her iPhone as the mp3 player. She is looking forward to using it for the many shows she is working on when school starts up again.