Notes 07-14-2014

Thank you everyone! I'm really pleased with how things went tonight! 

Just a quick note before I get to the real "Notes" of this e-mail... This week, we may rehearse until 11 p.m. I'd love it if we could get out of there early, but I make no promises. Progress must be made this week. If I see that you're reading my notes and making the changes, then I won't start reading notes "night-of;" however, if this isn't apparent, we'll stay until notes are through. While we are in a good place performance-wise, there's still lots of polishing and so on.

If you know of someone who has helped us with this show and there aren't listed as either cast or crew (meaning that they aren't fully a part of this show), I would like to thank so, so please let me know their name(s). This would include people we've borrowed things from, who have donated services or goods, etc... Just anyone we need to thank. Please get those names to me by tomorrow evening so that we can include them in the program. 

Finally, we still have a fairly long to-do list regarding the set, so please...if you can spare some time this weekend, we need you to stop by. Bring people. There is literally something for everyone to do and we have a GREAT time! Right? If you can't be there this weekend, but you are available tomorrow, I think a group of people are going to be there tomorrow. Gloria can give more specifics on times and such. 

I think that's it... now, on to the notes. 

The TO DO List as of 07-13-2014: 

WATER BARREL:  

·         Make sure it's not crooked and screw it back into the stage.

·         Add the duct tape "strapping" to the top and bottom.

·         Make the wood look more "wood" like.

·         Add the word "Water"

·         Paint the outer lid the same color as the rest of ii.

·         Add lock latch.

BANDSTAND:

·         Replace the side pieces with larger versions of those.

·         Add bunting in a way that would allow us to easily remove them if we need to.

·         Find and add counterweights to the bandstand pieces. Where are the cinder blocks that used to be at STG? 

·         Add more bunting(?) and/or other decorations(?)

·         Add cardboard at bottom to hide casters and to make the line across the different pieces more uniform. Paint this white as well.

WAGON:

·         Finish the covered part

·         Add posters and run a line so that the umbrellas can be hung from the wagon.

 

MASKING FLATS:

·         Place them and be sure that they are secured into the floor they will not move.

HANGING:

·         Hang the black legs (the two middle spots and the two back spots)

·         Hang the star curtain behind the band. It could be affixed to the black horizontal flats that are hung along the props loft.

·         Hang the sign(s)

·         Hang the Scrim(?) Use the black fabric that's hanging in the props loft (from the horizontal flats) to and affix this to the top of the scrim (to extend it).

PAINTING:

·         Tape gaps if any exist

·         Paint the main floor (see paint can that says main floor/stage paint)

·         Touch up the paint at the tops of the periaktois, using the small container of blue paint on the downstage part of the stage (File's office).

·         Also, if any periaktoi needs another coat, please paint it again. If you need white or black, it is in File's office on the downstage right portion of the stage.

·         Paint the walls in File's office to look like wood. They already have the base coat, you'll just need a darker color mixed with water and that wood grain painting tool in the paint room.

·         Add 8" (wide) lines all the way down the floor in File's office…Janet will get it to emulate wood floors. See the lines in The Curry House. There should be some markers there at the theatre. 

·         Paint the scrim (Janet)

·         Paint the back two periaktois to look like the scrim (see the painting – Janet)

·         Paint the inside of the window green as well.

OTHER:

·         Add something to the top of the house…something decorative made of cardboard (see Janet)

·         Fix the folding chair (stored in the wings on stage left) so that Thom Grindle can sit in it. The seat seems a bit broken currently.

·         Add trim around the Curry House door and paint it green.

·         I would like a sign or a painting above the door that says "Home Sweet Home."

·         Make sure the bookshelves are screwed together and secure to the floor and then fill them with 1930's paraphernalia.

·         We need a couple of hooks for hats in the Curry House. Some place that makes sense, but that will not hinder the opening and/or closing of the flats.

·         In File's office, hang the clock on the top panel of the wall that has the desk on it.   Put it above where the desk is when closed.

·         In File's office, put something on the wall that would allow us to hang the wanted poster.

·         If we can secure it, I have a picture of my Great Grandmother that I'd like to use for the Curry House, otherwise, it may need to be painted on? 

·         Monique is going to bring a stamp to use in the house to make it look like wallpaper, then make the walls look aged.