Sweeney Todd

First tech for “Sweeney Todd” is tonight, and things are getting close to being ready. If you’d asked me three weeks ago if I thought we’d be this far along at this point, I would have laughed in despair. I think I did laugh in despair. BUT, we all worked hard and together and here we are!

I don’t teach classes today, so this morning was spent in the shop (as will the afternoon). Here is a bunch of trim, painted yesterday and now awaiting installation during shop hours. To the right are the backs of the pie shop and bakehouse wagons.

For this show, I recruited a three person props team — Kelsey, Shauna, and Maddie. They’ve also been hard at work, and here are a varity of things laid out so paint could dry over night.

Here’re the fronts of the bakehouse and pie shop wagons, with the Pirelli corpse trunk (project for the afternoon) and the unpainted act two pie shop counter in the background (also project for the afternoon).

Sweeney’s sign:

Pirelli’s chart:

Building a third blood razor (the first two were built by my friend Nikki Hansen):

Our TD, Steve, is also lighting the show, so after he finished his morning cuing session, I wandered in and took a picture of the set as it is at the moment. The railings for the galleries are painted, and now need to be assembled and installed. There are also railings and decor for the stairway up to the tonsorial parlor.

I haven’t tried it out myself yet, but the slide from the chair is reported to work like a charm (Steve’s engineering).