UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

Things are getting more exciting than they should be. Our TD is out having surgery, so I’m finishing up the set in his stead. Because of other professional commitments, our director can only attend a single tech rehearsal, which has been rescheduled for bright and early Saturday morning. Oh, and the student assistant technical director is out with the stomach flu.

Meanwhile. . .

. . .the afternoon dry tech. Student lighting designer Nick, student stage manager Marguerite, and student sound designer Joe put things together at the tech table.

I used the Intro to Tech class today to get the rest of the over head truss pieces put together, the wooden railings assembled, and a push to get the upstage structure in place.

Getting closer to tech week. Here is student lighting designer Nick doing some focussing as construction continues behind him.

Even though the university did not have classes on Friday, our TD, Steve, still had a work call to push forward. The pipes got added and the set now really begins to look like the drawings. . .

Tada!  The organ is NOW a piano!

Day two of organ construction for “Music in the Air.”

My Fourth of July project;  getting the organ started for “Music in the Air.”   Exciting, rushed, improvisational carpentry!   Pictured sitting  in the UW-Whitewater scene shop.  The Chinese hanging on the left is from our production of “A Scrap of Paper.”  The bit of groundrow seen above the piano is from “She Stoops to Conquer.”