UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

Some more pics from yesterday’s shop session!

Two of the Intro to Tech students creating a jig in order to cut long angles in order to splice 1x into super long pieces for the very tall walls:

Painting the championship boards Puma Purple!

Intro to Tech students Megan and Kolten legging up the judge’s platform:

Me, making progress a Bee Flat!

TA Katie working with Natalie on one of those extra-long pieces of 1x:

Shop stuff is happening! Here are some slightly blurry photos of ‘Putnam County’ construction activity!

Here, TA Katie works with Peyton and Grace on covering flats with muslin:

While two other students build flats:

Here’s Katie showing one of the Intro students how to use the band saw:

And Kolten and Peyton priming flats:

While this was happening, I was in the theatre spattering and then lining the floor:

In the rush to get “Putnam County” drafted and begin preliminary work on “Animal Farm” I forgot to post pictures from the final dress rehearsal of “Public Enemy.” So, here they are.

Directed by Mary MacDonald Kerr. Set design by Eric Appleton. Lighting design by Aimee Hanyzewski. Costume design by Tracey Lyons. Sound design by student Emily Ottinger. Props manager student Allison Lozar. Stage manager student Abyra Schneeberg. Thanks for Josh Schmidt for working with Emily on developing her sound design.

Scenes One and Two: The Stockman home:

Scene Three: The newspaper office:

Scene Four; The Meeting Hall.

Scene Five: The Stockman home:

Some pictures from Saturday’s first dress rehearsal of “Public Enemy,” a modernized version of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” There are still things to be done on the set, but those will happen during Monday afternoon’s shop session (since we open Tuesday morning with our student matinee).

The top of the show:

Heading into the transition between scene one and two:

Scene three, the newspaper office:

We had first tech last night. It went pretty smoothly. On the other hand, there’s still a lot to be done.

Here’s a shot of guest director Mary MacDonald Kerr and guest lighting designer Aimee Hanyzewski with students at the tech table as we get the evening rolling.

And student stage manager Abrya walking the stage:

The set under worklights:

A final major element will be installed this afternoon. The timbers, which are all laying in the Hicklin theatre at the moment:

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With actors on the stage, the opening scene:

And my list at the end of the night:

Lots happening on Friday afternoon! The platforms for “Public Enemy” are in place, and primed. Light hang (LD is guest designer Aime Hanyzewski, and our ME is student Quinn Bauer) over the stage was pretty much wrapped up. Here is the lighting crew finishing up one of the over-apron trusses:

In the shop, student sound designer Emily Ottinger worked with Intro student Alexa to finish the Foley door to produce all the front door opening and closing through the play:

Here are Jordan and Jordan installing one of the escape steps on stage:

My afternoon project was to get the three flown paintings rolling:

I hope to finish those this afternoon and turn them over to the TD. Finally, over the weekend, I found better chairs for the Stockman’s living room.

We’re getting closer to the hang for “Public Enemy” (directed by guest director Mary MacDonald Kerr, with guest lighting designer Aimee Hanyzewski), and the platforming is getting moved into place. Last night, we had a designer run of the show, so it was important to give the actors the final platform positions.

I believe this is TA Katie working with one of the Intro to Theatre students on attaching masonite to the next to last platform:

And view of the work from the house:

Then it’s back to the office for me, and finishing up the elevation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

Some photos from the final dress rehearsal of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Set design by student Lilliana Gonzalez. Costume design by student Kat Middleton. Props by student Jordan Meyer. Stage managed by student Alex Cary. Lighting design by Eric Appleton. Technical direction by Ruth Conrad-Proulx. Directed by Charles Grover, to bookend his years at Whitewater. Sleepy Hollow was the first show he directed when he started his position here, so many years ago.

Preset:

The Storytellers:

Outside the Tarrytown Tavern:

Ichabod learns about the bridge:

Ichabod hobnobs with the ladies of the town:

Ichabod and Brom vie for Katerina’s attentions:

Brom and Katerina:

Ichabod gets ready for the dance:

All they could find was his hat and a shattered pumpkin:

Brom and Katerina tie the knot:

Friday afternoon was spent finishing up “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” We opened on Saturday and sent it off on the road. Here are some pics from that final afternoon in the shop.

Students adding leaves to the background flats:

Painting the trees. The Fall (non-spooky side is facing us):

Touching up the black on the side flat trees:

Final painting of the stools:

TD Ruth working with TA Nathan on some sign hanging technology:

Waiting for the evening’s tech rehearsal to begin. The trees on stage, Fall side out:

And then student stage manager Alex kindly flipped them to spooky side out so I could get a shot of that:

We are heading into tech for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and we are behind, but catching up. The set is designed by student Lilliana Gonzalez. I’m doing the lighting design this time around.

Here are the tree-trunk stools, ready to get painted:

Intro to Theatre students applying gaff tape over the gap between the two halves of the trees:

Making headway on the painting of the backing flats:

These half trees are done (except for painting the framing black). They get attached to the side masking flats to frame the playing space.

The trees on stage, as we get ready for rehearsal:

Light board operator Stephanie doing some programming at the tech table:

The view over the monitors during the run:

And then coming in bright and early this morning to continue texturing the trees with Lilliana, and putting lots of fans on them in the hope that they will be dry by tonight.