UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

Spending some time today finishing the rendering of “Muskie Love” before heading into Milwaukee for “The Winter’s Tale” tech.

With the drawings for “Deathtrap” done, I’ve begun working up the rendering for the second UW Whitewater Summeround show, “Muskie Love.”

French doors!

Step by step, the “Deathtrap” rendering gets closer and closer.

First the outline. . .

. . . and then color by numbers.

“Deathtrap” is on the drafting table. Since we’re doing it in the round, the staircase needs to be placed in one of the voms, so I’m working up the configuration.

Distributing the groundplan for “Deathtrap” this morning. This is one of the UW-Whitewater Summeround shows. Since the Hicklin theatre will be down for renovations, and the house of the Barnett will also be having renovations, we will be staging both this and “Muskie Love” in the round on the stage of the Barnett. For a play like “Deathtrap” it means making some decisions of expedience. . .

While deep in the last week of classes, and in the middle of “Midsummer in Midwinter” tech, we have another production meeting tomorrow for the first show of the Fall, Neil Haven’s “Come Back.” Here’s a sketch of where I seem to be heading. One of the goals is not to bite off too much to chew, kind of like we did with “Dracula” back in September. . .

Some production photos from last night’s final dress rehearsal. My set, lighting by student Nick Skaja, costume design by Marshall Anderson, sound design by student Joe Berman, directed by Angela Iannone, assistant director Jen Samson, Keri Ryan and Alyssa Krantz props artisans. Marguerite Frey, stage manager.

Benvolio and Romeo.

Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and Juliet.

The Nurse and the Montague toughs.

Benvolio and Mercutio getting ready for the fight with Tybalt.

Mercutio stabbed.

Nurse delivers the bad news to Juliet.

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The Capulets decide to marry Juliet off to Paris.

Juliet is told she’ll marry Paris.

Romeo about to drink poison.

Romeo drag Juliet out of the tomb.

Juliet and Romeo, dead.

Some images from today’s dress rehearsal. My set, student Nick Skaja’s lighting design, faculty member Marshall Anderson’s costume design, students Keri Ryan and Alyssa Krantz as prop artisans, and even though you can’t hear it, sound design by student Joe Berman. Directed by Angela Ianonne, with student AD, Jen Samson.

Since Angela had a performance today,. here is Jen giving notes to the cast after rehearsal.

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.