Dela-where??
So we get to the lovely historic DuPont theatre (the longest continuously running theatre in North America) in Wilmington, DE at 6PM last Monday. And the first rude awakening was the size of the theatre space. Ridiculously, tiny small for our set/deck/gondolas/dressing area, etc. And we had our wardrobe room downstairs with only a tiny circular staircase to get there. Ergo, we had to lower our gondolas downstairs via the trap door in the stage.
If you look at the guy in red, from where he's standing to the back wall on the left was our dressing area. With gondolas. And the cross through. We literally had about 5 feet of space for people to dress in, dressers to pass through and actors to somehow plow through to make their cues on the opposite side of the theatre. Good times!
Straight ahead there is the loading door with a ramp, leading to an alley way that leads to another alleyway that leads to the street with another ramp and our truck. Good thing we had good strong locals to push all those boxes about a block each way!
And what does the alley way look like?
Ah! Here we are in Producers land with our props all over the alley way. Remember the part about the venue being super small? This was the scene every day. Half our props and big set pieces lived outdoors in the alley during the show.
Near the dumpster. Need a better view of that?
Well, alright then! And what oh what were we to do when it rained, as it was projected to do on Friday??
KB: Ingrid, what are they going to do about the Nazi puppets?
Ingrid: Buy them ponchos...And maybe a sombrero... It's The Producers do Mexico!
Yep, amused! Cuz nothing says The Producers are in town like an alley full of Mexican Nazis in the pouring rain! :)
Despite the extreme tightness of the space, our local crews were pretty great. I did have a girl on my crew who thinks she's a pirate. Apparently she's building an 18' pirate ship so she can sail around the Delaware Bay... pillaging. When someone pointed out that perhaps an 18' boat is a bit small for pillaging, she said, in all seriousness, "It's not the size of the boat..."
How do you even follow that up??
We think this picture of Moon our Head Electrician should be on all the new NETworks promotional material for recruitment! Join NETworks and you too can put ponchos on Nazis!
Today we have our first day off in 2 weeks (hooray!) and we're headed to Hershey, PA. We're in a hotel on Chocolate Ave... of course!
more later
xox
k
,
If you look at the guy in red, from where he's standing to the back wall on the left was our dressing area. With gondolas. And the cross through. We literally had about 5 feet of space for people to dress in, dressers to pass through and actors to somehow plow through to make their cues on the opposite side of the theatre. Good times!
Straight ahead there is the loading door with a ramp, leading to an alley way that leads to another alleyway that leads to the street with another ramp and our truck. Good thing we had good strong locals to push all those boxes about a block each way!
And what does the alley way look like?
Ah! Here we are in Producers land with our props all over the alley way. Remember the part about the venue being super small? This was the scene every day. Half our props and big set pieces lived outdoors in the alley during the show.Near the dumpster. Need a better view of that?Well, alright then! And what oh what were we to do when it rained, as it was projected to do on Friday??KB: Ingrid, what are they going to do about the Nazi puppets?
Ingrid: Buy them ponchos...And maybe a sombrero... It's The Producers do Mexico!
Yep, amused! Cuz nothing says The Producers are in town like an alley full of Mexican Nazis in the pouring rain! :)
Despite the extreme tightness of the space, our local crews were pretty great. I did have a girl on my crew who thinks she's a pirate. Apparently she's building an 18' pirate ship so she can sail around the Delaware Bay... pillaging. When someone pointed out that perhaps an 18' boat is a bit small for pillaging, she said, in all seriousness, "It's not the size of the boat..."
How do you even follow that up??
We think this picture of Moon our Head Electrician should be on all the new NETworks promotional material for recruitment! Join NETworks and you too can put ponchos on Nazis!Today we have our first day off in 2 weeks (hooray!) and we're headed to Hershey, PA. We're in a hotel on Chocolate Ave... of course!
more later
xox
k
,
posted by KBARRETT at 9:50 AM
1 Comments:
Hey, as usual you can make even the most horrible situations sound funny!! What a gift...strictly from your father, I think, bless him!
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