Parent Blitz Day!

In keeping with our theatre tradition, on Saturday morning we held our "Parent Blitz" to finish up details on the costumes and scenery. We had about 15 family members working on costumes, painting and carpentry. Another tradition is to treat the volunteers to a catered lunch. Thanks to all who helped out!

Here, two moms sew a black dress for Eva. They take advantage of the nice sunshine in our lobby.


Mr. Plotnikov draws out a sign for the "Meat Packer's Association" in Spanish.


Since the portion of the building containing the dressing rooms has not been built yet, we always turn our black box Studio Theatre into make-shift dressing rooms. I used all the stock flats I could find to construct the girls dressing room, below.


And as you can see, the boys dressing room is made up of flats from a dozen different shows over the years!


The girls make temporary make-up tables inside the dressing rooms. They cover the banquet tables with paper so they won't get messed up with make-up.


Mr. Pusch is joined by Noah's dad, another brave parent, who build the stage-right spot tower as they climb up. Noah, right, is a new crew member at the school from the West coast.


There's always lots to paint on Blitz day. Here they paint two narrow flats to act as tormentors at the edge of the proscenium arch. These will block the sight-lines so that the audience will not see the crew in the wings.


Mr. Plotnikov also painted a big banner for "The Miners". He is a good artist! Now that we know this...I'm sure we will call upon his talents on future shows...!


Since I was not allowed to paint the rented scaffolding, an expedient stop-gap measure was to cover it with gaffer tape. Here, Kelly applies tape to the pipes.

The pipes were rusty or too shiny or covered in paint, so to give it a unified design style, I chose a fairly neutral color between silver and black. Once this blue tape is stippled with paint for texture, it will coalesce into a stylized cityscape facade of 1940's Argentina. Since none of my front light is "white light", this tape will really never appear this "blue". By the way, my three basic color washes of lighting are deep blue, rich magenta and deep amber. These will stand in sharp contrast to the white light from the spots underneath the platforming!