Moving into Changeover

Tonight is the last night to see The Notebook of Trigorin! With Family Day weekend going on and Accepted Student day (welcome class of 2014!!!!!!), there's lots to do around campus! My parents are coming up for the first time ever for Family Day weekend, because of the Dean's List reception. While tomorrow most people will be spending time with their families and saying good-bye, my day will be spent in the theater.

After every play, the set needs to be taken down (called strike). It's always amazing to see weeks and sometimes months of hard, careful work dismantled in the course of a few hours! Tomorrow is also my first load-in as a lighting designer. I've been working on this design for some time: the initial months of the rehearsal process was, for me, a visualization process and incubation (as John Devlin would say) of ideas. Now in the week before tech I'm gathering paperwork and wrestling with the Trigorin plot to find the easiest way to change things over to my plot for Almost, Maine. One thing I learned working at the Barre Opera House is to make instrument schedule sheets: they show every instrument, where it is and what it is used for. I can already tell this will be imperative in the tech rehearsal process!

Almost, Maine is a student-produced selection of scenes that will run April 16th-17th, AKA Friday and Saturday of this upcoming week! This production will be a vehicle to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Laura Michelle, senior at Saint Michael's, dreamed of performing this play for years and is finally realizing that goal as her senior exhibition project. Also starring Mike McKinney, Jenn Robbins, Dave Ingalls, Josh Bardier, and Zach Pratt, this production of Almost, Maine is a selection of scenes from the original play by John Cariani. Each scene is set at 9pm on a single night in a little town called Almost, in northern Maine, with couples falling in or out of love. The vignettes are sweet, quirky, fun, and often touching.

Of course, Third Eye Blind is coming to Saint Mike's on Friday the 16th; and Almost, Maine will be performing at 6:30 on Friday to accomodate that. Saturday's performance will start at 8pm. The show is only about an hour, and definitely worth coming to see!