Today was the first (official) day of work at Saint Michael's Playhouse! All of the interns moved in and settled on Saturday, then yesterday was spent readying the space and helping the actors for the first show move in. We had a BBQ where we met everyone last night and then had the evening to ourselves, which was nice. Molly, a friend from Saint Mike's, an administrative intern for the summer, AND an actress in the third show of the season (she's just that awesome!), hung out with me after we jump-started her car (only to have it die again!). She's studying abroad in London next semester so we are super excited to have the summer together before that!
Then, the staff and interns met at 8:50 today for a morning meeting, allowing the work day to start at 9am. The morning meeting is kind of funny: it really shows how deep into the theater world we can get during summer stock. John Devlin, our production manager, tells us the date and day of the week and some news from the outside world before telling us assignments and goals for the day.
Today was, however, my first and last morning meeting for the next two weeks- stage management interns work on a different schedule from both the administrative interns and the interns working in the shop or on electrics or sound. Hannah (the other SM intern for the season) and I set up for a production meeting before joining the others in safety training and starting to prep some of the walls for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, our first show this season. Then we went to the production meeting to take notes and spent the rest of the day in rehearsal, taking notes, making coffee and making props lists and all sorts of things. Today the actors just worked on music (of course the songs will be stuck in my head for months to come! At least they're pretty awesome tunes) so while Hannah made a props list and will be tracking that, I made an entrance-exit plot that helps with costume changes and body-mic repairs, if needed. It turns out we'll be called a little later in the morning for rehearsals for this first show- but we have rehearsal till 9:30pm at least for the first two weeks, when there isn't a show onstage at night.
It's kind of funny how the world in Burlington, Vermont halts on holidays. Stores may or may not be open- the library, print services, and human resource office at St. Mike's were all closed for Memorial day, which made it really hard for the stage management and administrative interns who needed to make copies and have things printed for the first day of rehearsal. Unfortunately the McCarthy Arts Center doesn't have a large copier or a reliable computer-printer setup; in fact, there are 2 computers in the whole building avaliable for students and interns to use, one of which crashed today. But the world turns on and tomorrow we will have plenty of time to copy scripts and everything. At least now I know that I'll be working later in the day and can be flexible about coming and staying late as opposed to arriving and leaving early.
I'm exhausted already. Time for a good night's sleep and a big breakfast in the morning! More later, when there is more to report :)
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