Monday, March 22, 2010

Diary of a Cowardly Lion: Entry Three

Dear Alys,

Only three more days until we perform before an audience of kids. The first two days of shows are Educational Outreach performances. The Alys Stephens Center’s Education and Outreach programs are offered to local schools so that they may bring their kids to experience the ASC and embrace the arts I think that our education programs are phenomenal (disclaimer: although biased because I work in Education and Outreach, it really is an amazing program). Down the Yellow Brick Road is part of our “Meet the Artist” series and is free to local students. We will see close to 600 students during our 4 performances on Thursday and Friday! Amazing huh? They are completely full!!! YAY!

Tonight is tech rehearsal. What that means is that we will be working with lights and sound for the first time. Tech can be a tedious process of starting and stopping and starting and stopping. It’s usually different with these shows, because Russ Friedrikis did our lighting, sound and set. If you’ve never seen Russ’ work…. That’s reason enough to come to this show. The set is brilliant and the lighting and sound are stunning. It almost feels like a crime to be skipping, jumping and falling all over his set…. It really is a work of art.

So guys, are you going to come see the show on Saturday?!? I will probably post at least two more times before we open, just to convince you!

Cowardly,
The Lion

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