That belated Stoughton post

Ahh, Stoughton, where to begin? Well, as you can see here at the end of load-in, things went pretty smoothly with the hand of our first "small" light plot. We will be using this is a few venues: Baraboo and Oshkosh to name a few. It's much quicker to focus, that's for sure, so we were done with load-in early and for once Bill and Craig were waiting on ME to finish up MY stuff!

Like last year, we could not use our show deck because that would have involved carrying it up lots of stairs (no freight elevator here). As it is, all the walls had to be removed from their scenic carts and carried up separately. Then we held them up with braces and sandbags. Unfortunately, the walls still moved pretty easily when they were opened on-stage to reveal the Madison apartment. You can also see in this picture the black spike tape I usd to outline where the edge of the deck would be. Fancy.

The backstage area was TIGHT, and we used some non-traditional items as prop tables, simply because there was nowhere else to move them.

Due to the super-small stage, Jimmy was practically in the audience again, and his angle in relation to the deck was much differet than usual. You may also notice that in addition to the usual monitor he has sitting upstage of the piano on the floor, he also had a house monitor playing directly in his ear.

Fart machines and bats have been covered elsewhere. I will simply assure you that yes, I heard the fart machine go off several times when no one was actually near it, and no, we never did see the bat once he flew backstage. I was comforted by his presence though.


And finally, Katherine in Dressing Room #5. I stole this from Kathi's blog, since my camera batteries died at this point. Next up - more on Ladysmith, less on weather! (maybe..)