Last week was insane. It is now Friday of the following week and I barely feel recovered. Just in time for another crazy week!
Last week myself and a few others from the Morrison Center worked at the SPEC (Special Events Center) over in the student union building. Its a pretend theater. Its actually quite ridiculous if you want my honest opinion. When it was built I am positive it was amazing, I would know, because my grandfather was on the project. But in the years following it has gotten NO LOVE and has fallen into disrepair. The fly rail (what makes things go up and down on stage and what you hang the lights on above stage) it SCARY, and incredibly unsafe. All of the lights were dirty and some just didn't work at all. The problem isn't that its a bad space, its that it doesn't have a staff aside from glorified janitors and audio visual guys who don't do more than plug mics in for events in the student union. Its both sad and frustrating to see something not utilized to its full (or even partial) potential.
That being said, we built a show there for The Trey McIntyre Project. I love these guys. They are a modern dance company who has made their home in Boise. Look them up, they are nothing short of amazing. This is my third show with these guys, and I love them more every time. Check out their tour schedule, if they come anywhere near you, GO!!
Last week myself and a few others from the Morrison Center worked at the SPEC (Special Events Center) over in the student union building. Its a pretend theater. Its actually quite ridiculous if you want my honest opinion. When it was built I am positive it was amazing, I would know, because my grandfather was on the project. But in the years following it has gotten NO LOVE and has fallen into disrepair. The fly rail (what makes things go up and down on stage and what you hang the lights on above stage) it SCARY, and incredibly unsafe. All of the lights were dirty and some just didn't work at all. The problem isn't that its a bad space, its that it doesn't have a staff aside from glorified janitors and audio visual guys who don't do more than plug mics in for events in the student union. Its both sad and frustrating to see something not utilized to its full (or even partial) potential.
That being said, we built a show there for The Trey McIntyre Project. I love these guys. They are a modern dance company who has made their home in Boise. Look them up, they are nothing short of amazing. This is my third show with these guys, and I love them more every time. Check out their tour schedule, if they come anywhere near you, GO!!
This guy is huge, he is well over 6ft... outstanding dancer
These 3 are my favs. The are so synchronized. Their timing and spacing together is impeccable.
Monday and Tuesday were spent building these guys, Wednesday was spent with my second show of the week The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Another AWESOME show. Hey, if I have to work all week, at least I am enjoying what I am doing!! I was able to work a position that night after load in where I was able to watch it while working. It has been a long time since I have truly laughed that hard during a musical. It pushed the envelope in so many different ways, and made us laugh about things we have needed to laugh about for a LONG time.
Thursday morning brought me back to the SPEC for tech rehearsals. A friend and I were running follow spot through these windows, and mine was lucky enough to have a frame right smack dab in the middle of it. In order to be able to shoot my light through the bottom window, I had to raise myself up enough to look out of the top window. I was on a bar stool, on a box that was hardly wide enough for the stool, running the light from behind. Needless to say it wasn't the most ideal situation, but I made it work. After a long day of tech rehearsals I headed over to the Morrison to fill in for someone who called in sick. Its a good thing I like her because that was 5 hours of sleepy time I was looking forward to.
Friday was opening night for Trey. Awesome, awesome show. As usual. After show my 3 fellow MC buddies ran over to the MC to start load out for Spelling Bee while I ran the spot for a Q and A with Trey. The longest they had ever gone in the past was 20 minutes. 35 minutes later I got out of there and ran myself over to MC to help with load out. I think we got out of there around 1am.
Saturday we were up at 5am, grabbed breakfast and met with a whole gaggle of people from Silverdraft (the movie studio) to participate in the i48 film competition. Our team name was Reel Pirates and we had a blast together!! It started at 6pm the night before with our info packet. In our packet we received a genre (silent film) a prop (dice as well as a line in the film and a name or something. They started writing the script that night, we film the next day, and edit the following day and turn it in by 6pm, exactly 48 hours later. They decided to film at the Morrison Center. Ugghhh... I felt like I was at work... lol. We got there, and the first shoot of the day was on the fourth floor. The only way to get up there was up a skinny metal spiral staircase. So we lugged all the film equipment up 78 stairs. We worked on the film for a few hours before I had to book it over to the SPEC to do a matinee with Trey. Another successful show. Went back to MC and worked on the film for a few hours and ran back to the SPEC for the final show and load out. The day was finally done at 1am.
It was a crazy week, but everything I was involved in was so much fun! Now We need to get rested up for Miss Idaho next week! Go Meg Rowe!!!
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