As of May 15th, I have, with the help of the cast, crew and my assistant stage manager:
- Completed actor bios
- Completed set, lighting, sound, costume, art, and ticket designs
- Built the stage
- Tech rehearsed
- Dress rehearsed
- Performed eight full shows (two of which were matinees)
- Managed two assemblies simultaneously on May 9th
- Striked the stage
- And taken five days of rest after a full month of mayhem
We had many successes since April 17th, including having a full run of our spring play Tom Jones.
When comparing to last year’s spring play, and our recent fall play, Tom Jones ran much smoother both for stagecraft and for the cast. Tech rehearsal ran great and there were very few lighting, sound and set adjustments that needed to be made, especially compared to our last two performances, even though Tom Jones was much more complicated in the set design and set change departments.
In the mayhem of tech and show weeks, I also took care of two simultaneous assemblies. After not being able to find Mr. Case, the leadership teacher in charge of one of the assembly on May 9th was directed by the cast and crew she could find to come search for me. I spent a block with Ms. Oh, a first semester teacher here at Charles Best, explaining to her how we set up for assemblies and how me and my crew could help her out during the assembly prep and assembly.
We faced a few challenges with the assemblies, namely the misplacement of the main assembly microphone, presumably by office staff. It is not their fault that it was not found, and in the end, I found a solution in asking the library for their lapel mic and setting it on the microphone stand. the further problem became that because it was a lapel mic, the range and sensitivity to feedback behaves differently than a handheld mic. In the future, we will aim to further eliminate microphone feedback by ensuring that the microphone is not positioned in front of a monitor or loudspeaker and further playing with the gain and volume.(Fox, 2019) The main problem, however, was that the sound system in the big gym has been fried for about a year now, and it is not a problem that we can fix without a specialist coming in.
Next steps include further cleanup, fashion show prep and crewing, and the cast-crew party.
Bibliography:
trade, Recording, H. W. P. in the A. I. S. 2015 with E. in S., radio, television, composition, Design, S., Production, M., production, content production H. has a passion for music, love, releases music as “Arthur F. T. website is where he share his, & Linkedin, knowledge for all things audio F. T. I. Y. (2019, July 20). 12 methods to prevent & eliminate microphone/audio feedback. https://mynewmicrophone.com/12-methods-to-prevent-eliminate-microphone-audio-feedback/
