Yesterday was surprisingly a busy day, and it went by very fast! The day began with a breakdown by Mr. John, of what needed to be accomplished today. First on the list. the stage! Now that the show has ended, we are in the process of striking the entire set and props. My job, back to where I began, was of course the props. I started with the large props that were spread across the stage. Even though this set was minimal there were several large pieces of furniture for the different scenes. For now, all the pieces are being relocated to the sides of the stage instead of on it to be out of the way. I began by pulling the cafe chairs and tables, and dining rooms chairs. I then pulled the bar, the bar stools. and started on the stationary store. The stationary store was a bit more difficult. I first had to pull the boxes that covered the piece to make the look like boxes off. They were held together with gaffing tape and package tape! This took a little longer than expected. I managed to get all the cardboard off and found a set of pliers to pull a few remaining staples out. Now that the furniture had been set aside it was on the the prop shelf.
The prop shelf is basically where my internship began, so I find it funny I have now come full circle. I even had to do some more dumpster diving for boxes again to house the props. I cleared the dining room and small cafe table of the dinnerware that had been tacky glued on, and placed them all in a separate box. I put dinnerware in one box, and miscellaneous and random items in another. I'm shadily trying to keep the kidney lamp I made. I mean, do you really think they'll need a kidney lamp again? :)
After prop moving and packing it was back in the office for a quick lunch. I also grabbed a peppermint hot cocoa on my break too, along with throwing out some recycle. Before I grabbed my afternoon pick me up, Mr. John explained to me what needed to done as far as logging of monies went from Casino. Once I returned I was ready to tackle the binder of patrons. I managed to make it through the entire binder, and there was a lot to log, so it was pretty impressive. It did take some time, but I got though it all! I had to log peoples charges of the night. For example someone would've been charged for and or donated 2 decks of cards, $120 toward wish list donation, and then $100 donation for raise the paddle. Everything had to be labeled and rung up correctly, and that's why it took time to log all the transactions. So far our numbers are looking really good, and we are very excited about the amount we are up to! I don't have any final numbers, but like I mentioned it was our best event to date!
Next on the list, monologue work. The day was coming to an end so instead of getting the monologue right on it's feet the first day, we decided to do a few read throughs and talk about it. I was so glad we did this first. My Shakespeare memorization is never 100% so I needed some more time with the words. I really get a lot out of the discussion with Mr. John. My tasks for the evening: memorize! translate, break monologue down into beats, make choices, and decide my path. As you can see from my notes, I was able to get most of that accomplished. I now have the monologue memorized as well! We are going to get the monologue up and going today, and I'm very excited for this work! I'll let you know how its goes. Until tonight...
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