Sunday, October 12, 2008

Grand Opening Recap

What a great turnout and weekend for our Grand Opening. We started things off Friday morning with our new back flat Jeffrey built for us. We had a borrowed black flat for our previous weekend - so it had to be painted... and early, giving it time to dry before the show at 7:30 that night.
From there we had some floors to vacuum and tables to set... Thanks to Stacey's folks John and Lorna for all their hard work helping us get the place ready for our Friday night shows!
We also got some Floor Mics, but the mics we purchased weren't in, so the place loaned us some rentals for our Grand Opening Weekend.
After that my Dad showed up and helped us get our lights in working order. (apparently we got our ceiling fans hung without putting the bulbs in).
Soon enough we were ready to open our doors...

The sketch show (Will Work For Change) and our musical (Sam Adams! Sam Adams! Mayor Ex Machina!) both went really well Friday night. We had a full house and everyone was ready to show them what we have been working on so hard for so long.
Saturday night we had even more people in the house (we had to add tables) and felt more comfortable with the shows and got to play around with them while performing. It was a lot of fun to play around with each other while on stage... it's good to be at that point in a show.

Sunday was a little rougher. We didn't get a crowd for our 2pm Kids show Sometimes Toilet Water - so the cast used our time wisely and went out to flyer the Alberta neighborhood to let people know about our shows and theater.
And Pop! had another small crowd, but they were into it - and the cast got through 29 of the 30 scenes. Thanks to all our audiences and everyone's hard work getting this theater up and running. We hope we'll be able to be around for a long, long time!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Grand Opening Weekend!

We have spent this week putting finishing touches on everything around the space to prepare for our GRAND OPENING TONIGHT!
We even got two of these installed:
The place is really shaping up nicely.

Even Arlo has been practicing his one-dog show!

Line up this weekend:
Friday / Saturday 7:30 - sketch show - Will Work For Change
Friday / Saturday 9:30 - improvised musical - Sam Adams, Sam Adams: Mayor Ex Machina
Sunday 2:00 pm - kids show - Sometimes Toilet Water
Sunday 7:30 pm - Pop! - 30 plays in 60 minutes!

On Saturday, between the shows (from 9 to 9:30 pm) the Portland Cello Project will be playing. Be sure to come out this weekend!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Our First Review!

Already out from our soft opening, we've got a review and a "Just GO!" rating:
Just Out online magazine

Keep the reviews coming!

Hard to believe

Three months ago

Last month

Over this weekend

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Are you ready?



view from the tech booth.

Thanks to everyone who came out to our "soft opening". We're 93% There right now, so we've got 7% to finish for our grand opening next weekend! Maybe we can get some sleep after that???

Friday, October 3, 2008

The Stage!

The curtain rod / pole has been build (thanks Tom!) and the stage curtains have been hung (thanks Jeffrey & Kathryn!). Today is the day we open our doors to the public.
There is still a little work to be done, but hopefully we'll get it 100% completed by our GRAND OPENING next weekend.
We got lights! (thanks Chris and Seth!)
It's both incredible and a relief to finally come to our (soft) opening day.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Window Curtains

Tom had to design a different kind of rod to hang our curtains. It works great and looks pretty darn amazing, too.

We also finished the floor (seems like I keep saying that)
But, we don't know what type of entry-way door plastic cap thing we're going to be using, so we had to keep it this way Looks good, right?

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