Many of you might be thinking, so what’s so special about tech week, its just rehearsal at Camplex. All that changes is we go to a new building, so why all the fuss. Well my dear reader, let me fill you in. First, rehearsal is all about you. Where you go, what you do, what you say, how your character feels, in other words its when you learn what you are supposed to do. While the bulk of the time is spent preparing you because the show will live or die depending on you knowing your job. During tech week we add….
This to the stage
Plus
You’ll wear something like this
plus
You might put one of these on
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Your face will be covered in this
Or
Your face will have this
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Lights, props, set pieces flying in and out, and a slew of other things. Tech week really isn’t for you at all. Tech week is for Miles to set and run lights (we are talking 200 different light changes), Kari to work with her crew to move sets and props on and off stage, Brigette’s crew to do hair and make-up, Tyler to figure out sound, and for all the other element to meet you.
During tech week here is what you can expect. Ms.Hofer isn’t in charge any more (really). Miles is in charge, so if he tells you to do something, you do it immediately, no matter what. You can expect to spend time getting into costumes, running the show. There might be some serious hurry up and wait. In other words, you will be silent back stage for long stretches of time, but when we need you to be somewhere, put some hustle into it and get there.
This week it would be great if we can always have you like this
And less like this
(unless you are backstage and waiting, in which case chilling by yourself silently is awesome)
See we’d like to stay sane. If folks choose not to do as we’ve asked we’ll look like this all week
and no one like mean people, so help us out and we will all have a great tech week.
