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NOVEMBER 18-20
Cast and crew work to put all of the finishing touches on the show during a long, exhausting production week.
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SEPTEMBER 10 & 11
NOVEMBER 17
Students who wanted to be involved in the fall musical auditioned or interviewed with the directors.
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NOVEMBER 21-24
Students on crew sacrifice their PERFORMANCES! Students Sunday to make final adjustments finally get to share all of their and run challenging scene changes. hard work with an audience.
Working on Working When the fall musical was announced, the majority of students involved in theatre were confused. Working? I knew I had never heard of it before. However, after two months of rehearsals, I can say that it has definitely grown on me. Throughout the rehearsal process, the cast and the crew didn’t get to see much of each other. Everyone worked separately on their own pieces of the show, so that when we all finally came together, the production went as smoothly as possible. The different crews met once a week at the beginning of the show and taught the basics of their crew to their new members. Then,
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REHEARSALS
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Students who were accepted into the musical had their first meeting, where everyone went around in a circle and said their biggest hope and fear for the show.
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for the three weeks leading up to the show, they worked with the cast to run the show and then stayed even later to fine tune what they had already worked on. Crew also has tech Sunday, where they run through the parts of the show that are giving them trouble, like hard scene changes or songs with a lot of cues. Then they stay the week of the show until everything is finished. “There’s a few mental breakdowns through all of that,” junior Lights Crew Head Alexa Brown said. For the ensemble, rehearsals consisted mostly of learning and practicing the songs and dances, while featured cast members put in extra time to work on their
solo and/or monologue in order to perfect it. Because the show was based on real people’s stories and words, perfect lines were something that was heavily emphasized. “We are telling the stories of real people in their own words. We owe it to these professionals to get it right,” Director Don Wachowiak said. Getting the opportunity to tell a real person’s life story is amazing. Every night before I would go onstage to sing “It’s An Art”, I would think about how I had the ability to potentially impact someone in the audience because they related to the life my character lived. It was extremely rewarding.
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Senior Patrick Osinski (Mike Dillard, Iron Worker)
“Working is a very difficult musical compared to past shows. The whole cast size is about the same, but having 20+ people with solos and monologues makes the whole thing rough. My favorite part of the show is seeing everything, as well as everyone come together to form something beautiful. We’re all just a big family. Also, the smell of hairspray in north commons makes the show worth it.”
Junior Claire Jesionowski (Props Crew Head)
“Instead of a certain set of characters for the duration of the show, each scene is completely separate. One thing [the audience] will take away is the passion that each of the characters show and the differences in how each person perceives the world around them. My favorite part of the show are the memories I’ve made and all of the new friends I met.”
