Rehearsal stills - Gene and Jeanne

Here are some of the early still shots from rehearsals of "What a Glorious Feeling."

Pictured are actors Hilary Rushford and James Patterson portraying Jeanne Coyne and Gene Kelly as they rehearse a dance for the film "Singin' in the Rain."

"What a Glorious Feeling" is a coproduction with Adirondack Theatre Festival and sponsored by Glens Falls National Bank.

Local sponsors at the Depot are Normandie Beach Club and the Westport Marina/Shipstore.com

You can purchase tickets to the Depot Theatre production at depottheatre.org

Preset

The following is an exchange between our stage management crew. It is a lampoon of the complexity of the preshow setup and the set changes at intermission.

Our staff is funny and we love them...

Due to the enormity of this production I have felt it necessary to create a preliminary preshow check list for B- and her team- At the Depot we will have to enlist the help of Box office and local towns folk to accomplish everything in an efficient manor. When we are in Glens falls I expect B to distribute task out and at the depot we will allow a free for all.

B's Preset and intermission check list:

Preshow:

Please bounce on the trampoline at least 12 times to ensure that the springs are "giving" correctly.
Open trap door and jump in- please secure harness each attempt
Raise and lower elevator 2 times at both the slow and hyper speed
Load glitter drop, bubble, fog, hazer and rain machines.
Check thunder sheet- please be sure to yell "thunder rolling" before each check so not to alarm anyone or allow them to think it's really thunder.
Feed all live animals at least 2 hrs prior compensating for "digestion" time.
Please call both to and from the on stage telephone.
Load the flash pots just before house open- (not more than 15 minutes)
This is a good times to remember that when working with pyrotechnics in small (ity bitty) confined spaces a fire extinguisher should always been in the general vicinity- please comfort all local business each night before the show that we are highly aware of the ramifications of our actions but are trying this anyways.

Tune the piano

Put on each set of dance shoes and make sure they don’t slip on the deck.

Intermission

Open trap doors and take out the zamboni - a once over should do it.

Load the flame thrower and free tee-shirt launchers.

While the audiences is getting liquored up place a giveaway blow horn under each seat.

Don’t forget that the actors vodka intravenous drips should be loaded prior to the end of act 1.

Re tune the piano.

6 minutes and 43 seconds left to the top of Act 2- get Krista into the sleeping bag and place her(in the bag obviously) center stage. Make sure her head is the LAST thing you set down- wouldn’t want a repeat of what happened in rehearsal.- Can’t grow actress’ on trees!

Set out the new dive tanks for each actor (Hilary’s is the only one that goes SL other than Kenney’s)

Preset Flippers with tanks.

Post show is a little more complicated due to the mechanisms with the dancing water fountain so I will work on that and get it out as soon as possible.

If you see anything I missed please feel free to add it cause frankly B doesn’t have too much to do for this show.

Thanks,
S

S,
You forgot about my live 3D hologram preset and take down as well as the live feed video camera. I'm disappointed. I thought you were more detailed than that. I'm glad I got a chance to look over it.

Best,
B

Depot teams up with Adirondack Theatre Festival

GLENS FALLS -- The Adirondack Theatre Festival has seen cutbacks in state funding, but it's not skimping on productions this summer.

In fact, the first show out of the gate, "What a Glorious Feeling," will run for four weeks instead of the usual two.

The nonprofit is figuring out how to do more with less, thanks to a partnership with a Westport theater company. (That's us! - ed.)

Read the rest of the article in the Glens Falls Post-Star...

Tim Palkovic's Preliminary Drawings for 39 Steps

Here's a really great peek at the earliest sketches of our production of 39 Steps from designer Tim Palkovic. The action of play takes place all over England - in trains and hotels, in the country-side - all portrayed on one tiny stage with 4 actors, some brilliant props and an energetic crew.




These little guys might be part of a shadow-play scene.



... as well as these little dancers - though Tim tells us they are can-can girls and that he has to adjust where the dresses are so they are accurate. He's a stickler for details!