Tech and Theatre Terminology

 All right. I'm Try this one more time. One more time and then I'm just zooming the fuck out. Yes. Third time's a charm. Right? Maybe slightly better. I should have brought my sunglasses. Yeah, I didn't bring mine cuz I was like, oh, I'm gonna go up just a little bit more. It's so close. . Okay. Just a little bit more perfectionist.

Yes. It's not that, it's not perfectionism. That's not the wrong perfectionist. I'm perfectionist. No, yeah, it's not Proudly claim it exactly there. It's not in a bad way in any way, shape or form. We're glad you are. This is going. Yes. Cause we don't do crap . We just come in and talk. Yeah. Y'all setting it all up.

You've got like all the research questions for today's podcast. Yeah. I be ready. Double check in. Record, record, record. Okay. These little things are so cute. Like they're, they are super cute. And that's the recording. Yep. If you look, there's like little bars on there. Oh, right, right. And they move as you talk.

Hold. Nice. Okay. Oh yes, I see. Where is your strap? You gotta put no strap on the glasses. I forgot her strap on. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. Glasses. Sorry, I forgot to edit that. . Oh man. Sorry. I'm so, so it begins, welcome to Drama Mamas. Yes. That was Kathy. That That was Kathy. Sorry. Angela. Very typical. Kathy was, and I'm Kristen.

Yes. You know, I think most people that know me would think that would be me. I know. And it is, yeah. Sometimes, but not, she's way worse than me. Yeah. She doesn't have. Yeah, it's . I don't have a filter, but mine's been working lately. Quick. We're just podcasting. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think I have to use my filter so much during the week that like Yeah, that's true.

It just gotta let, it's all built up in here. Yeah, I gotta let it go. Yeah.

So I follow Ryan Reynolds because he's hysterical and I love him. Yeah. And Hugh Jackman and whatever, I follow him. He did a whole thing on Chad g p t. Oh, it's, let, lemme tell you now. Yes. Yeah, yeah. He did all, I mean, I love that you and I was like, ah, I love that you're trying it out now. Yeah. You just have to get you to do it.

I need, I feel like really, really guilty about it feels so wrong to pretend something is my thoughts that it's not Well, it's still your thoughts. It is still your thoughts. Think about it like a tool because it still requires you. Right. It's a tool to help you be more efficient with your outlaying of thoughts.

Mm-hmm. right. That's kind of how I think about it. Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna have to ease into that. Yeah, I mean it's tech technology is like that, right? Mm-hmm. , I mean, you remember right when we were in school and you were told to go do research and you had to go to the card catalog in the library and pull out this, you know, I do remember 5 million encyclopedias and track down the answer and all of that.

And like using the internet, what existed of it back then was like cheating. But I had to do the work. Like, this just does not feel like any work. Well, there's still work that has to be done to it though, cuz like, grammatically speaking, it's not a finished product. Yeah, yeah. Grammatically speaking, it's pretty rough.

Mm-hmm. , I mean, you could probably get away with leaving it, but, you know. Okay. Let me try it this week and I'll tell you how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. So Ryan Reynolds used it. They were doing a mint mobile savings, I guess it was like a, like a commercial. Mm-hmm. . And so he gave it six different, um, things that he wanted to have in it.

Okay. Like certain keywords or it wanted, so he used it to like write a script sort of. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, um, and he did it with open ai, which is cji pg. Yep. Yep. And he was like, it was so compelling. It was so good. He just put in it his thoughts mm-hmm. and all it did was organize it. And it actually, I think what he was more, um, impressed by was the fact that it actually was intuitive enough to take, just by him saying four words, it created a whole thought as to what he wanted it to be.

And, and he completely agree with it. That's how he would've done it. But it was just so in when we're all done, I'm gonna play it for you. Okay. Okay. Because it's amazing. But I was like, oh my God. Brian's was talking about open ai. Well, here's the other thing that I really like about it. Um, it's a way for you to, it's a way for you to collect your thoughts.

Yeah. But it's also a way for you to further your creativity a little bit. Mm-hmm. , because it's like, using someone else as a sounding board almost. Right? Like everybody probably does that to some extent, I would think. I mean mm-hmm. , maybe it's just me. Yeah, I know. Like a brainstorm. Yeah. Like I run shit by other people all the time.

Mm-hmm. , just to see how, what comes out of that, you know, because everybody thinks just a little bit differently. Mm-hmm. , and this is like having one of those sounding boards for you that's, you know, highly intelligent. Mm-hmm. . Um, and, and like you can train it a little bit too. Like the more information that you give it in a single prompt, like a thread, um, the better your, you know, back and forth will be.

And, um, I, I was really, I. . Um, so Tommy is the director for Into the Woods at Theater Warner Haven. And he's apparently very techy guy. I'm, I'm getting to know him. Is it like all over? Yeah. Um, it's cuz I always sit like this. Maybe I just need him here. Let me move it. I'll move it to this side. I don't know your hair hair's gonna affect it or not.

Yeah, I know. Cause I keep going. Like, I always pull it around this way. Um, so he's apparently a really techy guy and I'm still getting to know him. So I, I'm learning this as I go. Um, helping stage manage there. And he used chat g p t as that sounding board to help him come up with this vision for how he wants to do into the woods.

Wow. And um, it's really like kind of the vision behind it may never really be picked up on by the audience, but it's to help with cohesiveness in the story and how our actors are, you know, kind of connecting to their roles. Mm-hmm. and the decisions that they will make as they move through the, the space.

Um, with their already predetermined script. Mm-hmm. , right. So it's set in kind of this, um, dilapidated library, which we've seen the pictures. Uh, and Laura showed us, like Nick had made the set designer, he had made like that, um, di diorama or whatever of it mm-hmm. and, um, you know, seeing that you're kind of like, oh, okay, yeah, this is a neat set, but it doesn't help you to connect to a, a broader story.

And so Tommy was kind of outlaying this story, and if this is, you know, off limits, I apologize in advance, but I think it's really neat to hear how technology in today's world, as we're, you know, progressing with AI and stuff, how that can be used for creatives and not, you know, taking away from that. Not adding too, yes.

Right. But it's enhance, it's replacing people. So instead of a creative team, now it's you and a computer. So I have concerns about maybe the middle man who's gonna lose their job because they're not needed anymore to write a script or Right. To, I don't know, whatever. That's part of my concern around it.

Yeah. I mean, I guess I could see that, but it helped him come up with kind of just a backstory. It's not crucial. Right? No. It's like a, I'm not saying that instance an added element. Mm-hmm. that, and he feted a lot of information and kind of what he wanted out of it, and it just gave the story. Mm-hmm. in a story format that he could then say, that's a cool, oh yeah, let me take this to everybody else that's involved in this production and make sure we're all on the same page about what this story is.

Mm-hmm. , because you know, that's important. . Yeah. Well, keep in mind I'm the same person that fought texting for years cuz I just thought it was rude. Like, you should pick up the phone and talk to somebody. And yet here we are. And now I am. I don't wanna talk on the phone, which I'm the only person I talk to.

I completely agree with Kathy. Kathy . Sorry, I'm still a phone talker. Yeah, you're, I drive a lot so it makes it hard. It's hard I, yeah. And get my thoughts and, and I drive alone in the car, so I'm like, I need that human interaction and so I gotta comma girl. Yeah. That's why we forgive you about it. How would a comma , it's, um, it's annoying.

It's not like our style. I know. Um, but yeah. So I'll come around. I Yeah, yeah. But on the vision, maybe on the vision, it's a little futuristic. Mm-hmm. as if some kind of major event. That was very catastrophic to the world as we knew it. Right. And, um, these people have come together to tell this story, but they are in this future world.

Wait, you're talking about Into the woods? Into the woods, yeah. That vision. Sorry. Yeah. So that, that's kind of the story of it. So, you know, you have That's cool. I didn't, you have a narrator that tells the end of the Woods story, you know, and, and he, and he's just kind of this, you know, tour guide almost through the story.

Mm-hmm. and Oh my God, you guys are gonna like, just drool over these costumes, Heather. Oh, I can't, who's putting everything together? She's just a genius. She always is. Oh gosh. Yes. But man, she's like peace piecing stuff together. Little red is gonna look badass. . Oh, that's cool. I like, yeah. I'm really excited for you guys to see her.

Um, like all of the, the regal type roles have kind of a theme. Mm-hmm. that ties them all together. And it's this mix of. Typical aristocracy outfits. Mm-hmm. , but also with like future, with like textures and prints and Mad Max meat. Thunderdomes . Well it's not like Spike's coming at, it's not like that. It's not quite like that.

It's just, I I mean it's like just on the edge of Yeah. Yeah. I gotcha. I gotcha. Super excited. Well, that opens in two weeks at theater Winter Haven. So get your tickets cuz it's a small review. It is. I think they have like, um, just shy of 200 seats in there. Okay. Um, and they just are installed. I don't know if I mentioned this to you.

So they're doing, oh, well, you know, because Laura ca uh, texted you about possibility of a child doing spots mm-hmm. . But, um, they added this, so the, the theater is kind of shaped, um, differently. Mm-hmm. , like usually it's a square and every, the stage is at one end of that square and the audience is kind of around Right.

Or. Semblance of that kind of layout. Um, this one is a little bit different than that, so it kind of comes to a point. And your sound booth is at the back of that point, um, where Laura and I will be, is in a different spot, kind of up high and off a wall. And, um, but there was no real place to put spots.

Mm-hmm. , the, the theater's not like the black box is simplified, right? So it doesn't have a fly system, and the lights are kind of, you know, they're, they're up there, they've got a bunch of them up there, but it's not quite the same as, uh, a main, main stage. Main stage. And there's definitely no place to put spots.

Right. Um, so we thought they totally are, you know, they, they're on it, they're so creative at theater Warner Haven, and they're just, you know, working their magic. And so they, they probably asked to do in that corner, above that booth, what they probably asked the computer how to do it. look, maybe, maybe, Hey, let me give you a design and you tell me where to put it.

Exactly. Um, I'll tell you. Yeah. Interrupting. So anyway, it's in the corner and they'll have like a ladder to get up to it, but, and it's got rails, but they've already got, um, kind of the, the flooring of that already is installed and you know, securely put on the wall and it's got rails and it's all like steel so, you know, very secure.

Secure, not going anywhere. Right. Like I feel good Mikayla's gonna go up there and do spots for one of 'em. Oh, that's awesome. Um, yeah, it's gonna be really cool. And she's excited cuz she gets to do a little bit of extra than just the spots. Oh, cool. To help some theater magic happen. So. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of magic in into the woods,

Oh gosh. Can't wait. And you get to do some magic. I know. I'm so excited. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. I know. Well then we saw Dream Girls last night at theater. Winter Haven. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. Yeah. It was a serious talent on that stage. Yeah, definitely. Wow. Some voices are just out of this world. Yeah. I, I love seeing all our friends too.

Mm-hmm. , I mean, there was a lot of new faces in the cast for, for me personally, but, um, I love seeing our friends shine, you know, Janiah in there and Cece and Ty, Sean. Yeah. Cassie. There was a ton of them in there. There really was. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that was a great show. That was. And Heather Clark, costume designer.

Oh my gosh. Holy scrap. How many costume changes do you think they had? I think they said the leads, the three girls had 11. Costume changes and they were beautiful. Oh yeah, they were gowns. I mean, they started off simple and it kind of progressed. What went on? Well, it was, it was like hair and gowns. Yes.

And jewelry. Yes. Or accessories and stuff like whole nine yards. Except for Cece on this, she hurt her ankle. Poor thing. . But I mean, I can't walk in those shoes either. Oh gosh. Especially with those like long gowns that go all the way to the floor. Yes. I heard there's actually trick to that, which, you know, I've never had occasion to have need of this.

But when you're walking in those really long gowns that like touch the floor mm-hmm. , especially when there, there's not a lot of room for stepping, um, you kind of kick a little bit. Yeah. And that kicks the fabric out of the way. Oh, okay. Yeah. On the Princess diaries, am I just making that up? ? Yeah. You kick it outta the way.

I make a long line, lot of stuff up since I've seen that one. But what is your debutante training? . Yeah. That was Did you do the Deb taught? What is that? No, they did not invite me to that. What is that fancy training that the kids go to? The cotillion. Cotillion. It's cotillion. I wonder. Yeah. Interesting.

Yeah. Maybe we all need a little That . A little refining. Yeah. Yeah, probably. I think I know like silverware when you're eating, like outside in, I think is how it goes outside to the inside. You do outside in, but then I get confused as the knife and the fork and the spoon. And I think it's a mental block because my grandmother, it always had to be perfect.

Yeah. Because. Since my childhood, I'm like, I'm not gonna make it perfect. I refuse to learn that now to this day. I can't spoon when I want to. That's right. I'm gonna put this for here. And this knife here. Mm-hmm. . Yep. It's like the salad floor. I think it's my inclination when I sit down at a table and it has stuff like that to like put move stuff.

like sit down. I'm like, this is, this is not gonna work for me. hate dinner at my house. I just put this overboard in the middle. Take a tea. Yeah, everybody probably easier. Yeah. Grab your drink and your fork and come on to the table. Yeah. So Dreamgirls has one more weekend. Yeah. And then Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starts at Lakeland Community Theater.

Yeah. Same time as well. Yeah. It's a lot. All our time over in You're, are you, do you know if you're helping with ties? I, yeah. I haven't like officially signed up, but I will certainly help Chris out. Absolutely. I, you know, leave Chris hanging. Yeah. I wouldn't do that. And that would be he speaking to him?

Yeah. How's he do it? So I drove him to the airport, um, so he could fly up to Kalamazoo, Michigan. I'm, you don't like fly Exactly. To Kalamazoo, but he flew up there. Yeah. Cause that's where the car is. Mm-hmm. . Um, kind of an interesting thing is that car you rent it through mti. Oh really? Yeah. It's like, or it's tied to that somehow.

Oh, wow. Yeah. So it's like their car. So when you usually see the, the chi carty chitty bang bang car is the car's name Chi chitty bang bang. Or is it Chitty Chitty and bang bang's the sound. It makes like I need to . So the, the family, the Mr. Potts, if you watch the movie mm-hmm. , it's been a while. He, it's all in the song and that's what he names the car.

Okay. Because of the noises that it makes when it drives. Okay. They're like, listen, it's like chitty and then it like bang, bang cuz you know, the muffler whatever goes off in the back. Okay. So he is like, oh. So it is, so that's where the song came from. It's what you said The second thing. Okay. And they're like, Chi Chitty.

Yeah. Well we had a chitty chitty bang bang way back when we were super poor and you know, you're driving the car that's 30 years old, and it would honk every time you turned left. . We called it Chitty chitty. Bang. Bang. There you go. Cause you's funny. Tell when someone was coming home and you honk, honk, honk, down the street.

Oh, it wasn't like one honk it just No, no, it kept going until you're done turning left. That's fucking awesome. My God. That is . I don't even know how that happened, but Yep. Little Honda cr That's why it's time for you to, to trade this one for that. Right? I know. Now my car's honking like Jordan's list.

Yeah. We went to get out of it today and like the whole alarm system was going off and I couldn't shut it off. I told her meant it's a sign. Get rid of it. Get rid of it, trade it in. I can't, I just bought a bunch of Broadway tickets. Oh. Pay those off know, right. Goodness. Yeah. Our trip in New, when we go to in March to New York is gonna be awesome.

Mm-hmm. , we're gonna have a lot of stuff to do. Um, we are definitely secured, we double checked, um, with our one special guest. Yeah. So we are, we're good there. Um, I don't wanna reveal who it is yet. Mm-hmm. , so, you know, we'll keep it under our hat. Yeah. But, um, you all know. And then, um, I'm hoping that Chris can get us another one that's up there.

Mm-hmm. . Um, he's trying to work it out with the timing and stuff, so like Oh my gosh, how exciting. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we're testing out these new microphones. We tested that last week, but now we wanna test them out in an outdoor setting. Yeah. Cuz like, you know, New York is a little bit louder than it is around here.

We don't wanna carry those big giant. I'd like to not microphones. No. Because they'd have to go and carry on and they're heavy. Yeah. That would be a lot. Like every time I have to move Chris's bag around the house that has all the mics in it, , like, you have to do it very carefully cuz it's not a bag that was meant for Mikes mm-hmm.

So they're all just kind of in there clinking around. So I just move them carefully, but it's like 50 pounds Yeah. To move all of that because then there's all the stands and stuff. Mm-hmm. And you know, I don't wanna have to carry a bunch of stuff. Mm-hmm. And we're not doing lighting. Mm-hmm. , I'm not bringing lighting.

No. Yeah, no. We like that be what it is. Yeah. It's just gonna be like natural. Slimmed down. Mm-hmm. set up like this. Mm-hmm. , um, That'll be good Drama. Mama's Light. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Not a quickie, but light. Oh, no, no, no. Hey, I didn't even say that. That was all you, that was the thing she said earlier today, . That was very taboo.

I forget already. It's not Revisit that. No, really to, I was having a, oh goodness. An inappropriate moment. Oh wait, so we, I interrupted you again, Chris, the car. Oh yeah, yeah. The cost out before I give you your property, please. Um, yeah, cuz we need to not forget that we're doing that today. Yeah, yeah. Because we could talk for hours.

I know. We can, we can. So, um, so yeah, he flew up there and he got like this, um, budget, maybe rental car truck thingy that's dock height. And they loaded the, he went to the place where the car is and they loaded the car in. It has an inch of clearance. So it had to, like, they have a whole maneuver with forklifts and stuff that they do to get the car from one thing to another.

So you mean clearance from the ground? Not the sides of the truck. Yeah. Okay. Clearance from the ground. So like, you can't, like, so they literally bump, go up a ramp. Yeah, no speed bumps and that Wow. That kind of thing. The underside of the car looks kind of interesting from like some of the videos and stuff cuz he videoed it mm-hmm.

and so we'll be able to share that. Mm-hmm. , um, I don't know if that'll go into this podcast necessarily and maybe it'll be a social media thing, but he did, I told him very distinctly, like he had to log, he had instructions, like he needed to record some shit Yeah. That we could share. Yeah. So, um, so we did, um, I don't know how good it is, but We'll, we'll, we'll run with it either way.

Yeah. And um, but the underside of the car, like the wheels of the actual wheels of the car don't touch the ground. Mm-hmm. , they're like up, maybe that's the inch of clearance, I don't know. Mm-hmm. . Um, but the whole underside of the car, it's not like a functional car. It's not a car. Car. It looks like a car.

Car sort of like you, you know, it looks the way shitty ought to look. Right, right, right. Yeah. But the underside of it is this whole rig because the car has to fly, it has to have some magic to it. Yeah. Um, it's remote control car. . Like know that's so cool. Stuff that's cool all underneath it. And then you get a big remote.

Um, I think Chris sent us the video of that already, the remote being used and stuff, so that was kind of neat. Mm-hmm. , I, I don't know if it has wings. I I would assume it does it, you know, it should just, they it slide. Yeah. Yeah. Like red, well, has a, should come out from the side in the pictures of like, you know, on the posters and stuff like that.

Mm-hmm. like everywhere you see there's like a front fan thingy. Mm-hmm. and then the Wings fan out. Mm-hmm. . So I don't know. Yeah. Because it does all sorts of stuff. Like in the movie it goes in the water when they see the pirate ship coming in and Yeah. Uh, it's pretty cool. I heard 26 locations, 26 locations for the theater adaptation.

Yeah. It's gonna be a big show guys. Yeah. Big show. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Should be interesting. Sorry, we won't be there to help cuz we're gonna be busy. Yeah, I know. I, you know, feeling a little abandoned, but that's okay. I can help the third take care of it. We'll, come on now. I'm gonna come and see the show on the third weekend.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Yeah, we'll be okay. I know that they're looking for texts to help out that, I don't know who's doing flies, but there are quite a few flies. Mm-hmm. , who said they're pretty much loading in 26 locations? All of them. Yeah. Yeah, all of them. Um, have you been in to see, are they, have they started loading in because they posted the picture on there, like page or whatever and it was still blank slate in there?

Yeah. Uh, I mean, they still have a lot of time before they need to have it loaded in, but yeah. Not a ton of time. Well, like this week, this week, a lot. Yeah, that's true. But I mean, it's still a lot of time in terms of theater home, right. So Yeah. They got seven days. There's a ton of time. That's plenty of time.

What you're complaining about that, I mean, the car's not even gonna be here until probably Tuesday. Right. So Chris said, uh, as of like an hour ago, he was in Kentucky. Mm-hmm. . So he is already pretty far. Okay. Making it down. He was the most concerned about like, you know, driving in snow and ice. Mm-hmm. , but he said yes with weather.

It's been great actually. Oh good. It was kind of bad before he got up there. . Um, and then it's supposed to start getting, it's, the weather's supposed to start deteriorating, deteriorating again. Okay. Um, as he's coming down, but he's coming more and more south, so hopefully he's just like on the edge of it, you know?

Right. Like they're coming down together chasing him. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, geez. I mean, and you know, it's a big ass thing. I know. He driving, it's like 26 foot Yeah. Dock height. It's like a large moving van. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's a big Yeah, that's a big deal. We have like a, a car carrier service, um, through a friend.

Mm-hmm. , like he does that for a living. And, um, so he's, him or his group will take it back for us, which is gonna be awesome. Yeah. That's, this is like what they do. They move like Jay Leno's cars and, um, they, this the guy, like our neighbor mm-hmm. , um, he did like gas monkey garage, who does Jay Leno all the time and mm-hmm.

Um, they had some, they have like all these big giant car. conventions, for lack of a word. Uh, better word. Like cuz they're not really shows. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . But there's a congregation of cars, so I'm going with convention . Um, but they, they do those all over the 50 states, or maybe they'll, at least the lower 48.

And so they, they truck cars. Mm-hmm. , you know, from all over the place to go to those. And there's actually one that's gonna be down in like Annamaria Island and then at the end of Chitty that ends. And so they're just grabbing Chitty on the way with everything else, which is gonna work out Perfect. Yeah.

Ah, that's great. Good. Yay. All right. Yeah. All right. I like it. You guys ready? Yes. All the catch ups are done. Question mark. I think so. I think so. That we can do on camera just saying. So . Well, these will probably bring up other things. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So we talked about last week how I keep coming across these terms that I pretend to know, but I don't really know or understand.

Right. What there's new things. I think we're in that same way. Yes. We give that, you know, smile and nod, like of course I know what you're saying, but I don't, so it's kind of been bugging me, like, if we're gonna do this, we have to actually at least be educated. Right? Yes. We're getting so educated along the way with our different guests.

Yes. So we can educate ourselves too. So, yes, I pulled out some words that I have struggled with mm-hmm. from the start. And I'm gonna see what you guys think about these words, . Okay. Let's bring it on. All right. Let's do it. Okay. Where are we? Uh, we're probably good. Okay. I said I wanted check the camera in an hour.

Yeah. Are we at an hour? Think so. We're not Okay. Where are we? Not an hour. Okay. So we won't get through all these. I'll save some, we can do like one episode, just, you know, refresh ourselves. Okay. Okay. I like it. Alright. What's an au I learned this one au from Jordan when we were doing Mr. Papa's. So it's a vocal thing?

No. Oh, okay. All right. So an au I'm gonna read it so I don't disclaimer. Wait, can I just say like, does it ever really feel like when you, when you, if we were just having a conversation, you're like, oh, an Naja knew. Like, I would be like, yeah, I know exactly what that is. Yeah. But then when you ask me what the definition don't, I feel like know, like, it's weird with words like that.

Yeah. It, it feel like you know it, but you don't know it. Right? Like, you know it in context, you know, enough to know it's sort of, well, that's the whole point of this is that's what I keep doing. It's like I know just enough. So it's a, it's it's referring to like a person. Yes. Like a okay. Mm-hmm. kind of like a prima ballerina type feel.

Right. So with musical theater, it's like a girl or a young woman who is innocent fe young female character who's wholesome. So like, think of. Like Sandy and Greece. Like she's the, so she's like this sweet. Until she's not. Until she's not, until she's, you know, so she's leather pants and see flowers.

Spoiler alert. . Sorry. You haven't seen that one? . But they've had plenty of fucking time. . Yeah, they have. Cause it's fucking grease. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Listen, I feel like once that there's been like a, a sequel, like you've had enough time to see the original. Yeah. And it totally had a sequel and it's a show and everything else.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. , I'm gonna do this one cause I'll make sure we get to this one. Okay. So an ingenu, I'm gonna go back to the bomb. Christine. Oh yeah, yeah. Not to be confused with the bomb. Yeah. B A u M is not it. B om v Om. Short for vomitorium. The vomit is, so what is that? In the theater? So those are the stairs?

Yes. Right. On either side. It's mm-hmm. . It's like an entryway in, yes. I don't know that it's necessarily, could be like a ramp stairs for example. They're not stairs at into the woods, but we're still calling them the vam. So it's like a ramp maybe. Oh. Or just a side entrance. An entrance. Yeah, it's just an entrance.

Okay. That's ahead. Does it have to be ahead of the wings, right? Mm-hmm. . So closer to the house? Yes. From Thein? Yeah. This, this way. . I looked down at the framing and I was like, it's all Kathy's hand. Oh, sorry. Hey, hey girl. My nails look nice, but that's good. So yeah, it's like an ex, an entrance way for actors.

But a lot of people I keep telling me, it's like where you run off and vomit. Have you heard that before, soory? I have. I like, maybe it's like in the early history of, you know, stage and theater, they get stage fright, but it's not. So here's where it came from. It came from Ancient Rome. Okay. When they built their magnificent things.

Of course, yes. So it comes from er, Uh, Latin means to spew forth, which makes sense. When you vomit, you spew . You spew. Yes. And when you put Oreo on the end of something, it turns it into a place. So what they did, they would have these huge structures like consider the coliseum. Yeah. And they would create these vomitorium, which were quick exit ways for the spectators.

So they could get 90,000 people out of a stadium or a whatever in like five minutes. Cause they looking at escape routes. Yeah, exactly. 60. Huh. So those were the vomitorium. So it's like an entrance way or an exit way. Okay. But originally it started out in spectators. It has nothing to do with vomit.

Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Very interesting. I know. All right. Good job. Yeah. Collos. Proscenium. Proscenium. So I think of that like the framing. Mm-hmm. of around the stage. Yes. Okay. It's like where the grand would come down, like whole, entire Exactly. Well, it's kind of in front of like the grand is behind that.

It's like the archway. It's that arch, the archway. Right. Gotcha. Right. Exactly. Um, . So the, this part in front of the proscenium, what is that called? So there's the grand, the proscenium arch, and then the in front of that, like the audience can see it when the grand's down that little area in front, like the little stage area.

Yes. So there's a area, then there's the bomb over here. Right. I know this word, but I You do, I don't, don't cheat. You're looking. I'm not, I'm not looking. . Um, fuck. I don't know. It's the apron. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. That makes sense. Sense, yeah. The apron of the stage. Does it? Come on? Yeah. , you knew this. You knew this.

Yeah. Cause Dan talked about it's a proscenium theater when he was talking about their main stage and like, I really need to understand that. So yeah, it's like the archway. Okay. And it separates the part of the, uh, stage that the audience gave. Oh geez. Okay. We lost that one. That's all right. We'll get it later.

I'll get it. I'll get it. Um, from behind the curtain. All right, Kathy, this one is just for you. Oh, crap. Okay. What is vamping? Vamping. I know this one. Vamping. I know this one because this is you music. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you say? Nothing. I don't wanna give away the answer, . That's what I was asking. I want you to think back to like, like you vamp it up, like, I mean that's, we can't just use the word in the definition, right?

Yeah. Like that defines it. Okay. So come on, you got this. Give you an example. They'll help you. And, um, I love you. You're perfect. Mm-hmm. . And you were changing, I think it was Adriana, for the wedding scene. Yeah. And you're like, oh, we got plenty of time. The music's still going. Yeah, they were actually vamping.

Oh, because they were covering, correct. Yes. They were waiting for me to finish up with that change, basically. Okay. When you're looking at the music, mm. There are often areas, um, kind of written in when they, when you get the music with these plays. Right. Okay. Or, or these musicals. And so you'll see like bars and bars and then at the end it's like a line, two dots and you can go back mm-hmm.

to a certain spot. Okay. And you can just play that as many times over as you need to and it will always sound seamless. Mm-hmm. and you can move on whenever somebody's done getting changed. Right. Got . Ok. Our definition is when they need to creatively stall for time. . . Okay. I love that. That's a good use over and over when a star has missed his or her entrance.

Okay. They were vamping. When you're getting that wedding dress on that red privateness amazing situation. Yes. Okay. I threw in an easy one. What's the fourth wall? Um, it's like, that's like the breaking Yeah. It's break. The illusion. Mm-hmm. of your world when you're acting and, and speaking directly to an audience.

Right. To the audience. Right. So last night, Cece had to break the fourth wall. Yes, she did. It was fucking hilarious. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So here she is, she's totally injured. Her ankle's a hot mess, and she's on this Rollie chair and she's trying to pull herself in on the chair. Well, she got those, those character shoes on you, , because that was the only shoes she was gonna get on her feet.

Right. Um, with her ankle wrapped up like it was, and I remember this from my love, you're perfect. Mm-hmm. , because they had put her in those character shoes initially for, um, the Highway of Love songs. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. And they were, they, she couldn't like scoot, so they had to like swap her character shoe out.

Mm-hmm. , you know, it was still like early in the process and swap her out, make sure she was not wearing character shoes. Yeah. For that scene it had to be sneakers. Yeah. She had no, she didn't push herself. She was trying to pull herself and she, you see her and she's like, She's starting to snicker her.

Yeah. And then she like completely lost it. Somebody had to just come on and push her up to where she was supposed to be. That was pretty. And she, her angles into she can't stand on it. Yeah. I mean, what an amazing trooper to, and I feel like she even went to go try, like she went to go, she was go up on that right angle.

Yeah. And she was like, Nope. Not doing it. Yeah. So she lost it. She started cracking up and she kept looking at the audience going Just a minute. Just a minute. Which was fantastic. Like it made the play for me cuz it was so genuine. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, well that's my favorite it off when we watch like snl Yes.

When they're, they're trying, they're trying to break each other and then it happens. It's still hilarious to me. And then it's totally what happened Cuz because Ty, her counterpart on the stage, she lost plan. Effy. Yeah. Oh, it was so funny. Yeah, it was hilarious. She was like, they were both like, okay. No.

Nope. Don't doubt it. , . I tried just a few times You. Compose, compose, compose. Yeah. And then if they would make eye contact again, and then it'd be like, John, I know. No. Can't do it anymore. You can't look at somebody. You get the giggles. Oh, forget. I know. Yeah. You can't, you know. Yeah, I know, I know. We'll have to tell that story.

One yes. Which Angela gets going. Forget about it. But I, it was, the audience was so gracious, like they totally got that she was injured, that she really shouldn't have been on the stage. And that's what Dan was even say, embraced her. I love that he came out and kind of gave that context. Mm-hmm. for act two.

Mm-hmm. , um, you know, cuz it looked painful. Mm-hmm. , I can tell by the end of act one she was hobbling. Yeah. Yeah. Feel, feel bad for her. But she didn't want to call the show. Mm-hmm. , she wanted to be out there and finish it up, you know? Yeah. . Well, and I wanted to do a shout out to the rest of the cast who were just a bunch of smart actors.

We keep hearing this smart actor lay Yes. Figure it out when they have to on the spot. Yes. Yes. And they did. They all had to just, yeah. Cuz stuff happens. That's live theater, like shit. Mm-hmm. breaks and, you know. Yeah. And they just picked up the pieces and you would toss on the stage on accidentally, you know, or whatever.

And then you get out there and they pick it up or they fix whatever. Yeah. You know, their mic pack falls out the back. How many times we've seen that with the kids, especially with the kids time. It's like, oh, you're, you're sitting in the wings watching 'em and. Just grab it, just shove it in your pocket.

It's fine. Just shove it in your, shove it in your pocket. . It'll be okay. It's like flapping around. Yeah. You just see it like dangling back there and they're trying to dance. It's like, just hold it in your hand, . It'll be all right. Yeah. There's, um, the one guy, you could tell he was like, kind of froggy.

Mm-hmm. , he's like coughing a whole body. Oh yeah. Somebody was, oh yeah, it ka he goes, Peter goes, he's trying to call for some water. Like, you can tell he was, he was like, . So he goes, he sits down when he's done with his little part of the song, you know, before Cece sings again. Mm-hmm. . I know. He just casually like he's having endless sip of drink.

Yeah. I mean, and it was appropriate. They were at a table, they were at like a nightclub or whatever it was. Yeah. So, well, I asked Cassy after the show, I'm like, did you know you're gonna be doing all this? Like, pushing Cece around and bringing up drink? She's like putting her on a table with the matching fabric and just rolling her ass out onto the stage wherever.

Yep. Yeah, that was great. Hilarious. And I loved it. I loved every minute of it. And only Cece could make like dancing. She's totally perfect. So yeah. So elegant. Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. She's got moves. Yeah. . All right. What's a run through? A run through? That's where they try to do it from start to finish. Mm-hmm.

And even if there's little hiccups or whatever, you just keep going. Ding, ding, ding. Good job. Yes. We're doing a designer run through today. Okay. Is our first time running it through from start to finish. So what does that mean with the designer? Is that not on your list? No. Oh, because I've known, this was the first time I've heard this one.

Yeah. Yeah. It was for me too. Actually. When I saw it on the schedule, I was like, what the fuck is a designer run ? And Laura told me it's for the lighting designer, the sound designer, to come and watch the show ahead of time. Okay. We do them. We've just never called them that name. Okay. You know? Okay. When like the lighting guys come in and they record it so that they can do the, you know, they'll have a recording of that run through.

Mm-hmm. And they can use that for reference as they're doing their lighting design. So I don't know if they're recording or not recording today, however, but they are coming to come and see it today. Okay. So you're just gonna start Cool to finish? Yeah. Stuff like, we have some stuff we have to finish before we can actually start that run through mm-hmm.

But yeah, we're there from two until six today and the first hour is, uh, allocated to finishing a couple of, like, we have some stuff we have to change. That's pretty significance. So we've gotta get that done. Okay. Okay. Um, towards the end of the show and then once that is, um, re choreographed, then we'll start the run.

Okay. Yeah. So that'll be, it'll be interesting. Yeah, it will. Yeah. Well, dry Tech is Saturday. I know, but that's lots of time as I stay, right, right. Yes. And theater world, you know, it is lots of hours. All right. Cue to q this. I always hear Jackie when she's calling a show. Jackie, we love you. Um, yes. Talking about the cue to Q Now I always nod my head like, of course, that's what we're doing.

Yeah. Never quite understood it. So, um, My understanding. All right, I'm gonna answer these questions all WEAs easily, but my, because listen, Laura, don't listen, don't feel to us. I know. Cause I should feel fucking confident about these things, but like I never do. She gave bunch crap about the costume , which I still think is a good idea anyway.

Yeah, yeah. I love that. Totally. It gets hype. I dunno why they do that's so excited for the show, you know? Yeah. It's like advertising for the show should definitely let them wander through the school and costumes. I don't, don't see a problem with it. Little sneak peek. Okay, so cue to Q. So I assume that's light cue to late cue, but it's probably not.

It's probably all of the cues. Um, so mm-hmm. , you have cues for flies, you have cues for dak, you have cues for, uh, lighting, you have cues for, did I say sound? I already forgot. Um, . No, no, no. You're hid, right? Lighting deck sound. So they're gonna walk through those cues once they're already in place. Right now we have no cues in our current status of chitty and into the woods, um, until dry tech.

Mm-hmm. and wet tech. between the two of them when we'll have all the cues, most likely. And then you can do cue to Q type runs. Yeah. So there's no actors. There's like all that's out of the way. So lighting and sounds. Everybody can make sure everything's, it's all about tech, right? Yes. Which in dry tech, like sometimes will stand in to make sure the spots in the right place.

We have a few videos of us standing. Yes. Yes. . That's, and we'll do spot from here. We're gonna come over here.

Always fun. Yeah. It's a good time. Easy. Let's skip though. Costume easy shows up again, front of house. Well, I didn't know what this was initially. I mean, way back. I know obviously now, like when, when they call for volunteers to volunteer front of house. Oh, what is the front of house? It's um, Basically where all the people are.

Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. , you know, coming in patrons. Yeah. All the patrons. All the customers. Mm-hmm. to come and see the shows. Anything that's out there with them. Yeah. So it's part of the theater, the audience has access to. So anything basically from the Grand Forward would be considered front of the house. Like in a restaurant, like front of the house is where you sit.

Mm-hmm. , you eat. Mm-hmm. in the back of the house is like the kitchen back. Okay. That's how I always kinda Okay. What is a black box theater? Well, we just have a couple of those coming up now. It's, it's like a slimed down version of the theater. So like Harrison's black box was, uh, a black room as it turns out.

I don't know if they're always black. Yeah. It says they're typically painted black. Okay. Like I know the one at Winterhaven is black as well. Yeah. I thought that was interesting. Painted Black, which gives the appearance of any. Yes. So it doesn't tie your imagination into one thing. You can make anything you want in your imagination, kind of ambiguous.

Right. Which, and then you can do whatever is really appropriate for a lot of the ways that you see those shows in there. Like when we saw little women Yeah. Women, it was very slim down, very minimalistic. Yes. Mm-hmm. , it forces you to use your imagination, which I really love. I love that audience participant.

You know, like you're getting to, you're getting pulled in. Yeah. Yes. And you have to imagine what the rest of that house looked like. It's like reading a book almost. Yes, it is. It's like, don't tell me what color those walls. Right. like I want, they're, maybe they're floral. I'm reading. Um, it's kind of funny because like the initial vision for the, into the wood set, um, was like extremely elaborate, especially given that this was a black box show.

And it's been slowly like slimmed down to be more in line with that kind of mm-hmm. , you know, simple vision. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's basically a performance space with four walls, usually painted black, limited props. So it really just, the audience kind of, Uses their imagination and fills in the gaps.

Okay. So that's kind of the purpose of it. Yeah. Cool. I love it not to like tell you what it is and what it looks like and how it should be, but to let you create, figure it out for yourself. Yep. I like that. What's an on track? And I'm gonna spell it for you. Okay. Because I always thought it was English.

It's not. It says it's e n T r apostrophe a c t E. It's a French word, so it's um, no idea. It's, it's music compilation basically ahead of the show is between, so it's beginning the second act. Okay. Is least, or Crestrol music played as an intermission. As intermission ends and the second act is about to be Oh, right.

Cuz at the top of the show it's an overture. Right. Exactly. Overture. Mm-hmm. . Yes. We have a, we are our firmly in ladybug season that way. Oh. Oh, that, that's supposed to be um, not ladybug. Not ladybug. I love bug. Love bug. Was that a love bug? Yeah, it was a love bug. Oh great. I was gonna say lady bug for good luck.

No, no, but I don't need a love. Which Florida, not that. Yeah. This is the typical stupid Florida season. That's early. Cuz they're not supposed to be here till May. That is early. I feel like we had two of them last year. Two little season. We always have one in October and the one in May. Oh, that's what was okay.

Remember the year, like it's when I just got in my car, so it was like three years ago. It was horrible. Oh, like you couldn't see outta your windshield. Yeah. Bad. I mean it's sad like that every year. Yeah. Anyway, it's started. That's what that was. It just flew February For Cris sake. I know you just had cold weather.

The fact that they're still alive, like they need I jerks. It's what their purpose is. Cockroaches, somebody will probably chime in and be like, they're important to the ecosystem. I'm sure they are. They don't feel like it. Let's talk about mosquitoes. Like what do mosquitoes do? They're just vectors. They spread disease , like what do they bring to our national habitat?

I'll research it and let you know. Next. Can we because I have like a vengeance against Yeah. The mosquitos. We are, we are way squirreling right now. Yeah, we're okay. Back and check. I thought of this one because of last night. What's a dresser? I'm not talking about the furniture piece, obviously. Oh, I trust her.

Like someone who does the quick changes. Right, right. So they're like, last night Cece had a dedicated dresser. So she had Kira, which I didn't realize she was back there. Um, and her job was just to get Cece from one costume to the next, which is a big I god bless her. That had to be a huge, especially when they have to do like triple, because they had somebody where they were just layers coming on.

Yes. Uh, while they're on stage. Yeah. So, you know, she had to have like three, like, okay, you gotta put this one first, then you gotta do that one. I ain't gotta do the next one. Yeah. And so like on Broadway, the dresser is often also in char, at least what I read. Disclaimer. Yeah. Not everything you read on the internet is true.

What what you're dropping a bomb to you

So the dresser, they, um, are kind of in charge too. Like there's little repairs and things that need to be fixed or part of that. Okay. So they can be a little seamstress as well? Yeah. No minor repairs stuff. Yeah. Not like the big stuff. Okay. So they kind of look after the costume, but they're dedicated to just dressing the person.

Okay. Hey, and I really loved too, last night when they came out for bows that the Tech Creek came out. Yes. Yes. That was awesome. Yes. That was very PJ product. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how we saw her up there. I know. That was very cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The psych. What is the psych? Oh, so that's the, well, for us, I guess not spelled P S Y C and not spelled s i K E is I thought

It's y, right? S y Its cyc. Yc, yeah. Okay. I, I, another thing I was corrected on, I'm like, you know, learning how to write all this blocking and stuff and it like, you know, , whenever I had to write that, I was writing, uh, yeah, it was when I was writing blight blocking and I'm like, towards psych, you know, or whatever.

And I was psy and another one where I, it was probably Laura leans over and was like, what is that? What are you writing? Yeah. Just another thing I'm doing wrong. Well, that's, we're learning as we go. It's like, like a, like a cycle? Well, the, the, it, it stands for cyma. Okay. Cyclorama. Okay. Which I was like, why is, is it called that white curtain all the way in the back?

Yes. Right. So it's supposed to, like, they can change colors, but it's supposed to kind of be the sky. Okay. Um, and it's usually front lit, so they're usually some lights right there down there. like in, uh, lc t's theater, at least, uh, I haven't looked at what it looks like at Winterhaven. Mm-hmm. , to be honest with you, I just didn't think to look.

But, um, because we are often back there as techs doing stuff. . Yes. We bump those lights. There's a ground row of lights. Yes. And then there's lighting up tops. Mm-hmm. So you get lighting from both mm-hmm. and you can change the colors and do like two tone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's great on the lights until a kid like kicks it Right.

Or something. . Or an adult. Or an adult . That's true. You're like, well how, what happened to those lights? Oh gosh. Yeah. Remember the, um, when you were bumble and you were trying to hide behind the, the back? Yes. Ground row. I had to be really careful Yeah. Of the set the ground rows that back row of the set.

And uh, you could, because the lights were up against the ground row. Mm-hmm. , when you walked back there with bumble, you casted a shadow. Right. All the way up the psych. Yeah. And we were trying to get out as far as we could for our entrance. Yeah. Because it's hard to move that guy back there. Like bring the Yeah, the prop, the, the puppet up the eight foot puppet.

Yeah. Out of, out of the mountains. Yeah. In the back. But I couldn't, and then back in , but if I went too far, then I cast a shadow. So there was a very fine line is a fine. Yeah. Yeah. Balance. Very fine line. Balance. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. All right. Let's see what's next. Oh, this one I, we did the Rudolph, right? That was in front of the psych there.

Mm-hmm. . Yes. The Rebecca down. This one cracked me up. Okay. We know what gaff tape is, right? Yeah. Special. Lovely black tape that is like duct tape, but doesn't leave a residue. Yeah. And it's like, like photographers use it too. Oh. It's like a cloth tape. So duct tape is, I don't know what you would consider duct tape.

Yeah. I don't know, but it's, but I thought this is it. Part of the definition said, used for temporarily securing almost anything. Yes, it is. It's like that, ain't that the truth? Yeah. But there's also a difference in quality with the gaff tape. Mm-hmm. , which I've learned because we thought we were helping and we bought, we were getting low on, on, on rolls of the, the, um, gaff tape in the back at Lakeland.

And I was like, okay, well we'll just order That shit's expensive. Yeah. It's first of all mm-hmm. . So like you get like a roll for like $36 Oh goodness. Off Amazon, where it's usually cheaper. Mm-hmm. . And then it arrived and it left residue behind. So it was actually shitty. Just not, but who knew? No, there's a certain brand I guess you gotta get Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. Some is better than others. Yeah. Well that's like the spike tape I bought once. It was, you couldn't get it off the stage. Oh really? It was bad. Yeah. So yeah, there is different qualities like in everything in life. . Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, we just bought that, um, highlight stuff, the glow in the dark or whatever that called.

The glow tape. Yeah, the glow tape. Yeah. I wonder, hopefully, I didn't know that there was a different quality in that. I'm sure there probably is too. With the glow tape. I mean, I haven't run up against that cuz they've always just had the glow tape back there. We just, you, we cut little bits of it and gloat tape the shit outta whatever we need.

We glo tape, we g tape every, we've gotta do that within, into the wood set too. Oh geez. There's like, there's stairs going up Oh yeah. In like three spots that need it. And then there's um, every stair on the entrances too. Cause we have like nine entrances in and off of that stage. Oh geez. Yeah. And they all gotta get glow tapes so that the cast can see.

Okay. Oh boy. Yeah. I'm getting more and more nervous the more I hear about this show, , like, oh yeah, you're gonna be the only one down there. There's a thousand props and quick changes maybe. Oh, that's tricky. You won't be down there. Right? I'm, I I feel it's a little undetermined at the moment. Laura loves to run her own her own lightboard.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, there's, she, if she needs to be more available to troubleshoot and call more things, then it makes more sense for her to have someone who runs the lightboard and mm-hmm. , she can focus on the calling part of that equation. Yeah. So you guys will figure it out. Yeah. We're, we're waiting to see.

We might not be by yourself. I might not. I'm hoping Kristen's down there with me. , there's, yeah, but it's a tight space. Like black boxes are little because who am I gonna look at and go? Now, now, now. Do I go now you'll have headset. I assume you'll have a headset. I would think so. You can be going now, now, now.

to myself. We'll see you because the, the orientation that like, you're gonna be behind the stage, kind of back here. Mm-hmm. . And we can see you. Okay. From our perch. You're gonna be laughing at me. Yeah. Probably you in your ready position. Yeah. Stretch for that show. . I wonder if I have any pictures of you in your ready position.

Oh my gosh. You have to get some. I know. I should put some, if I can find one, I'll put it in the, I'll demonstrate next week and you can take a picture. Okay. Yeah. So if not in this podcast, it'll definitely be in Definitely. Okay. Go slight. That's an easy one. That's for Francis. Yeah, it's for Francis. Mm-hmm.

the light left out on the stage for superstition purposes. Yeah. To keep friendly spirits and shoo away unfriendly spirits. So I do want us to do a, um, episode one time and just all the superstitions and the theater. Yes. Cause there they're quite a few. And just talk about this. That would be lots of fun.

Because there was, was it Oliver? No. Rudolph. Where you don't. , unless it's like the actual time to bow in a real show. Yes. So like, if you're practicing vows mm-hmm. , you're not supposed to bow mm-hmm. . And, um, one of the kids kept bowing and the other kids were getting really upset. Like, well, I think too, that's why bows are not typically staged until like right before you are ready to open.

Yeah. Because it's, it's like a last thing. Bad luck. It's bad luck. Yeah. Like the last thing. But it was, some of the kids were like, they don't understand. It's a, it's bad luck. You're cursing us. Yeah. So that'd be good to educate everybody on what, what? Oh yeah. There's so many of those though. Yeah, there are.

I think he gets violent about whistling in the theater. Oh yeah. That in the M word, the experience you're not supposed to play. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. The M play. Yeah. Yes. We don't say that M word. M word. Yes. Okay. Oh, this is saying if you're in it, if you're doing it doing actual play. Yeah. All right. What is noise is off the name of a play that was a musical or play.

Yes. However, I had no idea about this one. It's offstage sound effects, like thunder breaking glass. Crashing noise. Oh, that makes right noise. Those are noises off. Okay, so noise is off. It's like an actual thing. I just thought it was the title of that play. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I know. I wonder how, I haven't seen Seen that play.

No, I didn't need it. I wonder how it ties into it. Have to research that. I don't know. All right, let's do one more cuz these are kind of easy. Oh, this one's funny. What's a monitor? The backstage monitor like um, video. The video feed of what's happening out on the stage for the people backstage. So you know when what's happening out there without sitting in the wings.

That probably is a monitor, but the monitor I'm talking about is the big speakers that are right there. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like by the side. Yeah. So you can hear. Yeah. So I laugh at this one because there was one time I was on headset and Judah who was doing sound, who's the king of sound. Amazing. Yeah. Yes.

Yeah, he is. Was like, can you check the monitor for me? And I was like, . Sure. Did you go to back room ? Yeah. You totally went to the Green room video. like, yeah. I'm not sure that the actors can hear if it's loud enough. I'm like, okay. So to be clear, , where are you talking about? Are we talking about this big speaker on the ground?

He's like, yeah, that's the monitor . Holy man. To me, a monster. Probably like sweet Jesus. Where are we getting these? Falling camera? That one, that day. That is not the, there is a screen in the green room. Yes. So they can see. But when they talk about the monitors, those big giants blinkers. Right. The one that sometimes get on plugs that should be plugged in.

Yeah. Cause we went through like a whole weekend of shows and I was like, guys, is this supposed to be plugged in? That's really hard too, when you're out on the stage and you can't hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes it damn near impossible. Mm-hmm. This sing together. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. And with the music. And with the music together.

With each other. And with the music. Totally. Yeah. All right. That's all I'm gonna do for tonight or today. I will be back with more though. Okay. You know, every once in, so I'm gonna throw a term at you. What were the rest of them easy? Is that what you said? Yeah. , like loading in. That was something I learned.

Well, I don't know that everybody knows that. Okay, go ahead. What's loading in loading That's putting in the set, right? Yeah. So it's the process of putting in all the sets, the props, all of that before production. Mm-hmm. , which, and all the flies, right? Yeah. Which is difficult. And then do you have, strike the opposite of that.

I did not put strike on here. But that, go ahead. It's the opposite of that. It's like pulling everything out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And getting it all done. Props. Costumes and set all of it. All of it. That's a good one too, because they have, everybody in shitty has to be off book as of tomorrow. Oh, is it tomorrow?

Okay. Oh, is off book the next one? Mm-hmm. . Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I'm cheating. Don't, don't use, I know what's going on with that. Sorry, I cheater. I can't help it. I can't help myself next time. I know. Don't wanna turn that direction cause you a side profile, but like, I'm trying. Clearly you need to, clearly you need, I'll just do this.

It's like we're playing poker. Showing her your cards. I'm bleeding as my kids say. Do you ever heard, ever heard that one? No. No. Whenever like my cards are showing, they're like, mom, you're bleeding. I don't know if that's an actual track or, or something they heard at camp, but Yeah. Ing never heard about that.

No, I haven't heard that. And I play cards. Okay. So yeah. Off-book is off. Mm-hmm. , you know, getting the script outta your hand and you wanna do that as quickly as possible. Yeah. Because yeah, every moment that you're sitting there with a book in your hand, you're not actually acting, you're just reading lines.

You're not forcing yourself to and walking and you're blocking. Right. Like that's mm-hmm. , you gotta get into your role. You can't do that with a book in your hands. No, no. Gabby's out of Illinois this morning. Talking to her little British accent doing the whole thing. Nice. Nice. She's like, I got act one.

I'm down now. I have to do act two. That's amazing. For understudy. Well, and I think the challenge for that particular, any anybody doing an understudy role is that she hasn't, she doesn't have that muscle memory, right? Mm-hmm. because she hasn't been involved, so she's not doing that. Yes. Okay. Now you say this, and now I say that.

Mm-hmm. . So she's just like having to mm-hmm. to create all of this in her mind. Yeah. How it's gonna go. Well, and as we saw last night, that was understudy. I mean, Cece didn't have one. She just kept plowing through. But I, I think actually there is somebody who's planned to be an understudy. Yeah. Okay. But I don't know how much like Gabby has been for every rehearsal and done every blocking and run, every, you know, whatever.

Yeah. So, I don't know that it's always like that. . Mm-hmm. . I don't think in this instance it necessarily is like, they probably know most of it. Right. But they, I don't think they've been there for every single thing. They haven't used it. Yeah. Yeah. And Gabby has visually seen everything. Mm-hmm. . But like with dancing, she only got look once like, you know, she hasn't been like, yeah.

And same a block. She's just watching and she's taking notes. Mm-hmm. , you know, how was rolling? You know, it's funny because like, I don't think we ever pre Covid saw that with our local theaters. Mm-hmm. , right. And then post double casting. Yeah. The double casting thing as well. And then like we af post covid, it was, it's everywhere.

It's a thing. And I don't, so I'm, I'm curious if that was super common and just we just didn't experience it here. Right. Yeah. For always it kind of fell off at some, or if it's some point, if it's really kind of a covid thing, like, or Broadway. Right. I mean they always have that stuff on Broadway, but for sure Swing, they have a bunch of, I bet they have it more now.

Yeah. But yeah, somebody did actually said that at one of the workshops we went to, they were talking about. . There're being more swings or Okay. Larger cast because they need understudies and swings for that very reason, just to make sure. Well, and they, they do like covid testing every day or something up there.

Mm-hmm. still. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Well, I mean, cuz it can roll through your cast really quickly. Yeah. And then everybody's out in the, then what are you gonna do? Yeah. Even when you're under circuits are done. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay. This is actually the last one. This The scrim. Scrim. Oh, go for it. It's kind of like a, another curtain that they dropped.

Um, sort of see-through, yeah. Black. Yeah. It's so, I mean, if you're asking you for the purpose, not, it goes right in front of um, it doesn't go in front of the site. Correct. In front of the, it can really go anywhere in front. Anywhere. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, cuz like we used it, um, in Pinocchio, we used it. So is that the same as the blackout curtain?

Um, in Rudolph it is a different, it can be the blackout's, like you can't see behind it. Right. The scrim is more. So it's made of shark tooth scrim, which I meant to look up and then I got distracted. But it can be opaque, transparent, depending on the lighting. Okay. Yeah. So when it's lit from the front, it becomes opaque.

Okay. When it's lit from the back. So you remember Pan O Transparent? Mm-hmm. . And they had the whale scene? Yes. And they had the projector and Angela had to run up and go do the projector. Okay. Um, God , you remember that right? Yes. Cuz I got locked out a couple times. Yeah. , like I said, I'm locked out. I'm locked out.

Somebody come get me . It's not gonna make it. The projector's not gonna make it. Yeah, because you had to go out and around the house, Uhhuh and out through the, yeah. Front doors and stuff. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so in order to have a surface to project the whale onto, they did it onto, uh, scrim on the scrim. Okay.

I always feel as a tech uncomfortable behind a scrim because I don't trust that it's not being transparent at that moment. like, it's all about the lighting. So if the lights move in the front, it will be trans, uh, opaque, you know, you're fine. But I'm always like, are they doing it right? Yeah. Trust. Oh, they did.

I like that blackout too. I think. Didn't they Moana to help the ancestors look more ghostly? Oh, they probably did. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe So with, this is part of the theater magic actually. Oh, the magic. Yeah. Very cool. It's pretty cool. I like the blackout curtain because then I feel like we can, whatever we need, yes.

We can do whatever we need to do. I mean, within reason. Yeah. Yeah. Because you could still be heard. Yeah. Oh, we, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. But like, when you're like pushing on the noisiest, that pieces in history, like beauty damn beast, we, oh my gosh. So very loud. Pushing on guest on's, tavern, and. We were told we sounded like a herd of elephants, so we had to like tiptoe on with this Are serious.

Yes. Quick. Like, you know, you gotta go fast and you're, you're trying to haul ass with it. You got some mugs that are clinking and all those mugs in Rudolph. That one tree we had four trees. That tree that farted. Oh my god. Time tree scraped the ground every time and I appreciate that. Nine times 10 he it in Spike.

And I appreciated that we did that up for on purpose. I know you did. We're trying to be nice and I get it. Thank you . Well cause I'll be like, oh no, I'm sure I will come across many more things that I don't know and we can kind of throw a little Yeah. Well I'm looking forward to the episode we do that has all the superstitions.

Yeah. Cuz I know there's a bunch of those. I don't know, there's like 17, I think he got in the car the like, uh, maybe the end of last year's school year. Mm-hmm. . It was the beginning of this one actually. And she get, she got in the car and she was talking about that the play, the M play. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. The word you can't say.

Yeah. And I was like, and I said it. and she like lost her shit part. Oh yeah. She's very, you know, dialed into those superstitions and Yeah, she was like losing her shit. She, oh yeah. Cause I was in the middle of, I love you, you're perfect. And she's like, you're in a play right now. Like, you can't, don't say that.

Like, you're gonna curse it. Yeah, I'm gonna curse it. You're totally. And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. Why is second thing, this is not a thing. And she like pulled it up on Google and showed it to me. And then, oh yeah. And then when we got to the theater, Jordan was there and she was like, Jordan, you gotta tell her, you know,

Well my mom accidentally said it in class and. , Ms. Neff made her go outside, turn around three times and spit over her shoulder or something like that. Yeah. Sometimes weird. Erase the curse. Erasing. Yeah. Yeah. Voodoo magic thing. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. I, pinky was like, you gotta, so she did it for me and then she grabbed me and she like turned me around

I was like, what are you doing? Like, stop. Yeah. Yeah. Now that's a good one. And then we could do one like on etiquette too. Yes. You know, think is would be great. Yeah. Mm-hmm. , I like that. Like what to do when you're backstage versus, you know mm-hmm. clapping or cheering or whatever, you know, like certain things that we do.

Not giving other actors notes. Yes. Yeah. Yes. There's a lot of those. All right. So we got some good plans. We do. And plus we got some really good guests lined up. Yes, we do. We have a little bit of a period where we're gonna have some interesting. enabling to try and record I know. For the next couple of weeks cuz it's definitely gonna get really busy.

So if we miss a podcast week, we apologize in advance this because we're volunteering backstage. Yeah. This is how we get all the awesome material to, you know, exactly. Podcast about and talk about and squirrel over. Yeah. Um, . Exactly. So we'll have more stories and more stuff to share, but it may mean that we just don't have time to connect enough to podcast cuz we're doing two different shows.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. , if we were all doing one show, it'd be different. Mm-hmm. . . Mm-hmm. is, um, separated are our platforms set up. So like if other people wanna comment on, Hey, I know what this is, and they can put it, so they can definitely do that on social media. Okay. Perfect. Let's do that. Um, and I think that's probably the only place.

Okay. But, all right. But definitely, yeah. There's, you know, a gazillion people that know way more than we do, so we are welcoming input. We know that we're not the knowers. Yeah. Tell us, tell us all the things we should have covered and we'll do that in another follow up. Yeah. Tell us all the things we should have talked about.

Mm-hmm. that we didn't talk about that are probably things we get wrong all the time. Absolutely. You know, help educate us cuz it's like what we're here to do, get educated, but also spread that love, so. Yep. You know? Mm-hmm. help us percent help us out. Yep. All right. I like it. We'll see you guys next time.

Yep. Hopefully next week. But give us some grace if it's not Yes. Yes. Because we have wet tech and dry tech next weekend. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be busy, busy or two shows. It's not even like we're all gonna be in the same place. I know.