Errands

T shirt place--thread lane off Buckley Road

Laws: crown and paint and safety pins

2 lamps

Jells from Music Factory also clamp--light amber 136 and violet 151

checkbook

binders

Tasks for Rachel:

Let people in with yellow tickets; they keep tickets. Red mark across?

announce scenes in greenroom and backstage. refreshments available across the street.

Set up

1. clear out everything--move tables

2. move in bleachers and set up chairs

2. paper on windows

3. backdrop up

4. lights taped and tested

5. sound set up

6. warm up and speech

This is it. Thank you for your incredible effort. Your gift to me is a great performance of this great and challenging play. I take as a gift also the experience of working together so closely as a creative team.

What you have gotten out of your effort is different for everyone. But I know it’s all a return of what you put in. The pleasure and satisfaction has been dearly paid for with significant sacrifice.

There’s an interesting symbolism, among many, in the fact that two people quit smoking in the course of preparation for this performance. Learning those lines, getting into character, exposing your feelings on stage, mean taking on a challenge that puts the challenge of breaking a habit into proportion--a challenge that stretches you to your limits and teaches you about yourself.

But now its time to reap the payoff. Have a ball out there; make them laugh and make them cry.