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Show Thursday, February 11. 1993 The Daily Utah Chronicle Page Twelve theater from page nine together in one group again. Next, the ensemble splits up to work individually. Within about a month, they send in some preliminary ideas. Morey said that he and the production manager, David Deike, look over the plans and sometimes have to edit them for cost efficiency. Ten weeks before the first rehearsal, roughly three and a half months before the opening of the show, preliminary designs for sets, costumes, etc. are due. They are then given final approval and remade into working drawings that is, a blueprint a carpenter can build from or a seamstress can sew from. At this same time, PTC begins casting locally for some of the parts in the show. Some of the parts are filled by resident the show opens, cast rehearsals Tenor" could run their tech rehearsals in ten hours company members, some are begin. a basement rehearse in filled in the initial stages of comfortably. However, he said They room of Pioneer Memorial that for "O, Pioneers," which planning. However, most are filled by private audition. The directors see 40 to 200 people over a two day period. They have one day of callbacks, and from there narrow people down to "some semblance of a cast," Morey said. After getting a general idea of the local cast members, they begin casting in New York City. They see at least 12 people per role they are casting for. These people are selected through casting agencies there. As soon as possible, sets are constructed. For example, Morey said the scene shop, after two days of work, is almost finished with the sets for "Lend Me a Tenor", which will not be opening for six weeks. Three and a half weeks before Theatre that is almost as large as the stage. The set is taped out on the floor. They work six days a week, eight hours a day for the next two and a half weeks. One week before the show opens, they move to the finished stage. The first day on the stage is a long one, Morey said, when they run the "tech rehearsal." "It's what the Actor's Equity Union calls a ,10 out of 12 We go from one in the afternoon to six at night, then we have a two hour break. Then we come back and go from eight to one in the morning," he said. Some plays like "Fences," "Private Lives" and "Lend Me a from page nine to have invented and dubbed a squeeze drum. Tapping one of Saturday February 13Sfr the ends with his finger he squeezes the drum and its tone shifts like a passing bottle rocket, much like the effect produced by the pedal of a timpani. A? jar Its easy to see that Johnson is a man who loves to tinker. The feeling is infectious it's nearly impossible to walk through his shop without stopping to play one of the instruments. percussive Soul PoundingBf intlllQrTt Uflhtlno, Visuals. DW lntn Houss and Techno. opened last night, they had to go an extra six hours the following day. The rest of the week is spent Johnson relates a story about Their problems, full rehearsals in front of an audience and, on Sunday, a day off. Then on Wednesday, the play opens. This is merely a basic outline of what is involved in the production of a play. For "O, Pioneers," it also involved the construction of three elevators and a slipstage (a section of the floor which moves across the changes. Because Argentina "O, Pioneers" is being performed for only the third time anywhere at PMT, so there Recognizing the universal appeal of drums Johnson teaches drum making classes. "Making a drum is something anyone can do," Johnson says, "Its impossible to make one wrong." For Johnson, drums are a way for everyone to become closer to their environment. Citing writer musician Mickey Heart he explains that, "the drum challenge, the masses of be have to represented, the cast is huge. It has the biggest orchestra PTC has used in years, Morey said. "In every single area, it's big. It's a spectacle." stage). for which he supplied many of the drums in the drum circle. "Some people just kept beating on them. ..It went on straight for like four of five hours and I finally had to take the drums so I could leave." biggest however, may be "Evita." "It's enormous," he said. "Elvita" is all music, a light rock opera without one spoken word. It uses film footage and slides, and it's always moving from location to location, requiring some difficult scene in dress rehearsals, fixing last year's "Day in the Park" drums were a lot of things in the script and the score that needed work, said Morey. The technical effects were intended to show that "everything comes out of the earth," and that presented a lot of other challenges. represents the heartbeat of the earth." Although Johnson seems to understand the mystical appeal of drums to others, for a person whose flyers advertise that he is a "shamaic counselor" he doesn't seem to be much of a mystic himself. "I'm not much of a philosopher" he says, "I just like to make drums and somehow they manage to sell." g classes begin Drum-makin- this Saturday and also on Saturday dates of March 6, 20 and 27. Johnson requests that those interested in taking the classes or just seeing his drums call first at 531-056- 5. d 2 2 F3 Canned by No Club Attitude No Artificial PpP1 No Discrimination O life pottofg rcaflly dkm dtoagp Full Hour OOOmln) Oh, man. 3:00 a.m., February 14th, and you wake up in a cold sweat realizing you fag0 agn. How could you forget about Valentine's Day? Do you need help with your financial aid forms, do you have questions about the programs you can qualified to? Well, we can't help you at 3 in the morning, but if you talk to us before February 1 1 th at noon, we'll guarantee your Valentine's message a spot in our special February 12th issue. Come to the Financial Aid Workshop given by the Financial Aid Office and sponsored by the Center for Ethnic Student Affairs. 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