Theatre Careers

Being a Theatre technician would be a job I would actually like to do. I have really enjoyed working on sets and sound and lights for this play and its the first time I have ever done this. Doing that for a living would be fun. To pursue a career in theatre tech. I would probably have to go to technical school to learn about sound and lighting which would also be fun and interesting and now this career is one I'm actually considering learning about and pursuing.

RENT

I liked Rent which surprised me I really didn't think I was going to like it. It was definitely a pivotal production because of all the elements that were put into production to make the play turn out the way it did. It had a lot of things that surprised me that i didn't think it would have like lesbians and a drag queen which definitely made it an out of the box play and I think one of the reasons I liked it is because it wasn't what I had expected. I had really expected some kind of cheesy play about people living together and how they had to pay rent but I was wrong and I really enjoyed it.

HIstory of Rent

I was interested to find out that the play RENT has parts based off of the lives of the people that wrote it and created it. It seems like it's a very pivotal musical play because of everything that went into it like the new music, the director, and producer. With out this play many directors might not have started looking more to musical plays instead of normal nothing but acting plays. This play was also a major success it won many awards and has made probably millions of dollars. I think this is a very pivotal Broadway Production.

Make up in Theatre

In a play like the Lion King make-up is extremely important to make the characters more animal like and to give them more of an animal color. If they had not used make up for the Lion King it would be very difficult to tell which characters where which. For our play make-up will be important to make our actors more Asian looking since Fa Mulan is a Chinese story. Also, both make-up and costumes allow girls to play boys and boys to play girls. Make-up is important because it can make someone look completely different than they do in real life. If make-up wasn't a part of theatre some characters in different plays wouldn't be very believable to an audience.

Elements of Theatre

All of the elements of theatre I have noticed allow the theatre to work properly and a performance to go smoothly. Lighting for example if the theatre wasn't lighted correctly the cast members might do something wrong or the audience might not see something important to the play. Also if a theatre didn't have proper sound nobody could hear each other and the audience would have no idea what was going on. Another thing is if there where no costumes or makeup and audience member wouldn't know one character from another which is why all elements of theatre are important.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan was okay it wasnt the best play I have ever seen. They definatly should have had someone else play Peter Pan because it was a grown man and it was creepy. I also think Tinkerbell should have been a real person instead of just a little light floating around on the wall behind everybody. Most of the story was completely different from the Disney movie which also made me not care for it. The technical part of it the zip line thing that was used to make the actors fly was cool there wasn't very much different lighting used it was mostly brightly lit. I liked STOMP much better.

Set Day

Well set day wasn't bad at all. Most of the things that we did I have done before helping my dad because hes a contracter and theres a lot of work like that. There are two things I am interested in learning more about and they are the sound board system and the rope system for the curtains and other stage props. The technology part of the theatre i think will help make it a better show and add to the design and make it original in some ways.