All Kinds of Hot Dogs • 100% BEEF •NITRITE FREE *TOFU • CHICKEN • FOOTLONGS plus Home-Baked Roast Beef Sandwiches and... the Best (really!)... Potato Salad ft Coleslaw Swanky Frank School Band & Orchestra Specialist Band instruments Stnng Instruments Percussion Educational Accessories Toners & Metronomes ' Small J Instruments Comedy! Music! Drama! University Theatre 1992-93 Season Robinson Theatre EqUUS A mating drama Wings on Your Heels a o«gn*ri actventufe Roosters A Ulno lottdalo Box Office 346-4191 IN TOUCH with Performing Arts __ Scenes behind the scenes bring University Theatre alive □Sets costumes and lights take months of work The preparation for a Univer sity play at the Robinson 1 ne ater is nothing short of a Broadway production. Months before the opening night per formance, set designers, costume design ers and lighting technicians collaborate their plans at rehearsals and production meetings so that backdrops, costumes and lighting all coordinate. Deep in the basement of Villnrd, the costume sliop and stage design area come alive with sounds of sewing mac lanes and power saws echoing throughout the hall ways. A glance into the costume shop reveals several costume makers at work. Iron boards and sewing machines with character names like Frida, Cassiopia, Angelina, Salyria and Medusa, ore arranged as an efficient assembly line tor tlie makers. Boxes of buttons and an array of colored thread line the walls next to the old costumes. "Does this match, Sandy?" Sandy Bonds, faculty costume direc tor, answers the student with a nod of approval. Bonds oversees the manufac turing of costumes by graduate anil undergraduate students and those in work study. "The designer is responsible tor the entire visual outlook,” Bonds said. "It includes everything like hair, make-up, clothes, shoes, underwear everything that touches the actors " Ik aid said the design process hegins as s,k'n ns she knows rhe plays tor the sea son. “I start thinking out the designs in mv head and who ts going make what lx tore I even put the pencil to the paper," she said Presently, the nxim shows signs of the up-coming pnducrionot lufuus , l>y Peter Shatter. “This play is not as elaborate as a Shakespearean, so everything is run ning smoothly," Bonds said. Die costume makers completed the horse heads tor l\(uus two weeks ago. “We had to have them done because the actors must practice with them now in order to look completely natural with them on by owning night," IVmils said. Down the hall from the costume shop is the source of the hammering and drilling noises. The smell ot freshly cut timber lingers and the dust is thick. Evi ‘We collaborate to find the type of world we want to create for our audience. ’ -Sandy Bonds, {■acuity costume director deuce ot lufuus in-the-making appears on center stage. Graduate student Molly Eness is work • mg on the set design tor Shatter's play with assistance from graduate students and actors tultilling tine arts require ments. “To design a set, the crew asks the directors tor adjectives that desertbe the teeltng ot the play,” Eness said. “Some times we’ll hear ‘dull and drah’ and oth er times, ‘sparkly and vivacious.' I he crew designs with those words in mind.” In addition to the adjectives, Eness must design (>n the Verge , by Eric Over meyer, as a module set so that it dix's not inconvenience other performances. “We have plenty ot time to design the set," Eness said, “hut the there’s a dance recital a tew days Isefore and there’s talk ot running /roubles between them." "Not only do the costumes and set have to coordinate with each other bui the lighting during the production as well, “it is really important that every thing meshes together from an artistic to a logistic standpoint,” Janet Rose, tat ul tv technical director, said. “Nothing can compete. " Rose has never had a problem with completing the set before a show since her tirst year at the University. “ Fhe crew finished the set the day ot opening night. It was a celling piece that no one would have noticed, hut me." During the technical rehearsal. Rose will find any last minute changes it the lighting does not complement the scenes and costumes. About five students will learn to run tin- lighting and drop si ts by cues during a performance. When the last nail is pounded, tin- last stitch is sewn and the last light is plugged, the set designers, costume designers and lighting technicians are prepared to see their work come alive on stage. “We col lalxirate to find die type ot world we want to create tor our audience," Bonds said. All expenditures for the costuming and set designs are paid by ticket sates. Tlie University’s Fine Arts Department also has a grant from the ASUO that helps keep cost down tor student tickets. —Kristin (ienier Senior Ann Swanson helps se I’H.Xn h Kim S|u>vn tier Heather Linn into her costume for the University ITieaire's production of Blue Windows. Phcrto by Kim Nfuyxr University Theatre Director Craig Willis said he got hooked on theater after his second play. btudent director hnds niche in University Theatre works □“Blue Window” director says casting is toughest part of job 1 heater director Craig Willis said acting didn't turn him on at all in the beginning. The graduate student in Line Arts who will U directing Blue Witruiou this I lalloween said a high sc Ihh-I teacher con vinced him to try acting, hut his friends had to talk him into auditioning tor a second play. After that he was hooked on theater. Last spring Willis directed the University play I uwg/ung WiLl . He has also directed two AIDS Awareness plays, Andre's Mot/ier , and Suje Sex . Willis said the diverse nature of directing is w hat draws him to it. “Directing is a cratt of the eclectic,” Willis said. Willis said his job not only entails leading the at tors in their rehearsals, hut collaborating on the set designing and casting the actors . In casting tor the upcoming Blue Wmdou , Willis had to select seven actors from the I 10 that auditioned in just one week. “I believe that *50 percent of a director's job is casting,” Willis said. "Casting and inspiring the actors are most chal lenging. I also enjoy the leadership that the role demands." 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