Striking and Closing Too Many Husbands

Too Many Husbands was the first of our shows to close this season. It was our third to open. This particular show required all of the P.A. staff backstage with the exception of me who ran the sound board. It was a heavy show for props, specifically furniture. As such it had a fairly significant amount of distress on the scenic units, especially the large cityscape flat which I know I've previously mentioned, which brought up the question of what scenery was going to be used.

Directly after the show I had to strike all my sound equipment like normal save for retrieving a wireless receiver and speaker hidden in the baby prop. That was strike for sound and then we did changeover into 2 gents for the next day. The real trick after that was to load all of the larger props, namely furniture, onto the truck and drive them to the prop shop. Now we had to pack a bedroom ( a queen size bed and bed frame, 3 chairs, a desk, small fire pit, a vanity, a pouf) a full kitchen (stove, table, 3 chairs, 2 stools, a large sideboard), a living room (a sofa, 3 chairs, coffee table, small table, and a stove). Oh, and it was raining so we had to cover everything in tarps. It was a gigantic game of helterskelter tetris but we fit it all in on one load.

The scenic strike was broken up a little bit differently because we weren't absolutely sure what was going to the burn pile (most scenery gets burned then whatever is left, mostly steel is salvaged). We organized it such that it was easily accessible for Bill and Nate (TD and ATD respectively) could decide at a later date. They ended up burning the main walls and windows and transporting the cityscape down to the shop for outside projects.