Skyview's recent production of "Fiorello!" -a great musical about Fiorello Laguardia before he was Mayor of New York. It's a great show, and it was an amazing production. It felt more like community theater than high-school. Passionate and professional.
I designed the main set-pieces- two 8'x8' boxes on wheels, which open on two sides each. You can see pictures of the other sides and the other box
here. They turned out awesome, and I mean that in the archaic sense- they were awe-inspiring. And I hardly touched them while they were being built- the students did almost everything (with a little direction from me and a couple of helpful dads). I swear, it was an amazing thing to see: my little drawings come to life under someone else's hands. I marked some boards, gave some brief instructions, and stood back and watched it happen. They came together in less than eight hours.
They worked for a week until we took them down, with only minor adjustments in areas that I had predicted, but wasn't able to fully account for in advance, because I had miscalculated a little (and didn't double-check my on-paper design work by building a scale model). Live and learn.
The decoration was designed by someone else, though I drew a lot of it on the walls, based on her designs. The students did most of the painting. I had a blast.
And while I didn't really expect this, working on the show gave my arm the break it needed, so it now feels mostly normal again. Mostly. Which is enough to get me working again, and enough to get me working on the yard.
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