“We have ideas, but the specific designs are still in progress,†Ingram said. Movable wagons and furniture downstage, to the left or right of the kitchen will be used to portray other locations. Tech-head, senior Erin Ingram is already working on a plan that involves a box set, which is a box with three walls and an open wall, used to create the illusion of an interior room on the stage, for the main location. The set is perhaps the most time consuming and artistically challenging technical element.
The tech team has been making plans for all the behind-the-scenes elements.
It is not just the cast though that is hard at work. “This show is unique in that we have cast understudies to the main roles, so there is an extra degree of complication in how we build rehearsals so that both the main cast and the understudy cast has time to rehearse,†stage manager, senior Mia Shaker said. As with most plays, scheduling the rehearsals has not been easy. They are rehearsing almost every day after school because they only have about two months to rehearse for a very complex play. Since the show was cast, the actors have had a very intensive rehearsal process. I really hope to work with them all on future projects.†“Unfortunately, I still was not able to use many very talented actors who gave tremendous readings. There wasn’t a weak audition in the bunch,†Mr. “I can say that, for the first time in my 30-year teaching/directing career, 100 percent of the actors who read for the show were strong enough to be cast. By doing this he was able to expand the opportunities and give more people a chance to participate. Keith Cassidy made the decision to cast understudies in some of the key speaking roles. Although it is an ensemble show with lots of characters, the number of students auditioning was so large that 2/3rds of them would have to be turned away. Students turned out in large numbers to audition for I Remember Mama. It was Rogers’ last work prior to his death in December of that year. Many years later in 1979, acclaimed composer Richard Rodger adapted the original play, which he and Oscar Hammerstein II had produced on Broadway 35 years earlier, into a musical of the same name. In 1948 the story was adapted again into a fairly successful film that was nominated for five academy awards. The play is based on the 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Mama’s Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes. Mama’s trials and victories in raising her children, with some help from Papa and her Uncle Chris. She recounts her family’s efforts to achieve the American dream. The story is told from the perspective of one of the family’s four children, Katrin. Written in 1944 by John Van Druten, it tells the story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family living in San Francisco, CA. This year the production is a play entitled I Remember Mama. Rehearsals for the school play, which will be running April 27 to 29, have just begun.
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