Space Observation: Play Beautiful By Douglas Mcgrath

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Space observation: Play- Beautiful written by Douglas McGrath Two of my friends and I who are juniors at Whitworth University just started a theatre company called ‘’dream big.’’ The company would be producing its first theatre production this year. We have decided the play would be Beautiful was written by Douglas McGrath it is a musical play involving twenty-four cast. We were working on our budget, and space we discovered Cowles Auditorium is the perfect place for this play. I came over to the auditorium and looked at the space I also took notes. I would like to clarify my observation and please do correct the notes if there are any mistakes in my note thank you. I looked at the space and made inquiry I found out the following: …show more content…
Also we would be renting the microphones which are ten dollars per rental. This play is 2hour 30minutes long, does that mean if we were done in 3 hours would the rental money be reduced?
Stage access: I observed that there are two hallways that would allow us to unload our instruments that we would be used for the play production. The measurement of the door is 79 inches tall and 71 inches wide, I believe that would work very well for the production since we are bringing only instruments for the musicians.
Sit access, hearing aid and door access: I also saw twelve handicap accessible sitting, and hearing assistance device available only if we are using microphones. We would be bringing along our sign interpreter for the play. There is also two entrances for the audience to walk into the auditorium, which would also work perfectly.
Sound and lighting: In the auditorium, there is a soundboard MIDAS 32 we would have someone controlling the soundboard. The light board is ion, which I would be controlling because I have taken a class working with the light board so I would be putting the things I learnt into practice. There are no fly system, and no follow spot, we would not be using that for the production so that works well. There are source furs, zoom, and color source

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