Ramona Quimby is growing closer and closer to being ready for our audiences! (PS! You can get tickets now! https://mcacin.booktix.com/) There is lots of love and laughter buzzing through the auditorium during rehearsals-or maybe it's the drills and sewing machines! So many outstanding things are being created by the work of so many dedicated hands. This show features some scouts so costume crew set out to make them the best-dressed scouts that a high school stage has ever seen. They formed a pattern by carefully tracing a Girl Scout sash and using that to cut out the rest of the pieces. In the next few weeks, those sashes will be adorned with some real patches; lots of time and thought are going into this costume. These scouts all will have matching orange bandanas, too! The sashes and bandanas have all been neatly hemmed along the edges to make sure they look neat and nice for the show. Costume crew has also taken on the challenge of making two bridesmaids dresses for Ramona and Beezus to wear! Mr. Kent is providing a pattern and the crew going to bring them to life. Miss Geckle knew this show had the potential to be something unique. Her innovative ideas never disappoint, and they are being applied to the set for something special. The places on Klickitat Street, where the show mainly is set, are going to be geniously painted to look almost like they came right out of a coloring book. The way the buildings are being painted looks like giant strokes of a crayon. This is already a concept that adds a really interesting element to the show but there is more! Ramona Quimby is a third-grader so the world around her looks a little different. The set pieces and props especially, are being designed to look a tad larger-than-life because that is how Ramona would see them. You aren't going to want to miss these brilliant technical details! While the crews have been working hard, so have Miss Geckle and the actors. Today concluded the entirety of the blocking in our show. Blocking is what we call how we move around the stage as we deliver our lines and tell the story. When this task is complete, we all take part in a fun, little tradition that you can see for yourself in the video below. (My hand has a white glove on it because I was wearing a Cinderella costume at the moment) It's the little things, I tell you! This was a long post so many thanks to you for reading up on all of McDrama's accomplishments as of late! -Ally Knizner Class of 2018
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Thank you for taking the time to click on the McAuley Drama blog, no matter if this is you first for twenty-first time. I’m glad you’re here! September 10 is recognized as World Suicide Prevention Day and McAuley’s Fearless Initiative launched a social media craze to bring it some attention. They challenged us to post a photo with a caption including #whyistay and an elaboration of what that looks like to us. As this topic grows in imperativeness for our ever-changing world, I felt even more called to reflect on this. Thankfully, this blog gives me an outlet to express some of these really important ideas. Buckle up, because you are here for a special, McDrama-edition of why I stay. Before I head into that though, I want to remind you of something that is resounding with importance: you. You are incredibly important and it is a miracle that you are here. Thank you for overcoming the days and weeks and months that pushed you to your limits; I hope that you have grown from them and are now better equipped to face the world today. Congrats on being who you are; no one else can replace your vibrant personality and unmistakable presence in the lives of people you encounter. You are meant to be here and you are so very loved. I’m glad you stay.
McDrama has sowed in my heart, a ton of reasons to stay. I can't possible condense them all in a few lines in this post but I am going to give it my best shot. I stay for…
Ally Knizner, McDrama Enthusiast Class of 2018 School has been in for a few weeks now, the homework load is piling on, and most importantly, rehearsals for the fall play have finally begun. There is such an excited energy buzzing around among everyone in McDrama. We can't wait to make so many memories with Ramona Quimby. Ideas for the set and costumes are floating around--and they are unlike anything you have ever seen before. There are some new faces joining our group and some old faces stepping up in new roles on stage and in the crew. As the show continues, I will update on things happening with costumes, props, lights, sound, publicity, actresses, and actors. If it's happening at McDrama, it's exciting, and you are going to want to know about it.
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