Completion Date
5-2025
Advisor(s)
Richard Jackson
Abstract
After finishing pre-production during the fall quarter and receiving the Baker Koob Endowment, our team started the rehearsal process at the start of the winter quarter this year. From that point on until May 25th, 2025, we spent just over 190 hours in rehearsals and over 70 hours building and preparing for the show. Together, the team learned a total of 90 minutes of music and blocking on top of designing, engineering, and constructing a set, props, costumes, and lighting. Additionally, we set up the space, which included hanging, circuiting, and programming 55 lights, as well as assembling and constructing safe risers with railings. All of this hard work culminated in a weekend-long run of shows, with a full house every night. Over 180 people were able to experience the show for free. This production paved the way for change within the Theater and Dance department at Cal Poly. It was the first time Cal Poly students had completely and independently realized a musical in the Spring quarter. On top of that, it featured live musicians, which the Theater and Dance department at Cal Poly does not regularly do. The show and students involved connected the Theater and Music department, showing the want and need for a growing relationship between these departments. All of this work was successful in showing the need for more student opportunities in the future. The department and the students are now talking about how a production like this can happen again. This production by itself accomplished more than words can describe, but the greatest accomplishment was that it paved the way for students in the future to grow, learn, and accomplish more as they are lifted off the shoulders of this production.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bkendowments/113
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