Welcome to the scene shop!  One of the questions we are asked most often is, “Where does this show go after its run in Portland?”  I explain that most of the time the show isn’t going anywhere (though Cabaret is an exception because it travels to Geva Theater in Rochester, NY in January).  In fact most everything about our physical production is created right here in Portland for you. This is our scene shop out on Front Street, where all the sets are built.

Robert Welsh is our Technical Director.  He takes the Set Designer’s designs and via computer, translates them into construction drawings for the crew. 

Then Jeff Marchant (standing on the lift) works with the construction crew to build the set.  Chris Rousseau is leaning on the platforms that will become the revolve for Cabaret.

Michael Jones (a brand new carpenter who joins us from Arizona) is welding the steel that will form the structure for the false proscenium downstage.

This is a glimpse of our prop storage area, where we horde any reusable chair, sofa, desk, table, ottoman, batboy cage, elephant, or

goat that we may see a future use for.  You may remember this fellow from O Lovely Glowworm a few years back.  Not sure where he’s headed in the wagon, but clearly somewhere sunny.