Opening Night Of "The Sound Of Music"

Left: Kay Hight as Maria.


I didn't take many pictures opening night - here are just two.

Left: Thomas Lea and Rami R.


We had a few opening night glitches.

The traveler curtain hung on one of the big rolling platforms. That ordinarily wouldn't have happened, because the platform is rolled into place after the traveler curtain is opened, EXCEPT someone closed the traveler curtain on me when I wasn't looking and when I opened it again, the traveler curtain caught and hung on the platform, pulling the platform off stage. We had to hurriedly push the snagged platform back into place and barely moved it into place before the front curtain opened.

I failed to clear a tray I left on the sofa in the mansion scene, and the kids had to sit on it.

The French doors kept opening on their own, because one of the brakes on its platform wasn't set, which tilted the platform, and the air conditioning kept blowing the doors open (that never happened in rehearsal!)

I kept wondering why was it that a little pillar placed near the end of the staircase's banister (which also helped hide a brake) kept drifting away from the staircase. First, the pillar was right next to the brake, then it was 6 inches from the brake, then it was a foot in front of the brake. How does a dumb post move downstage like that? I finally realized it was the staircase that was moving upstage, not the post moving downstage, and as the kids climbed the staircase for the party departure, the staircase began moving in earnest. It turned out the brake had worked loose from the staircase and it rolled into another rolling platform. No harm, but a bit worrisome, being on a big corrugated skateboard like that.

Then the escape stairs worked loose from one of the hooks holding it to the wall.

There was only one really clunky set change (several people *forgot* their set assignments).

At least the traveler curtain was open when it was supposed to be open, and closed when it was supposed to be closed. Some shows, it don't quite work out that way.

But the important parts of the show went fine. Kay Hight's singing was delightful, as was Emily Cannon-Brown's singing. I'm glad Marguerite Morris returned from being sick and knocked over the mountain with her "Climb Every Mountain". And the kids were great. Everyone was still excited over this morning's television appearance.