Thank you for joining me once again, as we join our renovations in progress . . . ;-)

So last Saturday was a HUGE day for us!  The purpose for the new office/annex space is starting to become a reality.  In order for us to use this new space as our backstage area (dressing, makeup, greenroom), it has to have access to the stage, am I right?  Well now it does!

But it wasn’t easy.  We think when they were building this strip mall (sometime in the ’60’s we guess), they built each building individually, adding them onto each other instead of doing it all at once.  Because the wall between the old backstage and the new was like 14 inches thick, made of brick, concrete and terra cotta blocks!  It took circular saws with diamond tipped blades, hammers, chisels and sledge hammers all day to open up a hole big enough for the new fire door to fit.  We hauled away like 6 wheelbarrows full of debris!  Richard, Stan, Justin and Russell, we are forever in your debt!  They did an amazing job cutting the hole, and only minor injuries were sustained!

But there’s more!  Jim and Nancy began fixing up the new bathrooms.  Jim and Chase got the counter in the green room faced and ready to paint.  Jonathan and Gabriel helped us out with painting and knocking out the wall.  Patti and Kadi worked on installing the baseboards.  And don’t forget our board members: Julie, Gloria, Kim, John, Jay, Jim and Kevin!  So much going on!

Saturday will be another big day.  We should finally be able to start on the actual theatre space.  Hopefully we’ll be able to get all the old green carpet torn out, start work on lowering the stage, and maybe even start painting the lobby.  We’ve got David, who’s an interior designer at Tech, helping us redesign our lobby and public facing areas; I don’t want to give anything away, but it’s going to look wonderful!

Check out all the pics below, and we’ll see you on Saturday!

Katie