good things are happening!

1. lights: i secured a loan of lights and extension cables(very rudimentary ones, but functional enough) from the underground shakespeare company, the more permanent denizens of the harnwell dungeon. they're two very simple small floods that should provide enough lighting for both areas of the stage. as i envision it now, there will be a stage left area + platform(room a), a stage right area + platform(room b), and a general stage center area where dancing and random events occurs. the two lights should be sufficient to cover room a and room b, and hopefully the 4 small roof mounted lights + whatever overlap my small floods can provide can cover stage center. as for more complex lighting... i'm thinking of setting up simple house lights and dimmers (from my own supplies) linked to a central control to allow me to dim and raise, but i'll see how that works out.

2. set: kevin pang (bless him) managed to hunt down the PAC shop and have a chat with peter about obtaining materials for a set. we will not, thank goodness, have to build a set. the PAC shop itself has enough flats and platforms for us to dig something out - i'll be popping down with him tomorrow to see what we can see, as it were. it will cost us $150 for the week, and i'll be needing to mobilize some singaporean manpower to lug the set down from 41st, but it's worth it.. a backdrop, some elevation, and a few levels to play with can upgrade things quite a bit. they're not a revolving stage with balconies and secret trapdoors, but at least - they're a stage.

3. funding: SIF just stepped in with a healthy injection of money! some of it will necessarily be siphoned off for the speaker series, but suffice it to say we're no longer short of a four-digit sum to pay our sound dudes. and for a while i was wondering if i would have to start liquidating stock to cover it out of my own pocket (more painful, what with feb 27 and all...). thank God, who works in mysterious ways... or well, thank haresh, terence, and the rest of the club singapore committee. it's so much easier to forge ahead now that all the nitty gritty admin details are falling into place.

4. music: i bashed through the music with caleb today - we have finished writing and recording 80% of the necessary stuff and we've more or less bashed out the last 2 new songs - 'noodle blues', 'sing, little city'; as well as borrowed one of caleb's oldies for the ending - 'after all this time'. we also organised a nice reprise of 'prayer for my daughter' at the end with 'random school facility', sorted out a finale medley of 'after all this time', 'you are here', 'midnight', 'random school/p4md' again, and hacked out another reprise of 'hello my dear/you know my dear' which of course i decided to call 'oh no my dear'. all i need to do is fix a few lyrics here and there on my part, and caleb has a few harmonies to write and songs to score... almost done with creating, now we can focus on executing!

5. script: is 66.666% done. 12 days to go. nuff said. it ain't pretty, but it'll work.

josh