Backstage at Hooters

KEVIN OATES
JOHN MeGOWAN
- JANE SPARKES

ANNA STRANGWAY

in

Contributed by the
Terrace Little Theatre
We're back stage at the McColl

TALY'S Playhouse, on the set of Hooters,
ADULT COMEDY the comedy soon to be presented

by the Terrace Little Theatre.
] Suzanne and Max are furtively
| whispering as they check props for
# the actors. Tonight is the first run-
through of the entire play and the
air is charged.
| Max and Suzanne are “ASMs” —
ff they assist the stage manager.
Tonight the priority seems to be
i finding a plastic lid for a container
i of fried scallops. A photographer
brushes past on the way out.
Suzanne locates a lid for the now
i cold scallops and Max goes to a
i series of paper charts on the wall
and writes something down. Each
scene in the play has its own chart,
a layout of the stage with notes on
| where to place what. On the floor

GORDG

GORD aN OATES

RAY MORDAN

_ Sat design by
TRUDY WARD

NOVEMBER 14~15~16 & 21~22-23 ~ 1991
8PM McCOLL PLAYHOUSE 3625 KALUM TERRACE

The two female actors huddle on
the stairs, scripts in hand,
mouthing lines to each other,
seemingly oblivious to the icy
draft coming from the door as the
lighting designer breezes in. The
stage manager paces and the
prompter takes her seat.

“Okay, let’s go. Places, every-
one!” Temporary stage lighting is
turned on, the director is in his
chair and the producer sits off to
one side, relaxed. ,
Relaxed? Ah-ha, here’s finally
someone not in deadly focus, will-
ing to talk to us. Upstairs, seated
comfortably out of the action, Ray
Mordan, novice producer, brushes
sand from his shoes (yes, sand is a
big feature in Hooters) and
explains why he finds this all so
enthralling. “Seeing the publicity
and promotion come together is
interesting. We're especially keen

on the place mats we've designed
to use instead of tent cards for the
local restaurants, They sure catch
the eye.”

He goes on to describe the first
production meeting as a think
tank. “The creative juices really

got going. My job as producer is:

to keep it all moving, to fit the
pieces together. On opening night,
I sit back and let the artistic people
take over.”

Mordan is originally from Cal-
gary, where he worked doing cor-
porate liaison for a bank with The-
atre Calgary.

Tickets are available from the
Bank of Montreal and Jeans
North, Skeena Mall. Hooters
opens Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. at the
McColl Playhouse and runs for
two weekends, closing Nov. 23.

By opening night at TLT

the producer’s work is done

coarse language

typeset Terrace Review

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uid. Suzanne dives into a suitcase
and Max checks something off on

} achart.

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