Blog – AT THE GUILD

Costumes, Costumes, Costumes Patricia LaFramboise is the Costume Chair for the Players Guild of Dearborn production of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Patricia is an Honorary Member of the Guild having been a member for more than 25 years. She has costumed a number of Guild

  I have to catch up on one item from Sunday’s rehearsal. Henrik (Michael Suchyta of Dearborn) plays the cello in one of the early scenes, practicing a piece. Anne, his step-mother, (Lindsey MacDonald of Canton) says, “Oh, Henrik, dear, don’t you have anything less gloomy to

  During the weekend of April 5, 6, and 7, work continued on the set and set pieces for A Little Night Music at the Players Guild of Dearborn. There is still a lot to be done and some people are beginning to get nervous. This is

Stage and Shop In the Clubroom, A Little Night Music Director Harold Jurkiewicz restaged the Armfeldt dining room scene. He basically “opened it up” by creating wider spaces between the players. In the scene, the principal characters sit at a dining room table facing upstage (away from

  I discovered another spelling error in cast names. It’s Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm not Malcom. Ah, well. “Every Day a Little Death.” On April 3, the Players gathered at the Guild to rehearse the music in A Little Night Music. Under Music Director Paul Abbott of Livonia,

  From L to R: Lindsey MacDonald as Anne Egerman, Tom Murphy as Fredrik, and Sally Goodman as Desireé Well, I discovered that I was spelling Egerman wrong. There is only one “g.” I think I’ve been spelling it with two because of the way Brett Reynolds,

rom the Top With nearly a full cast, save for those few on Spring Break, we started “from the top” and were pleased to see that most of the cast have put down their scripts. Some of the players were a bit tentative, but that’s to be

  During the first couple of weeks, rehearsals for A Little Night Music at the Players Guild of Dearborn were devoted to staging or blocking the show. Rehearsals at the Players Guild usually take place in the Clubroom as set construction is taking place on the stage.

The Production Team It takes a lot of people to get a show like A Little Night Music on the stage. At the Players Guild of Dearborn, those people are collectively know as “The Production Team.” The pieces that go together to make up a production team

  The idea behind a “Build Blitz” is to get as much done on a show set as possible in one weekend. Members of the stage committee and the other Guild members try to give as much time as possible to the Build Blitz over the blitz