Forever Plaid and previous week in review.

   Forever Plaid had it's first official rehearsal today. So around lunch time there was an eat 'n greet.  Met the cast and designers, and other MRT company members. This past week we've been pulling and prepping for FP.  On Tuesday Anna and Jim had a sit down production style meeting with FP's Director, Asst Dir. SM and ASM.  I sat and listened in asking Margaret questions.   They went through the entire show's prop lists thoroughly talking about each prop and it's use/action. Cutting some, and adding others.  How it's used, where it comes from. The intended effect.   They went through the Designers choices and research. Talking about certain tweaks and how to build things.  For instance, a drop curtain that needs to say Forever Plaid.  They talked together about borders and Margaret gave opinions about fabric, colors, style.  Katie mocked up some options/views quick in the computer and they were able to present them directly to the director.

 Today I stripped 2 barstool chairs in the paint booth.  They had been chrome and were painted, who knows when.  Started with just steel wool.  No dent in the paint.  Went to Acetone and steel wool.  It worked some but it took lots of elbow grease. So I ramped up to Zip-Strip paint remover. Used fine grain steel wool, disposable foam 1"brushes, plastic scrapper, respirator mask, Neoprene gloves, long-sleeve labcoat.  It still took a long time but they came out shiny.