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Jane Eyre The Musical

My Role Assistant Stage Manager

Directed By Adam Hester

Preformed February, 2006

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My First Show At ACU

This show has a very special place in my heart because it was the first show I worked on as a stage manager at ACU. My first semester freshman year I heard that we would be doing this show in the spring, and I wanted to start off on the right foot and show the professors I was eager to learn and show them what I could do, but after all I was only a freshman. So when I applied to be the assistant stage manager I really didn’t think I would get it, but when I saw my name at the bottom of the cast list as the ASM, I freaked out. I couldn’t wait to get started on it. That’s all I could talk about over Christmas break…I consumed myself with the script and music. When the new semester started, so did Jane Eyre rehearsals; and I couldn’t have been happier. The cast were very talented seniors and I honestly was a little intimidated by them for a few weeks. But eventually I got over that and the show was the best thing that happened to me. I loved going to rehearsals and running the set changes and running the music...It was great managing on a show again – I had been on running crews since I had been at ACU, but being able to stage manage a show so early is what convinced me to stay at ACU.

Music In A Can

The show was held in our intimate 325 seat Fulks Theatre, a thrust proscenium stage. There isn’t any room for a live orchestra, so all the music was recorded and played from the sound booth. The stage manager, Amy, called the show and ran the lights, and I ran the music. I ran it from the same laptop that I use today. Adam Hester, the director, was particularly nervous about pop up sounds during the show, and so was I. I sat on edge during the whole performance with my fingers poised ready to press play or to fade in the music. It was the most nerve racking job I’ve ever had but I loved it. If you have never heard the music for Jane Eyre, I highly recommend it, it’s a beautiful show.

Eyre' beautiful, enthralling ensemble piece

This endearing romance and ambitious production of "Jane Eyre: The Musical" is one of the more sweeping and impressive non-Homecoming musicals in recent years, and one of the best Theatre Department productions I've seen over the past four years.

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Jane Eyre

Annika Johansson as Blanche Ingram and Juliette Miller as Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

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