Getting set.

"Those were the days, my friend..." Mary Hopkin

For me, Memorial Day weekend always has one special meaning, something that will probably linger with me for the rest of my life: set construction.

I haven't had a set to build in three years, come this week. The group I am involved with hasn't done a show at the college we performed in since the start of the pandemic. We are hoping that changes next year.

But before for that, for four years straight, Corb was in charge of putting together the set for our shows. And if I have communicated anything about Corb through all my writings, anything at all, I hope one thing has come through: he's a big guy, and perhaps as a result, he likes his sets big, too. And that's why all four of those shows...Jekyll & Hyde (he actually was assisting with that one, not leading the effort), Young Frankenstein, Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood had huge huge huge sets.

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