JAN Productions Hard at Work

So the producers of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Vanity Theater are Jerry Bowie and Nancy Rodenbeck, who came up with the clever title of JAN Productions (Jerry And Nancy). Well, the director wants a little of the action, but will settle for the A in Amidon to round it off — Jerry-Amidon-Nancy Productions. Not quite as clever, but I write the blog, so...

All three of us were hard at work on Thursday and made big progress on the set. Jerry created a broken down fence for the Radley place, then a very nice fence for Mrs. Dubose's house (and put up with me dropping boards and chairs and desks and benches...)

Nan carried 30-some chairs off the stage, made a Home Depot run (our third in three days), and painted coat after coat of dark brown paint on some benches we'll use in court. 

By light's out Wednesday, we had what suddenly had begun to look like a set. Well, we had the front porch decks for the Finch home, and some flats that will serve as the Finch house. There's a lot still to be done, but we're increasingly excited about our prospects. And we believe that by Sunday when our actors return, we'll have the makings of a courtroom. Now, if we can just enlist some creative set painters...

Mid-afternoon Thursday

Check out Jerry's red hat...

Jerry's gonna kill me...