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Here Comes Prancer

Here Comes Prancer

and not much else because IT'S PRANCER! 🦌

Ben Thietje
November 18, 2024 • Est. Reading Time: 6 minutes

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This issue has…

🦌 Prancer
🦌 Prancer
🦌 And More Prancer

THEATRE

Stop! Prancer Time.

Hi, gang. Whew! I’m late today!

I’ve only got Prancer for you because it’s tech week (Prancer opens THIS FRIDAY) and things are b u s y.

Although we don’t have any production photos yet (the super-neato pics with costumes, completed set, the whole 9 yards), we do have some really fun rehearsal shots. Check ‘em out:

angels!

an actor playing Santa in a chair with a child actor next to him

not looking like Santa yet…but he will :)

Adorable, right?!

This production’s design team has been working like mad to make this show as amazing as possible. Here’s a rendering of “the woods” from our scenic designer, Valeriya Nedviga.

a scenic rendering of a stage with trees on it

a Prancer scenic rendering from Valeriya

Our lighting designer, Andrew Vance, is doing some great work, as well. Here’s something Andrew posted as inspiration…so you know he’s aiming for something really magical!

a photo of woods with light shining into it

some lighting inspiration from Andrew

And, of course, I can’t leave out our wonderful props designer, Rebecca Jo Malmstrom, whose challenge it is to put a reindeer on the John H. Potter stage. Here’s a tiny taste of Rebecca’s work.

some inspiration and a sketch from Rebecca

two young actors, one in a reindeer puppet

Rebecca’s work doing its thing in the rehearsal room

Prancer director, Alli St. John, comes to us from the Children’s Theatre Company (where she’s the casting director), and is as good as they get. I’ll hopefully talk her into a quick interview for next week.

If you still don’t have your Prancer tickets, now’s the time. It’s starting to sell out (see below)!

PHIPPS TOP 10
best-selling upcoming events this season by tickets sold…

1. Prancer (previously: 1)
2. A Brass & Organ Holiday (previously: 3)
3. Colleen Raye’s NYE (previously: 2)
4. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 4)
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (previously: 7)
6. Silent Sky (previously: 5)
7. Underneath the Lintel, or: The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers (previously: 6)
8. Kick the Bucket List (previously: 8)
9. Cantus (previously: 9)
10. The SpongeBob Musical (previously: unlisted)

BETTER HURRY LIST
best-selling upcoming events this season by percent sold
(i.e., closest to being sold out)…

1. The Andrews Sisters Onstage: a Jen Burleigh-Bentz production (previously: 2)
2. Prancer (previously: unlisted)
3. Underneath the Lintel, or: The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers (previously: 3)
4. A Brass & Organ Holiday (previously: 1) PERFORMANCE ADDED
5. Cantus (previously: 5)

as of 11/18/24

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