Hey guys, check out the name and logo of our company! YAY!! (I'm not at all full of myself...Denise picked it.)

Updated Bare Production Team:

Brian Gregory- Producer, Director
Denise Christof - Producer, Production Manager, Casting
Ryan Blair - Assistant Director
Emma VanBuskirk - Music Director
Nikki Tamlin - Stage Manager, Design
Brett Kelly - Stage Manager
Nicky Lawrence - Marketing and Finance Director
Sound Design - Fiona German
Andrew Sutherland - Production Assistant

I'm hoping to start auditioning choreographers early in the new year. If you know of anyone who might be interested, tell them to email a resume to baretoronto@live.ca. This is the same for anyone interested in web design.

Ryan has been successful in finding us a band and rehearsal pianist. We'll be talking to them in the coming weeks to solidify things.

Set Design

Hey team,

Here are some images that I've been looking at that are an inspiration for what the set is going to look like. Some changes that have been made to the idea so far are that instead of one large stained-glass window in the middle, there will be six smallish ones stage left and stage right, each depicting a biblical story that mirrors the themes of the play. Along the back wall will be the looming crucifix as well as a mish-mash of religious paraphenalia on some very tall shelves.

When a different theme or character is dealing with a certain issue, a window will light up, or focus will be brought to one of the items on the back wall (the revival of Sweeney Todd uses a similar concept - see the photo below).


Here is an example of where the choir and band will be located on-stage:

An example of how the sequence of stained-glass windows may look:

This is an example of how the "narrowness" of the set should feel:

...while also incorporating this sort of structure (notice specifically the industrial looking beams, complete with neon light tubes):

The "industrial-ness" of set for the musical RENT is also a huge inspiration (note the large, abstract construction stage left):

Some examples of lighting:


Lovin' the idea of hanging lights:


And my fav ("Beneath a million stars there's no need to pretend..."):

Now, picture all of that in this space!! (Don't be thrown off by the tiny white syc - the stage is much wider than that).

Let me know what you guys think! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Production Team

So far, this is the team and what you're doing.

Team BARE-TORONTO:

BRIAN GREGORY/Producer, Director, Set Design, Casting
RYAN BLAIR/ Assistant Director
DENISE CHRISTOF/ Producer, Production Manager, Casting Director
NIKKI TAMLIN/ Designer, Stage Manager
FIONA GERMAN/ Sound Design
ANDREW SUTHERLAND/ Production Assistant

Hopefully we'll be adding a choreographer, ASM and music director to the list in the near future.

WELCOME TEAM!

Welcome to the BARE Blog!!

Here is where we can post anything about our upoming show! Post pictures that inspire you, ideas, designs, thoughts on the show/team/venue/cast, ANYTHING!!

I encourage you to be thinking about the show and post lots and lots of things here. We will need to feed off of each other and because shows ALWAYS need more time, this is a beautiful thing we can do to get into the creative mindset so we're not under the gun in April.

I'll be emailing everyone some deadlines and information in the near future, so keep checking your emails! I can't wait to see what goes up here!