Also, I am so hyperaware of the "discrimination" against costumes in theatre that I am now retroactively angry that I had to learn all the basics of sound, light and set building, but no one else had to learn to use a sewing machine!

At CCM all the undergrads have to go through a costume rotation, as they do at CalArts, or they did when I was a grad student there.

Who had to chop a Cadallac in half

That was me, but it was years ago, in grad school. I just got to be on the destruction team.

I'd like to know why you needed to chop a Cadillac in half.

Missed this. If memory serves we only needed the front half of it on stage. That or we needed to take a chunk out of the middle to make it shorter. We also pulled the engine so that we could put something in there...can't remember what now. All of this was for an opera.

At CCM all the undergrads have to go through a costume rotation, as they do at CalArts, or they did when I was a grad student there.

That's awesome! Maybe it was just the tiny school I went to, and the school I am at now who discount costumes as a sort of "anyone could do this" thing.

Really? I think once he was able to saw a Cadillac in half, it was no longer a question of need, really. Just a question of how close the nearest Cadillac was.

You do have a point.

All of this was for an opera.

Ah.

If memory serves we only needed the front half of it on stage.

I stand by my supposition that once you can chop a Cadillac in half, need becomes secondary.

the school I am at now who discount costumes as a sort of "anyone could do this" thing.

Sophia, there have been a number of shows I've worked where I found that adopting an attitude of "You can do the play on a bare stage with the works on," the only thing that kept me sane.

I'm thinking you should consider adopting an attitude of "You can do the show buck-ass nekkid."

I'm thinking you should consider adopting an attitude of "You can do the show buck-ass nekkid."

Bwah-ha ha!

OTOH< Of course some of the undergrad here are pretty attractive...

So there's still snow up there?

Not really -- we never got above freezing to melt it, but there was little enough snow to just pack straight into ice when everyone fled work early. Oy. My street is always the last to stay a skating rink after the rest of the city is completely clear and dry, though, as it's one long tree-lined north-facing slope.

Sophia, what the student pranksters did at MIT to put a "police car" on the roof of the Great Dome was to "skin" an old car and build a frame they could clamp the hood, sides, et cetera to, so that they could get it through stairs and doors and put it toge3ther very quickly under the cover of darkness.

That's a great idea, Theo! I just want to have something to share in an endless meeting which consists of the director saying "we need this" and the technical people saying "this is impossible"