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January 18, 2010

Callboard Envy

I call this: On the Road Again,theatre — Posted by KP @ 2:59 am


This is our callboard at the Guthrie. We pretty much set it up according to how it’s already laid out. Actually I have no idea how it got there. I think Ashley did it. Or maybe Nick. Certainly I had nothing to do with it.

My good friend Josh and I have a bit of a running joke about how I don’t take callboard aesthetics seriously enough. I do care a lot about how my callboard looks, I just don’t always have the time or energy to see that time is spent on making it look pretty.

A month and a half ago when we arrived in Minneapolis, I went on a shopping spree to Office Depot to get a few supplies. While there I found some really awesome pushpins. I bought some awesome pushpins last year, but these were awesome enough that I wasn’t concerned about pushpin redundancy.

On opening night, I switched to my favorite of the two varieties I purchased, these orange ones with cube-shaped tops, and banished all non-awesome pushpins to the side of the callboard that will belong to Macbeth when they start tech.

I took a picture of our pretty callboard and sent it to Josh. He then sent me back a picture of the callboard from the Wicked tour, which I hope to best when Nick and I actually make our own signage for the tour.

Aside from making an otherwise bland callboard look good, I find unique pushpins useful because we play a lot of venues where we use an existing bulletin board, which may or may not have some of its own pushpins, but usually never enough. By having our own very distinct pushpins, we know exactly how many we put up, and can ensure that we take them with us when we load out.


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