2012

Legally Blonde the Musical

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Directed by Don and Patsy Meeker

Produced by Oregon Conservatory for Performing Arts

Music by Tom Snow

Lyrics by Dean Pitchford and Kenny Loggins

Book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie

Designed and painted by Tori Dewar

Elle's Door This is a double sided door for multiple scene changes. This side had hand mixed shades of pink for any of Elle's rooms.	Opposite Side The other side of the door has wood-grain with a dark brown. This is in front of Dewey's place and other door needs.
Dresser This is the pink dresser, used in Elle's room. Same hand-mixed pink as the door.	Paulette's Salon This is the reversible desk. We needed a quick scene change table with a removable mirror for the salon. We took the pink dresser for Elle's room, a hula hoop spray-painted silver, and we velcroed the mirror to the back of the dresser.

Sleeping Beauty Kids

Directed by Andrew Brock

Musical Director Marcia Katzmar

Produced by Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts

Music Adapted and Arranged by Bryan Louisells

Book Adapted by Marcy Heisler

Designed and painted by Tori Dewar

Inside the Cottage In Sleeping Beauty we had a cottage scene that needed to be changed over quickly, so I only made 2 of the flats reversible. The cottage was based off of cartoon pictures similar to those in the movie.	Maleficent's Lair Maleficent's Lair was a challenge because of the amount of stone. Again the design was based off of cartoon pictures, this time of dungeons.
Performance The kids had a great show!

Bat Boy: The Musical

Directed by John Schmor

Produced by the University of Oregon

Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe

Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming

Built and painted by Tori Dewar and Jerry Hooker

Bat Boy Set I assisted in painting most of the wooden structure. My main job was aged wood, but I did help build chunks of this set.	Tower The wood was a hand-crafted burnt orange and dark brown, side by side and then wet blended together. The grain was a grey layer on top.
The main challenge was getting to all of the areas that needed painting; the set was so open that most sufaces were vulnerable to sight lines.	Initial step The box that these stairs are attached to was a construction project completed entirely by myself. I helped with pieces throughout the set but this was my first project alone.
Cage Entirely painted by myself, same wood work and graining as the rest of the set.	Bat Boy in Production

Arabian Nights

Directed by Michael Najjar

Produced by the University of Oregon

Adapted by Dominic Cooke

Floor painting by Tori Dewar and Jerry Hooker

Arabian Nights Extensive project with a large amount of stencil work. Each platform had its own rug or mosaic style, which was then rimmed with a final stencil pattern.	Arabian Walls part 1 The original wall is a two-color scumble to resemble parchment with pictures of stories painted in rough brush texture (Jerry Hooker)
Arabian Walls The color on the walls are the inside sections of flaps over doorways and windows. Each had multiple stencil designs to match those on the floor.

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2012

Legally Blonde the Musical

Elle's Door

This is a double sided door for multiple scene changes. This side had hand mixed shades of pink for any of Elle's rooms.

Opposite Side

The other side of the door has wood-grain with a dark brown. This is in front of Dewey's place and other door needs.

Dresser

This is the pink dresser, used in Elle's room. Same hand-mixed pink as the door.

Paulette's Salon

This is the reversible desk. We needed a quick scene change table with a removable mirror for the salon. We took the pink dresser for Elle's room, a hula hoop spray-painted silver, and we velcroed the mirror to the back of the dresser.

Sleeping Beauty Kids

Inside the Cottage

In Sleeping Beauty we had a cottage scene that needed to be changed over quickly, so I only made 2 of the flats reversible. The cottage was based off of cartoon pictures similar to those in the movie.

Maleficent's Lair

Maleficent's Lair was a challenge because of the amount of stone. Again the design was based off of cartoon pictures, this time of dungeons.

Performance

The kids had a great show!

Bat Boy: The Musical

Bat Boy Set

I assisted in painting most of the wooden structure. My main job was aged wood, but I did help build chunks of this set.

Tower

The wood was a hand-crafted burnt orange and dark brown, side by side and then wet blended together. The grain was a grey layer on top.

The main challenge was getting to all of the areas that needed painting; the set was so open that most sufaces were vulnerable to sight lines.

Initial step

The box that these stairs are attached to was a construction project completed entirely by myself. I helped with pieces throughout the set but this was my first project alone.

Cage

Entirely painted by myself, same wood work and graining as the rest of the set.

Bat Boy in Production

Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights

Extensive project with a large amount of stencil work. Each platform had its own rug or mosaic style, which was then rimmed with a final stencil pattern.

Arabian Walls part 1

The original wall is a two-color scumble to resemble parchment with pictures of stories painted in rough brush texture (Jerry Hooker)

Arabian Walls

The color on the walls are the inside sections of flaps over doorways and windows. Each had multiple stencil designs to match those on the floor.