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As part of our 25th Anniversary
improvements we built an orchestra pit in the auditorium and
additional dressing room and storage (including a piano rehearsal
room for the Steinway) behind the theater.
The completed piano room. The completed artist's greenroom. Makeup stations in the new artist's greenroom. The completed artist's greenroom. The completed dance dressing room. The completed dance dressing room. Day 156 - The final element of the Pit...a cover for when it is not used an an Orchestra Pit. Day 156 - The green room for visiting artists. Day 156 - Looking into the piano room. Day 156 - Looking down the back hallway into the new dressing room/bathrooms space. Day 121 - Looking from the Green Room toward the Piano room. Day 121 - Looking from the Piano room toward the Green Room. Day 121 - Inside the Dance Dressing Room, on the other side of the block wall are the new bathrooms. Day 100 - The finished Orchestra Pit. Day 100 - The finished Orchestra Pit. Day 100 - The doorway into what will be the new dressing/greenroom area for visiting artists. Day 100 - Looking from the dance dressing room area over the bathrooms toward the piano room and artist green room. Day 100 - Looking from the artist green room door over toward the dance dressing room area. Day 71 - The Orchestra Pit nears completion. Stairs have been poured and trim work is nearly completed. Day 71 - Foundations are being poured for the dressing room addition. Day 71 - Dressing room foundations are being poured. Day 54 - Construction of new dressing room area begins. Day 54 - Dressing Room construction. Day 50 - Upstage of the orchestra pit concrete has been poured and stage traps moved up. Day 50 - Upstage of the orchestra pit. Day 50 - The tile project is well underway. Day 37 - The pit floor has been poured. Day 37 - The pit floor has been poured. Day 32 - Pit walls are in place. Day 32- Pit walls in place. Day 32 - The traproom wall in rebuilt. Day 32 - The tile project is underway in the lobby. Day 32- The first "name" tile is laid. Day 12 - The pit is fully dug out and the front part of the trap room has been cut off. Day 12 - You can see down into the trap room now, but eventually this will be filled back in. Day 12 - The view from the trap room. Day 8 - The Pit gets deeper Day 8 - The Pit gets deeper Day 5 - The concrete is out and the digging begins. Day 5 - The tunnel from the pit area, through the scene shop and outside. Day 4 - Cutting through the concrete floor. Day 4 - Cutting through the concrete floor. Day 4 - Down in the Trap Room. Day 1 - The entire pit construction area is sealed off Day 1 - A plywood barrier has been erected for further protection. Day 1 - Apron Extension comes out.
You can start to see the shape of the new pit. The wood and concrete in the middle is the front of the trap room that will eventually be removed. In the trap room underneath the stage they have started constucting a new support wall for the orchestra pit. The trap room is so named because sections of the stage floor can come out to provide access to this area for special effects...think of the witch melting through the floor for The Wizard of Oz. The apron extension was put in as a temporary filler for the Grand Rapids Players production of Fiddler on the Roof in the year 2000. Five years later it's coming out so that we can build our orchestra pit.
The completed piano room.
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