Bear Bryant Set (pt. 1)

So the other day I was snooping down in the Scene Shop and came across parts of the set for Bear Country, the next play to be in our Octagon Theatre. I caught the boys laying down the astro turf and saw the plans to turn our thrust theatre into a football stadium. Here are the pictures I snapped while spying downstairs.

Here's a sample of what the set will look like. Sorry the flash washed it out a bit.

It's Bryant in his tower where he watched how the plays worked on the field. The designer does tons of research for each set.

A little blurry shot of placing the Astroturf. (The guys couldn't stop moving because of the tape!)

A Bird's Eye View!

A Bug's Eye View!


Since the football field starts at the 50 yard line, this ramp provides the perspective in the corner that the field continues down to the field goal.



The top of Bear Bryant's tower. This gave Coach Bryant a better view to watch practices and see how strategies were working.

Annnnnnd...Poof! The magic of the painting crew transforms a bit of Astroturf into a beautiful field!


"Action!Ramp" holds up the rest of the field and once everything is painted it'll look like our Octagon Stage holds half a football field.

That's all for now. Next time I'll have more photos of the set being assembled and hopefully will have lots of great shots from our Christmas Party next week. Last year someone proposed, I wonder what will happen this year.

Happy Holidays!

*edit*: The original picture of stairs were removed because they are part of another show. The correct stairs to the tower are pictured in Part 2 of the build for Bear Country.