VST Trivia
You could go here looking for a candle stick, a baby, a coffeemaker, a suitcase, wine bottles, and everything in between.
What is the prop closet?
Sweeny Todd: --- ----- ------ -- ----- ------
What is The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
This show notably had running water on stage
What is Eurydice?
This type of tape is the backbone of all technical theater.
What is gaff tape?
This faculty member spent eight weeks performing as a dancing egg roll and singing cockroach.
Who is Ms. Oppenheim?
If you're looking for the brightest lights in the VST, you might want to check in this aptly-named place.
What is the spot house/spot box?
This musical closed on April 16, 2023, ending its 13,981 show run on Broadway.
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
One of the songs for this Johnnycake production was notably in two time signatures at once.
What is Nice Work if You Can Get It?
This light takes its name from the lens design, invented by a French engineer for which it takes the name, originally invented to go in lighthouses
What is a Fresnel?
This faculty member once had to eat fire and walk on their hands for a production of Barnum.
Who is Ms. Stires-Hardin?
This is the number of line sets in the vst (total number of battens)
What is 30 line sets?
This "popular" musical, which opened on Broadway in 2006, is loosely based on a 1995 novel, which in turn is based on a famous 1900 novel.
What is Wicked?
The exact same rented set of this show recently made an appearance back in Houston.
What is Newsies?
The theater purchased this lighting console over the summer, the same one we used to rent for every show. Chemistry students might know it for this type of molecule with a net electric charge.
What is an ETC Ion Xe?
This faculty member's cat is named after a popular breakfast food.
Who is Mr. Burka?
The VST was preceded by the Alan Lake Chidsey Performing Arts Center. Before that building, however, this was the first theater at SJS.
What is the Hoodwink Playhouse?
This Stephen Sondheim musical closed on Broadway after just 16 shows in 1981, but its 2023 revival won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical this June.
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
St. John's was given permission to do this comedy, but with strict public reveal dates as to not compete with a Houston professional theater running the show just before us.
What is Clue?
This is the weight of one full plate for the fly rail.
What is 36 lbs?
This faculty member is known among their friends for making an elaborately designed baked brie, themed for the occasion, anytime their friends throw a party.
Who is Mr. Murphy?
This is the total number of pianos (acoustic) in the VST (including the annex).
What is 10?
The original version of this recently renowned musical first opened in Barre, Vermont in 2006. A concept album was then released in 2010, but the actual show didn't open until April 17, 2019.
What is Hadestown?
During this show, an actor's hand got stuck in a door, prompting Mr. McDonald to go on stage and get it out.
What is 39 Steps?
This network based sound protocol uses ethernet cables over standard XLR. It shouldn't be confused with a consistency to cook pasta to.
What is Dante?
One of this faculty's immediate family members will marry the daughter of the former captain of the Boston Red Sox in April of next year.
Who is Mr. Morgan?