Ogre Ears and Costume Fears

I recently placed an order for 300 "Ogre Ear" headbands that we will sell to students in the weeks prior to the performance and during intermission as another fundraiser! Ordering the headbands was my first experience dealing directly with a company and signing a contract. I needed to fax the signed contract with the shipping/billing address to the company in Illinois, which was also the first time I'd ever used a fax machine! It always looked so alien and intimidating to me, but it's really extremely simple to use as long as you have the right number. I can't wait for the ears to come in! Hopefully, the shipping will be on schedule and they'll arrive at the end of January!

An issue has recently come up concerning costumes. We were planning on renting costumes from Bishop Hendricken, who recently put on SHREK,  but there was a fire there last week and half of the costumes burned. Thankfully, Rhode Island Youth Theater, a company I have worked with for many years, has also done the show and has dozens of costumes available for rental. Ms. Miller has been in touch with Anne, the manager, and she has agreed to let us rent supplementary costumes from her. Sometime this week, Ms. Miller and I will drive to her house and pick out the costumes we need to make up for the ones that were burned. In the theater, you have to be able to roll with the punches, because anything can happen! The fire at Hendricken was definitely a huge inconvenience for us, but we'll make ends meet by finding costumes elsewhere.