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...allows mainstage producers to use its lighting facilities and its machine shop. Members of the ART staff helped the Ui group with accents, publicity and costuming. And to help pay for additional costs, the HRDC allots mainstage producers $1500, while budgets for house productions usually run around $500 or less. Not only that, "we are under no compunction to pay [the money] back," as there is with house productions, Noonan says. And Cibula added, "Most houses do not let us do big ornate productions which make no money...
...along with expanded possiblities, mainstage groups like the Ui gang inherit difficulties. The need to fill the theater's space, the difficulty of organizing so many instruments and people, and the fact that mainstage productions draw a different and much larger crowd can be inhibiting...
...Ui actors and staff say they have not experienced any such problems as organization has been incredibly efficient and that the 24-member cast has developed a marvellous rapport with one other and the production team, despite its large size...
...most of those involved in Ui, a mainstage production combines the fun of student theater with the thrill of professional theater. It's a chance to see what "real" theater is all about, without pressure and competition. And while some students say a large audience may prove daunting, most felt it did not matter...
That is not to say that there was no creation involved in the Ui production. Hainsworth has worked hard to create the atmosphere of Chicago in the roaring twenties. To bring the cast together and to help people get into the period, the director screened gangster movies and Third Reich documentaries in his room every week. And he worked closely with Raphael to get the actor to emulate Hitler's mannerisms...