Sunday night was the strike of the set of “The Sound of Music”, which ran for four weekends. After the show, the two casts of children greeted each other with squeals and hugs, since they had rarely seen one another once rehearsals split into one cast one night, the other the next. The exception were Cast A watching Sunday's Cast B and Cast B coming to see Cast A’s performance on Saturday night. Cast B was able to watch from the front two rows.

The set started coming down before all the cast had come back from seeing family and friends in the lobby. Props were brought up to the prop room, costumes were sorted, the dressing room cleared of personal items and cleaned. While much of the set dismantling was happening on stage, the kids all gathered in the lobby for work first – erasing scripts – then fun and games. The cast and crew wore some holiday-themed shirts and sweaters for strike, as their show sweatshirts were distributed after at the cast party. Once the set was down and everything put away, dinner was in the lobby and the cast presented gifts to the production staff. The theater will not be idle for the holidays, Sweet Charity principles are coming in starting this week for rehearsals.

-- posted by Margaret Barrasso

Producer Newt Curtis displays the cast sweatshirt

Jon Carr begins the strike by taking down the columns on stage assisted by Sue Finch

The church windows were carefully dismantled by Mark Caulkins, Missy Babineau and Sue Finch

The church gates removed from the wall by Missy Babineau and Andrew Pezzulo

Helpers Abbie Martin, Janelle Kleftis and Peter Stein await the next piece of set to be passed to them through the doors to the storage barn

Kevin Doherty removes the baseboards

Light board operator Mary Meserve gets a hand cleaning up from Alina Grimshaw, Alicia Fournier and Samson Martin

Ali takes a turn vacuuming the make-up room

Linda Banks is returning borrowed props

On his way to the prop room is Stage Manager Paul Menezes

Set builder Ken Hutchens helps take down the scrim curtain

Ensemble member Andrew Pezzulo takes down the black fabric used for masking backstage

The younger cast members help out by erasing the scripts – removing the blocking and other notes

After the work, the kids play games in the lobby