By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Stage 9 in Hutchinson is getting the work done to present The Sound of Music online this month.
"We've been filming the last week, which is not something I normally say," said Lynsey Becher with Stage 9. "Our production week looked very different than it normally does, but we're having a blast over there."
Becher said The Sound of Music is something they are only able to do because of the pandemic.
"We have an extremely small 85-person seat theater," Becher said. "Normally, we would not be able to do a production of this size in our theater. That's something that has been interesting. Basically, we are camped out throughout the entirety of the theater. Normally, we'd have to worry about audiences and the lobby and now everybody's just kind of strewn everywhere and we have an organized chaos situation going on and it's been thrilling and it hasn't been nearly as stressful as I thought it could potentially be."
Given the nature of the ticketing, it may be difficult to know exactly how many people watched, but the hope is that families will get together and enjoy watching local talent in a familiar story.
"Because it's for an entire household, numbers might not look all that great," Becher said. "The amount of people watching it may be much more than the numbers we're able to generate. It is going to be a little difficult to judge whether this has been a fruitful production for us or not, but, no matter what, us staying active and us giving the actors that creative outlet right now, I think is really, really important."
Tickets are $25 for an unlimited amount of people in one household. Performances are March 19th-21st & 26th-28th. Friday and Saturday shows will premiere at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m.