Riddle Players Theatre Company

Well, you've met my friends at Touch-N-Go. Well, there's another awesome group of people who are absolutely awesome. They're called the Riddle Players Theatre Company. Today, we took a field trip to our storage unit, and saw all the fun things that are available for our upcoming production. Plenty of Flats, a door, tools and paint, costumes, make-up...yes, it was all there! We found lots of fun things in the costumes, and some strange hats, props, and even severed body parts. There's nothing quite like bursting into song with severed body parts and theatre people who can actually sing on key.

We arrived to the storage unit in three cars-for the six of us, including our awesome advisor Brian--who, fun fact, also advises the pep band.










Besides our advisor, there's Nathaniel, Matt, Ali (budget), Ethan, me, and a few others. We're such a fun group. Now when you see these photos, also imagine random bursting into song. That's how you know you're with the right group of people. Everyone in this group recognizes musical references. I always have so much fun because theatre is what I'm best at, and we speak the language. We're a small group, so we all help with everything in some way. There's always a job to do, an opinion needed. We listen to ALL ideas.








There was a treasure trove of things to see. I think we all let out a little gasp of excitement at the realization of all the fun things we had to work with.

Every production needs a baseball bat, a golf
club, and a funeral bouquet

Because no stage show is complete without a funeral bouquet

We dressed up in costume, and shot each other with orange-tipped guns. After a stern warning from our advisor to not bring those things anywhere NEAR campus!!

Look at all these old scripts and playbills we found. As one person said, it was like a yearbook of all the things that Riddle Players has done.










We found ourselves some handy tools-that army bag was full of nuts and bolts we could use to put our sets together. We also found some paint-red and silver and beige. This white paint had actually hardened to a paste, which gave us a laugh!

On the stranger side, we found a fantastic 4 costume and a severed arm...












Look at all this cool stuff! Costumes, and makeup, decorative boards, makeup, drop-cloth, tools....

And at the end of the day, we all enjoyed a nice, cold drink. JUST KIDDING! Another awesome prop we found and had a good laugh over.

So that's Riddle Players Theatre company. With our production coming up in four to five short weeks, stay up-to-date on all the fun things this awesome group is doing right here!

xoxo Martian

Events with Touch-N-Go

So, as mentioned, Touch-N-Go does COOL STUFF.

Much like Prescott BCA, TNG here in Daytona beach brings in movies, comedy acts, and puts on other fun activities like Casino night.

The Thunderbirds visit ERAU

It was Drew's idea to put the skirts
behind the screens to make it more
visible

There was setting up for when the thunderbirds came to visit, which meant getting up REALLY early-like seven AM!!!

The chairs and that stage with the skirt?
Yup, Touch-N-Go did it.

Casino Night

Then there's Casino night, where there was over ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in Prizes!!

Paint U EDM Music night

All darkness, glow in the dark paint, an outside stage that had to be covered in a tarp. The grass is still lime green. People were throwing their glow necklaces in the trees.

This was set-up. Everyone got really excited about the HUGE sound board we had. I mean look at the size of this thing!!!

I've never quite seen EVERYONE gathered around the sound board quite like this.

 Finally, the event!! All that set-up, for this. It was SO COOL. This is the view from outside, and behind, the flying paint from the paint cannon. Yes, I said PAINT. CANNON.

BASEBALL PRACTICE

See, Touch-N-Go isn't just events, set up, and clean-up. When we finish early, we get to just have fun. After all, we are all college students, we like to goof around! So WIKD (the radio station that helped with the event) brought the bat, TNG brought the ball, and Marcus pitched, and everyone up on the stage got to hit.

Sometimes it's fun to just hang out, throw the ball around, relax...

Drew runs the TNG softball team, you can see Manny and Lorraine here ready to play!












So that's a Martian's eye view from some really cool events Touch-N-Go does. Stay up to date on all my super-fun college adventures back here!

xoxo Martian

Martian's eye view from Touch N Go Productions

Touch-N-Go productions with some of the Thunderbirds!
L-R: Grey shirt (2nd in) is Brandon, then Kendall, Robert, Silvano, Steven, [Thunderbird], Michael, Geo, ME!!!! Chris, Drew

Welcome to an exciting update from here at ERAU-Daytona Beach. The newest place this Martian finds herself.

Well, Embry Riddle has been fantastic to me, thus far. I met some awesome people, and they call themselves Touch-N-Go productions. They're like Prescott's BCA. They put on movies, they do concerts, they do comedy shows, and other stuff like that.

So, meet some of my new friends!!

There's Christopher-most people call him the last part of his name, Tofer. I just call him Chris. The reason for that is there's another chris, and he goes by Chris or by his last name, Silvano. "tofer" is also known as "sound dude". He's the best to ask questions from. He knows a LOT of stuff about sound, and also about how to wrap a cable correctly.

Tofer is dating Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn does promotional stuff and she's REALLY good at it. Touch-N-Go's activities are always well attended because of her good job promoting them.

Then there's other Chris-the one I mentioned actually goes by his last name. He's super good at set-up stuff-actually, everyone is, but here he is helping Kaitlyn set-up Bingo for Casino night (more on that to come!)

Brandon is good at lighting, controlling stage pieces, and the people around them, and being VERY particular. That sounds bad but it's actually VERY important. Without him being particular, everything wouldn't be lined up correctly, or done in a timely manner... Because of his particularity, We get stuff done, and our stuff looks AWESOME. Also, he likes coffee. I've seen him drinking it even at nighttime! We all know why I can't do that...

Steven helps Tofer on sound stuff. He likes Minecraft. He built a ROLLER COASTER!!! He's a really good helper during shows and stuff. Also, he helps me practice my math sometimes.

Lorraine does food stuff and helps take care of the acts. She prepares the dressing-room-like area and brings things like waters, and soda, and even sunscreen. She likes water snakes enough that I got her her own, and she hid it and no one knows where it is except her! :) She's nice and if I have nothing to do she gives me jobs.

Dustin is cool. His point of pride seems to be his beard. I'm pretty sure he's the boss-man, but he's not BOSSY. He's like a good leader-he doesn't make everyone else do things, he is a boots-on-the-ground person. He leads the meetings, and he keeps everything moving smoothly.



Jason does security stuff. When he's the boss we wear cool yellow polos-like these....
He helps count how many people come in, and keeps an eye out for "suspicious characters" and bad behavior.
His motto is "safety is sexy" 

creds to touch-n-go.org

Drew is super nice. He introduced me to everyone, and he coaches softball, and he roots for the Panthers. He was VERY disappointed in how the Super Bowl turned out.

Michael does money stuff. He's a pilot and he just passed his instrument test! We were VERY proud of him and everyone clapped!!!

Kendall helps with, in his words "soundy stagey stuff". He apparently is talented at "making stuff awesome". Here he is making sure everyone that came to Casino night gets tickets and stuff.

Jessie picks the movies. He makes sure everyone has what they need, and is in charge of managing the office, like I manage my Skyhawks team...And this blog, OF COURSE!! But he doesn't just stay in the office, he helps set-up stuff too, just like everyone does!!

Manny plays Ninja with me on movie nights and is super good at the counters, and he's getting much better at Ninja, if I didn't use my ninja kicks. But he's getting good at getting my arms! Although I remember certain DEFY kiddos who loved to get me out with those same sneaky ninja kicks. Guess I learned!

Kevin hangs out in the office a lot. He's a good helper and he's tall, so he's good for hanging the cables up and pushing the stage decks. I usually am on the other end of the deck he's pushing, so I'm the puller. Also I'm short, so I can't reach where the cables go. He's a good person to call if I can't throw them onto the hook. Robert helps me with that too. Everyone is actually a super-good team player. Maybe that's why everyone makes such good softball teammates too!

Marcus, Angus, Ben, Geo, and Shelby are some other awesome people in Touch N Go. Like me, we basically do "whatever we are told". That's ok though, since the more people there are, the more direction is needed. But for big events, we definitely come in HAND-y! Ben also hangs out at the office a lot with Steven and plays Minecraft and he builds some REALLY cool stuff!

So that's "all hands on deck" from here at Touch-N-Go! And here we are at work:

Tune in next post, for more information about the super-fun activities Touch N Go does here.

xoxo
Martian