Starting Jan. 19, the set crew for the musical, senior and stage manager Olivia Stuertz, and director Kim Sulzner set sail to begin building the set for the spring musical, Anything Goes, set on cruise ship Vios Americana in the 1940s; held on April 9-11 in the auditorium.

“It’s hard to explain because there’s four story lines, so it’s basically boy meets girl, they fall in love, she’s supposed to marry somebody else and then there’s all these other complications,” Sulzner said. “ It’s a love story but it’s really confusing to get there.”

Sulzner comes up with the basic set design by looking at previous performances, at the script, what kinds of things the drama department have, and how the crew can get it set on the  stage. Then, the set evolves from there. It starts with basic platforms, the building blocks of the set, and are placed onstage. Stairs will be put in and walls are already in place. There are also two rolling sets on wagons that pull in and out being that they aren’t needed all the time along with a smaller set that will be built on the floor of the auditorium in front of the stage.

“Some unique features are there’s two halves of it that are totally excluded from each other as well as different parts of the set that come on and off,” sophomore and role of Moonface Martin Zac Cary said. “We also have our turntable which is a standard wall on one side and a jail on the other which I designed We are looking into the jail side having a balcony as well so it would be two stories.”

This set will be the first set since High School Musical, spring 2013, that has more than two levels to it and the first with our new director, Sulzner. Compared to the turn table in director Jeffrey Tandler’s production of Harvey, spring 2014, students are a lot more excited for the outcome here.

“It’s a lot more put together, a lot more intricate, a bit more difficult, and a lot more stories than I’ve ever done or the craftsmanship needed to put together but it’s going to be a really interesting set,” Stuertz said.