Jayla Rogen and Hailey Beaty rehearse their singing and dance steps for the Atlas Follies show.
The Cheyenne Little Theatre is moving from the Atlas Theater stage to video screens with their next production.
The local theater group will present "The Atlas Follies Presents: I Feel Good, A Revue of the '50s and '60s" on Youtube. The event is a fundraiser and will only be available to people who buy tickets. A silent auction, which is also part of the annual event, will be run through the Cheyenne Little Theatre website link, cheyennelittletheatre.org.
It's a big change for performers and directors used to working in front of a live audience.
"We used a drone the other day, and it was like, we're supposed to be happy, we're supposed to be happy," laughed Nancy Stange, one of the performers in the show. "I'm not scared of the drone. It was terrifying."
Rory Mack, the show's director, said planning for the event was completely different.
"It's not like a live show because it's never performed from top to bottom," he said. "It's just performed in pieces, and then they'll record them and edit them all together to look like a television show."
The final song was filmed last week, and the show was turned over to Midnight West Productions, the local video production company that did the filming, to edit.
Despite the fact that the performance will be virtual, the singers, dancers, and crew maintained social distancing. The use of the cameras helped, according to Assistant Director and Choreographer Kathy Reidel.
"It's been really challenging doing social distance dancing, but I think the film has really helped because it can look like we're close together even when we're not," she said.
The show will be all music and dancing. The first act will be songs from the 1950s, and the second act will move to the 1960s.
Reidel said there were a lot of dance moves to learn.
"There's a whole dance break where it's the Twist, the Limbo, the Watusi, the Mashed Potatoes, the Frug, and all sorts of 60's dances," she said. "It's really fun."
The shows will air on March 19 and 20. Tickets will be available through the Cheyenne Little Theatre website. Rory Mack said CLTP was hoping to raise $10,000 each night through ticket sales, silent auction items, and donations. Unlike most streaming videos, the show will air at specific times and will not be available outside those times.
"That's traditionally what we do with the fundraiser, so we're trying to make it feel as much like that event as possible," Mack said.
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