{"id":14193,"date":"2020-01-30T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:59:13","slug":"transform-benefit-for-current-future-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2020\/01\/30\/transform-benefit-for-current-future-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre department hosts Transform benefit for current, future students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Harding theatre department hosted its second annual benefit Transform Saturday, raising money for not only the theatre department but scholarships for future and current theatre students.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hosted in the Administration Auditorium, Transform allowed people to see behind the curtains of theatre.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transform\u2019s first performance last year was a success, so the event was brought back for a second turn to make it an annual benefit. Junior Max Ross and producer of theatre Cindee Stockstill created it together. They said its goal was to shake people\u2019s view of Harding\u2019s theatre department, what they can do as artists and to raise money for theatre scholarships.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cAs the theatre department, we have the tendency to be labeled as Spring Sing. Like that\u2019s all we can do, that\u2019s all we do,\u201d Ross said. \u201cWe are trying to get them to see past the glitz and the glamour of Spring Sing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He said the performance aimed to show the audience what they have never seen.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis year\u2019s night was based around rehearsals, auditions, designing set \u2013 everything,\u201d Ross said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A variety of students from the theatre department were involved in putting on the performance, representing different aspects of theatre.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI am excited to have not just a handful of our majors and minors, but 57 of our students,\u201d Stockstill said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Allie Lightfoot played in the segment that demonstrated theatre rehearsal. She was excited to show people what it looks like in the day to day life of a theatre major rather than just the finished product.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt takes hours of work and a lot of emotional energy to put on any kind of production,\u201d Lightfoot said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Likewise, Ross explained the manpower it takes to produce a show. He said what the audience sees is the two hour, 30 minute end product. What they don\u2019t see is the 2,000 plus hours that go into shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the lobby, various tables were set up, showing off different designers, such as light, set, costume and stage managers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c[We are] just trying to give a spotlight to those who don\u2019t ever get spotlights,\u201d Ross said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ross said they hope to continue making Transform an annual show.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m hoping it gets to the point where it is one of the big events here at Harding every year,\u201d Ross said.&nbsp;<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harding theatre department hosted its second annual benefit Transform Saturday, raising money for not only the theatre department but scholarships for future and current theatre students.&nbsp; Hosted in the Administration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15169,"featured_media":14194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14209,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions\/14209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}