Blood, Sweat, and Cheers Show Wrap-Up

It's been almost 3 weeks since Blood, Sweat, and Cheers closed our 8-show run at the Salvage Vanguard Theater here in Austin. Things are finally settling down, and I wanted to take a moment to say thanks. 

Our run was a huge success, and thats thanks in large part to you all, our supporters and loyal readers. Our Kickstarter donors and Creative Fund Grant made it possible for us to rent our blue cheer mat, buy costumes and set pieces, and pay our hardworking crew, cast, and cheerleaders. Your continued praise, questions, thoughts, and volunteering helped us to get this show on its feet and keep it going, even when things got rough. 

Your patronage and support helps us to continue to do our best to make Austin one the nation's best cities for experimental, affordable, and accessible arts and theater.

Overall, Blood, Sweat, and Cheers was a big WIN. We had great audiences for every single performance, and by our final performance we were at standing-room-only capacity. We received amazing media attention with mentions or articles on KUT's Arts Eclectic, Austin Lifestyle Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, and The Austin American-Statesman. We received countless amounts of remarkable and joyous audience feedback throughout our entire run as well as helpful criticism. We successfully incorporated 9 brave kid and teen cheerleaders into our show with no accidents and left the Salvage Vanguard Theater in better condition than we found it. 

This show gave us a lot of new and challenging parameters as creators and performers, from scripting the show ourselves using improv as a major element, to the intensive training of the 5 cheer leads, to the sheer scale of our 19-cast production (with some of our cheerleaders being as young as 8-years-old). We learned a lot and we're excited to see what comes next.

Now for some fun links!

Photos!
There are many professional photos from the show online that you can view and/or download (I've added a small number of them to this update, as you can see). We don't mind if you use or share these photos as long as you credit the photographer!
Steve Roger's Photos:
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.546330938763760.1073741876.221927764537414&type=3 
High Resolution Gallery: http://www.steve-rogers-photography.com/ImprovPerformances/Blood-Sweat-and-Cheers/29826516_4VdvBG
Claudio Fox's Photos: https://www.facebook.com/claudio.fox.5/media_set?set=a.579015915453241.1073741841.100000345135257&type=3
Michael Yew's Photos: https://www.facebook.com/michael.yew/media_set?set=a.4862013230937.1073741838.1315383518&type=3

Video!
Our Sunday June 2nd performance was filmed and you can view it for free on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/67621275

Or, if you just want some quick razzle-dazzle, the video of our big finale cheer routine is viewable here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10103216714210810&set=vb.7930939&type=2&theater

Once again, thank you so very much for supporting our risky, exciting, and challenging project. This show took over 10 months to create, but we had so much fun making it come alive from scratch.

All My Love,
Kaci Beeler
Producer, Mr. and Mrs. Danger Productions

PS: A training follow-up is still to come!