Although her title has changed, Davis said the work remains the same: \u201cmaintaining the artistic brilliance that director Alex Timbers and the rest of the team originally created, and then passing on that knowledge and teaching the show to a new company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis grew up as a theater kid in Peekskill, New York.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first year I got involved, I was a performer, but I was really interested in directing. I was able to start doing that when I was just 16,\u201d Davis said in an interview with GV Wire.<\/p>\n She founded her own production company at 17, staging \u201cRent,\u201d before heading to New York University.<\/p>\n An internship with The Public Theater<\/a> led her to Timbers, who later directed the Broadway version of \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe show has been a long journey, but I got involved in the early stages when it was still being written. Alex, the producers, the writers and I would get together and read through early scripts,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n What Does a Director Do?<\/p>\n \u201c(The audience is) going to see it really fresh. We will have just finished and it\u2019ll be really energized and new.\u201d \u2014 Director Catie Davis<\/p>\n Because this is the first performance of a six-month tour, the cast and crew have been in Fresno since last week, setting up the production and making last-minute tweaks.<\/p>\n During the development of a show, Davis said, the director can be \u201ca sounding board, an outside eye who watches the story and offers feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n That feedback can include how to design and use the set. \u201cBeetlejuice,\u201d Davis said, \u201cis ripe with visual ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe design has a lot of exciting elements and incorporates more than a typical show. We have puppetry, illusions, special effects and other elements that not every musical has,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n The director helps incorporate those elements and works with the choreographer on dance sequences.<\/p>\n Taking the show on the road creates additional challenges, including how to move sets in and out of trucks.<\/p>\n \u201cMy role is to figure out how we need to adapt and shift the design slightly to make it tour-able,\u201d Davis said. \u201cEverything has to pack up and move, but we want it to feel and look like the original design.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3-Beetlejuice-The-Musical-Australian-Production-Hunder-1024x682.jpg\")
<\/a>A scene from the Australian production of \u201cBeetlejuice.\u201d (Beetlejuice\/Michelle Grace Hunder)
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