The day after tomorrow?
So apparently we all just realized that we open... the day after tomorrow. Here we have been just hangin' out, sleeping' in, lazin' about, and suddenly we're in way over our heads and there's going to be some people expecting a show!
Not that it's out of control, but we're so far behind where we've ever been that it is unbelievable. When I left four months ago we had one of the smoothest, most polished shows I've ever been in. You know, the ones where everybody feels the same vibe onstage, nobody (even me) ever forgets lines, and scene changes happen so fast that you hardly notice them? Now suddenly it's a few months, and a few new people down the road, and we're drowning!
Today the crew ran their first full dry tech on the show while I was still asleep. When the cast arrived around one, we were supposed to do a sound check, get that all figured out, and then sing through the whole show with the orchestra (it's called a sitz probe). Then, if we had enough time we'd run the show from start to finish with costumes. Tech was running late when we arrived, so we improvised by going over problematic solos with our assistant music director for a few hours. By three we were sitting on the stage waiting for sound check. Little did we know that there had been NO dry tech since there were problems with things missing or something. Little did we also know that there were problems with the sound equiptment. Two and a half hours of sitting around later, we had run three songs with the orchestra, and nobody had been sound checked.
A dinner of cafeteria food gave us the strength to return around seven, when they decided we should just run the show. Unfortunately, the kids had to leave at eight because of labor laws or whiny parents or something, so we continued without them. Even without the kids (skipping some of their scenes) by nine o clock we still weren't done... with ACT ONE. My big song is at the end of act one, and I have sung it exactaly ONCE in the week-ish we've been here. Awesome. We got out of costume and finally sound checked, and were home by eleven.
Now is the time that I sit down and start to think and get a little nervous. We have one full day of rehearsal left (tomorrow), plus probably a dress-rehearsal for press the morning of the show. Even so, we are cutting it a bit close! Added to this is the fact that our Captain VonTrapp AND our Maria have been sick all week and aren't rehearsing. Both of them have been doing the show for about a milllion years, but I feel so bad for their poor understudies (one of whom is brand new) who might have to perform the day after tomorrow. Craziness!!
All I can say is, wish me luck tomorrow. And the day after!!
Not that it's out of control, but we're so far behind where we've ever been that it is unbelievable. When I left four months ago we had one of the smoothest, most polished shows I've ever been in. You know, the ones where everybody feels the same vibe onstage, nobody (even me) ever forgets lines, and scene changes happen so fast that you hardly notice them? Now suddenly it's a few months, and a few new people down the road, and we're drowning!
Today the crew ran their first full dry tech on the show while I was still asleep. When the cast arrived around one, we were supposed to do a sound check, get that all figured out, and then sing through the whole show with the orchestra (it's called a sitz probe). Then, if we had enough time we'd run the show from start to finish with costumes. Tech was running late when we arrived, so we improvised by going over problematic solos with our assistant music director for a few hours. By three we were sitting on the stage waiting for sound check. Little did we know that there had been NO dry tech since there were problems with things missing or something. Little did we also know that there were problems with the sound equiptment. Two and a half hours of sitting around later, we had run three songs with the orchestra, and nobody had been sound checked.
A dinner of cafeteria food gave us the strength to return around seven, when they decided we should just run the show. Unfortunately, the kids had to leave at eight because of labor laws or whiny parents or something, so we continued without them. Even without the kids (skipping some of their scenes) by nine o clock we still weren't done... with ACT ONE. My big song is at the end of act one, and I have sung it exactaly ONCE in the week-ish we've been here. Awesome. We got out of costume and finally sound checked, and were home by eleven.
Now is the time that I sit down and start to think and get a little nervous. We have one full day of rehearsal left (tomorrow), plus probably a dress-rehearsal for press the morning of the show. Even so, we are cutting it a bit close! Added to this is the fact that our Captain VonTrapp AND our Maria have been sick all week and aren't rehearsing. Both of them have been doing the show for about a milllion years, but I feel so bad for their poor understudies (one of whom is brand new) who might have to perform the day after tomorrow. Craziness!!
All I can say is, wish me luck tomorrow. And the day after!!
posted by Beth at 12:19 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Bets! Great seeing you 2 weeks ago. Good luck on the show and sing pretty!!
Love you - NT
YOu'll be terrfic in spite of your reservations -- you'll just end up stealing the spotlight, as always. Love, M&D
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