DAY FORTY EIGHT - Saturday May 12
Another massive rehearsal where we were going to attempt to run the whole show - but best laid plans of mice and men... We barely got through the end of act one. But, we had to fix all these huge scenes which we had never quite polished before. Well, we attempted to polish them - but people keep forgetting what we did so we had to re-teach - yet AGAIN!. It is VERY frustrating that nobody seems to write anything down - EVER! Not principals, not chorus - nobody. The A.D. seems to be getting it and the Stage Manager (?) has started writing down blocking as well. If somebody is writing down the chorus staging - they are not reviewing it with them so it's like Groundhog Day (the movie) every time we hit these scenes. One of these days, it has to stick, right?
Here's a nice video of the end of the prologue - it's a great number that builds and builds and builds... Patti, correct me if I'm wrong but I think that final spin thing was given to Patti by Agnes DeMille herself!
In the evening, we again traded off the lead couples but one never really knows who will show up at a given rehearsal - or how long they'll stay. Yesterday, a couple of the actors whom we were told would be there weren't - tonight, it was kind of the opposite. Folks I didn't think would be there, were!
Another massive rehearsal where we were going to attempt to run the whole show - but best laid plans of mice and men... We barely got through the end of act one. But, we had to fix all these huge scenes which we had never quite polished before. Well, we attempted to polish them - but people keep forgetting what we did so we had to re-teach - yet AGAIN!. It is VERY frustrating that nobody seems to write anything down - EVER! Not principals, not chorus - nobody. The A.D. seems to be getting it and the Stage Manager (?) has started writing down blocking as well. If somebody is writing down the chorus staging - they are not reviewing it with them so it's like Groundhog Day (the movie) every time we hit these scenes. One of these days, it has to stick, right?
Here's a nice video of the end of the prologue - it's a great number that builds and builds and builds... Patti, correct me if I'm wrong but I think that final spin thing was given to Patti by Agnes DeMille herself!
In the evening, we again traded off the lead couples but one never really knows who will show up at a given rehearsal - or how long they'll stay. Yesterday, a couple of the actors whom we were told would be there weren't - tonight, it was kind of the opposite. Folks I didn't think would be there, were!
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