Putting It Together
MY FAIR LADY Day 10
September 8, 2006
Friday was one of those days that ran the whole gamut of emotions from “are we going to get done on time?” to “oh man, this is really good!” to laughing at ourselves and asking, “what have we done?!” Well, it's all part of putting up a show and this one is no different. We spent a lot of time working on the end of the first act and trying to get it just right. Of course, we were trying all different ideas and told the actors to try a crazy one that we had during a stumble through earlier in the day. When we got to that point in the act I started laughing so hard that it made Karma, Matt and me start crying — we couldn’t stop even though all the actors were doing it with such conviction, but it was just so bad. I told Karma they’re going to think we’re nuts. The great thing was how everyone in the cast just started laughing as well. Chan McQuay looked like a blowfish and Stevie Cupo looked liked he was sitting in an outhouse — it was hysterical, but definitely NOT the direction we wanted to be going in. Oh, well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Needless to say, we changed the ending, but it sure did give us a good laugh. We spent the afternoon putting the rest of the first act together. I was pleased with where we were at the end of the day. It's a monster of an act, but many of the scenes held together nicely when the actors remembered their blocking. Saturday we started again at the top of the act and spent the entire day just working through it before we hit act two on Sunday.
The show’s big and our rehearsal room is very small. We have to use a lot of imagination in staging as only half of it fits into the room, which makes it difficult for such a visual show as this. I can't wait until the entire set is loaded in so we can get on it to really stage the entire show as it will change once we hit the theater.
— ES
September 8, 2006
Friday was one of those days that ran the whole gamut of emotions from “are we going to get done on time?” to “oh man, this is really good!” to laughing at ourselves and asking, “what have we done?!” Well, it's all part of putting up a show and this one is no different. We spent a lot of time working on the end of the first act and trying to get it just right. Of course, we were trying all different ideas and told the actors to try a crazy one that we had during a stumble through earlier in the day. When we got to that point in the act I started laughing so hard that it made Karma, Matt and me start crying — we couldn’t stop even though all the actors were doing it with such conviction, but it was just so bad. I told Karma they’re going to think we’re nuts. The great thing was how everyone in the cast just started laughing as well. Chan McQuay looked like a blowfish and Stevie Cupo looked liked he was sitting in an outhouse — it was hysterical, but definitely NOT the direction we wanted to be going in. Oh, well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Needless to say, we changed the ending, but it sure did give us a good laugh. We spent the afternoon putting the rest of the first act together. I was pleased with where we were at the end of the day. It's a monster of an act, but many of the scenes held together nicely when the actors remembered their blocking. Saturday we started again at the top of the act and spent the entire day just working through it before we hit act two on Sunday.
The show’s big and our rehearsal room is very small. We have to use a lot of imagination in staging as only half of it fits into the room, which makes it difficult for such a visual show as this. I can't wait until the entire set is loaded in so we can get on it to really stage the entire show as it will change once we hit the theater.
— ES
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