guys & dolls
guys & doll
Originally uploaded by embem30It's Thanksgiving, and one of the things for which I am thankful is the fact that the fall show is done. The last two years, we've performed them the first weekend in December, which meant that Thanksgiving was the last break before a busy and stressful tech week. This year, we did Guys & Dolls the weekend before Thanksgiving.
As with Grease last year, however, it wasn't easy. The fall show seems to get harder and more frustrating each year. There was the usual shortage of boys, we had several kids with scheduling conflicts that we had to work around, and it took us a while to secure someone to play Sky (he wasn't even able to come in until about 2-3 weeks before opening). To make matters worse, several kids missed rehearsals because of the flu. I'm not sure if it was swine flu or normal flu, but it kept a few of them out for longer than was convenient for us. We also gave many lectures about reviewing and practicing at home, after having to fix things multiple times. It seemed like they would just walk out the door and forget everything we told them--not conducive to producing a good show.
But somehow, they pulled it out last weekend and did well. Suddenly, more of the jokes were actually landing, and they were really performing. Oh, it still wasn't as tight as I would have liked for one of my favorite musicals, but they did a good job.
I took some pictures during the final dress rehearsal last Thursday and a few before two of the shows, to get a couple of the songs I had missed while I was playing. Most of the pictures are on Facebook rather than Flickr.