"Welcome to Kanagawa, Gypsy Rose Lee" or "The Perfect Party to Bitch, Bitch, Bitch"
Well, they don't call it drama just because we act.
Tonight's scheduled run-through turned into a "polish-night" since we only had about 21 of the 30-some-odd cast members. I thought it would go terribly. It didn't. A lot of good things got worked on. The military routine of the Newsboys number followed by the age transition got more down pact, etc
Speaking of the military routine , after working that dance to death with the orchestra, we ran it for Alison [director] in another room. Now, the dancers in the song are Emma [Baby Louise], me, Rob J. [Tap-Dancing Urchin - experienced dancer] and Brian [Son of Driver/Cigar]. When we ran through the dance for Ali, Rob J actually counted through the steps out loud (something that Mon NEVER DOES - another annoyance about teaching style... uhh... do this when you hear it in the music, then this, then this, then just "bust out"...) and the whole dance made perfect sense and I was overjoyed at attaching counting to a dance (I'm a math major, my life is about defining things precisely and rigourously. Now prove it). It WAS precise and rigourous and therefore fantastic. Anyways, for something that we've only had two rehearsals on, it looks a lot better now.
Tonight, I went into "use as little energy and enthousiasm until you're on stage then go nuts" mode tonight. When I wasn't on, I sat back, started writing up my "everything I do in the show so I won't forget after a month's break" list (got bored with that after a super-condensed page-and-a-half, so I moved on to writing up my Group Theory assignment due tomorrow), play a bit of the Prologue and Giants In The Sky from Into The Woods with Mike [Uncle Jocko] (he had the score on him). So when it was finally time to work on stuff (the opening scene, the "Some People" dance, the military routine and age-transition, Rose's Turn...), I could put a lot into it. And it worked out. Woo.
And one of the directing staff actually sent out notes via email to the cast. It was definitely more notes than I'd ever gotten this year. Quite the novelty.
Tomorrow's rehearsal is on stage in Convocation Hall. Fun or disaster? We'll find out!
Tonight's scheduled run-through turned into a "polish-night" since we only had about 21 of the 30-some-odd cast members. I thought it would go terribly. It didn't. A lot of good things got worked on. The military routine of the Newsboys number followed by the age transition got more down pact, etc
Speaking of the military routine , after working that dance to death with the orchestra, we ran it for Alison [director] in another room. Now, the dancers in the song are Emma [Baby Louise], me, Rob J. [Tap-Dancing Urchin - experienced dancer] and Brian [Son of Driver/Cigar]. When we ran through the dance for Ali, Rob J actually counted through the steps out loud (something that Mon NEVER DOES - another annoyance about teaching style... uhh... do this when you hear it in the music, then this, then this, then just "bust out"...) and the whole dance made perfect sense and I was overjoyed at attaching counting to a dance (I'm a math major, my life is about defining things precisely and rigourously. Now prove it). It WAS precise and rigourous and therefore fantastic. Anyways, for something that we've only had two rehearsals on, it looks a lot better now.
Tonight, I went into "use as little energy and enthousiasm until you're on stage then go nuts" mode tonight. When I wasn't on, I sat back, started writing up my "everything I do in the show so I won't forget after a month's break" list (got bored with that after a super-condensed page-and-a-half, so I moved on to writing up my Group Theory assignment due tomorrow), play a bit of the Prologue and Giants In The Sky from Into The Woods with Mike [Uncle Jocko] (he had the score on him). So when it was finally time to work on stuff (the opening scene, the "Some People" dance, the military routine and age-transition, Rose's Turn...), I could put a lot into it. And it worked out. Woo.
And one of the directing staff actually sent out notes via email to the cast. It was definitely more notes than I'd ever gotten this year. Quite the novelty.
Tomorrow's rehearsal is on stage in Convocation Hall. Fun or disaster? We'll find out!