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It's been a very G&G weekend. :p Except Friday night. We watched Center Stage on Friday. A very fun movie, even if the ending required suspending your disbelief from the ceiling. :p The dancing was very shiny. I got excited every time I recognized a dance term. It's the same sort of rush I get when I recognize a Japanese word when watching anime. :p "Hey, pas de bouret... no kick kick though." (Explanation: When we did Footloose in first year, the choreographers default move was "kick, kick, pas de bouret". We did this for the entire dance off of "Let's Hear it for the Boy". It grew most tiresome. :p)
The next day, we had the EVER fun ten AM Saturday rehearsal. Yeah, people trickled in late. :p We had the kids, so there was a lot of Munchkinland and Emerald City stuff. We're getting somewhat tired of constantly running the Munchkin sequence. It does have fun novelty aspect for me though. I actually get to COWER IN FEAR! I don't usually get to do that in "cower in fear" sections because I usually have to be a mommy. :p But since we're all Munchkins, I get to cower! :p This is what passes for excitement in my life. :p
Well, that and the fact that last night was G&G Pub Night. :p We skipped out on anime club after the Animaritime meeting. For a while, Vicki, Erin, Jill and I were the only ones there and we were all most distressed. THen we started playing pool. Eventually, other people showed up and we were happy. SInce none of the high school students showed up, they somehow got the bartenders to start serving alcohol early. Erin and I had the conversation that Vicki and I have been having for the last little bit (I imagine Vicki and Erin have had it too :p), which consists of "Can you BELIEVE there aren't going to be any lifers next year?" (Lifers are people who have been in G&G all four years they were at Mount A) This also includes discussion of who the blazes is going to be the exec, and especially PRESIDENT, next year, because there aren't even people who are in third year who just aren't going to be lifers.
Pub night included the ever fun choreographed dancing at a bar. First we got them to put on "Sweet Home Alabama" and we TRIED to do last year's spirit dance. They didn't have the version we used though, so we could only really dance the chorus. Brian laughed at the fact he was drunk and STILL teaching people to dance. After that, they played "Jump, Jive and Wail" and we did THIS year's spirit dance. It was crazy mad fun and we joked that we should ALWAYS do the spirit dance drunk. (Well, I wasn't drunk. I had the fun time of explaining why I can't drink. :p) The people from the Classics Society who were there in togas applauded. :p There was a SERIOUSLY intense game of foosball at one point, and we monopolized the pool tables. :p I don't usually like the pub, but on G&G night, it's awesome. :p
I had to leave pretty early since I wanted to actually get to church this week. Considering I had to skip last week, and there's no way I'm going to make it the morning after the CAST PARTY, it seemed like the thing to do. :p The sidewalks were AWFUL. We've had a lot of snow followed by rain and then temperature drops, so there's a definite ice situation. For some reason, the sidewalks weren't properly salted. I was late to church because rushing and breaking my ankle when the show opens on THURSDAY would be bad. We managed to get through an entire year without anyone putting themself out of comission shortly below the show, and we'd like to repeat that performance. But considering the high school kids kept talking about The Scottish Play yesterday... (History: When we did Footloose, someone said it to our lead and he dislocated his knee in a rehearsal two days before we opened. We wound up writing Jeeter out of the show so the guy who was playing him could learn the role of Ren in a day. He was AMAZING and I'm still in awe that he pulled it off. When we did Copacabana, we had a girl walk off the stage when they were doing light levels, breaking her ankle. We now have battery powered lights around the edge of the stage called the Carolyn Lights. You do not walk past the Carolyn Lights. :p)
We didn't have rehearsal until three today (yes Katie, I know, but I had schoolwork to do :p), which was probably a very good idea. Otherwise, the day after Pub Night? I'm picturing "We got up at noon and had rehearsal at one. Had breakfast for lunch and my energy is done. This is not fun!"
Of course, today we did cue to cue, which is always the most evil rehearsal. For the non-theatre people, cue to cue is when you only do little bits of scenes that contain technical cues. But you do these little bits over and over again, because it's the first time the technical cues are actually being used. So it's an IMPORTANT rehearsal, but a bloody annoying one. THough nothing will ever beat the cue to cue for Footloose, where we spent THREE HOURS doing the cues for "Somebody's Eyes", because it had like SEVEN set changes, using all the most cumbersome set pieces. The trickiest scene change so far this time is, naturally, the tornado. :p The one thing that was somewhat troublesome tonight was that we only did the cue to cues for Act 1, because the tech wasn't quite ready for Act 2. Which means tomorrow is MORE cue to cues instead of running the show. We open on Thursday, so EEP. :p
The next day, we had the EVER fun ten AM Saturday rehearsal. Yeah, people trickled in late. :p We had the kids, so there was a lot of Munchkinland and Emerald City stuff. We're getting somewhat tired of constantly running the Munchkin sequence. It does have fun novelty aspect for me though. I actually get to COWER IN FEAR! I don't usually get to do that in "cower in fear" sections because I usually have to be a mommy. :p But since we're all Munchkins, I get to cower! :p This is what passes for excitement in my life. :p
Well, that and the fact that last night was G&G Pub Night. :p We skipped out on anime club after the Animaritime meeting. For a while, Vicki, Erin, Jill and I were the only ones there and we were all most distressed. THen we started playing pool. Eventually, other people showed up and we were happy. SInce none of the high school students showed up, they somehow got the bartenders to start serving alcohol early. Erin and I had the conversation that Vicki and I have been having for the last little bit (I imagine Vicki and Erin have had it too :p), which consists of "Can you BELIEVE there aren't going to be any lifers next year?" (Lifers are people who have been in G&G all four years they were at Mount A) This also includes discussion of who the blazes is going to be the exec, and especially PRESIDENT, next year, because there aren't even people who are in third year who just aren't going to be lifers.
Pub night included the ever fun choreographed dancing at a bar. First we got them to put on "Sweet Home Alabama" and we TRIED to do last year's spirit dance. They didn't have the version we used though, so we could only really dance the chorus. Brian laughed at the fact he was drunk and STILL teaching people to dance. After that, they played "Jump, Jive and Wail" and we did THIS year's spirit dance. It was crazy mad fun and we joked that we should ALWAYS do the spirit dance drunk. (Well, I wasn't drunk. I had the fun time of explaining why I can't drink. :p) The people from the Classics Society who were there in togas applauded. :p There was a SERIOUSLY intense game of foosball at one point, and we monopolized the pool tables. :p I don't usually like the pub, but on G&G night, it's awesome. :p
I had to leave pretty early since I wanted to actually get to church this week. Considering I had to skip last week, and there's no way I'm going to make it the morning after the CAST PARTY, it seemed like the thing to do. :p The sidewalks were AWFUL. We've had a lot of snow followed by rain and then temperature drops, so there's a definite ice situation. For some reason, the sidewalks weren't properly salted. I was late to church because rushing and breaking my ankle when the show opens on THURSDAY would be bad. We managed to get through an entire year without anyone putting themself out of comission shortly below the show, and we'd like to repeat that performance. But considering the high school kids kept talking about The Scottish Play yesterday... (History: When we did Footloose, someone said it to our lead and he dislocated his knee in a rehearsal two days before we opened. We wound up writing Jeeter out of the show so the guy who was playing him could learn the role of Ren in a day. He was AMAZING and I'm still in awe that he pulled it off. When we did Copacabana, we had a girl walk off the stage when they were doing light levels, breaking her ankle. We now have battery powered lights around the edge of the stage called the Carolyn Lights. You do not walk past the Carolyn Lights. :p)
We didn't have rehearsal until three today (yes Katie, I know, but I had schoolwork to do :p), which was probably a very good idea. Otherwise, the day after Pub Night? I'm picturing "We got up at noon and had rehearsal at one. Had breakfast for lunch and my energy is done. This is not fun!"
Of course, today we did cue to cue, which is always the most evil rehearsal. For the non-theatre people, cue to cue is when you only do little bits of scenes that contain technical cues. But you do these little bits over and over again, because it's the first time the technical cues are actually being used. So it's an IMPORTANT rehearsal, but a bloody annoying one. THough nothing will ever beat the cue to cue for Footloose, where we spent THREE HOURS doing the cues for "Somebody's Eyes", because it had like SEVEN set changes, using all the most cumbersome set pieces. The trickiest scene change so far this time is, naturally, the tornado. :p The one thing that was somewhat troublesome tonight was that we only did the cue to cues for Act 1, because the tech wasn't quite ready for Act 2. Which means tomorrow is MORE cue to cues instead of running the show. We open on Thursday, so EEP. :p