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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

If It's Not One Thing, It's Another...

I don't even want to think about how close we are to opening.  Act III is going to kill me.  I think it is the most difficult thing I have ever tried to sing.  Tomorrow night is our first complete run-through, but we're starting with Act III so the children can go home early and not have to stay up until 10 pm.  

Scheduling is difficult because we don't want anyone to have to sit around, but it a bit like one of those SAT problems that ask you, "If the red house is next to the blue house and the green house is next to the yellow house with a purple house two doors to the right...where is the pink house?"  The Sandman and the Dew Fairy are at the end of Act II and beginning of Act III, Gertrude (The Mother) and Peter (The Father) are in Act I and Act III, the Gingerbread Children are at the end of Act III...so how do you schedule so no one has to sit around?  III, I, II solves most of the problems for the next couple of rehearsals, but when we get to the theatre I think we will have to run in order.  Parents might not be so happy with that, but it is scary to only have one run-through in order.

Today we had a tech meeting with the TD and Manager of the school theatre.  I guess I have to learn to roll with the punches.  No piano in the pit, fire department doesn't allow fog machines, need for a $1 MILLION liability policy (talk about a budget buster).  I hope there are no more surprises, but I shouldn't say that because certainly there will be something and it will be big.

Thankfully our Scenic Designer, Ben Oldham, is unflappable.  He and the TD of the theatre had a chat and they both were happy.  YAY!

Tomorrow night our Costume Designer, Laura Kampas, will be with us too.  We are all especially excited to see the Dew Fairy and the Sandman costumes.  I have utmost confidence in Laura. 

Let the Magic begin....

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