So, apparently my goal today was to destroy everything in my path. Today was our 10 out of 12 rehearsal for White Christmas. What that means is that we rehearse for 12 hours with an hour for lunch and an hour for dinner. We basically go cue to cue so it’s a lot of holding and figuring out where transitions are going and how long they are going to take and what needs to be lit and when it needs to be lit and how can we make it prettier and how can we make it smoother and how can we do this without killing everyone. To give you an idea, this show is 90 minutes long and it took us the whole 10 hours to get all the way through it once. It’s a very slow moving day. I’m running this thing on my side of the stage that we call the Pacman. It’s a computer that controls some of the line sets with scenery on them so we don’t have to counterweight them. Line sets on the things that fly in scenery from above. Well, this Pacman is kind of cool and high tech so today when I was running it, I got a really great quote from the actors around me.
Actor 1: “How does it work?’
Actor 2: “They don’t tell us so we don’t touch it.”
Hehe...that’s pretty much it. It can be dangerous. I almost smashed the stage today because at one point I had the wrong line set selected and I brought in the huge barn that weighs over 750 pounds that isn’t supposed to move and it began to take out everything in it’s path before I could get it to go back up again. It was very scary and I will never do it again. After that I was kind of shaken up so I just couldn’t do anything right. I couldn’t even get a gel into a gel holder. It was really sad. Other than me being completely destructive today, it actually went pretty smoothly for being our first time with all tech. And good news, I get to go to the store tomorrow to buy glow sticks! :) We have dark coves on each side of the stage that we have to store scenery in because we have nowhere else to put it and even though we marked the scenery with glow tape, there is nothing in the cove to actually charge the glow tape so I asked the stage manager if I could go buy glow sticks so no one dies hitting their head on scenery. Yes, that did happen today as well. No one died, but we did have someone slam their head into a leg of a bed that was propped up.
So tomorrow morning I get to go to the read through of Mulan because those rehearsals start tomorrow. Chelsie, the stage manager, decided that it would be good for me to be involved with the rehearsal process every once in a while so I’m not thrown backstage again having no idea what is going on. :) Then I have a meeting with the stage manager and the assistant stage manager to go over the shift plot again for White Christmas just so we have everything down. The shift plot is just that, a plot that tells us what get moved at each shift during the show and where it goes. Then we are just working all afternoon and we have our first dress rehearsal tomorrow night. The rest of the week is dress rehearsals and then we open on Friday night! Whooooo hoooo! I’m getting excited! But for now, I am exhausted and it has been a long day and a not so great day at moments so I need to go to bed and say goodbye to this day so I can say hello to a new day!
Oh, and I heard two of the songs from Secret Garden sung for the first time today! Let's just say I may need to keep a box of tissues backstage. They sound absolutely amazing! Amazing! I can not wait to see Secret Garden. It's going to be beautiful! I have no problem saying that these actors sing the songs better than the original broadway cast! It's the truth. There are not enough words to describe how beautiful it is!
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