I hope everyone was comfortable with the set tonight. The only changes you'll see from this point forward that will affect you will be wall or backstage partition additions to block the audience's view of backstage. We will also obviously have more props on stage as well. Hopefully by tomorrow night, all of the walls will be done and the bulk of the wall covering finished as well.
Speaking of props, Lisa Garza asked me to post the following:
You will notice dead animals starting to appear on the set this week and next. Please handle with care as the vast majority of these are borrowed! Resist the urge to touch or pet; after all, they may be like the sofa and in the mood for biting!
Now for tonight's rehearsal...
Obviously everyone must continue to work on dialogue memorization. Some of you are much closer to an acceptable level of memorization than others, but everyone had at least one line tonight that was completely paraphrased; some of you had many more than that. Beginning Wednesday night, we will start taking line notes, and will send those to you privately. As I wrote in a very early blog post, make every effort to have someone reading along in your script while you recite your lines, and have them stop you when you are grossly wrong, and take notes for other things that you miss or change. I promise you'll be amazed at just how far off from word-perfect that you really are.
Nora asked tonight if you should start bringing your costumes from home that you plan to use, and the answer is an emphatic YES! We can take time to work on costume changes between scenes this week, since it's a lot easier to figure out now that we need more time for a scene change than next Tuesday or Wednesday when we'll have less time to adjust.
Only THREE rehearsals until Tech Week! Now is the time to shift into that next gear and dial our performances in. We've got a good show, and we're really close to a great show. See you all Tuesday night.
Tracy
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