Week 5....

This week was the last of rehearsals to be on book.
our set is 90% complete.
Costumes are being done.
Lines are being memorized.
We have entered the home stretch.
This coming week, rehearsals are Monday-Wednesday, 6:30- 8:30.
THEN, starting on Sunday the 22nd, we've got Tech Week.
*OMINOUS MUSIC!!!!!*
Sunday at 4:30, then Monday-Thursday, with a 6:00 call time.
THEN, the show opens on the 27th.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!

Please study your lines and blocking guys!!!!

Set building Saturday and Week four: Night one

Set Building Saturday was a smash.
Everyone really came together and worked together to make this show happen in a big way.
The dads who showed up were above and beyond with the set.
Some of the moms went up and helped figure out the crazy costume mess in the green room.
Some were painting and helping with parts of the set.
A few were brave enough to help clean the restrooms.
Yikes.
Cast members were EVERYWHERE, helping with every kind of odd job.
It was a beautiful thing.
Once everyone left around 5:30, James and I started on painting the stage.
We finished the stage floor around 8- something and called a quits.
I popped in Sunday Evening and painted parts of the front of the stage myself, and touched up on a couple of spots we missed the previous night.
Last night, I started painting parts of the set.
I was elated to see a couple dads come back to finish working on the set during practice.
A-Mazing!

Rehearsal-wise, last night, we went over Act II.
I say "we" even though I missed most of it because of the board meeting.
Argh.
I apologize for not being in a stellar mood last night.
It'll be better tonight, I promise, when we go over Act I.

The show itself will be an adventure....

16 days.
AGH!!!
16 days.
And because of faulty schedules and weather, I haven't been to the library as of yet.
I apologize.
James and I are really excited about the production.
It's going to rock.
This will be James' first time taking a stab at directing, though he's been involved in RTP productions for several years now.
You may have seen him aroud last year with Pinocchio.
His fabulous wife Vera played the Police Officer, and he was at a lot of practices.
He's going to be a great member of the production team, and I truly believe he is going to add something great to the show.

Thus far, we've had a lot of different folks voice interest in the show, adults and children, male and female alike.
Which is always FANTASTIC.
I really want a lot of different people to audition.
The better the variety, the more options from which we have to decide.
I think, thus far, the ideas I've thought up casting-wise have been creative.
BUT, that could change if the right people pop in.

So far, my excitement hasn't subsided.
lol
I keep thinking up different things that need to be done, and, if I CAN do them now, I attack them.
Then, there are the certain instances where I realize something that will need to be done once Little Johnny Jones is done and I have the theatre for Treasure Island.
THOSE are the instances which are killing me.
Insanity.
Beacause I have this overwhelming desire to get everything done and ready NOW.
At that point, I attempt to remind myself that we have til the END of MARCH to get everything done.
The end of March.
That's two months away.
lol
It's hard to feed yourself a chill pill.
It can be done though.

Don't be surprised when I'm spazzing out excited at auditions.
I think I'll end up hugging EVERYONE just for the sheer fact that they showed up.
LOL
It's going to be an amazing show.
It totally is.

20 days... and counting... and counting.. and counting...

Yes.
I woke up this morning, looked at my phone and saw that it is indeed the 11th.
Which can only mean we have 20 days til auditions.
Two weeks and six days.
But hey...
Who's counting?
:-/
The scripts still aren't in, which is really frustrating for me.
They were supposed to be in this past week, which only means they will definitely be in THIS week.
Hopefully.
In more positive news, James and I finally met up at the Tuscan Table last night so I could go over all the play details.
(James will be my assistant director for the show and I know he's going to do a great job.)
That was fun.
Because I think I may have overwhelmed him at certain instances.
I spared him the painful details of the blocking, knowing full well that would've taken a good hour to go through.
However, I cover everything else I've worked on, including details about each character.
I was hoping to give him a script for his own BUT that's another story...
I am really hoping that meeting with him last night will help me in the next few weeks...
Or it could just make me even more anxious to get started.
argh.

I'm about 3/4 of the way finished with my emotional blocking.
This has proven to be more tedious than the actual movement blocking, if possible.
On the flip side, it seems to help to put thoughts on paper.
I find I'm writing out notes in the script to offer later or to refer back if need be.

Once the scripts finally come in, I'll be able to take a copy to the library and start making all the neccessary arrangements with them.

Until then, I'll just play the waiting game.....