This week started to get me very worried, for a lot of reasons.
First, as we have a number of high school students in the cast, they had to be
absent (due to school activities and finals), causing them to miss a few
important rehearsals. Another issue comes from one I mentioned last week – the
director and choreographer work through the show one little part at a time; the
problem with this week is that we went back over things we did last week, to
change things that didn’t work. While this does help with cementing the scenes,
the pace of working has really begun to drag a lot of us down; for the reasons I
mentioned in my last post, we have to be engaged in the work, but when we aren’t
being used, we have to sit on the sidelines – it would be better for all of us
if we could use that time to review the music and dances.
Another worry comes
from the fact that since we spend a lot of time working the blocking, we don’t
have time to review the music. This show has some of the hardest music I have
ever seen, and in order to do the best we can, it would be very beneficial to
have more music rehearsal time. I think it could help to not only let us review
the music, but get our energy back.
The silver lining throughout this week was when
I came in with the rest of my choreography for one of the dances. Though I had only
one day to work on it, I not only finished it in good time, but got it taught
in less than hour (including rehearsing it over and over). That really
surprised me – it made me feel a little more confident in my teaching
capabilities.
We only have two weeks until we open, and we
have a lot of work still to do – this is the time we all need to hunker down
and work doubly hard to make sure each rehearsal is really productive.
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