Pippin 6/1 & 6/2

          The last two days have actually made a good amount of progress. Sunday, I came in with choreography for 3 different songs, and got most of it taught within the extra hour we had. Once we started, we moved to the last part of the show - this took a long time to do, but it finally started to come together, actually looking like a finale. I just hope we all remember what to do once we run the show.

     As for today, we began our first run through. However, before we did, I called some of the cast early so I could rework the choreography for an entire song; not only did I get everything taught in 15 minutes, but we used the song as our warm-up for the night, allotting us extra rehearsals for the song, which helped us review the new choreography many times.

          As for the run-through, because it was the first one, it became the “crash-and-burn” rehearsal; what I mean by that is this is the rehearsal where we find out the weak spots in the show (when moments fail), giving us a strong opportunity to notate the places that need the most work. Sadly, we found a lot of weak spots, so many that we had to re-do a number of scene changes and scenes, which took up additional time. Because of that, we never got to the finale, which I was hoping we would – we really needed to review it, as we just learned it recently and didn’t get much of a chance to review it.

     I set a lot of new movement on the cast very recently, so the fact that they are doing their best with it makes me happy – it would be very beneficial to have more time to focus specifically on choreography, just like we did with music, but we are running out of rehearsals, which puts me in a jam.

     I have really learned a lot in the process of this show, though some of the things I have learned I feel I shouldn’t have had to learn. But we make mistakes (not that I’m saying being in this show was a mistake), and it is through those mistakes we learn and grow. 

*I think one area that would help ALL of us be ready to go is if we all had our scripts on hand, ready to write down blocking, notes, and any changes that come up.