Adventures Under the Sea: Tech Week

I don't have a (supposedly) clever title for this blog because, let's face it, its tech week. Tech week to me has always been the most terrifyingly, frustratingly, fun experience of the show. Since its Wednesday, we have already gone through the grueling rehearsal of making sure all the light cues match the songs and the actors. And that, as always, was slow going. But the kids were troopers. It was probably the best behaved I had seen them the whole show. Tuesday was a whole new kind of fun because we added full hair and makeup for the leads. Our makeup artist, Teddie, came up with some pretty snazzy makeup ideas. Our eels looked creepy as hell with eyes completely rimmed in black and some dark lipstick. Flounder looked like this adorable, bouncy punk nerd which made me laugh every time. After all the makeup was settled in, we started a moment-to-moment run through which fixed a lot of the little issues we had been noticing. I was thrilled that one of the songs I had been working with the Land Ensemble on a lot on had gone so well. With a little time left, we started a run through of the first act and it was great to see them put to use the corrections given to them. Ariel and Eric looked significantly better in their almost-kiss scene for "Kiss the Girl." And in "She's in Love," we all had a laugh when two of the costume skirts fell off while they were shaking their booties. The first girl looked shocked and then ran offstage laughing while the second girl grabbed her skirt and did the rest of the dance with this half smile. We were all roaring with laughter. Tech week does that to you.