Help! I've fallen from so much rehearsal and I can't get up!

Not yet because rehearsals JUST started for my show, but get back to me in like, 2 weeks. It's gonna be nuts!

My rehersals have been going until about 5:30-6 and the show isn't for a couple of months.

I'm falling from LACK of rehearsal. We only had one rehearsal last week, and then we won't have one tomorrow...

snow is totally screwing us over.

i've been having rehearsal for different shows every school day, and sometimes mondays (our school week is tuesday- saturday) from 3-6 or 6:30. then tech weeks til 10. now we're all going to chicago for unifieds, we get back at 1 in the morning, and still have flippin rehearsal that day. oh did i mention thursdays we have rehearsal from 1-6, woohoo. if it was a musical i might feel better, but mr. shakespeare calls. sleep much on the weekends all.

Can I just say that I did NOT expect Joseph to be such an ensemble-heavy show? It's crazy. We're in practically all of the numbers. And we've been dancing for the past week, and it's HARD, especially since my partner for the Canaan Days tango can't really dance so I'm basically leading everything, hahahaha. Our rehearsals are from 7:30-10:30 at night, too... I'm exhausted. I leave my house at 6-6:15ish, go to school until 2, go straight to work from 3-7, then go to rehearsal, then come home and work on homework for my three AP classes until 1-2 AM. Then I get up the next day at 5 and do it all over again... oh, and I work from 10-7 on Saturday and 10:30-6:30 on Sunday, so no break then either.


!!!!!!

But hey, I'm having fun. And who wants to sit around doing nothing all day?

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SarahBeth, my show opens like, April 17th and we started rehearsals last week, which just seems like an ubsurdly long time to work on a show (I'm used to having maybe one and a half months to rehearse).

jaesdare, you go to Interlochen, don't you? Only place I know of with Tuesday-Saturday weeks. Good luck!

I think we should all take a universal nap. hahah

I WISH I could say I was about to pass out from rehearsal. I don't even know what show we're doing yet.

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Macbeth + really conceptually cool diagonal platform set = LEG MUSCLES.

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Performing Tony Kushner = Death for actors.
We're doing rehersals until 5:30 EVERY school day, plus several set days on weekends. Problem isn't in the rehersal time (I could stand for a lot more rehersals, to tell you the truth!!!), but in the weight of the play. EVERY SINGLE part in it is so impossible to play at this level. We all have sudden emotional outbursts, bizarre switches in feeling, and tongue twisting dialogue (in traditional Kushner rhetoric of course). I spend half of my time practicing my lines and character and the other half thinking about them. Plus, my role is so dark and disturbing, it's like a disease to spend too much time in it. I'm turning into a dark, pale, disturbed recluse.

Luckily for most of the cast, the play splits up most of the parts so they have breaks. They get days off. Um... not me. I'm onstage for basically the whole show (which is fantastic! Don't get me wrong!), so I sort of am working for the entire rehersal.

PLUS, we've got AP test crap and stuff going on, SAT practice, summer program applications, extra homework, etc. I wish I could quit school and do theatre full time. Can't wait for college (AP classes = more theatre classes in college!). And I'm stage managering my friend's senior project and have to go prop hunting this weekend - and I have an advanced drama film to plan - and several plays to read before they're due to the library...

GAH! Naptime.

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We added another show. This weekend and next weekend are basically sold out. WOO. Too bad I can't feel my body from my CCM dance audition. hahah