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#76

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

Posted: 3/11/07 at 11:53am

Tech day for The Illusion was yesterday!!! It was relatively uneventful and productive, and not really very tedious (big change, since usually our tech days are boredom city). Instead, we got to build set pieces out of junk (yes!) staple astro turf, cheap black & gold fabric and cardboard to the set (which is really rad because it makes our stage look like a glorified junkyard; like the magician in our play built a stage and a theatre out of the remnants of an apocalyptic demolition job) It's rad!
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#77

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

Posted: 3/18/07 at 11:53am

As You Like It rehearsals are actually alright. Our director knows that all of us just got out of Miss Saigon, (which meant 10:30-11:00 rehearsals) and he doesnt want us there past 5:30. Buuut we still have Saturday rehearsals, and we open on thursday. AH. But all last week, I had rehearsals and dance show rehearsals. So I was running back and forth. death. It was tiring.
#78

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

Posted: 3/18/07 at 12:58pm

Let me tell you something. Even for a techie, four shows at once is ridiculous. I pity some of the actors. Our community theatre is running Jesus Christ Superstar rehearsals from 7-10 every night, a small group of us are directing and producing a play from 2-4 every day, a downtown theatre is producing a play I wrote and I have to attend the rehearsals for that too, and we just finished Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know in class a few days ago and have to start in again on See What I Wanna See and High School Musical....

...anyone else think we're just a LITTLE insane?
If no one likes the Disney happy ending, why do so many people buy it?
#79

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

Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:17pm

Nah!! It's what we love to do right? I'm also in a production of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and then Urinetown auditions are on April 9th and 10th.

If I didn't have all that going on, I'd be really sad, weigh 800 pounds and have no friends.

I love theatre. ::sigh::
#80

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

Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:52pm

drama, who are you playing in As You Like It?
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#82

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

Posted: 3/18/07 at 11:56pm

Yeah, first weekend of the Illusion was rad!!! The audience responded to it really well, and I've heard nothing but good things. However... I'm very very disappointed in my own performance. I've never worked so hard on a character before, but nothing seemed to come out as realistic and moving as I'd imagined or rehearsed it. Argh!! The inner critic has taken over, and I find myself critiquing my performance WHILE I'M ONSTAGE. Someone smack me please, please, please. I need to stop doing this. Obsession is ridiculous. And it takes a lot of energy. Argh.

Bright side, I'm attending a lecture by Frank Rich and TONY KUSHNER tomorrow night. yay!
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#83

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

Posted: 3/19/07 at 1:15am

Last Thursday I sat down in the dressing room and cried my eyes out for a good 15 minutes... basically the combined stress of choreograping for 34 people, not ever getting to see the number with everyone in costume onstage before the performance, the ridiculous disrespect of other departments at my school who think that their rehearsal is more important than the one their students had previously committed to, having 3-4 hours of sleep a night because of Joseph rehearsal, dying because of school, being in two additional dance numbers AND PMS... oh man. I was a mess.

Joseph starts in six days! I'm so excited. Our costumes are fabulous. Very un-Mormon (unlike the company with which I am performing... hahahaha).

Auditioning for 42nd Street in a few weeks, hopefully.
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
#85

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

Posted: 3/19/07 at 11:15am

ugh speaking of disrespect...the theatre and dance, mass comm, and music department shares a building on my campus. For the most part the theatre/dance and music departments are seperate and we don't even see each other..but the theatre and mass comm departments are always at war. We don't have any practice rooms. They're all for the music majors. We have one room upstairs where classes take place. So most of the time it's taken up and we have to hope there isn't a class in the design lab or we practice in the hallway. Now the mass comm kinda mesh with us..actually they took all the classrooms...sound proof classrooms. So they get mad at us when we rehearse in the hallway when they could just close the door to their sound proof rooms. Ironically not many of the theatre classes are in the theatre building. Just a handful. Most are in the black box theater. We're working on gaining control of that building though.
"I'll show you a laughgasm. I'll gasm all over this stage!"
"Interesting choice"
#87

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

Posted: 3/20/07 at 7:38pm

Five-hour rehearsals for Pied Piper/Emperor's New Clothes with full Tim Burton-esque makeup and digustingly hot costumes = not cool.

Also, not finishing the entire show after being there for five hours? Not so cool either.
#88

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

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:10pm

I wish I was exhausted from rehearsal. I've only had 3 rehearsals in 3 weeks and I'm only in about 10 minutes of the show total. It's Gypsy, and I'm a showgirl. I WANT TO BE DOING MORE!!!!
"Better...Better than What?" -Jo March (Little Women the Musical) "NYC...Up there (In Lights) I'll be." -Star to be (Annie)
#89

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

Posted: 3/24/07 at 11:11am

Closing night depression is setting in early. I'm REALLY going to miss this play. Argh! My life won't be empty; I've got ten billion other artistic things to keep my mind occupied, but I still am going to miss being poor Pridament.

Strange thing is, with so much of my time and energy concentrated on her, I've started to think like her. I've started sitting like her in class. My sister yelled at me the other night for making a Pridament face at her.
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#90

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

Posted: 3/24/07 at 5:17pm

Welllll As You Like It opened and it's been a HUGE success. We have such a whacky interpretation of it. It's hilarious.

We sold out opening, almost sold out last night, we're already sold out for tonight and next weekend is the same way.

Yay! I'm very tired though.. :-/

April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.April 1st.

Gah.
#91

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

Posted: 3/25/07 at 11:59am

The Illusion closed to a smashing audience (our biggest yet!!!) and it was quite fantastic. Sad, because it was the closing show for three seniors whom I might never work with again (waaaah!!!). However, they will live on in the history of the Placer theatre program. So here's to Emily, Carter, and Alliene! It was a pleasure, and I love you all. We'll never forget your delicious cuisine (Emily; Have fun in Portland), your Alien/Vampire/Gladiator impressions (Carter; Enjoy hippie life in Berkeley), and your amazing bilingual-biculturalness (Alliene; I'll miss you in Germany)

Only bright side, it was no problem to cry on cue last night. With Carter leaving forever, it was easy to imagine his death.
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#92

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

Posted: 3/25/07 at 9:35pm

My production of Company opened on Thursday and closed tonight, to packed houses each night and everyone had nothing but great things to say about it. :)
And now I FINALLY get some time to relax, because litterally I have only been in my dorm to sleep/do about half my homework for the past week.
But starting in a weekish or so, I'll be the assistant stage manager for the spring mainstage production of Jubilee. And of course, I have a 15 page research paper due on the dress rehearsal day. yipeee...
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#93

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

Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:17am

7 hour Hedwig and the Angry Inch tech yesterday. It went on until around midnight.

Then I had to film a short film for another hour for my friend who is a huge procrastinator.

Then as soon as Hedwig is over, I must begin my animation project.

But I wouldn't change any of it.
#94

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

Posted: 3/26/07 at 4:06pm

Yeah, double whammy yesterday. Tear down day for The Illusion (waaah!) AND tech day/set building for my friend's senior project. Wasn't horrible, except as soon as we'd torn down everything for The Illusion (which was a pretty complicated junkpile of a set), sorted out the costumes, cleaned the dressing rooms, and moved everything out to either the prop shop or the panic room, we got to start putting things UP for The Bleached World. And get more costumes and sort out more props and set more light cues and discover how heavily the legs and teasers are actually weighted.

Which leads me to a problem: the rope deck. Not to stereotype or anything, but all of the people in our play are either really nonmuscular girls (me!) or really nonmuscular theatre guys. And the one guy who could possibly help with ropes is a slacker and doesn't even come to rehersal half the time.

So, it takes me huffing and puffing and danging off the ground with all my weight pulling on the ropes to budge the heavier curtains. And I'm playing a part. I'll probably rip my costume.

Ah well, this is why we do it, isn't it?
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"
#96

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

Posted: 3/27/07 at 12:01am

added another thing to worry about. My OTHER friend is also directing a play for her senior project. No one came to her auditions, so guess who got one of the parts? hmm. Luckily, it's a small one with only one scene, though I get quite a bit of dialogue.
Sadly, if she needs a stage manager, I'll probably volunteer. I SHOULDN'T!!! AP tests are coming, and I'm definitely falling behind.

Drama is eating my life, and chewing it up. It's somewhat easier to swallow once it's chewed, but it still gives awful indigestion.

That was a strange metaphor. My writing always gets strange when I'm tired.
"The art of Illusion is the art of love; and the art of love is the blood-red heart of the world." - Tony Kushner, "The Illusion"

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