Well, yesterday’s show was extraordinarily better than Wednesday’s show, and I’m pretty sure that everybody will agree with me. There were only a few rough spots:
- End of “Go Go Go Joe!”
- Megamix, which we still winged, however it looked more polished.
- Sound problems with two mics dying
- Briana making silly faces and laughing during “Caanan Days” ;)
Other than that, it went very well! Except for the fact that Mrs. Mindi stole my mic before the show and make me cry and smear my makeup. She is such a witch! ;)
Hopefully today and tomorrow’s shows will be just as good, if not better! There are still tickets available, so email me if you want directions.
Today’s first show was…..bad.
It would be a stretch to call it a show. It was more of a rehersal, considering that we had NEVER run through the whole show beginning to end without cotumes/makeup/live music/mics. Basically, this was our first dress rehersal and it showed.
The music was basically all brand new to us since we had never done a full music run-through and we had no idea what we were doing. There were variations from what we had run through during rehersal, and several of the songs were just stopped in the middle. A whole verse was cut out of Close Every Door and the “ahead of your…” was cut out of the very end of Go Go Go Joseph so we were all just standing there until eventually we starting singing a very off-key “time!”. It was crazy!
Also, the mics started dying during the show so all like 20 of us ended up sharing two mics and some people were….”hesitant” to share. That was a disaster in itself considering that yesterday’s “projection incidents” left most of us with shot voices.
The stage crew was also just…..messed up. It was like five little 8-year-old boys trying to move sets which obviously was not very successful. Cody, Beth, and I ended up moving all of the intermission sets. It was very tedious! A stage crew is supposed to move stuff, not sit around and talk. Plus, whomever was running lights kept cutting them in between songs, even if the song ended in the middle of a scene. Hello? Songs and scenes are not the same thing! The end of a song does not signal the end of a scene!
And the Mexamix was a walking train wreck. We were all making it up as we were onstage because Tommy never bothered to teach it to us! He started to do it but then was just like “Nevermind. We’ll just learn it tomorrow and do it for the other shows.” Of course, they started playing it after the show and we were left befuddled onstage. That was attractive.
Hopefully the end of the week will either go well or end fast, because I am thoroughly embarassed.
So we pulled onto Woodstock Road on the way to rehersal today and there was a train just stopped on the tracks. Just sitting there, blocking access to the bridge. What were we supposed to do? After we got cell signals, we got hold of Briana and got directions about how to practically go around the county on Marriotsville Road and then cut onto Old Court Road and get to rehersal. So we didn’t even get inside until 9:45.
We proceeded to get dressed and were all ready by 10:00. We got on stage and sat there. All the “leaders” (directors, producers, etc.) had other business to tend to. So, we were left there for at least an hour and a half to just….sit. No rehearsing, just sitting. Then, we finally got started at 11:30. We fixed a few rough patches with the pianist until about….noon.
Then we started to rehearse Act II and got through the whole thing and ate lunch at 1 (which is really late, especially since we had no snack).Then, we got back on stage for 2 hours and 45 minutes more of rehersal (or so we thought). We ran through the show, but it was all chopped up and took a long time.
We rehearsed until 4:30 (30 minutes over) with very sloppy singing, Mrs. Mindi kept telling us to sing louder, little kids started screaming, bigger kids started singing EVEN louder and lost our voices (I barely have one).Set changes were totally impromptu because we NEVER did a scene change/prop run-though. It was just…….well, hell!
We definately need at least another WEEK to get this show together, but, sadly, our four-show-run starts TOMORROW.
God bless us!
Well, the skies have yet to cease dumping rain on us! It’s been pouring on and off all day, and it’s supposed to continue all through tomorrow. There was tons of traffic in Virginia today due to backups caused by standing water and after today’s soaking of the already-saturated grounds, tomorrow will be a traffic hell!
Right as camp was over, I walked outside and it was pouring so I decided to snap some pictures (click to enlarge):
All along Marriotsville Road there was shallow puddles of standing water, and all throughout the county there are huge puddles in people’s back yards. The sewage pond across from Mt. Hebron Manors (I think that’s the name) is seriously a lake. It is ginormous!
Advice to anybody in Maryland/Virginia/Delaware: Stay home!
Holy crap it is RAINING!
Like seriously POURING! We were driving home from the UHL cast party and it was raining so hard. Visibility was about 10 ft. looking out through the windshield. Every mile there was somebody pulled over on the shoulder with their emergency lights on, and everybody else was driving with the emergency lights on, also. It was scary! It reminded me of “The Day After Tomorrow” when New York was flooding before the big wave hit. I’m a loser.
So anyway, we’re driving home in the middle of el stormo grande and everybody is driving all slow with their blinkers on and my parents are listening to music, carrying on and having a good time.
I should be dead right now!
Speaking of raining and UHL, remember last year when we got hit by that tropical storm on the day of our second show? Well I’m afraid that’s going to happen again tomorrow (thankfully we don’t have a show!). It’s been pouring on and off all day and it’s supposed to continue all night. Last year the Dept. of Public Works came and put a huge fence up blocking the main access bridge so our show almost had to get cancelled but *luckily* the bridge was re-opened before the show. That was pretty scary.
And, finally, Briana requested her face on my blog. Click the picture for the uber-version:
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