it must be the madness

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!

God bless us!