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.