October 10, 2012

  • Open Dress

    Tonight was the unofficial start of the play, also known as the open dress rehearsal. People are allowed to come see our rehearsal, so that we get the practice before an audience and they get in for five bucks.  

    I arrived shortly after 6pm --two hours before curtain-- to do hair and make-up. I do my own make-up because the lady who is supposed to be doing it is absolute wretched at it and gets very easily confused. Thankfully Gwen curled my hair for me as it took an entire hour! Everyone else in the cast was in and out by the time my regime was finished. shocked

    I don't actually go onstage until 45 minutes into the play, so in that time I was going over my lines to warm up and practice my accent. I noticed the other night that I kept dropping it and didn't want to do so in front of an actual audience. My first scene is a little skit with a damsel in distress and a knight in shining armor... only the knight accidentally whacked my hand really hard with his sword *cries* Apparently people were very impressed by my lack of reaction to the extreme pain of it since they could actually hear the contact of the wood upon my poor appendage. 

    Algy and I are still having trouble with our one scene. I really think we should practice it a few times together, but it seems he has no time in which to do so. We messed up our lines again --though we're not quite sure who was at fault *L0L*-- and the blocking was screwed up (Algy forgot the new change that was made and did old blocking). My mother was far from impressed by Algy kissing me --though we kept it really short and quick tonight!-- and threatened to shoot the poor guy *L0L*

    Otherwise, everything went quite well! We got sooo many laughs, even in places we were not expecting any  My family thought Jack's facial expressions and mannerism were absolutely hilarious, and that Lady Bracknell's lines were quite funny. Gwen and Algy looked very debonaire and town-ish. Miss Prism was wonderful, and Rev Chasuble was funnily bumbling about. I apparently looked like Cinderella, and played my part marvelously as a young daydreamy girl all sweet and innocent.

    I did not find out until after I got home that not only did my parents come (which I knew), but my best-friend Dawlz, her grandmother Nanny K, and our friend Leigh; my step-grandmother Donna; my Nana and her two sisters, Joan and Pat; plus a couple from my church. Even though they all got tickets at different times, my family members were all sitting together in the same row... I can only say I'm grateful that Donna and Nana were not beside each other, because that would have been rather horrible and awkward. I am sorry I missed seeing everyone, but the director had to give us notes for what to fix for opening night. 

    I am quite pleased with how things turned out and can only hope that they get even better!

    SUMR

     

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