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If any of the cast of Gondoliers are out there reading this, can I just say -- you rock. You so rock.
We had our first full dress rehearsal tonight, and despite the near-catastrophe of having the light board memory get zapped and with it all the light cues (thank goodness our lighting designer still remembered them all and managed to reprogram them in two hours!), the show looks, and (perhaps more importantly from my point of view) sounds awesome. I am so pleased. I am so psyched. (Knock on wood.)
This is the first time I've ever directed anything (okay, I was nominally music director for something once before, but really what I was was the pianist). I got a lot of great talent to work with as a vocal director for this show, but I'm still pleased. Some young singers without a lot of training or experience have improved over the course of rehearsals -- and while the work is all theirs, I can at least hope that something I said or did helped along the way.
It's odd being in the green room before the show/rehearsal with everyone getting into costume and makeup... I've been in a number of shows with this group, so that routine is very familiar -- and now I feel like I'm a bit of an outsider there. I'm not part of that pre-show bustle this time around, and that's weird. Opening night will, I suspect, be weird as well -- all the work, all the effort, and I'm not going to be up there for the payoff. But I will be proud of "my" singers, that I'm sure of.
It's nice to have something to be glad about. I've been kind of drab the past few days, and certainly haven't been getting done any of the myriad things I should be doing. At least I made myself a list before rehearsal tonight, so I can try and be better focused tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I'm going to exult in my show for a little longer, thankyouverymuch. (And knock on some more wood. I'm not normally superstitious, except when it comes to theater...)
We had our first full dress rehearsal tonight, and despite the near-catastrophe of having the light board memory get zapped and with it all the light cues (thank goodness our lighting designer still remembered them all and managed to reprogram them in two hours!), the show looks, and (perhaps more importantly from my point of view) sounds awesome. I am so pleased. I am so psyched. (Knock on wood.)
This is the first time I've ever directed anything (okay, I was nominally music director for something once before, but really what I was was the pianist). I got a lot of great talent to work with as a vocal director for this show, but I'm still pleased. Some young singers without a lot of training or experience have improved over the course of rehearsals -- and while the work is all theirs, I can at least hope that something I said or did helped along the way.
It's odd being in the green room before the show/rehearsal with everyone getting into costume and makeup... I've been in a number of shows with this group, so that routine is very familiar -- and now I feel like I'm a bit of an outsider there. I'm not part of that pre-show bustle this time around, and that's weird. Opening night will, I suspect, be weird as well -- all the work, all the effort, and I'm not going to be up there for the payoff. But I will be proud of "my" singers, that I'm sure of.
It's nice to have something to be glad about. I've been kind of drab the past few days, and certainly haven't been getting done any of the myriad things I should be doing. At least I made myself a list before rehearsal tonight, so I can try and be better focused tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I'm going to exult in my show for a little longer, thankyouverymuch. (And knock on some more wood. I'm not normally superstitious, except when it comes to theater...)
