We open on Friday! So it makes sense that rehearsals are revving up - more run-throughs, less blocking, working in the props and the sets. The actors sang along to the tracks yesterday instead of Skip on piano for the first time, and I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went. It's quite amazing listening to the evolution of a song and how performances change once characters are developed and ideas are set. And if there's one thing that has truly amazed me during the rehearsal process, it's the ability to see faults in a scene and the willingness to change it.
Being a PA isn't the most glamorous job, but I can't imagine another where I'd be fetching coffee one second and standing in for each of the two leads the next. There are so many reasons I'm not an actress - an inability to keep a straight face while Danny Binstock (Alex) is singing a romantic duet with the character I'm walking (Maggie, whose vocal part is being sung in falsetto by Jonathan Sandler in the background) is definitely one. And while walking the role of Alex in an earlier scene, I made the horrible mistake of assuming Patrick O'Henney (playing 11-year-old brother Louis) didn't know enough about Star Wars, and spent the rest of the day being quizzed on trivia I'd long forgotten. Except that I said the battle of Hoth was at the North Ridge, which is kind of right! I guess the answer he was looking for was 'Imperial Walkers.' Anyway, back to the other 80s sci-fi movie...
We start preliminary tech time on Wednesday, so although I'm seeing The Brain from Planet X and The Yellow Wood today, I might not have time to write them up before my computer becomes hijacked by the sound guys. We played around in the Theater at St Clement's last Thursday and started testing some of the lights, which should create some gorgeous effects, especially for a NYMF show. Designer Herrick Goldman has graced us with many fun lighting toys that I can't wait to see up and running, and I similarly anticipate hearing the music fill that theater. Sure the next few days will be crazy, what with tech and opening and still seeing seven other shows, but I revel in it. There aren't many weeks in the year where you can see seven new musicals one week and not run out the next - might as well take advantage!
And I don't think I ever linked to those press reels like I had promised! So here, enjoy. I know I have. Many many times. Because I'm a geek like that:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.cfm?colid=21527
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