The worst day of Tech rehearsal for a gianormous musical, is immediately followed by the most fun day.
Saturday was our cue to cue for Damn Yankees.
It was miserable and terrible. And then the run we did after C2C was long and bad. The whole day was about 10 hours worth of not good.
And the AJ basically told all of us to get our shit together and get funny, and better. He did do it in the nicest way he possibly could, though.
"I love you all as my children" was how he started the speech. Which eventually turned into..."learn these fucking lines."
Which has been a slight problem this entire show.
And on top of it all LSU lost to stupid Florida.
Bad day, to (quite honestly) finish off a not so good week.
Sunday. New day. New week.
We had sitzprobe in the morning. The band is amazing. They rock out on all this music. The show sounds incredible.
As I was telling my pal, Mark McLoughlin (who has never been in a musical), this is my absolute favorite part of the entire rehearsal process.
The sound of that orchestra for the first time is just so wonderful and exciting. It makes the day before always worth the bullshit.
It totally reminds me why I love to do musicals. And how I need to be in more of them!
Side note: I think it's so funny that I used to only do musicals, and for the past two years have really only done plays. This summer doing Leader of the Pack, Will Bryant came up to me and said, "I had no idea you even did musicals. I had no idea you could sing like that! I thought you were just an actor." Lovely compliment. Just very funny, since I used to only be associated with singing. It's a nice change of pace. I used to say I had to do one non musical a year so I could keep my street cred. Now, I need to make sure I do one musical a year so I can keep my geek cred.
After sitz we had a run, and it was much more productive than the night before.
Things are shaping up, we just need to be faster and more energetic and this show will be smoking.
And Jamie Wax is just the best thing ever. He is a tiny little man that I adore, and I just want to carry around in my pocket. He is so damn talented it's stupid. Plus, he is so wonderful and lovely to me. He's like my own little personified anti-depressant.
I've also been having a splendid time with Keithy. We haven't done a show together since high school, and it's amazing how badly we still behave in rehearsals together. It's like we never left Rummel. Mr.G would be throwing Diet Coke cans and scripts at us, no doubt.
We have a preview on Thursday, we open Friday, and then run Thursdays-Sunday till November 1st. If you order your tickets online and enter the code DYFAMILY you get a 20% discount.
ALSO, go see NOLA Project's production of Finer Noble Gases in the Marigny. Two shows for the price of one. After the play a live band performs! How exciting!
And more exciting and important than all of the above information...Kristin Witterschein moved to NOLA this weekend!!!!!! Some of you may remember her as the epic role of SUNFLOWER in Mr.Marmalade.
She's the best.
And now she lives here.
Makes my heart very happy!
And my liver very nervous.
PS. What the F, Mad Men?!?!?!?! That was the meanest thing ever! Why would you do that to that man? Why?
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