Thursday, July 06, 2006
A New Experience
We open Kiss Me, Kate two weeks from tomorrow. In the community theatre shows I've done, by two weeks before opening, we are usually running the show nightly to polish. Most, if not all, props are in hand. Most, if not all, of the set is built. In this show, we haven't even blocked everything. I know it's gonna all come together, and I'm not nearly as nervous about it as I usually am, but it is out of the ordinary for me.
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Crunch week is interesting with Buff. Typically you'll run act 1 on one night - probably won't get all the way through it. Finish it up the next night, then start Act 2, won't get all the way through it. Then finish it up the next night, set curtain call. And MAYBE you'll get a full run for grand dress. Maybe not! Then you run the show for 2 weekends, and it's over. Closing performance feels like you're just getting starte!
But his shows are amazing and resemble professional productions and rehearsal schedules more than most community theater
My comments were in no way meant as any sort of criticism. I was just commenting on the newness of the experience for me. I'm also not knocking the community theatre experience. The demands of the two venues are very different. Mainly because of the difference in the talent level form top to bottom.
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