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shinydinosaurYesterday: I got 6 hours of sleep, stayed up for 18+ hours - got home at 12:45 AM and went to bed at 1 AM. Today: got less than 5 hours sleep and stayed up for nearly 20. Dress rehearsals are just made of fun tiems. \o/
The rehearsal last night was good, but rough. Some tough moments (like blanking out on two lines of my solo and destroying the harmony in a duet) but was told I covered well for the former moment, (...HOW?!?)
Also, by 'good', I mean I've never had a dress rehearsal where we weren't constantly stopping for things (and this is the first show I've been part of where we actually went through the full dress/tech TWICE before the two official performances. Two days of it is WAY nice, since sometimes we've never even been able to finish a whole show during practice).
Open dress rehearsal tonight was great with a few issues. We even had a small audience too. Tech issues led to the best improv/ad-libbing I've ever seen, in an already hilarious scene. There was supposed to be a blue/white spotlight with audio to represent a TV, but it got all weird and did something unexpected and the one girl just said "Well, that was interesting". I and everyone else watching on the backstage monitors were trying very hard to keep our laughter down. Then their music never started for one song and so the two characters just made up stuff until it was clear the tech guys never realized it, and the other girl said "I think I hear a song coming on!" and it was epic.
I plan on just not going to school tomorrow and sleeping instead. I slept through the first 3 bells today (study hall, anatomy class ILU TEACHER and another study hall) and was still exhausted. Not doing that again. It's not like I'm going to miss that much since the drama group got permission to sleep in for 2 hours, and we'd only have 2 hours left of school tomorrow after that anyway. I can't go in late and can't function anyway so might as well just rest for the two official performances. I'd be missing two/three classes, tops, and I know at least one of them won't be giving homework (not like I have time to actually DO any, since I haven't seen the inside of my house from 7am to at least midnight every night of rehearsals).
So why am I really stupidly staying up way later that I need to in the first place to write all this? It's cause I'm gonna forget to do it later and I'm so tired that I'm going to forget this whole thing entirely later on.
The rehearsal last night was good, but rough. Some tough moments (like blanking out on two lines of my solo and destroying the harmony in a duet) but was told I covered well for the former moment, (...HOW?!?)
Also, by 'good', I mean I've never had a dress rehearsal where we weren't constantly stopping for things (and this is the first show I've been part of where we actually went through the full dress/tech TWICE before the two official performances. Two days of it is WAY nice, since sometimes we've never even been able to finish a whole show during practice).
Open dress rehearsal tonight was great with a few issues. We even had a small audience too. Tech issues led to the best improv/ad-libbing I've ever seen, in an already hilarious scene. There was supposed to be a blue/white spotlight with audio to represent a TV, but it got all weird and did something unexpected and the one girl just said "Well, that was interesting". I and everyone else watching on the backstage monitors were trying very hard to keep our laughter down. Then their music never started for one song and so the two characters just made up stuff until it was clear the tech guys never realized it, and the other girl said "I think I hear a song coming on!" and it was epic.
I plan on just not going to school tomorrow and sleeping instead. I slept through the first 3 bells today (study hall, anatomy class ILU TEACHER and another study hall) and was still exhausted. Not doing that again. It's not like I'm going to miss that much since the drama group got permission to sleep in for 2 hours, and we'd only have 2 hours left of school tomorrow after that anyway. I can't go in late and can't function anyway so might as well just rest for the two official performances. I'd be missing two/three classes, tops, and I know at least one of them won't be giving homework (not like I have time to actually DO any, since I haven't seen the inside of my house from 7am to at least midnight every night of rehearsals).
So why am I really stupidly staying up way later that I need to in the first place to write all this? It's cause I'm gonna forget to do it later and I'm so tired that I'm going to forget this whole thing entirely later on.
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Date: 2010-05-27 05:06 pm (UTC)Yeah, it totally is. Opening night is tonight, and then another performance tomorrow. Technically we got three performances total, but one was just open dress rehearsal and the director actually had to stop once since the music restarted during a song.
Man, I love it. Yesterday, I had graduation practice on the same stage of my future college, and I got this weirdly awesome feeling all over me when I walked onto it. BECAUSE IT'S TOTALLY MEANT TO BE :D
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Date: 2010-05-28 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-28 12:37 pm (UTC)That's exactly it. I didn't really have any really huge nervous moments.. I mean, I had the good kind of nervous energy that keeps you on your toes, but not the bad blanking-out on lines kind.
It was amazing. So many people told us it was the best production they'd ever seen from our school, and how impressed they were at the scale and professional quality of it. And that they wished their drama class was that great and that they might come back tonight to see it again.
Best part? It was recorded (pro shot!) for the cast to keep as a memento (since we're a non-profit organization) which means that I have a way to review my best performance ever (and best so far in the show).
Thanks! I know all my lines, cues, and blocking - the trick is to hold it together when we all come out on stage and I and the other seniors give our director flowers and get to give a little speech. I'm probably gonna be bawling since I've been with her for four years and the drama program even longer.