FFA and a Shakespeare revue
Mar. 8th, 2006 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeExhausted today--haven't been sleeping very well. We had our last rehearsal today of Fare for All before our dress-with-audience on Friday and it was torture trying to summon up the energy to play a bouncy 10-year-old. Uggghhhh... The show opens with a lovely ballad, "What Was Here Before" and the music director decided I should share it with Sarah which is awesome because now I actually get to do some singing (previously, the only solo I had was a verse in the work song). So now Melanie and I are singing "What Was Here Before" to the kids and giving each other these dreamy, yogurt-commercial smiles. It makes me think of the passengers' expressions in Airplane! when the FA plays on the guitar and sings for the kid on the stretcher. "I saw the Ri-iver Jordannnn...We are one! We are one! We are ooooooooone!" I love how all the passengers lean in with those sappy expressions.
We had another runthrough on Monday and Joy (who plays Flora) messed up her lines a bit in the first book scene, between us in the kitchen. It's an extremely expositional scene with a lot of clunky dialogue, and I had to help her out. "Tell me some more about Cato Alexander!" I love it when saves like that are really obvious. "Ummm...tell me something else that will get us to the next bit of business and get us back on track!" I love messups in live theater.
Donna, with whom I did the first version of "An Evening with Shakespeare's Women" (she played Kate, Gertrude and a few other characters) back in 2003, emailed me a few days ago--she is also a composer and is putting on a revue of Shakespearean songs in May. She offered me a role without auditioning, based on the singing I did in my Ophelia scene. The revue is going up for 6-7 performances, but she's allowing people to do as many or as few dates as they'd like, which is good because Macbeth is also runing around that time and I don't think I can do more than a couple.
We had another runthrough on Monday and Joy (who plays Flora) messed up her lines a bit in the first book scene, between us in the kitchen. It's an extremely expositional scene with a lot of clunky dialogue, and I had to help her out. "Tell me some more about Cato Alexander!" I love it when saves like that are really obvious. "Ummm...tell me something else that will get us to the next bit of business and get us back on track!" I love messups in live theater.
Donna, with whom I did the first version of "An Evening with Shakespeare's Women" (she played Kate, Gertrude and a few other characters) back in 2003, emailed me a few days ago--she is also a composer and is putting on a revue of Shakespearean songs in May. She offered me a role without auditioning, based on the singing I did in my Ophelia scene. The revue is going up for 6-7 performances, but she's allowing people to do as many or as few dates as they'd like, which is good because Macbeth is also runing around that time and I don't think I can do more than a couple.
