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Nov. 7th, 2008 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeMy right shoulder has been aching for a couple of weeks now. I strained it in my sleep (I think) and a couple of days later got a massage at Athens Nails in Astoria. MISTAKE. It felt good at the time but it's been hurting ever since. I'm hoping it'll heal on its own, since I'm not sure what to do to help it.
Rehearsals for A Christmas Carol have been going very well, but not that easily. We have a very strong cast this year--not one weak link--and that's both good and bad for rehearsals. The bad is that good actors tend to have mad conflicts--the good is that they pick up the blocking much more quickly. I'm rethinking some of the set pieces (especially Scrooge's bedroom platform) and changing a good amount of the blocking. The "London Streets at Christmas" scene (that is, when the Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge first venture out together) is gonna look and sound great, just great. I'm very excited about it. The final Ghost of the Future scene looks awesomely thpooky as well.
I was telling Ashley, I don't know why any hack would want to direct A Christmas Carol--it is NOT easy at all. You get very few "book scenes"--there's Fred and Marley, and the Cratchits at dinner, and Belle's scene, but most of the show, in almost any adaptation, is short little scenelets here and there and they have to MOVE. You have to have a nimble, versatile set. Maybe that's why I've seen and been in so many bad versions. As silly as the demon dancers were when Ryan and I did it in Virginia, that solved the problem of the constant set changes.
Rehearsals for A Christmas Carol have been going very well, but not that easily. We have a very strong cast this year--not one weak link--and that's both good and bad for rehearsals. The bad is that good actors tend to have mad conflicts--the good is that they pick up the blocking much more quickly. I'm rethinking some of the set pieces (especially Scrooge's bedroom platform) and changing a good amount of the blocking. The "London Streets at Christmas" scene (that is, when the Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge first venture out together) is gonna look and sound great, just great. I'm very excited about it. The final Ghost of the Future scene looks awesomely thpooky as well.
I was telling Ashley, I don't know why any hack would want to direct A Christmas Carol--it is NOT easy at all. You get very few "book scenes"--there's Fred and Marley, and the Cratchits at dinner, and Belle's scene, but most of the show, in almost any adaptation, is short little scenelets here and there and they have to MOVE. You have to have a nimble, versatile set. Maybe that's why I've seen and been in so many bad versions. As silly as the demon dancers were when Ryan and I did it in Virginia, that solved the problem of the constant set changes.
