We OpEN at MONroe...
Oct. 27th, 2011 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeNote--try to buy tickets early as Dave is expecting them to sell out. Currently the most sold is tomorrow night's 8pm showing--there are more tickets for tonight's and the late Friday show.
The show just keeps getting better and better. We moved into the space Monday night--the actual floor on the stage takes a little getting used to. It is a little gritty and rough, and so is great for most of the dance we do but NOT so great for tapping! But I've been working on it as much as possible. Last night's runthrough was the best, both for tap and everything else. Especially for the tap, I was enjoying it, I was in the moment, I heard what people were saying *and* hearing the music. It makes me want to do a bigger tap role! Maybe Joan in Dames at Sea or something...
We had several people there, including Billy who directed the last one and also played Frank. (During my solo, Billy yelled "I'd tap that" which made me laugh.) Tonight we will have an ACTUAL audience, yippee!
I actually got to the theater quite late--I try to get there around 7:00 so I can pre-set everything and have lots of time to warm up but that didn't happen thanks to the ever-competent and customer-friendly NJ Transit. I got to Port Authority at 6:30 where I cooled my heels on line for FIFTEEN MINUTES. Seriously, the line did not move for fifteen minutes. The line next to us, the one that runs along the same route for much of the time, moved, but not us. Did anyone explain anything to us? Make an announcement? Apologize? Of course not. It's the New Jersey Transit, and they don't give a flying fuck what we go through. AWFUL agency--they're as bad as the MTA. So I got the theater at 7:30 and had to FLY through makeup, hair and costume and warm up super-fast. This seems to have worked, as I did fine on the solo.
The next few days will be packed--we get out of the show around 10 tonight and tomorrow around 1 am. Yikes! Then we meet at 10:30 Saturday morning at Port Authority to make the trek dwon to Lakewood. Really hope I can sleep on the bus!
Can't wait!
The show just keeps getting better and better. We moved into the space Monday night--the actual floor on the stage takes a little getting used to. It is a little gritty and rough, and so is great for most of the dance we do but NOT so great for tapping! But I've been working on it as much as possible. Last night's runthrough was the best, both for tap and everything else. Especially for the tap, I was enjoying it, I was in the moment, I heard what people were saying *and* hearing the music. It makes me want to do a bigger tap role! Maybe Joan in Dames at Sea or something...
We had several people there, including Billy who directed the last one and also played Frank. (During my solo, Billy yelled "I'd tap that" which made me laugh.) Tonight we will have an ACTUAL audience, yippee!
I actually got to the theater quite late--I try to get there around 7:00 so I can pre-set everything and have lots of time to warm up but that didn't happen thanks to the ever-competent and customer-friendly NJ Transit. I got to Port Authority at 6:30 where I cooled my heels on line for FIFTEEN MINUTES. Seriously, the line did not move for fifteen minutes. The line next to us, the one that runs along the same route for much of the time, moved, but not us. Did anyone explain anything to us? Make an announcement? Apologize? Of course not. It's the New Jersey Transit, and they don't give a flying fuck what we go through. AWFUL agency--they're as bad as the MTA. So I got the theater at 7:30 and had to FLY through makeup, hair and costume and warm up super-fast. This seems to have worked, as I did fine on the solo.
The next few days will be packed--we get out of the show around 10 tonight and tomorrow around 1 am. Yikes! Then we meet at 10:30 Saturday morning at Port Authority to make the trek dwon to Lakewood. Really hope I can sleep on the bus!
Can't wait!
