the blood, the sweat, the tears, the late late nights, the early starts

[chicafrom3]

Tonight is opening night! And I will not be eating dinner because I haven't the time. (No, seriously. I have class from 3:15-5:45 and have called my crew for 5:45 because we need the time to get the plastic screen shrink-wrapped, the stage mopped, and so on.)

Boston folks: Come to Weston this weekend for a great, emotional show! Thursday through Saturday at 7:30, with additional matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2:00.


Some random factoids about this show:

Tallest member of our cast: the thirteen-year-old boy who's playing an eight-year-old
Length of show: almost exactly one hour
Number of lighting cues: approximately 115
Number of music cues: 19, not counting volume changes within sound cues
Number of dolls created specifically for this show: nine
Number of set pieces: five (three toy boxes/flats, one boat, one chair that gets moved on solely for the hospital scenes)
Number of cast members: six (three Regis students, one thirteen-year-old, one Regis alum, one professional actor)
Number of crew members running show: six (one stage manager (me!), one sound tech, one light tech, two backstage hands, one house manager, all Regis students)
Number of tests what I have blown because of this show: one, probably. Today's Brit Writers midterm. *flail* I barely finished, I'm so tired and I can't think about anything but this show...


The cast and crew party will be after tomorrow night's show. Strike will, obviously, be after Sunday afternoon's show, and shouldn't take long. It will take even less time if Evan tells us which flats he wants us to leave up for Dracula (the show that comes in after us--Evan is T.D.ing it).


On Monday I will be DEAD. Just so you're all forewarned. Then again, after Monday my brain will be my own again and this journal will probably return to being mostly fandom-squee. Like, I seriously have to squee about Olive/Alfredo soon and my hope that they get a musical number together and cry about Juliet and Jeremy's breakup and so forth. But later. When The Yellow Boat releases my brain.

Comments

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

and my hope that they get a musical number together

I've actually spent an ungodly amount of time trying to figure out what that song might be (because I can't imagining them not doing it- it would be an adorable callback, and why else would they change Alfredo's actor to someone who knows musical theater at the last minute? ;))

I'm... Leaning towards "Til There Was You" from The Music Man, just because there would be something so painfully perfect about that song. It's from a famous enough musical too, since obviously they won't do anything too obscure.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I know a few people on the TWoP boards were throwing around The Music Man in reference to Raul and their hopes of him getting to sing, and I have to agree with you, "'Til There Was You" would be just about perfect.

They can't possibly have cast Raul without planning to have him sing, can they?

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

I've been racking my brains to come up with a good reason for the last minute re-cast and the only one that I honestly think is logical is that they were planning some sort of duet bit and wanted someone who could sing with Cheno. (Because let's face it, she'd overpower anyone less than a Broadway star- the chick's got pipes.) Let's face it they could have cast anyone, but they cast a Broadway star. That's a little too conveinent.

That or they thought Paul Reubens hitting on Kristin would have been skeevy, but (A. I don't think they would have cast him in the first place if that were true, and (B. Firing someone for that reason even if you did plan to give him a different part would just be... Mean.

[ladyfiresprite.livejournal.com]

Break a leg! lol

I know I was exhausted for about week after all the productions I was in. Ouch.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

This has been so incredibly intense that I just want to sleep for a week after we close. *sigh* Why must I have classes?

[fakebody.livejournal.com]

What show are you in!

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

It's a production of The Yellow Boat by David Saar, based on a true story, etc., etc. I'm stage managing. :D It's my last time officially heading up a Regis show as a Regis student. :(

[assiduous1.livejournal.com]

I LOVE your icon!

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

*bounce*