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 Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:14 pm
We're in our last week of production for The Wizard of Oz, and I have to say...it's awful. People forget their cues...their dance steps...as of now, we can't hear our music, and we may not be able to when we go to show...
I know this has happened to everyone, but has it ever been so bad that you were ashamed to admit you were a part of that show? I'm not usually like that...I'm proud of everything I'm in, because I know we've accomplished at least something...but it is kind of making me nervous.
Comments? Encouragement? Anecdotes?
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:13 pm
That's pretty much most of the shows that I have been in, yet it seems that opening night can work wonders on cues, lines, blocking, ect. Don't get too discouraged until night 2 or 3.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:30 pm
It's called Hell Week for a reason: Everything seems out of control, and no one seems to be ready to perform it. I finished doing Wizard of Oz a little over a month ago, and one week before showtime, we hadn't yet been taught the intense swing dancing choreography for the Jitterbug sequence. I was horrified. But... by showtime, we pulled it off, and several audience members told us that it was the greatest and highest quality show they'd ever seen at as low a level as our theatre. It should work out fine. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:51 pm
The show im currently doing, i have no idea whats going on because they dont tell the techs to come to rehersal to the set is built, so i wont be there till wedsnday which means ill have till next wedsnday to memorize ALL of my prop cues, not to mention the show closes on Friday i have to go on saterday to Tear down the set and start construction on the set for our small show broadway memories which im sposed to do spotlight for, and i havnt the foggest idea how to do a spotlight because ive never done anything but back stage work, so ill be learning in one rehersal both the spot cues and how to use it....so...i know the hectic oh my god feeling and i extend my condolences and say dont worry it will come togther.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:24 am
I kind of think it'll be passable...but we're no where near where we want to be. Plus, we can't have an orchestra (our theatre burned down a few months ago, so we're in a middle school audiotorium) so we have to have the CD. We can't hear our music, and we constantly have to stop and start over because we're either ahead or behind the music.
It sucks.
BUT! It will rock...it will. biggrin
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:11 pm
oh man the one show i wasn't a part of was the childrens show this winter. it sucked, we had to build so much s**t for it. then the actors didn't know there lines. now heres what makes it bad. this is and eight week college corse that they had. it was pianful and i run sound for it so.... it ticked me off that the tech people me being one of them had to stay 2 nights till one and come in at 9am during tech weekend to build this set and the actors didn't know there lines. then the actors had to help stike and they know this is comming from the begining and they start whining and crying about it and the fact they have midterms. ahhhhhhh
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:20 pm
*holds a moment of silence for the loss of a beloved theatre*
I'm sorry you lost your theatre. I would cry if ours burned down...
Anyways, I'm sure you'll do fine. It always happens that the week before your show everything SUCKS and you think you just want to quit adn your directors think "We're closing the show.." but the actors can pull it together. I've seen the actors go from horrendous practices to pulling off a stunning first performance. They get scared into doing a good job.
Good luck!
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:13 pm
I'm ashamed to admit I was in a TERRIBLE production of Charlotte's Web. I shudder to think about it. The sets were disastrous (not to mention the costumes...but I won't go there) and the acting was less than what a second grade class could pull off. Thank god I was a minor character.
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