Ok so, we got out 10 minutes early! that was nice. We got a 2 hour dinner break, so we got to go outside and eat our dinner. The weather was lovely and it was nice to get out of the theatre for a while.
So we've almost made it to the end of the show-very nice. There is a lot going on, toilets moving around, spinning tubs and beds-to say nothing of the dancing, singing and acting. Tomorrow we'll finish tech do a run take dinner and do a full costume run. Very exciting to see it all come together.
The voice, is back more or less. It doesn't feel perfect to me but it's getting there. Can I confess that the "theatrical fog" although safe, is hard on the chords and the nasal passages?
We did our sitzprobe on Wed (that's when we can sit with the score and work with the band). The band sounds phenomenal.
I think we'll have the band tomorrow night. Ok late night, early morning.
xx, Li
Friday, April 20, 2007
Wild Party 18
I think it's day 18, I've lost track. We're in tech now, which means that the actors, designers, directors, stage management etc-won't see the actual light of day or their friends and family for the next 3 days-Monday will come soon. This is short, but tech is long-more later-xx li
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
wild party day 16
here we are in tech week. Today was choreo clean up day and I think it helped. Sang thru my number and it was weird to be singing again. As singers, we play alot of head games. So much of singing is in your head. When you can get your head out of your way, you can let your voice sing, free and clear. But often we can't get our heads out of the way. Vocally I feel much better, still missing the control that i'm used to-i think it's a head game for me right now. Todd G. was terrific and we worked some stuff out (sorry about your low notes Louis).
Back in tomorrow-what a surprise-i think we're doing a run thru, our last one in the rehearsal hall. It'll be fun to finally be on the stage, in the place we'll call home for the next month, more space too. yay
Ok done, off to bed
xx, Li
Back in tomorrow-what a surprise-i think we're doing a run thru, our last one in the rehearsal hall. It'll be fun to finally be on the stage, in the place we'll call home for the next month, more space too. yay
Ok done, off to bed
xx, Li
Sunday, April 15, 2007
wild Party 15
So, The Come Me With Me choreo looks fantastic! They're all half naked and it's sooo hot! And I'm so glad that I'm not in it!! But I'll be singing backstage on the mic naked. Me, Paul, Brian, Peri and David all naked singing backstage-that's hot. Well....
Then we did a stumble thru. More stuck in the right places and more questions came up. I hope I can remember the show when I'm singing it!
That's it....day off tomorrow, in at 2 on Tuesday WITH a voice!
xx, Li
Then we did a stumble thru. More stuck in the right places and more questions came up. I hope I can remember the show when I'm singing it!
That's it....day off tomorrow, in at 2 on Tuesday WITH a voice!
xx, Li
Wild Party 14
and wild weather! Not called until 2 today. They're starting with Come With Me, and I'm not one of the couples rolling around on the floor, so i got to sleep in. Trying to memorize lyrics-weird doing that when you're not actually singing them. I'm looking forward to singing on Tuesday. And a little bit scared of it. This is the longest I've ever gone without talking or singing. Well, recently except for jaw surgery. It's hard not to just sing with the radio or sing a lullaby to the boys or just chime in on a conversation. I've started to speak and warm up for about 5-10 minutes a day. I couldn't expect to just waltz into rehearsal on Tuesday and sing full out without having done anything for a week! That would be like running the marathon on a whim.
Yesterday was choreo review and we learned some new stuff. There's soo much in this show....I have done Chorus Line, I will confess-I was Morales-hilarious-I couldn't be less of a Morales-that was YEARS ago in summer stock-so I can dance and I can do choreography-I just don't remember the really dancy stuff and of course I haven't done this much dacne in a very long time.
Once we've learned it and we're just running it, it won't be so hard (I say that now). The hard thing now, is doing things over and over. It's gonna be good and it's certainly gonna be wild.
Okay, that's it. Boring, sorry. Got to get to work
xx, Li
Yesterday was choreo review and we learned some new stuff. There's soo much in this show....I have done Chorus Line, I will confess-I was Morales-hilarious-I couldn't be less of a Morales-that was YEARS ago in summer stock-so I can dance and I can do choreography-I just don't remember the really dancy stuff and of course I haven't done this much dacne in a very long time.
Once we've learned it and we're just running it, it won't be so hard (I say that now). The hard thing now, is doing things over and over. It's gonna be good and it's certainly gonna be wild.
Okay, that's it. Boring, sorry. Got to get to work
xx, Li
Saturday, April 14, 2007
WIld Party 13
So I'm blogging as I head out the door. Have to be at rehearsal at 10 oy-just enuf time to kiss the boys and have some coffee (decaf-why bother!). I'm running out of "snappy" outfits to wear for all this dancing. Everyone looks so cute in rehearsal. Color full dance bras, little shorty shorts-and that's just the boys! lol. Don't want to just wear sweats and a tshirt, then everyone will really know that I'm just a "mover" not a dancer. Cuz right now, I think I have them pretty much fooled.
Yesterday was really really productive, we did our work thru of the show,so we could see where the holes are. For ourselves and artisticly. For me, personally, there weren't as many holes as I expected. I'm sure that once I can talk, that'll completely screw me up. Poor Michelle has to wear just a bra and some boy shorts (very short boy shorts), but she's unbelievably adorable to say nothing of a killer bod, so she'll pull it off, I just hope she stays in (wink).
We started at the top and ran a section, then did notes, and did it again. That was kinda hard, cuz some of the dance stuff is really fast. And thank God, we'll never have to do it that quickly back to back.
After rehearsal some of us took a field trip to see David Costa in Singing in the Rain. It was such a good show, and David was of course Brilliant. I honestly don't know how he can go from our rehearsal, dancing is butt off and then to SITR! It's not like, he just had a walk on....he was Don Lockwood, the Gene Kelly part!!! He was great and we were soooo proud of him. Not to mention, Jeff Mahoney, Aimee D's husband...12 shades of cute and hilarious. He was Cosmo (the Donald O'Connor part). I can't believe he doesn't walk away in a body cast the way he throws himself around. Ok, gotta run, can't be late
xx, Li
Yesterday was really really productive, we did our work thru of the show,so we could see where the holes are. For ourselves and artisticly. For me, personally, there weren't as many holes as I expected. I'm sure that once I can talk, that'll completely screw me up. Poor Michelle has to wear just a bra and some boy shorts (very short boy shorts), but she's unbelievably adorable to say nothing of a killer bod, so she'll pull it off, I just hope she stays in (wink).
We started at the top and ran a section, then did notes, and did it again. That was kinda hard, cuz some of the dance stuff is really fast. And thank God, we'll never have to do it that quickly back to back.
After rehearsal some of us took a field trip to see David Costa in Singing in the Rain. It was such a good show, and David was of course Brilliant. I honestly don't know how he can go from our rehearsal, dancing is butt off and then to SITR! It's not like, he just had a walk on....he was Don Lockwood, the Gene Kelly part!!! He was great and we were soooo proud of him. Not to mention, Jeff Mahoney, Aimee D's husband...12 shades of cute and hilarious. He was Cosmo (the Donald O'Connor part). I can't believe he doesn't walk away in a body cast the way he throws himself around. Ok, gotta run, can't be late
xx, Li
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wild Party 12
Dr. this morning-swelling is going away! YAY! but it appears I have a fungal infection...what? From putting my foot in my mouth? Ha-on new meds and the fingers are still crossed. Definitely improving.
Today was "let's watch Queenie and Black get it on, on the bed that's too big and too high." It was kind of like watching two very small people in a Giant's house (that was 2 shows ago....) I think the bed will get lower (and it spins! not on it's own though-Andy and Jake will move it) Though the bed is a bit large, the singing is fantastic-Maurice and Marla sing their faces off AND take off their clothing!
Have to give a shout out to my monkey peep Jeremy...he plays Jackie (the sweet dancer-he's the one who does the fabulous russian leap off the pouf-are you keeping up? If necessary please refer back to previous posts regarding the vocabulary-ie pouf, russian etc) Anyway, he has an absolutely beautiful solo dance number in Act 2. (we're supposed to be asleep at that point, but I think I'll sleep with one eye open so I can watch it every night) LOVE IT!.
We staged the fight today as well. TAJ and Jake (Burrs and Eddie), have done all the fight choreo with Rick and it looks pretty convincing. (fight choreo is what you do to keep the actors safe. You actually choreograph the fight like a dance. Only it's a dance where you get punched in the face or kicked in the groin-fun, though that did happen in the actual choreo didn't it Fancy?). Tomorrow we begin our work thru. That's when all the stuff is learned (supposedly) then you go back and make it look pretty. You polish it up, you refine, you tweak. It's good to be able to do that a week before tech. Sometimes you're doing that right up til opening. Some of you may know this, some will not. On this contract, a NEAT teir 7 (i think),we only get about 3 weeks rehearsal.We rehearse 10-6 every day but one, Monday. Then we have a week or so of tech. Where get onto the stage, and work out all the kinks, the spacing, the lighting, costume changes, dance moves, set pieces. Etc. We call these 10 out of 12s. That's where we can work 10 out of 12 hours. WHoo Hoo. Broadway shows get months and a few weeks or more of previews before they open. I've put up shows in 8-13 days. That's top to bottom! From first day of rehearsal to opening....that ain't easy! All those lyrics, dance steps, not to mention the book scenes!! I'm really not sure that people understand what we accomplish in such a short time, with very little budget and with very little personnel. (the behind the scenes people-the stage managers and Assistant stage managers, dressers, etc.)
well, i've got to spend some time with my kids, I can't talk to them so I've got to atleast go look at them! I mouth things to them, they're used to this. Though this is more extreme than any other time I've imposed my own vocal rest. But they do have fun with it at my expense. My eldest said once "What mom? Little Timmy's down a well?"
xx Li
Today was "let's watch Queenie and Black get it on, on the bed that's too big and too high." It was kind of like watching two very small people in a Giant's house (that was 2 shows ago....) I think the bed will get lower (and it spins! not on it's own though-Andy and Jake will move it) Though the bed is a bit large, the singing is fantastic-Maurice and Marla sing their faces off AND take off their clothing!
Have to give a shout out to my monkey peep Jeremy...he plays Jackie (the sweet dancer-he's the one who does the fabulous russian leap off the pouf-are you keeping up? If necessary please refer back to previous posts regarding the vocabulary-ie pouf, russian etc) Anyway, he has an absolutely beautiful solo dance number in Act 2. (we're supposed to be asleep at that point, but I think I'll sleep with one eye open so I can watch it every night) LOVE IT!.
We staged the fight today as well. TAJ and Jake (Burrs and Eddie), have done all the fight choreo with Rick and it looks pretty convincing. (fight choreo is what you do to keep the actors safe. You actually choreograph the fight like a dance. Only it's a dance where you get punched in the face or kicked in the groin-fun, though that did happen in the actual choreo didn't it Fancy?). Tomorrow we begin our work thru. That's when all the stuff is learned (supposedly) then you go back and make it look pretty. You polish it up, you refine, you tweak. It's good to be able to do that a week before tech. Sometimes you're doing that right up til opening. Some of you may know this, some will not. On this contract, a NEAT teir 7 (i think),we only get about 3 weeks rehearsal.We rehearse 10-6 every day but one, Monday. Then we have a week or so of tech. Where get onto the stage, and work out all the kinks, the spacing, the lighting, costume changes, dance moves, set pieces. Etc. We call these 10 out of 12s. That's where we can work 10 out of 12 hours. WHoo Hoo. Broadway shows get months and a few weeks or more of previews before they open. I've put up shows in 8-13 days. That's top to bottom! From first day of rehearsal to opening....that ain't easy! All those lyrics, dance steps, not to mention the book scenes!! I'm really not sure that people understand what we accomplish in such a short time, with very little budget and with very little personnel. (the behind the scenes people-the stage managers and Assistant stage managers, dressers, etc.)
well, i've got to spend some time with my kids, I can't talk to them so I've got to atleast go look at them! I mouth things to them, they're used to this. Though this is more extreme than any other time I've imposed my own vocal rest. But they do have fun with it at my expense. My eldest said once "What mom? Little Timmy's down a well?"
xx Li
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