Dress Rehearsal - Sat.

Quite a bit of news, but I am running quite late.

Saturday, I did a fair bit of postering, which I'll discuss separately.  I made it there around 7:15, and the actors were just assembling.  Then they ran some lines in the parking lot, making it midway through Scene 3, then we did the first dress rehearsal.  The actors were definitely off book, though there were a couple of weird exchanges where someone skipped a few lines.  I'll post quite a few photos below.

Sunday was tech day over at Alumnae.  I think the best moment for me was when I realized we did have (just) enough space to get all the props in place, and there is even a bar in our space so the actors can leave costumes if they so choose.  It's good I picked up some extra bungee cords!

It took a bit longer than I had hoped to get the tech down, and there was some miscommunication at the end where the actors thought we were starting with a full run-through, but we were actually working out the cues between the scenes.  We needed perhaps 10 more minutes to get through the whole show, but it looks like we are on track for a 55 minute show, which would be incredible.  And there were very few significant goofs, except one actor missing a cue.  At this point, I have simply seen it too many times.  I'm very curious how it will seem to someone coming at it fresh.

I actually had to cab it over with my 5 folding chairs.  Everything else was brought by other people.  (At least it was only a regular cab and not the extra charge for a cargo van...)  In the end, we only needed one parking permit for Alumnae.  It was a close thing, but I managed to return it to Alumnae before the performer drove off, and then I caught a ride from Lynn.  It was only a few blocks, but I didn't have my bike with me for once.  I put in a couple of hours at work, though truthfully I mostly worked on the program, which I sent around to the cast for comments.  It looks like I did manage to get it down to 1 page, double-sided, though there was no remaining space for ads or sharing space with another company.  C'est la vie.

I missed one group I had wanted to see at the Jazz Festival, but I did make it up to Yorkville to see the Charley Rose Trio.  I was about 10 minutes late, but I managed to catch the vast majority of the set.  I was going to stop in at a Kupfert and Kim's, but they weren't serving any more food, so I backtracked to Spadina and went to the burrito place.  My favorite server was there, and we briefly talked about books.  I left a poster to see if they might put it up, but they didn't really have space for it.

I got home and did a fair bit of work, then just crashed.  My hopes to see Jen Lo at the Pilot were just not that realistic with everything else that's been going on.

Anyway, here are some of the photos from the dress rehearsal.