Rehearsals - Week 2

Week sixty something - Week 2 of rehearsals

Week two of rehearsals and look! Two, not one, but two postings from cast member (see below). Two. Now this really is a production blog rather than 'Neil writes dull stuff' blog. Hopefully they'll just keep on comin'.

Soooo week two. Blocking and it's slooooooooow. I told the cast it would be slow, boring, complicated etc but I don't think the cast realised it would be slow, boring, complicated etc until we actually started...at which point they came to the conclusion that it was slow, boring, complicated etc. But it's doing this stuff now that'll pay dividends later on. Or so I keep telling myself.

Only one dropout this week - which takes the total to 4. But it was someone who hadn't come to rehearsals yet anyway so it doesn't get in the way of anything. However the dropouts have meant 'reblocking' - which is a nightmare particularly as I'm trying to give everyone something to do individually....so that they are at least on stage for the first quarter of the show.

Simon Abbott seems rather pleased with all the physical slapstick he's goin' to have to go through, which is good. I'll remind him of this when we're in casualty for the seventh time...

I'm almost done with an update to the website (above) which will be changable weekly/whenever I get the urge. Hopefully that'll go up this week. Doing all the artwork today for all the printed material, and starting the print specs etc for all the printers quotes - then it's onto the programme - need to start it now before it becomes impossible later on.

I've asked for 10 emails from all the cast so we can do an emailer later on, but I'm not holding my breath at the moment. We'll see.

Anyhoo, the Regent Centre drop banner is up and shouting about the show this week, so I'm off to check all the details are right - don't want a little old lady in the Shetland Isles being called in the middle of the night for show tickets now do we...?

Neil