Week One Rehearsals

Week 1 of rehearsal - 127 days to opening night

**FANFARE** Ba ba baaaa baaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. (And cue Voiceover:)

And so it's begun. 1 production, 16 weeks, 35 cast members, 14 band members, and a production team of 15 all with one goal: get Mack & Mabel on the stage at the end of July. 

Yep, we're ooooofffffff. It's a little bit surreal for me having sat on it for so long to finally start is a little odd.

 

BUT we've started off slowly, as we've added an extra couple of weeks into the schedule, which gives us the luxury of easing into rehearsals. So rehearsal one was handing out the scripts from Samuel French, giving the score to Ian, me waffling for about half an hour (god I'm dull), and then we moved onto the proper stuff - learning the choral part of Big Time with Ian and then George starting to set the dance for it. And that was it for the first one. Second rehearsal was just for the Principals, Male Chorus (who have lines) and the production team - and we read through the script, with me again being a pain by butting in with my 'vision' of the staging at key points (the images above are a small part). But I think everyone in the main cast sort of knows where the show is going now. Roughly. Some fun bits. Some silly bits. Some serious bits. A pot pourri if you will....

The downside of the weeks is that we've started to get drop outs - we had planned for this, and it's all fine, a shame, but fine. A couple of good people though, and one was one of the principals - but all with valid and understandable reasons. So it'll mean a bit of shuffling around cast wise unfortunately. But we'll see.

 

Now. I'll be honest with you. People have said they'll blog for this site. Cast members have promised. But so far nothing. I'll ask again tonight. Maybe someone will hear my call. Maybe, just maybe the next posting will be from someone else?

So tonight. Week 2. Blocking. Will keep you posted.

Neil