Publicity Makes Us Official (Nov.9)
Well today was a whirlwind. I felt like we were at the rehearsal space for 18 hours. That being said, let me break down the day for you.
10am: We arrived at the rehearsal space and immediately started running "Cry For Me" and the scene immediately before and after it. From there, we jumped to Bob Crewe's apartment scene (with me as the stunning and show stopping "Mica"...pretty much I hand off some milk and act super gay) and then transitioned directly into "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", and "Walk Like a Man". Lastly, we do a very smooth transition into Frankie's last monologue and into the finale "Who Loves You" (very proud of Melissa entering in on the right chorus and deciding not to amaze us with her dance solo like the other day).
10:20am: run it again. pay attention to the transitions! smoother! faster! do it again!
10:45am: run it again. did i mention you need to work on the transitions?
11am: break time as the press people entered and got into their seats.
11:30am: in front of some fantastic people from playbill.com, broadway.com, broadwayworld.com...not to mention our producers, office staff, and publicity personnel...we performed our little hearts out...tried to pace ourselves in front of our first official audience...and did, what i think was, a pretty damn good first run of some key moments in the show.
From there, it was all about getting cast pictures, interviews, and handshakes to the people that wanted them and then back to business. i am very excited to start seeing some things pop up on theatre websites around (i will, of course, post them on my home page) with information of our tour and some great shots of our Four Seasons (have i mentioned lately how fantastic the four of them are working together?).
After lunch (i am SOOOO sick of Pax), we continued blocking Act II (page 24 people!) and then off to another amazing NYC experience...
...tonight was the unveiling of our director's, Des McAnuff, caricature at Sardi's! Walking into Sardi's and seeing some heavy hitters in the Broadway world was crazy enough...but seeing our dopplegangers - the original Broadway Jersey Boys company - there as well was a trip! i wanted each cast member to stand against the other playing the same part in an all-out cage match for true domination...but instead we all had some drinks together and it was nice really feeling like one big, extended family.
My favorite part of the day though was Des chatting with a few of us at break and saying that he wants to think up something clever to say after getting his caricature. he then turned to me and said "some people said that you should write some good one-liners for me". Giving it some thought, i wrote down a few ideas. i end this blog with my favorite...only those of you really keen to the Broadway scene will enjoy it:
"I almost didn't come today because I'm still upset at being shunned before of getting my caricature after my mass success with 'Dracula'".
10am: We arrived at the rehearsal space and immediately started running "Cry For Me" and the scene immediately before and after it. From there, we jumped to Bob Crewe's apartment scene (with me as the stunning and show stopping "Mica"...pretty much I hand off some milk and act super gay) and then transitioned directly into "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", and "Walk Like a Man". Lastly, we do a very smooth transition into Frankie's last monologue and into the finale "Who Loves You" (very proud of Melissa entering in on the right chorus and deciding not to amaze us with her dance solo like the other day).
10:20am: run it again. pay attention to the transitions! smoother! faster! do it again!
10:45am: run it again. did i mention you need to work on the transitions?
11am: break time as the press people entered and got into their seats.
11:30am: in front of some fantastic people from playbill.com, broadway.com, broadwayworld.com...not to mention our producers, office staff, and publicity personnel...we performed our little hearts out...tried to pace ourselves in front of our first official audience...and did, what i think was, a pretty damn good first run of some key moments in the show.
From there, it was all about getting cast pictures, interviews, and handshakes to the people that wanted them and then back to business. i am very excited to start seeing some things pop up on theatre websites around (i will, of course, post them on my home page) with information of our tour and some great shots of our Four Seasons (have i mentioned lately how fantastic the four of them are working together?).
After lunch (i am SOOOO sick of Pax), we continued blocking Act II (page 24 people!) and then off to another amazing NYC experience...
...tonight was the unveiling of our director's, Des McAnuff, caricature at Sardi's! Walking into Sardi's and seeing some heavy hitters in the Broadway world was crazy enough...but seeing our dopplegangers - the original Broadway Jersey Boys company - there as well was a trip! i wanted each cast member to stand against the other playing the same part in an all-out cage match for true domination...but instead we all had some drinks together and it was nice really feeling like one big, extended family.
My favorite part of the day though was Des chatting with a few of us at break and saying that he wants to think up something clever to say after getting his caricature. he then turned to me and said "some people said that you should write some good one-liners for me". Giving it some thought, i wrote down a few ideas. i end this blog with my favorite...only those of you really keen to the Broadway scene will enjoy it:
"I almost didn't come today because I'm still upset at being shunned before of getting my caricature after my mass success with 'Dracula'".
posted by The Guter at 11/09/2006 08:33:00 PM
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