Hold, Please
We are on day two of tech rehearsals.
"Hold, please. Let's back up to the beginning of that scene."
We are on day two of tech rehearsals. 10-hour days with a 2-hour dinner break from 2-4pm. Full costumes, hair, microphones. Going scene-by-scene, moment-by-moment. Lots of waiting. Lots of adjusting. Our amazing wardrobe, sound and light departments working harder than all of us combined making us look and sound perfect.
It's a lesson in patience. For everyone.
You perform a scene. Well, really just a portion of the scene. Then stage management announces "hold, please." And you stand there so they can focus and adjust the lights on you. Then you back up a few lines and continue on.
"Hold, please"
(this is not our show, just something I googled to show you what a typical tech rehearsal is like)And they re-program and adjust the sound board to make sure that everyone on stage who is singing is heard. Then you back up a few lines and continue on.
"Hold, please"
And wardrobe runs onstage to fix, alter or deal with any costume issues that might have arisen. Then you back you back up a few lines and continue on.
On and on, for two 4-hour block. For two days in a row. Then a day off. Then again on Tuesday - but we add the full band. Then on Wednesday afternoon to prepare for our full invited-audience dress rehearsal later that evening.
So yeah, after being on my feet pretty much nonstop for eight hours per day, in dress shoes, carrying a solid body Gibson reverse Firebird guitar, my back is a wreck. My left shoulder is a wreck. I have never wanted or needed a full day off in quite some time. The excitement of opening night next Thursday seems more like a distant dream than a sure thing.
Even now, on our meal break, as I sit here in the house typing this, our lighting designer is working on his cues, our female, swing, Abigail, is walking the stage script in hand going over the three tracks she covers and one of our amazing ASM's (assistant stage managers), Peyton, is reading a book while still wearing her backstage headset.
Everyone is working towards a common goal. And the city of Franklin, TN isn't going to know what hit them come next Thursday.
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