Five Weekend Things Make a Post
May. 20th, 2019 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. How was your weekend, internet? I changed a light bulb with a pair of salad tongs.
. Rehearsals continue for My Fair Lady. The schedule's been slipping a bit, because some scenes have taken longer to rehearse than expected (mostly crowd scenes, but also some scenes featuring relatively inexperienced actors in their first big parts), but at this point we still expect to have rehearsed every scene in the show at least once before opening night.
. The local high school's big production this year was Annie. It was... rather more high-school-musical-y than I'd hoped; they've been doing really well the last few years, but their star performers have all graduated now, and the talent pool hasn't regenerated yet. Also, I went on opening night, and it looked like they still had some technical issues with the sound system and lighting to work out. On a more subjective note, I would have preferred Annie to be a bit less teen-sassy and Warbucks to have been more emphatic (though I found out afterward that he was a late addition to the cast after the original Warbucks dropped out, so he gets a pass on that score). In any case, my hat's off to him for committing to the iconic hairstyle, especially with winter coming on.
. The less said about the outcome of the election, I think, the better.
. This weekend I read the new Liaden novella, Shout of Honor. It's a lot of fun, and features a group of characters I'd been hoping to see more of.
. Rehearsals continue for My Fair Lady. The schedule's been slipping a bit, because some scenes have taken longer to rehearse than expected (mostly crowd scenes, but also some scenes featuring relatively inexperienced actors in their first big parts), but at this point we still expect to have rehearsed every scene in the show at least once before opening night.
. The local high school's big production this year was Annie. It was... rather more high-school-musical-y than I'd hoped; they've been doing really well the last few years, but their star performers have all graduated now, and the talent pool hasn't regenerated yet. Also, I went on opening night, and it looked like they still had some technical issues with the sound system and lighting to work out. On a more subjective note, I would have preferred Annie to be a bit less teen-sassy and Warbucks to have been more emphatic (though I found out afterward that he was a late addition to the cast after the original Warbucks dropped out, so he gets a pass on that score). In any case, my hat's off to him for committing to the iconic hairstyle, especially with winter coming on.
. The less said about the outcome of the election, I think, the better.
. This weekend I read the new Liaden novella, Shout of Honor. It's a lot of fun, and features a group of characters I'd been hoping to see more of.
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Date: 2019-05-20 07:41 am (UTC)Well done? That sounds like quite the operation!
Good luck with this year's play.