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Jun. 6th, 2021 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherThe Rep Club's production of Hello Dolly, originally scheduled for last year and then postponed due to the social restrictions, opens next weekend.
As a result, this weekend was filled with multiple rehearsals while we nailed down the costume changes and lighting and sound cues and the director received the reckoning for all the times over the past few months that she's said some version of "We'll skip that bit for now and straighten it out later". We went into the weekend feeling that the production was a complete mess and possibly doomed, and emerged with the confidence that it's actually pretty solid and there are just a few places where it still needs tightening up and polishing.
(That puts us well ahead of where we were at the corresponding point of the recent short play season, because in that case the club committee absent-mindedly scheduled opening night for the weekend after Easter, which meant that we couldn't do a crunch weekend because too many of the cast and crew were out of town. The first dress rehearsal wasn't until three days before opening night, at which point two of the plays still had key cast members away on holidays and one of the directors was out sick and I had a slight meltdown because I was trying to do all their jobs in addition to the three jobs I already had on my own account. But the actual performances went really well.)
As a result, this weekend was filled with multiple rehearsals while we nailed down the costume changes and lighting and sound cues and the director received the reckoning for all the times over the past few months that she's said some version of "We'll skip that bit for now and straighten it out later". We went into the weekend feeling that the production was a complete mess and possibly doomed, and emerged with the confidence that it's actually pretty solid and there are just a few places where it still needs tightening up and polishing.
(That puts us well ahead of where we were at the corresponding point of the recent short play season, because in that case the club committee absent-mindedly scheduled opening night for the weekend after Easter, which meant that we couldn't do a crunch weekend because too many of the cast and crew were out of town. The first dress rehearsal wasn't until three days before opening night, at which point two of the plays still had key cast members away on holidays and one of the directors was out sick and I had a slight meltdown because I was trying to do all their jobs in addition to the three jobs I already had on my own account. But the actual performances went really well.)
