Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Nearly there.

It's tuesday night, we open Friday and everything is converging on the date. We appear to be well represented with lots of advertising, posters, radio announcements and word of mouth out. I hope to sell at least 1/2 the house for each night, or we're in money trouble.
The dancers are looking great, if a little stressed like us all at this point. By the time the curtain goes up, they will be fantastic. "SideShow" is a bear. In retrospect I should not have taken 2 weeks away from it so near the performances, it shows in the hesitation of the dancers and a loss of continuity in the choreography. Next time I will give my own work greater priority instead of being so free with the little time we have to make a show.
Rachel's piece looks clean and finished, Echo the same, and DAvy's piece is coming along nicely, in spite of his frustration with it. "Metaphor" looks clean and rehearsed, except for the finale which we've only done twice in this configuration...should be OK by friday.
So many people have worked so hard on this, it will be a relief to get it out on stage and performed.
The Band has decided they don't need rehearsal thursday night, just friday afternoon..................not sure what I think of that, but i'll go with it, because I have to. I hope they are as good as they need to be, and I trust they are.
At this point, we just ride the wave into shore, hopefully with all the costumes and sets finished, and dancers who know what they are doing...

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