Costume Designer Leesa Hamilton has sent us the nose pieces for the warriors. They look strange, slightly threatening, and fascinating. I find I can’t take my eyes off any of them. The warriors are suddenly a gang—mess with one, you’re messing with them all.
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Jeff Schwager, Andrea Lee Norwood, & Chris O’Neill |
It’s our second ten out of twelve day—companies are allowed to call the actors for four twelve hour days in a rehearsal period, working ten hours with two hours of lunch, supper and breaks.
The ten out of twelves are usually used for tech days—adding costumes, lighting, sound, special effects—and often there’s little real rehearsal for the actors.
But with outdoor theatre with no electrical elements… there’s no tech days.
Which translates into more genuine rehearsal time in the last days before opening.
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Musical Associate: Nathan Petitpas |
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| Paint Your Dragon (Tail) Puppet Designer by Karen Jones & Apprentice Stage Manager Morgan McMahon |
I hang around for the day because there are still a few rewritten moments in the scenes they’ll still be working out and I may still be called to fix something.
In twelve hours I prove to be useful perhaps three times.
This is the most difficult part of rehearsals for the writer—for me, anyway.
My part’s over, it’s all actors’ work at this point.
I'm slow getting this post together, it's now 5:00 Wednesday. Our first preview audience goes up in one hour. The warriors are suiting up.
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Jeremy Webb & Andrea Lee Norwood |
Andrea Lee Norwood as Gussi
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