Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2019 3:53:07 GMT
With 8 people failing test 6, I’m giving you one FINAL chance to avoid the pain of having me read notes to you every night after rehearsal.
I do not take time out of rehearsal to read notes, so this would essentially tack on an extra ½ hour each time, so we would go until 6:00 every night instead of 5:30.
To avoid that (at least for a day or two), you have until 2:30 pm on April 8th to respond to this thread. Even if it’s just 1 person missing, you all win this “prize” so please encourage other cast members to respond. I asked you to do that on the last one and well...8 people...
This is everything you need to know about rehearsal on April 8th.
We are only focusing on Act 1.
We will start at 2:30 in room MC-8. We’ll have a really short talk and warm up. We need to be ready to start the rehearsal onstage at 2:45 if we want to finish on time.
This is our last rehearsal to get EVERYTHING right before we bring in pit on Tuesday for Act 1. We’re also adding our light crew. Normally we’d add sound too...but we still don’t have anyone yet. If by chance we do have someone, I’m adding info about microphone care in this thread. It may not be needed Monday, but it will be soon.
At 2:45, I’ll play the opening to the show. We are keeping EVERYONE (except Ashlyn) backstage because we need to simulate an actual performance. This means if you are not in a scene or going to be entering a scene WE CANNOT SEE YOU until you enter that scene. No hanging out beside the curtain/castle, etc. If you can see the seats in the auditorium and you are not supposed to be on stage, you are doing it wrong. The audience can see you and that’s not cool.
The light crew will be learning today, so they may make mistakes, just like you make mistakes when you first start something. It’s okay. Be patient.
The auditorium will be dark when the Beast and Enchantress take their spots during the opening. They should be in spotlights, but...we’ll see... Be patient.
Scene changes and stage crew work will need work. We may have a period where we just do scene change practice, but today is not it. If we are short stage crew, it would be great if you would be aware and help out if needed. When we have the pit, the stage crew needs to be 100% on the ball because so much of the music and what happens on stage is coordinated very closely. If we have only 25 seconds of music for a scene change, it can’t take 26 seconds or even longer. So no pressure stage crew.
We will only stop things if things go horribly wrong. I will not accept forgotten lines or lyrics. If you don’t spend spring break reviewing everything, or putting this show out of your mind, there will be no recovering from that. This show will be seriously be doomed. Please bring your “A-game” and be 150% ready with what you’re responsible for doing. Review your lines, music and especially your choreography. You should be given links to videos to watch. You saw what you looked like on the last day before spring break...If you look like that on Monday....seriously doomed.
I’ll be switching between the rehearsal score, the pit music and the London Cast recording (if needed). Since the chance of microphones is low...you’ll really need to bring projection too.
IF we do have microphones, we have rules:
1) You are responsible for the well-being of your microphone until you turn it back in one last time on May 4th. If you drop it accidentally on the cement stage, you will break it. Make sure it is secure in your clothing or costume ALWAYS. Also, the mic wire from the battery pack to the actual microphone is very fragile. You cannot pull on it, stretch it or even wrap it around your mic pack. It needs to run up the inside of your shirt or dress to your face. If you leave it hanging, it could get caught on something and break.
2) If you fail rule number 1, you have 2 bad things to look forward to a) You do not get a new microphone. We probably won’t have one for every cast member so be prepared for possible disappointment but on the plus side you won’t have to worry about b) If damage was caused by you dropping the pack or breaking the microphone cord because you were careless or not following rule number 1, you will owe Drama Club the cost of replacement. Some of the mics can be up to $500 to replace. We have some expensive equipment here. Others are cheaper? $100 each. That’s just for the packs. The microphones are another $100 each.
3) All microphones will be tested before you get one assigned to you. You can pick up your microphone (when we have a sound crew) from the chairs behind the sound board. Each chair has a number on it. That number will match the number on the microphone and microphone pack. The microphone pack will also have your character’s name on it (or your name in some cases.) That number also matches the sound board input for your micrphone. At the end of each rehearsal/performance...one of your FIRST jobs is to return your microphone to the correct chair. Do not make us have to hunt you down to retrieve your microphone. If we have to wait for you too long or if you FORGET to return your microphone, you’ll enjoy the fine art of projection during your next performance because we will HIDE your microphone.
4) Microphones have a switch on them. Some are simply on/off and other may be on/off/standby. You need to turn your microphone on before you enter the stage to perform and turn it off as soon as you get off. So make sure you put your microphone pack where it can be easily accessed to do this or have a microphone buddy. There is nothing more frustrating or embarrassing, when there is an audience, than watching a scene in a show and then hearing the conversations in room MC-8. Even more embarrassing...listening you go to the bathroom. Just make it a habit because you will make enemies if you forget.
5) If you have any questions about microphones, please ask one of our experienced cast members. It could save you some frustration and even some money.
Backstage etiquette: You know how we have the sound of the show piped into MC-8 and there’s a TV there? There’s also a TV backstage too. They are there for a reason. When you are not in a scene or the next upcoming scene, we don’t want you backstage. Just to check if you are reading this, here’s what I want you to do for the “test.” Respond that you read this but also add the name of your favorite food. Okay, back to this information: We need you out of the way, and the only place you can go and still keep track of the show is in MC-8. Don’t hang out in the costume room because that area is really surprising sound proof to outside noise. Now, just because you are in MC-8 doesn’t mean that you can talk as loudly as you want, or yell, or scream or whatever. We will close the doors in the hallway, but that doesn’t mute all sound. It’ll mute normal voices, but once you raise them back there...your audience will hear them.
There is not to be talking in the hallway above a whisper and absolutely no talking backstage behind the curtains. It’s a “no talking zone” and it will be enforced by Drama council members. If you have to talk backstage make it quiet and fast and necessary.
If we finish Act 1 and find that we have time before 5:30, we’ll have a chat about how you felt, things we noticed and then give you time to work on things that really, really need work. The goal again is to be 100% ready so on Tuesday we only have to stop for pit mistakes and not ours. For Tuesday, since we only have the pit from 2:30-4 and since Act 1 is 90 minutes long, we’ll need to really shorten our warmup. I anticipate the pit will start setting up right after school and be ready by 2:35ish. If we can warm up at 2:25, that would be helpful on Tuesday.
I will not be filming you on Monday, but I will on Tuesday when I have hands free to do so.
For cast notes, I’m only able to do them on days that we have the pit, so you get a reprieve on Monday, but expect there to be some on Tuesday night. If everyone passes this test, I’ll post them online Tuesday night and expect you to read them and respond. If someone fails to read them by Wednesday 2:30 pm, then the next time notes are read, you’ll be listening to my nice soothingly irritated voice at 5:30 on a Thursday afternoon.
There is one more question to answer on top of the one cleverly hidden above. We may find that by Thursday that we’ll be wishing there would’ve been a rehearsal scheduled for Friday, April 12th. If we did one, it would be from 2:30-4:30 and would probably only focus on things that really need focusing on. Add to your other 2 responses, that you need to make for this thread, whether or not you’d be interested in being there on Friday if it were available to you. If you can’t make it, just say so. We will only work on things that YOU want to focus on. You’ll probably have seen yourself dancing a few times by then...so you never know. If everyone does their job over break, we may not even need to think about April 12th.
That’s it for now. There will be a thread for April 9th to detail how pit rehearsals work, but I’ll post that sometime on April 8th.
Enjoy your break and remember to respond to this by April 8th at 2:30 pm.
I do not take time out of rehearsal to read notes, so this would essentially tack on an extra ½ hour each time, so we would go until 6:00 every night instead of 5:30.
To avoid that (at least for a day or two), you have until 2:30 pm on April 8th to respond to this thread. Even if it’s just 1 person missing, you all win this “prize” so please encourage other cast members to respond. I asked you to do that on the last one and well...8 people...
This is everything you need to know about rehearsal on April 8th.
We are only focusing on Act 1.
We will start at 2:30 in room MC-8. We’ll have a really short talk and warm up. We need to be ready to start the rehearsal onstage at 2:45 if we want to finish on time.
This is our last rehearsal to get EVERYTHING right before we bring in pit on Tuesday for Act 1. We’re also adding our light crew. Normally we’d add sound too...but we still don’t have anyone yet. If by chance we do have someone, I’m adding info about microphone care in this thread. It may not be needed Monday, but it will be soon.
At 2:45, I’ll play the opening to the show. We are keeping EVERYONE (except Ashlyn) backstage because we need to simulate an actual performance. This means if you are not in a scene or going to be entering a scene WE CANNOT SEE YOU until you enter that scene. No hanging out beside the curtain/castle, etc. If you can see the seats in the auditorium and you are not supposed to be on stage, you are doing it wrong. The audience can see you and that’s not cool.
The light crew will be learning today, so they may make mistakes, just like you make mistakes when you first start something. It’s okay. Be patient.
The auditorium will be dark when the Beast and Enchantress take their spots during the opening. They should be in spotlights, but...we’ll see... Be patient.
Scene changes and stage crew work will need work. We may have a period where we just do scene change practice, but today is not it. If we are short stage crew, it would be great if you would be aware and help out if needed. When we have the pit, the stage crew needs to be 100% on the ball because so much of the music and what happens on stage is coordinated very closely. If we have only 25 seconds of music for a scene change, it can’t take 26 seconds or even longer. So no pressure stage crew.
We will only stop things if things go horribly wrong. I will not accept forgotten lines or lyrics. If you don’t spend spring break reviewing everything, or putting this show out of your mind, there will be no recovering from that. This show will be seriously be doomed. Please bring your “A-game” and be 150% ready with what you’re responsible for doing. Review your lines, music and especially your choreography. You should be given links to videos to watch. You saw what you looked like on the last day before spring break...If you look like that on Monday....seriously doomed.
I’ll be switching between the rehearsal score, the pit music and the London Cast recording (if needed). Since the chance of microphones is low...you’ll really need to bring projection too.
IF we do have microphones, we have rules:
1) You are responsible for the well-being of your microphone until you turn it back in one last time on May 4th. If you drop it accidentally on the cement stage, you will break it. Make sure it is secure in your clothing or costume ALWAYS. Also, the mic wire from the battery pack to the actual microphone is very fragile. You cannot pull on it, stretch it or even wrap it around your mic pack. It needs to run up the inside of your shirt or dress to your face. If you leave it hanging, it could get caught on something and break.
2) If you fail rule number 1, you have 2 bad things to look forward to a) You do not get a new microphone. We probably won’t have one for every cast member so be prepared for possible disappointment but on the plus side you won’t have to worry about b) If damage was caused by you dropping the pack or breaking the microphone cord because you were careless or not following rule number 1, you will owe Drama Club the cost of replacement. Some of the mics can be up to $500 to replace. We have some expensive equipment here. Others are cheaper? $100 each. That’s just for the packs. The microphones are another $100 each.
3) All microphones will be tested before you get one assigned to you. You can pick up your microphone (when we have a sound crew) from the chairs behind the sound board. Each chair has a number on it. That number will match the number on the microphone and microphone pack. The microphone pack will also have your character’s name on it (or your name in some cases.) That number also matches the sound board input for your micrphone. At the end of each rehearsal/performance...one of your FIRST jobs is to return your microphone to the correct chair. Do not make us have to hunt you down to retrieve your microphone. If we have to wait for you too long or if you FORGET to return your microphone, you’ll enjoy the fine art of projection during your next performance because we will HIDE your microphone.
4) Microphones have a switch on them. Some are simply on/off and other may be on/off/standby. You need to turn your microphone on before you enter the stage to perform and turn it off as soon as you get off. So make sure you put your microphone pack where it can be easily accessed to do this or have a microphone buddy. There is nothing more frustrating or embarrassing, when there is an audience, than watching a scene in a show and then hearing the conversations in room MC-8. Even more embarrassing...listening you go to the bathroom. Just make it a habit because you will make enemies if you forget.
5) If you have any questions about microphones, please ask one of our experienced cast members. It could save you some frustration and even some money.
Backstage etiquette: You know how we have the sound of the show piped into MC-8 and there’s a TV there? There’s also a TV backstage too. They are there for a reason. When you are not in a scene or the next upcoming scene, we don’t want you backstage. Just to check if you are reading this, here’s what I want you to do for the “test.” Respond that you read this but also add the name of your favorite food. Okay, back to this information: We need you out of the way, and the only place you can go and still keep track of the show is in MC-8. Don’t hang out in the costume room because that area is really surprising sound proof to outside noise. Now, just because you are in MC-8 doesn’t mean that you can talk as loudly as you want, or yell, or scream or whatever. We will close the doors in the hallway, but that doesn’t mute all sound. It’ll mute normal voices, but once you raise them back there...your audience will hear them.
There is not to be talking in the hallway above a whisper and absolutely no talking backstage behind the curtains. It’s a “no talking zone” and it will be enforced by Drama council members. If you have to talk backstage make it quiet and fast and necessary.
If we finish Act 1 and find that we have time before 5:30, we’ll have a chat about how you felt, things we noticed and then give you time to work on things that really, really need work. The goal again is to be 100% ready so on Tuesday we only have to stop for pit mistakes and not ours. For Tuesday, since we only have the pit from 2:30-4 and since Act 1 is 90 minutes long, we’ll need to really shorten our warmup. I anticipate the pit will start setting up right after school and be ready by 2:35ish. If we can warm up at 2:25, that would be helpful on Tuesday.
I will not be filming you on Monday, but I will on Tuesday when I have hands free to do so.
For cast notes, I’m only able to do them on days that we have the pit, so you get a reprieve on Monday, but expect there to be some on Tuesday night. If everyone passes this test, I’ll post them online Tuesday night and expect you to read them and respond. If someone fails to read them by Wednesday 2:30 pm, then the next time notes are read, you’ll be listening to my nice soothingly irritated voice at 5:30 on a Thursday afternoon.
There is one more question to answer on top of the one cleverly hidden above. We may find that by Thursday that we’ll be wishing there would’ve been a rehearsal scheduled for Friday, April 12th. If we did one, it would be from 2:30-4:30 and would probably only focus on things that really need focusing on. Add to your other 2 responses, that you need to make for this thread, whether or not you’d be interested in being there on Friday if it were available to you. If you can’t make it, just say so. We will only work on things that YOU want to focus on. You’ll probably have seen yourself dancing a few times by then...so you never know. If everyone does their job over break, we may not even need to think about April 12th.
That’s it for now. There will be a thread for April 9th to detail how pit rehearsals work, but I’ll post that sometime on April 8th.
Enjoy your break and remember to respond to this by April 8th at 2:30 pm.