Tuesday, January 7th 7-10pm

This rehearsal was wonderful.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again TRANSITIONS DISTINGUISH AN AMATEUR THEATRICAL PRODUCTION FROM A PROFESSIONAL ONE. Slow, unorganized, fumbling transitions are the FIRST giveaway!!! Always and forever. Do NOT fight me on this. SO – we spent the first half hour? Hour? Running the transitions. They are not complicated; they are not counterintuitive. It doesn’t matter – DO ITTTTT. After running them twice, we chatted about some costume choices for John and Suzan. Suzan and Alex and basically set; I LOVE what the actor brought in for Alex – I had originally said khakis and a polo, but his dark jeans are well-cut and look just as good if not better. I bought some orange reflective vests and ear plus from…you guessed it: Amazon. Suzan’s bell-bottom jeans and flowy tops work perfectly. She found some amazing pieces from Goodwill, one of which (this southwestern-style pullover sweatshirt) John is now wearing in a couple of the scenes. John is going to wear either some work jeans or work khakis, white t-shirt, belt, and work boots, and depending on the scene, adds that pullover or a denim jacket (called for in the script). This week I went to Goodwill and to Marshalls, and actually ended up finding one at Old Navy on sale that even has some “rips” in it to look edgy/destructed. We’ll try that! The actress playing Madeleine is bringing some items in tomorrow. I’ve kept it so that everyone is in the color scheme of navy/blue and beige – plus white or black maybe. It will be visually in the same world. Will take some photos tomorrow. I’m excited for Dan (the Artistic Director) to pop in and see all the progress we’ve made. We are in a great spot – I’m so proud of this group. I also made a playlist of pre-show music and chose “Love You For a Long Time” by Maggie Rogers to be the bow/final song. Pulled a Joni Mitchell sound-alike for the moments that call for it…we’ll see how it sounds tomorrow. We only ever hear the real Joni Mitchell once! So I have some songs for that, too. We also need it to sound like it’s coming from a car radio, but I don’t know how advanced our sound system is for that.