The calm remains. It is an odd feeling. I have now begun to think that something must have gone horribly wrong after all, but then I look back at my notes and the schedule for this week and realise that it is all ticking along quite nicely, thank you very much. What I needed to have sketched out for this week is already down there on paper (yes, it is even from Act 2) and we are so well on target that I even managed to get some old posts up onto the website.
The world of a director is a fickle one. Several weeks pass in a frenzy of chaotic CD listening and prancing around on the kitchen floor (much to the dismay of one pet dog who is determined to take us both off for an evening walk) and then, suddenly, peace reigns again. Has something gone wrong? Has the enthusiasm for this crazy project finally waned for good? No, it is simply preparation paying off.
This is the first in our series of Guest Posts on the theme of Joseph, kindly submitted by the one and only, Hyder Khalil. Watch this space for future submissions!
My first visit to the costume cupboard of 2012 is complete. What a sneeze-inducing experience it was. Thankfully the lovely ladies in charge of all things “Wardrobe” had already pulled out the big box stuffed full of old robes and headgear used in the last production some ten years ago so there was no immediate reason for me to climb into the attic space. However the dust on the box thought it would be highly amusing to attempt to find a new home in my nostrils. Clearly my nostrils did not agree.
Unbelievably we have already passed the golden landmark that is the first week in rehearsal. Time is ticking by until the first performance now…tick tock, tick tock. But I get ahead of myself.
With six weeks and a half left until the first performance of Snow White and the Seven Little Men, preparations are well under way! The majority of the cast have lines and harmonies buzzing around in their head. The band have been practising hard and The Backstage Crew are busy making props. Even the marketing bods have been busy and produced this wonderful poster to promote the show:
The theme of the Barnstormers Service at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday 9 October will be the transforming power of love using Beauty and the Beast as a parable. This is because, like the parables Jesus, told deeper truths can be found below its surface meaning. So naturally it will be of great interest to all.
Well, what an exhausting but utterly rewarding show run that was! Show week always seems so quick when you’ve spent the last four months rehearsing, living and breathing Beauty and The Beast. I hope that you all enjoyed our performance of Beauty and The Beast and that you will join us for our next performance of Snow White and the Seven Little Men in November.
Just flicking through some of the images captured before the Saturday Matinee and who should we spot in the audience but Maurice (Gerry Schuller) from Brighton Theatre Group!
Well here it is show week and as you can see from the countdown in the bottom right of your screen there’s not long at all now until the first show!
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