Thursday, November 23, 2006

The Long Weekend

This is where it all starts to get a bit manic in order to get everything finished in time to run the technical rehearsal on Monday evening. In fact the majority of the production team and cast will now see each other every day from tonights final run through until Monday December 11th. It's a good job we all get on well!

In theory we will set build tomorrow evening from approx. 6pm until 11pm, Saturday from 10am until 11pm and Sunday from 10am until 11pm. In practice, if any of us leave the hall on the same day that we arrive at it, it will be a miracle and it's more likely to be the small hours before we head for home.

One of these days there will be a row of sleeping bags or hammock's strung up at the hall and we just won't bother going home!

Food wise, it'll probably be fish and chips for tea on Friday night, sandwiches for Saturday lunch and either a chinese or curry on Saturday night, then the same on Sunday with gallons of strong tea and coffee to keep us going.

The walkout needs to be collected from the shed and erected, the sound tower needs to be constructed and I have 8 A4 pages of notes of stuff that needs making or painting! The stage also needs to be set and the back drops hung.

Usually it's a core team of people in over the weekend and a great atmosphere even if everyone is damm tired by the end of it, but it's easier to work as you can just move from one painting job to the next and leave stuff to dry.

Lyric of the Blog: " You got big dreams? You want Fame?, Well fame costs and right here is where you start paying - with sweat!" Fame

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