The show must go on...

Wow. 

The show opens tomorrow night. 

It has all gone so fast.

Tonight was our long dress rehearsal – 6 straight hours of practice.  We were all pretty pumped for it – and it was fantastic and horrible at the same time!  To start with, we were missing one of our actors for the first two and a half hours of it.  We made due without her, but it’s always hard when you’re missing an actor in a production this small.  That, and having to clean the stage after every run, made it a little annoying.  But everyone did pretty well, considering. 

Then we got to the last run.  For this, we were missing one of the main actors.  Boy, did we find out how much we need him!  This run was totally off-book, so when someone messes up, it is up to the actors to figure out how to get out of their mess.  Well, there was a pretty big mess up that cause the actors to skip three pages of the script, move on, then go back to where they first messed up and repeat it – all of it!  But the good part is that they figured out how to keep moving, instead of standing there waiting for someone to remember their line.  

So whatever happens tomorrow night, whether they forget some lines, or skip whole scenes, the show must go on!

-K