Mark here, once again to give you an update. We just finished our second dress rehearsal, and the directors couldn't be happier with our progress. They gave us fantastic notes on how the show is "gelling" and becoming one solid piece! Today's dress rehearsal was a little interesting! To begin with, our call time was at our regular 6:00 instead of 5:30. This gives us an hour before the show actually starts. It allows us as a cast to adjust to our window of time that we have to get in costume, make-up and set our props in time for the show. It also allows last minute preparations and warm-up and just about anything you can do before a show opens.
So we started with our rehearsal, and things were going smoothly. A few kinks here and there, but nothing that can't be fixed by doing things over. (Hey, what are rehearsals for anyway?) We build the show all the way up to our big banquet scene. Turns out some of our technicians got a little too trigger happy with their fog machines. Right in the midst of the scene, as you could probably guess, for the first time in my personal history of acting in Carol Belk Theatre, the fire alarm goes off. Being the well trained students that we are, we instantly get up, exit the theatre and gather at our designated meeting spot. We only later find out, that while this event was happening, one of our technicians takes a tumble down the steps, and one of our actors becomes sick on their stomach...and it's raining. Seems to me like someone dropped the "M" word in the theatre, and I ain't talking about Magic either. (If you don't know Theatre tradition...well, look it up, because I can't bear to say it with it be so close to opening night!) The Asheville Fire Dept arrives, silences our alarms, and we returned to our show, to finish up the last few pages of our script. Reflecting upon this, I can say that we are ready for no matter what is thrown at us! If you are coming to the show, I expect that you WON'T be disappointed!
See you soon!
-Mark
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