Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The importance of staying alert in rehearsal

From my journal archives, during rehearsal of a show on which I was the production stage manager:

I tuned out of rehearsal for 30 seconds, and when I came back, a whispered, nighttime bedroom scene was now going to be performed while eating carrots... I feel like I'm being Punk'd.... 

(Sadly, I left this show a few days later for another project and never saw the finished product, so I'm left to wonder forever not only if the carrots made it but why they were added in the first place and if eating carrots is, in fact, the extra touch that every bedroom scene needs to make it magical.... The moral of the story: Never zone out in rehearsal if you don't want produce mysteriously added to a scene.)

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