Last night’s rehearsal went a lot better. Yeah!

So, yeah … I am super frustrated with the way “The Producers” is going.

Last night’s rehearsal was for choreography for the numbers in Act One. Bear in mind that “Opening Night,” “King of Broadway” and “Along Came Bialy” have all been choreographed … three weeks ago. Well, last night they spent two hours running and re-running those numbers. Meanwhile, “Keep It Gay” and “Der Guten Tag Hop Clop” still haven’t been touched. We finally got around to “Keep It Gay” about 10:00 last night. Gah!!!

I am usually not and overly fussy person when I am in a show. But considering the fact that we only have this week and one more full week before tech … I am getting a little wound up. Just seems like a lot of time is being spent “refining” things that can be worked on during a normal run of Act One as opposed to taking large amounts of time for those numbers when others haven’t even been staged.

This sucks!

‘Cause I was so excited to be get cast in the show. Now I just want it to be over.

How frustrated am I with “The Producers” right now?

VERY!

We are about 3-1/2 weeks out from opening and so far we haven’t really touched anything that I am in.

As of now, we have:
– Not choreographed or even basically staged “Keep It Gay”
– Not run through “It’s Bad Luck To Say Good Luck on Opening Night”
– Barely gone through “Springtime for Hitler”
– Not worked on the Tap Dancing solo I have in that number
– Not  touched “Prisoners of Love”

I went to rehearsal tonight and basically all I got to do was the one page lead in to “Keep It Gay” and that was pretty much it. Most of the time was spent running the opening of the show (“Opening Night” and “King of Broadway”) and the closing of Act One (“Along Came Bialy”). Not that these are not valid things to work on. It’s just frustrating that the solos and smaller numbers are getting shafted to spend time working (and re-working) big numbers that have already been staged.

Hopefully the rest of this week will go better … and I will get some direction on at least a few of the above mentioned points.

Gah!

… for blog abuse.

So, sue me. Things have been nuts and have barely been able to focus on keeping all my shit together.

Plus, Facebook is evil. With Status Updates and Like Buttons and comments … it seems to be replacing blogging as the easy way to put yourself out there. I am gonna try not to let that happen and start keeping up better here.

“The Producers” has been rehearsing. We finished up the major music rehearsals last week. It’s been pretty brutal as I am singing higher than I think I ever have. Good to grow … but it made last week quite exhausting. Tonight we start dance rehearsals and that is gonna be pretty intense as well. We will be doing a “Tap Master Class.” I have to tap dance … YIKES!

Also, there has also been a huge amount of family drama going on. HUGE. I am gonna write out some thoughts on this sometime this week … ’cause I really need to vent some of the thoughts that have been swirling around in my brain. And if certain people read it and get pissed off … well, that is their problem.

In totally unrelated news … I have become totally smitten with a fella I recently met. I haven’t actually said this to him as I am fairly certain he’s figured it out already.

So …

The new watch words around here will be “Better Blogging.” Check back in tomorrow!

Yeesh.

It’s been nearly a week since my last post. Has anything exciting been going on? Hmmmm … maybe!

Rehearsals for “The Producers” are now in full swing. We had the read-through and two music rehearsals last week. This week will be full up with music and then we go right into the dancing. In a scary bit of news, my tap shoes arrived yesterday! I can’t even begin to tell you how much terror and anxiety the idea of tap dancing in front of people fills me with. I’ll know after June 1st just how stupid I am gonna look.

Work is rocking along and keeping me busy as well … both my regular job and the freelance stuff. The theater’s season is in full swing which means lots of posters, programs, newsletters and ads.

Summer seems to be in full swing here in the mountains. Yard work is now a weekly occurrence.

There’s a couple of other things I want to post about just to type them down and get ’em off my mind … but I think I am gonna process some more before I “tell the world.”

We had the first meeting of the cast that will be presenting “The Producers” this summer. Wow. Looks like a great group of fun and funny folks. My fears were confirmed this evening though. Tap shoes have been ordered … so, look for me to be hoofing my stuff on stage in July!

So, yeah … “Honk!” ends and I get sick. I have spent the last fews days trying to take it easy and rest up.

Tomorrow night, I am off with Franke (Jonesy will be there too!) to see”The Who’s Tommy: The Musical” over in Asheville. Quite a few friends are in it.

We start “The Producers” next week with a read through on Monday. Fun!