My Manchester/JFK flight was 2:30, so working backward, it made sense to catch the 10:00 199 bus, and I had to be out of the cottage by then anyway. I'd sent a message to host Tiffany explaining to her what I was going to do as cleanup, and also apologizing that I'd broken the adorable …
Continue reading Pinazoo, Day 15 (Saturday): Over the Bright Blue Sea
Oh yes, forgot a funny bit from late in the rehearsal process. So, as is typical G&S, once Captain Corcoran is revealed to be a common sailor (oh, fie!), he immediately starts talking in a lower-class accent. And then Josephine runs in, all upset, with "My father! A common sailor!". I logically inferred that maybe …
So, this is how show day works at the Festival. As early as you can get in in the morning, everyone who can cart stuff loads in the costumes and props, and the sets (which are supplied by the festival) are loaded in and set up on stage. As soon as possible, the cast is …
Things get blurry now, and I didn't take good notes, but I do have the call sheets and some helpful hints from friends. Tuesday morning, we worked on large ensemble stuff while Rachel drilled The Bell Trio upstairs. (The Bell Trio was three verses and two encores and got funnier and funnier throughout. I'll post …
Oo, now we're back into the swing of it and it's show week. As per tradition, I'm now conducting rehearsals out of the full score, not the vocal score. Back for Pirates (10 years ago now!), I started the habit of creating a photocopy of whatever full score I was using up to 11x17", making …
The Sunday of the Savoynet rehearsal period is a nice little break, as we can't rehearse all day in whatever church we're in, it's Sunday! St. John's, the church that we did the Zoo in, has an annual "Gilbert & Sullivan" service to which a lot of us are invited to sing in the choir. …
Yay, Pinafore rehearsals! Principals only for the first day. One, um, 'fun factoid' of this year is that all of our leads for both Zoo and Pinafore were American. We had not at all been trying to do that, it just worked out that way. Savoynet is an international company, but what this usually means …
Started Tuesday by trying half of one of the (small) quiches, not bad. And off to rehearsal, where we'd be running the show over and over, fixing it more and more each time. Needed to bring my costume-shoes, my contact lenses and (oops, forgot it), my flag. The runs all went fine. The flag is …
I'll probably do my travel thing of babbling via voice dictation into Google Docs and then writing blog posts after the fact, but I haven't even had time to do the babbling. Maybe this morning. I flew out Friday night, arrived in the UK Saturday morning, bus down to Buxton, all quite painless. The big …
Slept until 7:00, which was great, except it made me pushed for time - we had a 9:00 call, earlier than usual because we were putting THE ZOO up in two days! So I didn't even get breakfast, but that was fine, because I wasn't hungry. (I will whine later about having to travel without …
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