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Tech can be fun and today was a good example. All the lights, all the sound, all the clothes, give us the opportunity to creatively adjust all the elements to suit our work, so carefully considered in the rehearsal hall.
For example, the addition of the van and the desire to tighten the time between the end of scene 3 and beginning of scene 4 led us to change Richard’s entrance. It makes it much easier, and bridges the two scenes together. We add thunder to the end of scene 3 and it takes us into the lightening, beginning scene 4. It was an option I had in mind, but until you have all the elements to see how it looks, you don’t know how well it will come together logically and how it will look realistically and especially theatrically. I am pleased with the simplicity and theatricality of the result.
Richard and Michael are in great spirits, joking laughing and keeping things light while we make adjustments and looking at light levels. The results are encouraging and we start to see piece by piece a whole new show emerge.
Brian Dennehy was at a rehearsal of House and Garden that we did as the opening show in the new Goodman Theatre space in Chicago. It was a long process that took 5 days, since it was 2 simultaneous shows which ran in two adjoining theatres. Watching the process he said.” If you like sausage, don’t come into the kitchen.” That’s sort of what watching tech is like. Unless you are making it, watching it made can be as exciting as watching the Mackinac Yacht race on a windless day.
Michael Edwards’ wife Elisabeth brought their newborn, Mirren down for dinner and it was great to see her. She is as beautiful as her mom, and makes more faces than her father, and I mean that in the good way.
We got through the 1st Act and dry-teched half of the 2nd Act, finished by midnight and will be back again at noon tomorrow for more of the same…wait it is tomorrow! Why am I writing this and not sleeping?
More anon,
Beej
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