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Lawrence & Holloman: Blocking (or How Did I End Up Here?)
When watching any play the movement of characters on stage may seem organic and natural to the moment but where the actors are on stage, when they move, and where they end up is actually very carefully...
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Lawrence & Holloman: Scene Work (or Now We're Getting Somewhere!)
Now that the framework is in place it is time to going through the scenes and start filling them out. At the beginning the actors are still on-book (actors are still holding scripts), so dealing with...
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GLORIOUS! Rehearsals - Day 1: Meet & Greet
The tradition of the Meet & Greet is a great kick-off to the frenzied three weeks or so that lead up to the opening of a new show.All the cast, crew, staff and artistic team gather in the rehearsal...
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GLORIOUS! -- Days 3-5: Blocking
You know you're on to something when the rest of the cast cracks up as Shelley Thompson, playing Florence Foster Jenkins, strives for that high C and misses it by a mile. Shelley's amazing at singing...
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GLORIOUS! -- Days 7-10: Building Characters & Sets
As the show starts to come together through the blocking, attention is turned to building the characters. The director works with the actors to ensure that there is meaning and honesty to the way that...
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Glorious! -- Days 10-15: The Sets & Costumes Come to Life
While the actors and director are hard at work in the rehearsal hall, there's a flurry of activity throughout the the theatre as production staff focus their considerable talents on bringing the...
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Tuesday, September 11 -- First day of RehearsalIt is 12:07AM (Wednesday morning) and I have just spent a couple of hours working on some changes. I only worked on the smaller, more manageable ones....
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Wednesday, September 12 - Day TwoThe changes I made last night, most of them, seemed to be right. Until Karyn the Stage Manager pointed out that I had a character speaking in the new pages who wouldn't...
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Thursday, September 13 -- Day Three Dear women who work full time: How the hell do you do it? Sincerely, EllenThe whole wife-and-mother kept me up pretty late last night. Then I slept in this morning...
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Friday, September 14 - Day FourThe PTE Playwrights Unit is getting its own swanky office/library/workroom with desks and comfy chairs and everything. It's not ready yet, so in the meantime I have a...
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Sunday, September 16 - Day SixEnd of the first week and I think I would be feeling quite positive and optimistic right now if it wasn't for the fact that I AM SO TIRED I FEEL LIKE MY LEGS ARE GOING TO...
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Article 13
Tuesday, September 18 -- after the day off:All are agreed that one day off is not sufficient. All casts in the history of Equity have agreed on this. I was glad to get back to rehearsals though,...
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Friday, September 21 -- Day ElevenI haven't blogged in a couple of days, since I haven't been in rehearsal and have nothing to report. I've been home with sick kids, plus I know I'd only be in the way....
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Saturday, September 22 -- Day TwelveWent in to watch the first what-we-in-the-theatre call "Stumblethrough." This means that the actors attempt, defying all known laws of probability and physics, to...
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Sunday, September 23 -- Day Thirteen:Got up early, got out the scissors and did what needed to be done with Act One. Then I put on some nicer clothes (from the Bay's Junior Playwright Department) and...
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Article 9
Tuesday, September 25 -- Day FifteenTalk about life imitating art. I can't go into too much detail about what happened at lunch today for fear of giving away some things that happen in the play. But it...
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Article 8
Wednesday, September 26 - Day Sixteen There's nothing like it: putting in a five hour writing day on a scene you are determined to finally, finally get right. And then listening to your respected...
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Tuesday, October 2 -- Day Twenty-TwoIt Bears Repeating:At the Season Launch last night (which is when the donors are invited to hear Bob's overview of the season to come, over wine and cheese ) ,I was...
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Wednesday, October 3 -- Day Twenty-ThreeWent to PTE again today and sat in on a run-through of Act Two before I was called away to have my picture taken with a bunch of beer bottles. Boy, did that take...
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Tuesday, October 9 - Day Twenty-Nine, Two Days Before Opening NightRobYn Slade & Evan Hall, photo by Bruce Monk"Are you excited?"Everybody I talk to is asking me that. I keep saying "yeeeesssss..."...
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