Today was the big day - we loaded in the set for High School Musical into the Keith-Albee Theater and ran our first rehearsal on the stage!
And it wasn't easy! We started about 11:00 a.m., as a dozen or so parents and actors gathered at the First Stage storage and construction building to finish loading the set into two large trucks. Then at 1:00 p.m. we arrived at the Keith and started unloading the pieces and assembling them on the stage - a process that took about four hours and a lot of effort on the part of a small army of parents and union workers.
While that was going on, the cast learned about the historic theater and settled into their dressing rooms - the Keith features four stories of dressing rooms, and even so, it's just barely enough for our cast of almost 50 performers!
Then around 5:00 p.m. we ran our first tech rehearsal, where we start working out the technical issues of moving set pieces on and off stage, and the cast sings along with the full orchestra for the first time. As expected, there were a few problems to be worked out, but all in all I thought the rehearsal went amazingly well.
That's due in no small part to the amazingly talented cast and crew we have to work with - they're awesome! Tomorrow, round two!
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