Yesterday the cast of The Lady's Not For Burning got together for the first time. (Well, those that were able to make it and those for the parts that have been cast at least...ugh). We did a read-through, where we sat around a table and each read our parts. Thusly we kick off five weeks of rehearsals. We will be meeting Sunday though Thursday with a possible Friday if we fall behind. We will be working on blocking this week and need to be off book next week.
In fact, Spectrum Theatre was jumping with activity. Midsummer was rehearsing in the room next door and Richard II was tech-ing downstairs on the stage. If anyone should happen to blow up that building, they would take nearly all of the local acting talent along with it. At least those not in La Cage at Circle which opens this week. I got an e-mail asking me to crew that show as well but had to decline because of my prior commitment.
As i sit trying to commit my lines to memory, I keep thinking about the improv show i saw this weekend in Kalamazoo. One of my old Part Of A Complete Breakfast buddies, Dann, has his own team down there. They go by the name Crawlspace Eviction. I miss the days when five minutes of preparation were required before a show rather than five weeks. They even played some of the old games we did. Ah well, back to the memorization.
Posted by Matthew at July 12, 2004 05:56 PM