Vaudeville Opening Night

It's opening night. I've caught up with a handful of the actors and asked them what was uppermost in their minds. This is what they said;

'A tech thing. There's a new thing in getting up on the balcony. It's the sort of thing you could get wrong if you're not concentrating." - Matt (paraphrased)

'Give myself plenty of time to put my pin-curls in. Takes a good 25 minutes." - Julia.

'Trying not to let it become more than just the next show.' - Mark.

I also ran into a few of the other people working on the show and asked for any thoughts they had.

'I'm very excited. Every preview has been taking a step up. I'm expectant and hopeful of it taking another special leap into opening night.' - Chris.

'Excitement' - Lally.

'I think it's gonna live tonight.' - Stephen N.

'I got locked out of my house. God, I'm glad to be here. I love everyone so much.' - Jonathon.

'I'm very happy with where it's at, and very excited.' - Richard.

Vaudeville Dress rehearsal interval

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"Good. Really good." - Liz

"So much nformation went in over the last 2 days, I'm not sure if all of it stuck" - Richard.

"Ditto." - Jethro.

"It's half time" - Kate.

"I don't if I'l ever get out of here. I mean the world, I've got completely drawn in to this world by the river that never was." - Stephen Armstrong.

Vaudeville - Day of the First Preview.

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Time 1.15pm

I asked some of the creatives to make a quick comment on where they were at before the dress rehearsal-

"It's all going SURPRISINGLY well. I gotta see it as a whole. Very important to get the arc of the lighting design" - Richard.

"There's a lot we haven't tech-ed" - Chris.

"I'm interested in how the tricks go." - Stephen.

"No. Go away!" - Jethro.

"I'm really excited about it, but I had a nightmare we performed it in a big outdoor amphitheatre with grass and the audience started having spontaneous games of soccer, including my brother. I asked them why they didn't like it and they said they did, they were just having a little break." - Lally.