It's Friday and I'm sitting in Funk 'n' Waffles. If you know Syracuse, you know this is the only place to get breakfast at 2:26 pm. We got to sleep in today and will rehearse from 4pm-10pm tonight as that's the time Felix can work with us.
We slept in till 10:30am and had many dream stories to recount after spending last night seeing Inception (A must see if you haven't seen it already!) After waking up, we worked our way to the gym in a torrential downpour...and I'm not exaggerating. We had umbrella and raincoats buttoned and were still soaked through. I had two nice puddles on the pedals of my elliptical machine when I was finished.
After hearing the beautiful story that is Sarah Olbrantz's life pre-Syracuse, I'm here to catch you up on the on-goings of yesterday's rehearsal.
Act IV. Dear Lord - I don't think any of us realized the amount of thought and effort that would go into the physicality that is Act IV. We bring in a spectacle of Goddesses that we have shaved down to literally about two minutes of stage time and we spent the better half of five hours figuring out how this would be compassed. It looks great. We found a way to create a huge, beautiful Goddess with two actors, while creating spirit nymphs on the stage. There is a song and a dance and it doesn't take up half the show. Mission Accomplished. And we're exhausted.
Today we do the storm and music. We are so close to completely the shell that will be our show - and then we'll just fill it in with tons of fun and play. We have the storm today and Act V tomorrow. Act V will be a *itch - but if we go into it knowing that, we should be able to push through it.
I say this with brevity and love.
J x
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