We're sitting in the Lab II space at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, rehearsing the number "Don't Marry Me". Section by section, we figure out spacing, movement, acting choice, and with a word from Kurt, the men exit stage left.
And just like that, we're done.
Oh, make no mistake, we've got a long way to go in rehearsal. Costume fittings, orchestra put-ins, tech, cleaning numbers, tech, locking down harmonies, spacing, tech. But, we have now blocked the whole show. It all exists. And with that comes a palpable sense of relief. In terms of show content, there's nothing left to scare or surprise us. It's all a matter of making it work.
Obviously, the show needs the extra work. It'd be naïve of me to say otherwise. I will, however, say that the raw material is of very high quality. Five very good actor/singers have progressed very quickly through a short process for which there's an entire week left before tech. It's a good place to be.
Next week is what we put on the schedule back at the start as "TBA" week. Basically, what that means is we had no idea what we'd need that time for, only that we'd need it, so we locked down big amorphous blobs of work time during which we hit whatever needs attention.
The actors, meanwhile, now get to shift from "learning" mode into "acting" mode, bringing in more nuance, stronger objectives, and sharper, tighter choreographed movements. Like I said above, they're in a pretty prime starting place.
What it all boils down to is this: now we start the fun part.
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