Rehearsing Mid-Season
Tue, 23 Nov 1999, 01:38 pmLabrug19 posts in thread
Rehearsing Mid-Season
Tue, 23 Nov 1999, 01:38 pmI won't name show or anything else incriminating, but that's what we are about to do.
What is there general opinion on Hastily called Mid-Season Rehearsals?
When I say mid-season, I mean the show has already performed to live audiences (as opposed to dead ones ;-) and suddenly a rehearsal is called.
I personally do not like the idea. Fair enough if it a very long season, and I mean long. Fair enough if it had been planned earlier in the piece (like before the show goes up.)
But really, I don't how to feel about this one. I'm upset, that much I do know, but why?
Thoughts?
Jeff "Con-fused" Watkins
What is there general opinion on Hastily called Mid-Season Rehearsals?
When I say mid-season, I mean the show has already performed to live audiences (as opposed to dead ones ;-) and suddenly a rehearsal is called.
I personally do not like the idea. Fair enough if it a very long season, and I mean long. Fair enough if it had been planned earlier in the piece (like before the show goes up.)
But really, I don't how to feel about this one. I'm upset, that much I do know, but why?
Thoughts?
Jeff "Con-fused" Watkins
RE: Rehearsing Mid-Season
Wed, 24 Nov 1999, 10:15 amGrant Malcolm wrote:
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>If the show was not adequately rehearsed
>and ready for opening night, why was it
>allowed to go on?
Feelings echoed here Grant. "It'll be right on the night" is believed in too much I feel.
>So i return to my original question "why?"
>What purpose is the rehearsal intended to
>serve?
It's a lines-run (something I had been suggesting if one form or another before the show went up!) but what is a lines run really? Especially this late in the piece.
I was in one show where the actos and Director confered after every show and added something new everynight. That was a Slap-stick one-acter tho' and it was fun. For some reason, I feel disappointed and upset that this unexpected meeting was called. I find I'm blaming myself for not being good enough, and at the same time feeling the director is Tactless. Plus the fact that I had requested such a meeting BEFORE the show went up hurts just that bit more.
Jeff "Excuse the Sob Story" Watkins
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>If the show was not adequately rehearsed
>and ready for opening night, why was it
>allowed to go on?
Feelings echoed here Grant. "It'll be right on the night" is believed in too much I feel.
>So i return to my original question "why?"
>What purpose is the rehearsal intended to
>serve?
It's a lines-run (something I had been suggesting if one form or another before the show went up!) but what is a lines run really? Especially this late in the piece.
I was in one show where the actos and Director confered after every show and added something new everynight. That was a Slap-stick one-acter tho' and it was fun. For some reason, I feel disappointed and upset that this unexpected meeting was called. I find I'm blaming myself for not being good enough, and at the same time feeling the director is Tactless. Plus the fact that I had requested such a meeting BEFORE the show went up hurts just that bit more.
Jeff "Excuse the Sob Story" Watkins
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