WEEK TWO, Day 3

9/22:  What a day!

11:00 am  Q&A with Rob Handel's MFA Dramatic Writing Class!  1:00 pm Lunch Meeting with Dr. Page  2:30 pm Director/Writers meeting/discussion of smaller character arcs 4:30 pm  Production Mtg: Sound Designer info still not forthcoming

Now to being in the room together - 6:30 Rehearsal - How Do You Do It Sequence created.  This is the first night where I threw the time constraints of my planned, packed schedule and allowed this sequence to take as much time as necessary to generate.  It was an exciting time of feeling like one was in a flow state with the actors and crew coordinators.  This is the sequence for which the Press Machine was created.  It is a press, crowd frenzy surrounding Amelia's rise to fame!  The sequence of small beats was illustrated in my head pictorially.  The work of the night surrounded figuring out how to create those picture together and then how to connect the dots with movement and crew.  It felt like we were in the flow state together---creating something we all made together.  If any of the actors was different, the sequence would have been different!  There are still moments to monkey with, but I am happy with what we came to last evenings.  I am pondering whether or not I need Amelia's Advertisements represented on stage or not.  Will it be visually distracting?  Will it be cleaner without them?

The press machine will become very alive in this sequence!  New questions - do I need PM so early in the show-in the beginning?  Should I save it?  Perhaps allow their presence, but keep it choreographically simple instead of the big dance number it is not.  Revisit that sequence.

Now I need to strategize today's rehearsal and see if I can alter my schedule juggling with Janet Feindel to accommodate the missed pages or if I skip that section and pick it back up tomorrow.