We completed roughing in Act I! That means we have actually staged 3/4 of the show. Each evening was 4 hours of pure character/scenework joy. We were fitting together the section of the show which is the journey of our iconic characters' fall from personal happiness. It is the most chaotic portion of the play and, subsequently, the most technical in the sense of changing characters and worlds in an instant! Four hours screamed by at an unusually rapid rate!!
I am happy to say that at the end of Saturday, we DID block through the end of Act I. Leave It Behind was a particularly satisfying and fitting way to finish the week. To watch the actor invest in the given circumstances of that moment when I said "GO" made me emotional and eager to watch the impact it should have when the throughline of action has been played out.
Monday and Tuesday will be crawling through and running Act I. We will have to devote much of the rehearsal time to specificity of delineation of character and press machine choreography. The schedule for the week is built to allow Staging Act II AND allowing some time day to day for Act I tuning. Act II's character is very song related and we have learned the music in Wk 1. Yes! So our work involves creating the world that is still with just the ladies helping each other and regaining agency of their world. I am excited to create what that means to the set and for our icons.
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