Opening Weekend!!

We opened, at last!! What a whirlwind this rehearsal process has been.

Of course, dress rehearsals and opening for Foreigner wasn't a very big deal. We just re-spaced the show for the bigger stage of the Heritage Center and made sure no one had forgotten any lines. Opening was wonderful and the audience seemed to love it as much as they did in Park City. Good to know we're still funny! ;)

The dress rehearsals for I'm Not Rappaport were a little more rough. Some people were still struggling with memorization and the way the show is set up, if you forget what happens next, you could easily skip over a large section of the script. The set also didn't get finished until last minute, so I only recently got to start practicing walking/sitting on it and climbing down the stairs off of it to do the fight choreography.

Besides all that, I think the opening went pretty well! Hopefully as the run progresses, memorization will become even more solidified and we will get more and more used to our set.

This was useful to me as I'm in training to be a professional actor because I learned that even professional companies sometimes have things that go wrong or don't get built in time, so working together as a cast and staying flexible and easy to work with is essential.

Me on opening night of I'm Not Rappaport! The show takes place in the 1990's, so I got to let my curly hair do it's thing!

Benefit Night

WHEW! We open our Cedar City run tomorrow!! How crazy is that?!

I wanted to post really quick about the Preview/Benefit Night we did this week. Every year, NSF does a preview night for all their show. Each play performs a scene from the show and actors can perform separate musical numbers as well, to show off the talent we have in our company. The best part is, all the proceeds from the night go to a few different local charities!

I participated in the scene from The Foreigner as well as sang "Much More" from The Fantasticks! I loved getting a chance to sing, because neither show I'm in is a musical, and I love singing.

It was also cool to see the scenes from the two shows I'm not a part of. It looks like we're going to have a very strong season, possibly the best NSF has ever had!

Speaking of shows I'm not a part of, I guess that's not necessarily true. I am featured in Chapter Two, one of the Neil Simon plays in the season. The main character has a wife that recently passed away and so the director asked me to do a photo shoot with him so he can have pictures of the wife hanging up around his apartment. So, technically, I'm a character in 3 shows this summer.

I'll do a separate blog post about dress rehearsals and opening weekend in a few days!