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[pensnest]

I've spent most my time since Sunday morning on The Show: rehearsing or else working towards performance readiness in one way or another (compiling and typesetting the programme, sewing and ironing my costumes, answering a thousand questions from the strangely elusive stage manager). We had a full dress rehearsal tonight with the complete band (only one keyboard at the next dress on Thursday), and it went, on the whole, rather well. No doubt there could be improvements made in each and every item, but I don't think I'm going to be able to effect these, and besides, I (like every other member of the cast) spent most of the evening either performing or changing my costume (I have six).

We open on Friday. It's nearly over!

Meanwhile, the picture of Alan Cumming attached to today's blog entry makes me very cheerful.

Comments

[turlough]

Six costumes?! That's a lot of changes! At least you're only using them once I hope ;-) What are you performing?

[pensnest]

Yep, six, all for one number/item each. And some people have more—one tiny lady made herself a 'fat suit' for the sketch she's in. The show is a revue, and the audience will sit at tables with bar service (via waiters) during the show, and a meal during the interval. My best costume is for the scene in which I don't speak at all—I'm a mechanical figure in a clock. I have blonde plaits that curl up sideways!

[turps]

Wow, it sounds like you've been really busy.

[pensnest]

Oh yes! Today, I am making a pair of bellows out of cardboard.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Dude - it's a lot like he's doing it on purpose :D

The final run up to launch sounds both exciting and exhausting - I hope things (continue to) come together beautifully

[pensnest]

*mrow*, Alan in leather kilt!

I tend to hand things over to fate and the cast during the last couple of rehearsals—well, especially with this show as I am *in* it. It's difficult to be in a show and out front directing proceedings, so I just stopped worrying about anything but the continuity. It seems to be doing quite nicely!

[rikes]

Six costumes! That sounds fabulous. I hope you had a good opening night!

[pensnest]

At least one cast member has *nine*! It's a little bit odd, there are only nineteen cast members, so we're rattling around in the Green Room with boatloads of costumes.

First night went very nicely, thanks, and seems to have been very well received. Five to go!