With only three weeks until our production opens, our whole show has been blocked, organized, and rehearsed. Now, we focus on cleaning, and talk more in depth about the intentions behind each movement our characters make or the lines that we have. This week, we began rehearsing full run throughs for the first time since the stumble through. During a run through, we work with both Ms Tye, our director, our music director, Mr Jackson, and musician Justin Hiscox. Running the musical from the top of act one to the very end of act two is exhilarating, and gives the cast a taste of how shows will run by helping us to orchestrate set changes, see what works, and what needs to be adjusted to make the final production seamless and fluent. Set changes are often first attempted in their entirety during the first run of the show, and we begin determining which people are available and needed to ensure each piece is brought on and off stage quickly and safely. When asked how she feels the set changes went, our stage manager Faith Morales said, “I think overall the set changes went exactly how they should on the first run through. There were definitely some things we need to polish. It’s great to have this it’s finally done and on stage so we can figure out our placements”. Each time we practice now, we will be making sure individuals can adequately complete each change and A run through is very helpful at this stage of the rehearsal process. We ran the show in full to understand the flow of each scene, get comfortable with our transitions, and work on putting all of the pieces together to formulate a professional-grade production. The significance of a run through is widely understood; Grace DeMara, our Cinderella, said, “I think the run through was very important to the progression of the musical, and gave us a great idea of what we are doing well and what we need to improve on. It can be a little discouraging when it doesn't go as smoothly as we hoped, but everyone was incredibly encouraging and understanding when things went wrong. I believe it helped us grow as a cast as well as brought us one step closer to putting on an amazing show!” This is a major step towards perfecting our musical and preparing for the upcoming shows with a full audience. After our run through our director, Sarah Tye, gathered the full cast to go over notes she had taken while watching our first run through. We sat in a circle as she gave us constructive criticism and we discussed what areas are our strongest and weakest to later improve upon. Tye commented on how we did well with characterization as well as our overall flow. In the upcoming weeks we plan to continue practicing singing while performing our dance numbers as well as smooth and polish any other patches Tye thinks are rough. Written by Alivia Buchan & Dhilan Maharaj
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