...so very sleepy...
We open tonight.
We're not ready.
"Whaddaya mean you're not ready? You've had 4 weeks!!!"
Actually,no,we've had 2 days.
"Huh?"
Here's the story - we blocked the show back in Minneapolis and during the first few days in Des Moines. No problem. But then once we got it up on the stage and with lights and costumes,the producer saw some things he didn't like. So we spent a few days doing some restaging. Some of it major,but most of it was little things. We worked on it and ran it,and everyone agreed it was a good show,and with just some minor tweaking in once we got to Wilkes-Barre,we'd be good to go.
CUT TO: SAT AM. FINAL RUN-THRU IN DES MOINES W/INVITED AUDIENCE -
We do the final run. Performance conditions. About 200 little girls in the audience,who are loving every second of it. The Hasbro people are there too,and after the show they are giddy,and couldn't be more thrilled. Well,unbeknownest to us,they have a list of changes they want made. "OK,no problem",say our producers. Then they see the list...
The whole show.
Staging,dances,characters,dialogue,plot points...literally the whole thing. So while we're enroute to Wilkes-Barre,the artistic team is frantically trying to reconceive the whole thing. We arrive at the venue Tuesday morning and spend 12 hours Tuesday and another 12 on Wednesday basically starting from scratch and completely reblocking and rechoreographing the ENTIRE SHOW. We ran the new version last night and Hasbro still wants more changes. We're spending 7 more hours today before opening to do more restaging.
I will never understand the mentality of non-theatre people who seem to think that you can just flip a switch and the show will change. Unfortunately for us,our producers are under orders from the head of our company to give Hasbro whatever they want. Hasbro even wants 3 actors fired. We're fighting that one. We're trying to reconceive the characters instead.
NEVER LET CORPORATIONS WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THEATRE DO THEATRE!!!
We're not ready.
"Whaddaya mean you're not ready? You've had 4 weeks!!!"
Actually,no,we've had 2 days.
"Huh?"
Here's the story - we blocked the show back in Minneapolis and during the first few days in Des Moines. No problem. But then once we got it up on the stage and with lights and costumes,the producer saw some things he didn't like. So we spent a few days doing some restaging. Some of it major,but most of it was little things. We worked on it and ran it,and everyone agreed it was a good show,and with just some minor tweaking in once we got to Wilkes-Barre,we'd be good to go.
CUT TO: SAT AM. FINAL RUN-THRU IN DES MOINES W/INVITED AUDIENCE -
We do the final run. Performance conditions. About 200 little girls in the audience,who are loving every second of it. The Hasbro people are there too,and after the show they are giddy,and couldn't be more thrilled. Well,unbeknownest to us,they have a list of changes they want made. "OK,no problem",say our producers. Then they see the list...
The whole show.
Staging,dances,characters,dialogue,plot points...literally the whole thing. So while we're enroute to Wilkes-Barre,the artistic team is frantically trying to reconceive the whole thing. We arrive at the venue Tuesday morning and spend 12 hours Tuesday and another 12 on Wednesday basically starting from scratch and completely reblocking and rechoreographing the ENTIRE SHOW. We ran the new version last night and Hasbro still wants more changes. We're spending 7 more hours today before opening to do more restaging.
I will never understand the mentality of non-theatre people who seem to think that you can just flip a switch and the show will change. Unfortunately for us,our producers are under orders from the head of our company to give Hasbro whatever they want. Hasbro even wants 3 actors fired. We're fighting that one. We're trying to reconceive the characters instead.
NEVER LET CORPORATIONS WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THEATRE DO THEATRE!!!
posted by Matt at 5:41 AM
1 Comments:
and you thought run-ups to openings were hectic HERE! BREATH...Bob D.
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