The Beginning of the End

Today was our first run through of the whole show, act 1 and act 2 put together. It was interesting! I stayed with a friend up in Temecula on Friday night after class so that I didn't have to get up quite as early the next morning and so it would save me some gas. Rehearsal started at 10am and it started at 10am on the dot. The parts I play are Snow Queen and Dew Drop Fairy who appear in snow waltz and flower waltz. Snow comes at the very end of act 1 and flowers comes at the very end of act 2, so I'm doing a lot of sitting. The first act, which consists of party scene, tree scene, battle scene and snow usually takes the longest because this act has the most amount of people in it. Parents, 3year-old munchkins, military soldiers, stinky rats, snow flakes, yeah we have quite a menagerie!! After about an hour and a half we finally got around to doing snow and stopped several times to fix things. My snow corps, affectionally known as flakes, were kinda running around willy-nilly and Jimmy was having none of that. He stopped them and cleaned them up and we did it again...and again....and again. Thankfully we all got a lunch break at 12 for 45mins, so Danielle and I headed to Starbucks and Wendy's for a very healthy dancer lunch. We brought Dana, one of my teachers, back a coffee and she was much happier. Act 2 started on time and went much smoother than the first act. In this act we only have spanish chocolate, arabian coffee, chinese tea, russian trepak and flowers running around the stage, so there's a lot less to worry about. Jose and Jimmy ran each number a few times and then we got to flowers, aka flower waltz. My flower corps are older girls so they knew a little better on where to run so it didn't look quite so chaotic. We ended pretty much on time at 2:30pm and all-in-all it ran pretty smoothly for it being the first run through on a performance they know nothing about. Next Sunday is going to be another long day, but that's ok, it's all part of the job!