The tech run for last week's show Small Things, presented by the Mitchel Evans Mime Project (mimeman.com) was a long one. We were there for many hours matching up cues and trying to do some run throughs because our cues were extra important as there are no spoken words in the show. This week I learned how to run the light board and worked that for the show. I was/am the Stage Manager, although I delegate to Danny to make calls to the actors and whatnot since I am in the booth working on other things as well.
The show was a lot of fun to work on; I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it in my life. As far as performances go, I was much happier with how Saturday night went, as opposed to Friday. There is a part where I had a cue marked for when a certain character walks off stage, but the actor ended up improv-ing some and I had to guess when that was. Well, I guessed wrong. Turns out, I thought he was going off stage for good; he was actually just going off stage and leaving his chair there before returning for another half minute. He acknowledged that the lights should have blacked out and switched then. we ended up making it a bit together (because the audience thought that was supposed to happen) and just went with it, running more cues. I thought someone would have noticed but literally not one other person did. Although I was mad at myself for a second for pressing the cue I was happy with my recovery and how I handled it. There were a few other minor details that happened that night with other jobs so I got over mine fast, and to top it all off, I got home in time to watch part of Conan and I noticed the spot was off. It really is ALL ABOUT RECOVERY and how you handle things/yourself... good lesson to learn...
Saturday night went so well. Spot on with everything, even the few cues that were ridiculous in terms of the likelihood of everything matching up (from actor to sound to lights), but it did. I also had a great talk about method acting with one of the actors. We also traded info and swapped stories as I talked about Chubbuck and Strasberg and he talked about Chekov (Michael not Anton) and Meisner. After the show Saturday night I was talking with another of the actors who wanted me to contact him when I come back out here for good next May so that we can work together. I already took care of that touching base email so I am excited about that.
One show down, seven more to go...
Tonight, I went to the read through for the fall show Savin' Up for Saturday Night. It is an original work that is just fantastic. It is very smart and very funny. JJ (Producer of the show and one of the CDs for TruTV that I have mentioned) first let me know about this. I am going to be helping him out suring the upcoming auditions and get to see how that whole process works, so it was great to get a taste of the show's flavor tonight. I feel so blessed for having been around so much great theatre lately. I'm sure it sounds like I have gone soft or lowered my expectations or something. I haven't. These productions really are just that good and I have no other adjectives to describe them.
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