So Wild Things has been slowly progressing. In Wild Things they go over every scene repeatedly because the lead boy is double-cast (and not to mention very young) so this may account for some of the delay. They still have not blocked the entire play even though they have been rehearsing for three weeks (Borderlands blocked their play in about a week) but the scenes that they have blocked are rehearsed many times and at the beginning of every rehearsal and are therefore pretty polished. Also, usually about half an hour every rehearsal is spent in Deborah teaching the kids on some aspect of the show that may seem new to them (yesterday it was about interacting with the audience). The rehearsals are usually a lot of fun to watch (especially when they are choreographing a dance number) because of how funny the cast is and are overall much less serious than the Borderlands rehearsals were.
Here is the summary of the script I promised:
Stan is a lonely ten-year-old boy who cannot find any friends to play with. Three Wild Things (Good Thing, Funny Thing, and Wild Thing) show up in his room one night and agree to help him find friends. They then Norpborp (by making the entire audience laugh they can time travel) first to Mars, then under the sea, and then to the home of the three Wild Things. By the time they get to the Wild Things' house, they decide that it is getting late and is time for Stan to go home. The Wild Things are dissapointed that they never did find Stan any friends and take him back home. Once they are back at Stan's home and are saying their goodbyes, they realize that they are Stan's friends! The end. There are also six songs.
Over at Borderlands, the cast performs three or four shows every week (depending on if there is a student matinee on Wednesday). The shows stay very consistent, even though the director does not attend the plays anymore (although she often shows up before and after the play to check up on the actors) and the shows are becoming routine to the cast and crew. On Wednesday there will be a student matinee so I will be able to see if the actors decide to censor anything (I heard one actress hinting that she was uncomfortable walking around in lingerie in front of a house full of high school freshmen).
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Rita, it sounds like you're getting lots of great hands-on experience. Have they put you to work at all?
ReplyDeleteRight now I help them move stuff around and write down blocking, and Deborah says once the show goes up I'll probably be in charge of prop changes during shows. She says that after opening night when she stops coming to shows, I will be the assistant stage manager. So yes, they have/will put me to work which is good because it makes me feel more useful.
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