And on the 7th Day, We Went to Work at 7PM

Tomorrow is our daylight day of rest, which means our day off is not really a day off. It's allowed on a lot of contracts for the week of the first public performance. It means that on what would normally be the day off you can rehearse, but you have to start after 7PM. At Reagle this feels something like a regular performance day. We come in, run the show, do notes and go home. If there is extra time and problems to be fixed, selected trouble spots will be worked either before or after the run. I find it a pretty relaxing day, because I figure we've gotten through tech, and even if something bad happens, it'll be over in five hours or less.

The only anxiety left is how comfortable (or not) I am about calling the show. Sometimes I feel ready to do it for an audience, sometimes I don't want anybody to see it. On this show, aside from a few musical cues I need to learn better, I find that the cues I miss are because I can't talk fast enough to call them. Sometimes there's more to explain than there is time between cues. Reagle doesn't have a cue light system, so everything is verbal, which is challenging, but it's good exercise. Once I have a better idea of what comes next and just how much time I have, I'll know when I need to abbreviate. Better/earlier warnings will also help me to avoid having to say too much with the actual cues. I actually don't have the warnings written in my book yet, I've just been flipping ahead to the cues themselves and reading them off. I plan to bring my script to the laundromat tomorrow and work on it then. That's all I've got planned for the daylight day of rest. Well I might go to the Apple Store and see if they've got one of those DVI-to-RCA/S-video adapters. I almost needed it today for the projector and was kicking myself for not buying it during the week.