If you read some of my posts from last summer, you will understand the process of tech rehearsals. You get on stage, roll out the sets, turn on the lights, pipe the piano through the sound system, put on the costumes, start at the top of the show and see how far we get. Granted, we generally stop every five minutes. Someone from one of the departments yells HOLD and the tediousness begins. Is it long hours and boring and annoying, but it's when all of the real magic happens and when all of the pieces fall into place. The theater becomes a well oiled machine and all the parts start working together. When people come see shows, you generally don't think that just two days before opening the show was still a fragmented blueprint, but when you stop and think about it, you just appreciate the magic of theater that much more.
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