Day 383: Dress Rehearsals

Today (Wednesday), we had two dress rehearsals. There is no piano in the orchestration, so I was lucky enough to just sit back and watch the rehearsals. It turns out it's much easier to watch a Sondheim show than to play it. Anyway, it was just miraculous to see the improvements from the afternoon dress to the evening. There were a couple of snags during the first official dress but those kinks were ironed out by that night. During the evening rehearsal, we invited some SU students who were in town to come see the show. They absolutely loved it. It was important to get a test audience during one of the rehearsals because being a comedy the cast really needs to see where people will laugh and feed off that energy to help with the timing. That timing is key in making the farce such a hilarious theatrical form. I'll talk more about the audience in a later blog post as a sequel to last summers audience post. Dress rehearsals are done though and now we just have a clean up rehearsal tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening is opening night. Below are some photos from dress rehearsal.