There Will Be Music!!

There was no rehearsal on Monday of this week because Wes and I both had other commitments.  To make up for the missed rehearsal time I finally forced myself to buckle down and edit the music for the transitions.  Using my novice GarageBand skills I cut selections of songs that that I picked out at the beginning of the rehearsal period.  Here is a sampling of the songs I picked:

"Little Person" by Jon Brion

"Second Lover" by Noah and the Whale

"We Move Lightly" by Dustin O'Halloran

The clips that I made vary from 20-40 seconds in length and will be used to create a tonal shift from one scene to the next and to support the action during the transitions.  During Wednesday's rehearsal we will incorporate these songs into the transitons.  My other goal for this rehearsal is to apply the notes I received from my advisor last Friday.  Mainly that means finding moments to place emphasis on breath, re-working the transition out of the August: Osage County scene, and blocking the ending out of the Waiting for Godot scene.  I am really looking forward to making these changes.  I believe that they will make the piece more cohesive, and adding the music to transitons will make the piece feel complete.  Obviously adding an ending will contribute to that feeling of completeness too!

It is hard to believe that we only have 2 rehearsals left before starting tech this weekend.  Next week's rehearsal spaces are still booked during the day but I have not decided yet if we will use them since we will also have Tuesday and Thursday night tech runs in the performance space.  It all depends on how smoothly things are running by this weekend!

I still need to order the costumes.  The school never wrote the check that the department requested so a second request had to be sent.  Looks like I will just have to place the order with my money, then pocket what I get from the school.  Not the preferred way to go about things, but we do need costumes as soon as possible!!!

If push comes to shove, we could always dress up as the mascot of this blog...a dog wearing glasses!!!!