Overall:
Not our best, but not a total train wreck. I personally wasn't satisfied with it, but i'm glad that it was a small house and opening night so that we could get our jitters out of the way. We had great energy starting during prologue and the start of one. But it began to fade by two. We were apparently yelling, making it unclear what we were saying. I don't know why there was so much yelling because we did a full vocal warm up focusing on projecting rather than yelling. I think the singing went alright, but for the most part, act 1 and prologue were strongest. Aside from cue errors, epilogue wasn't bad at all. Daniela was hilarious during 3 as the philanthropist and i think she had a great night. Once Daria and Haley slowed down during 3 as well it went well. Act two went decently, though it has been much better in the past. Iris and Felix had a much stronger night than most rehearsals which is a good thing. I think Iris finding herself really helped the first act. The set changes were a little bit rough, a bunch of props were not cleared which acted as a distraction during epilogue.
Personally:
The dance went well technically, but my personal energy i think was lacking. It was difficult to be on stage portrayed as such a sexual character for me to make eye contact with anyone in the audience, so i found myself skipping around my focal points ultimately finding comfort in looking at the floor. This took away from my energy, though it was apparently not noticeable. As Chrys, my personal performance was acceptable, though it wasn't my best for sure. I found my part to be chunky, often delayed. The fact that the box for us to sit on wasn't placed and i was unable to get us clipped before lights went up made for an extremely interesting challenge, especially figuring it hadn't happened in rehearsals yet. My relationship with Sahara was strong, which helped greatly in the portrayal of my character. I feel that if we had never formed that bond and trust between us over the second month of rehearsals, we probably wouldn't have recovered from it. It was almost fun finding a way to make up for the misplaced props for both of us without getting noticed. I think that since i missed my cue to start singing at the top of act 2, it made it difficult to find my rhythm. For the first time going start to finish in the morphsuit i think it went very well. I had the nerves but the costume change went well, the "being" vs. "acting" was strong in two as well for both Sahara and I. Our performance reflected the overall very clearly strictly from starting strong and fading from there, but epilogue went well for the most part with the exception of the sloppy set change and standing off centre by accident.
Next Time:
For tonight, i need to establish in advance eye contact for the dance, something to look at during each point. During some points during the dance its extremely fitting to make eye contact with the tramp, so I'll try that for sure. I also need to have a black cape/sweater/covering of some sort to get past the scrim during prologue and act one, so that i won't be seen again. Missing the cue yesterday as a thorough reality check to make sure i don't forget it again, so hopefully i wont be as flustered come the cue to sing. Knowing the house will be full, if not, close to it, will definitely help with our energy, so ill be looking forward to that. We need to make sure that we have centre stage marked with glow-tape to help with the positioning up centre during epilogue.
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