Getting Down to the Wire

HAMLET:
If you saw Hamlet at the Peace Center, consider reviewing it as one of your three drama class reviews. Most of you had pretty strong opinions ... remember to consider staging, characterization, interpretation, and production design.

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DRESS REHEARSALS
Well, this is it folks: Four runs to pull it all together ... four chances to get all of your questions answered, the bugs worked out, the problems fixed, and the ideas out there on the table.

And then... the fun begins. ;)

• We'll start at 3pm (9am on Sat) each day. I'm sorry that you won't have much of a break between school and rehearsals. Use your "down time" in rehearsals to rest your weary head.
  
• Thursday will be cast photos + rehearsal. Come prepared for a long session (3pm-6pm) ... cast photo days are always a bit choppy and sometimes frustrating because you wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait get a photo taken wait wait wait wait wait rehearse some wait wait wait wait wait . . .
  
• We'll have light & sound cues in place by Saturday so we'll do a "walk-through" of the play (just blocking, no words at all) for the sake of the "crew" (stage manager, lights, sound, stage hands). After a break for some food (yay!), we'll run the play from beginning to end, straight through, as if it were "for real."
• Monday is our last rehearsal. I plan for it to be relatively low-key, but a full-run.
  

A couple other notes:

COSTUMES
Wed & Monday are "partial-dress" rehearsals -- that means change into your costume in its basic form, but I don't care about what you do to your hair, etc. DO wear the shoes you'll wear "for real."

Please take care of your costume items. Do NOT leave items lying around!

Also, once your costume finally arrives at school, please leave all of it at school. If you have a good reason to take it home (wash it, fix something, change out a shirt), please talk to me or one of the moms helping with rehearsal first.


HAIR & MAKEUP
Thursday & Saturday are "full dress" -- you need to look EXACTLY like you'll look onstage for performances. Get your hair fixed the way it needs to be. (Guys -- just avoid looking "modern.")
Mechanicals -- work to look "redneck" in all senses of the word. "Big hair" for girls ;)

As for makeup:
Fairies: You can go "hippie" (lots of neutral colors or frosted lipstick, funky-colored eyeshadow). You can also go "fantasy" (glitter & color). Put flowers or beads in your hair ... wrap them around your arms.... use eyeliner pencil to draw designs on your arms if they're bare. Have fun. ;)

Mechanicals: Girls, you don't want to look "classy." Whether you wear any lipstick or eye makeup is up to you, but you'll need at least a little blush to avoid being washed out by the lights. Lip gloss is a nice alternative to all-out lipstick.

Thisby needs lipstick, and I think we agreed Snout would attack him with it when the mechanicals are "backstage" in Act V. Claire, do you happen to have time to get a tube of lipstick (BiLo, CVS, etc) in some LOUD red color? thanks =)

Athenians: You ladies want to look rich, glamourous, beautiful, attractive. Not in any way "overdone" ... but I want you to be able to hit the stage looking & feeling like a beautiful woman.

Philostrate -- keep your look "muted" to stay in keeping with your no-nonsense character. But definitely put on some lipstick (in a "calm" shade) and some blush to add some color to your face.



Wow.
Can you believe it's HERE?!?!

I am SO excited.

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