The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek by Seth Rudetsky
Author:Seth Rudetsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-06-23T04:00:00+00:00
After I got Devon’s text, I watched more tech rehearsal, which was incredibly exciting.
For the first three hours.
At first it was fascinating because I was seeing real Broadway professionals in rehearsal and there was so much skill involved. Not just the great voices and brilliant dancing, but I was most riveted by the problem-solving skills so many of them had. I’ve only seen Broadway shows after they’ve opened and everything has already been worked out. It was so much cooler to witness what seemed to be an insurmountable problem and then watch it be solved. At one point, Lisa Clark Oliver (whom I remembered seeing in Chicago) is supposed to run offstage in tears. Then, seconds later, she’s supposed to enter (as her twin!) from the other side. Lisa thought she’d have enough time to exit and then run backstage to the other side for her entrance, but it took so long that the effect of seeing her come on as her twin didn’t have any magic. So, she and the director came up with this amazing idea where she starts running offstage but right away passes behind one of the trees on the set. Turns out, hiding behind the tree is a girl dressed just like her who runs offstage right while Lisa passes behind the tree. It happens so quick that it looks like Lisa passes behind the tree and continues running. As the fake Lisa runs offstage one way, the real one runs the other way, with a crowd blocking the audience from seeing her. She’s then able to reenter as her twin two seconds later. It looks amazing!
But for every exciting theatrical moment like that, I had to sit through dozens and dozens of incredibly tedious one. I hereby want to change the expression “God is in the details” to “Boringness is in the details.”
Essentially, 95 percent of the day consisted of a scene starting and then two minutes later everything stopping so one light could be adjusted. The adjusting would take five minutes; then they’d start again. Twenty seconds later, the choreographer would run onstage and move everyone a few inches to the right so they filled the stage more evenly. They’d start again but immediately stop because the lights would have to be adjusted once more due to everyone moving a few inches to the right. During a merciful break, Gary walked by my seat and told me that watching tech rehearsal is like watching someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder clean their house.
The nice part is Chase would come find me in the audience during breaks and ask me how I thought it was going. I started to tell him it was a little hard to hear him during the opening number, but he cut me off and told me it would all make sense when I saw the entire performance.
“My character comes into his own and finds his voice at the end of the show.” He smiled. “Get it? I’m gonna start the show
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