In a show with a cast of only seven, it's difficult when you're without two of them, however this obviously happens and sometimes can't be avoided, so Lucia had very kindly offered to stand in for one and I was to stand in for another. Now, Vicky aka Mrs Chairman aka Director Her (Mort) (I think I shall now refer to her as just Vicky) has previous commitments that means she can't make it down until later so initially I was standing in for both Emma and Corinne and Lucia stood in for Vicky whilst Director Demon went through the blocking that we had put together the previous evening. Luckily, we were in the smaller room to start so it wasn't so far to jump to be two people!
Anyway, once the Movies! lot was out of the hall we moved through, Vicky arrived and we got everyone on stage to run through the first two thirds of the show's blocking. As this was Vicky's first rehearsal, having stepped in to the part, she had to write down all her blocking from the start, having run around for a couple of hours trying to get dogs to sit and stay and behave like nice dogs like hers - poor thing, all she wanted to do was sit down!
The blocking went really well with some suggestions for natural movements from the cast who are really getting to grips with their characters and the inter-relationships even so early on which is great.
Things I have learned from last nights rehearsal:
1. Producer Him has trouble spelling simple words like "turn".
2. Director Demon works his cast very hard.
3. No matter how many fruit flies you kill there are 100 more where that one came from.
4. Derek Ackorah and Gary Oldman are good role models.
5. GuyMan can eat a bag of Maynards Sours quicker than anyone I know.
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