Show Notes

I had a moment Monday evening during Tech rehearsal that really brought it home. My bit was complete and I sat in the audience watching the 3rd act, which I really hadn't seen before. This time there was no facade. Everything showed. The high lift was to the right. The step ladder was to the left. None of the seating was in place. Cables were hanging here and there from the ceiling, and from the few seats that were place around the stage. All of the set was in place, but the floor wasn't painted and showed traces of the previous two shows here and there. The director making notes, the lighting board in the center, one row back, the props people making sure they knew what had to be where, the stage manager, even with a terrible cold, making sure all was running properly, the sound guy working on cues. And there were even a couple of actors on stage, giving great performances. An audience never gets to see all the people doing their job, all the hours and days and weeks it takes to make a script, words on a sheet of paper into a show that breaths, laughs and cries. But it really is a fugue, a concert given by all the players, all notes making the whole.