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Mar. 31, 2009
The Hamlet, Part II
Let’s see, Go… both times Courtney and Madison got all the Bibles off the stage and Emily cleared the Go banner so the props were a lot less gross (yeah, I know that’s poor grammar) than the last couple of years. Yay! For the most part people remembered staging changes and I think all in all we avoided death by the curtain (that is, hiding behind the side curtains so no one could see us).
When Go ended the lights went down and Ryan came up from stage right to grab the Bible from my hand, so by the time the lights were back up he had the Bible and we were all set for Stand. Theoretically. In actuality, there were still people running around, trying to remember which song was next, clearing props, etc. Again, this went better the second presentation. I was in double zero next to Courtney for the Sanhedrin, breathing hard. Go is a rough song to start with, especially if you’re the runner.
Stand is interesting with so many people. In order to not overwhelm the audience each person is only in two or three parts so there are people in double zero at all times. I can’t help but contrast this year with Stand at YCW last year. Totally different. This year I was in the Sanhedrin, then in double zero, then a Christian on stage left, then in double zero, then a wall, then in double zero (later changed to a marcher). Last year I was in the Sanhedrin, a crying Christian, a persecuted Christian, a wall, and a marcher. At any rate, I couldn’t see much of that song but what I saw went well. We had a bit of stoning trouble with Stephen, but the walls at the end were really cool – 10 or so people make a great wall! – and we cleared out so those who marched could march. There’s not enough space on the stage for everyone to march.
Apparently Josh is one of the ones who doesn’t march, because both times, when the lights came up for Virtuoso, he was in the middle of the circle with the God cape on, ready to roll. Good job, Josh! That transition actually ran pretty smoothly because… there weren’t very many props? Places were straightforward? Don’t know, but both times we were ready to start the music pretty quickly.
Being a mountain in Virtuoso is akin to being a door in Invitation. It’s painful. I picked a spot on the curtains above Charleton’s head to focus on and tried to ignore my screaming arms. Unfortunately when I ignored them I focused on Josiah (Adam) and Emily B (Eve) which occasionally caused me to move my eyes. At least I remembered to switch my part in the chorus. The first presentation the disciples were too far forward and not diagonal enough because Kristi said we were blocking everything. Whoops. We tried to remedy this the second time but I was late turning out the second time because I was trying to talk without talking to Melissa about angel capes. Or was it blood? Melissa was stationed on offstage right and there was some prop problem we were “discussing” when the cue came for me to turn out. It was painfully obvious that I need to be on top of things when everyone else waited for me. Whoops again.
Emily B saved me at the end of Virtuoso… Tess had taken some people out of the dance and switched some things around which meant that Jo and I shared the center of the semicircle at the end. I kind of (well, completely) forgot this and backed up to my original place but Emily forcefully nudged me to my edited place. Good going Emily!
At the end of Virtuoso, Emily, Emily, Madison and I get to go offstage right. The rest of everyone has to grab blood (if they’re guards) and set up onstage. Oh, forgot to mention this. At the end of Virtuoso, Satan usually gets thrown off to stage right. Well, it turns out that Satan is Jarek and Jarek is also the first martyr in Faithful, which means he has to be out in the audience when the music for Faithful starts. Therefore, we made some slight modifications and Jarek got thrown off to stage left, where he took off his cape, went through the backstage left audience door, crawled next to the counter so no one could see him, and was in his place for the top of Faithful.
I didn’t see the beginning of Faithful either time; we were backstage with Melissa. She would open the door and we’d pour out: Madison first, noticing the blood, Emily D after her, and me after Emily D, trying to tell her about Jesus. It was a bit of a balancing act to get around the voices on downstage right but we managed. Madison and I burned at the stake and when we got down in the front row to sign we realized that we were taking up way too much of the stage and we were in God’s way. There was nothing to do about it that presentation, but the entire voices “choir” scooted back so that God had more space in the second presentation.
Don’t know about Josh (Madison’s guard) but Alex did a great job: he got the blood to me both times in a neat little ball. The second presentation Emily B died (beheading) and almost threw her blood into the audience. She had fallen backward onto the apron and the blood was hanging off the end. She kept a hold of it and kind of pulled it back onto the apron before God helped her up, though. Kudos to Emily again! |
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