First Rehearsal

I'm going to go ahead and apologize for what will be another pretty short entry, and probably not very interesting for most of you. But its a big part of my life and will be a huge part of my summer so I may as well start sharing now while its fresh and new. (: I'm a performer and for the past two summers I've done musicals at my local community theatre (Workshop Theatre, check it out!). Two years ago it was The Secret Garden, last summer it was High School Musical, and this summer we are doing the sequel to last year's production. Originally our director wanted to get back the entire original cast in order to do the sequel, but we ended up having some people move away from town, commit to other things, or whatever else. So we have 12 of our original cast members and the other 28 or so are newbies. At first I was a little wary of having new people, and was curious to what those people would be like and how we would mesh together or clique apart into clearly defined groups of newbies and veterans. We had our first read through Saturday, which went really well. And our first real rehearsal was today. It went better than I ever could have imagined for a first rehearsal. And all the new people are incredibly cool and talented. The summer is looking like its going to be really bright. (:

When we got to the theatre, we were waiting for the improv group to finish rehearsing in the Gallery for us to be able to step in and start our rehearsal but it turned out that they had the room booked for longer than we thought they did. So for the first 30 minutes of rehearsal, we were stuck outside. It was hilarious though. Walter, our director, downloaded the piano application on his iPhone to use to find our pitch. It actually worked really well and we got to work through most of our first song by doing that to split ourselves into correct harmony parts. After the first half an hour we got to go inside to finish up the rest of what would turn out to be a really fun and productive rehearsal.