9.30am - 11am Unitec Certificate Class - an unruly mob of rough diamonds. They have come to the course learn about music and are up for it it seems. I cajoled four of them into singing an accapella number and their voices are beautiful! Another couple of ensembles rose up out of the throng of around 20 to play a little bit. There is plenty of good talent in there, and the usual few cheeky lads. We examined furthur John Stevens rhythm piece ONE TWO. An hour and a half goes by very quick!
1:30pm - 3:30pm Poor Boy dress rehearsal. It was shaky. Our first time through with the whole production in full swing. A new acoustic space to adjust to. There are some big spaces for me in this show where I am not doing much.
6:30 Back to the Maidment to run a few tunes that went pair shaped earlier today, and tighten up a few things before the first preview at 8pm. We still hadn't tried the music for the bows yet, a nice down beat version of the song Poor Boy.
8pm First preview. There was an audience of about 200 folks. The show was definitely still undercooked, but I guess they weren't paying full orice. Stil I feel for the actors having to perform a piece still ubder rehearsed.. The run went great from our perspective, a definite step up from the afternoon. Feedback from Tim was that we can really go for it in the scene changes with the transition music as there are no lines being said and no one on stage even, I'm going to err on the side of VERY LOUD tomorrow and see what happens. Looking forward to two more runs tomorrow the opening night Saturday.
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