Boring Night

Well, yesterday was pretty boring as far as staging rehearsals go. We spent almost three hours staging this waltz scene where all I do is sit and read my bible. Oh, by the way, they're not really bibles...there's a book on orthopedics, a bunch of random fiction novels, and one romance book with a steamy sex scene. I guess that's just so we can look interested in the bible while we're on stage. :)

I was slightly interested when part of my blocking included chatting with Marta (Marguerite's chaperone), because she's a riot! She's so nice and funny. Actually she went to Curtis, and I asked her if she knew Joey (since AVA & Curtis are related), and she said she knew who he was, but she didn't know him well. She also said she didn't know he was called Joey -- I guess he prefers Joseph or Joe these days. Anyway, then the director changed the blocking so I don't talk to her anymore. I guess we were having too much fun.

So that was the whole night. Apparently we're supposed to do a run-through on Saturday, which is our next rehearsal, but we've only blocked about half of the opera. So I guess it's going to be crunch time. We open on Oct. 8, but they've started rehearsals for Don Pasquale, so we only have 4 more rehearsals before the sitzprobe.