My Fair Lady update

[bookzombie]

Rehearsals are going well on the whole. Barring one small scene we have pretty much finished setting the first (and longest) act. Paul (Higgins), Carol (Eliza) and myself (Pickering) have really bonded and are having a lot of fun rehearsing together. Remind me sometime to describe the alternative plot hidden under the surface (I'll just say that we have decided that the play is a love story, just between Higgins and Pickering, not Higgins and Eliza)!

We are having fun with the director, Chris, though: he is the most anal person I have ever met. He has the rehearsal schedule planned from the beginning of the year right through to the production in May to the nearest 15 minutes!

In some ways this is laudable but it does mean that he has left himself absolutely no flexibility at all. So someone hitting bad traffic and being 20 minutes late is sufficient to throw out the entire rehearsal schedule. Of course that means that he gets very stressed at the slightest delay and ends up blowing his top for no real reason.

You want to take him aside and tell him to relax. And this is me saying this...

Comments

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

"My Fair Lady" slash -- who knew?

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

What's so amazing is that it is very easy to interpret it that way without changing a word of dialogue!

[lcohen]

(I'll just say that we have decided that the play is a love story, just between Higgins and Pickering, not Higgins and Eliza)!

i can totally see that ;-) . "why can't a woman, be more like a man?" indeed.