Opening Night
May. 2nd, 2007 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieSo My Fair Lady opened last night and barring a couple of little (mainly technical) cock-ups it went really well.
It used to be traditional that the Tuesday night audience was a bit quiet, but this time they were a lively bunch. One of the real joys about having an audience is that they laugh and react both to things that the cast have long stopped finding funny and it gives a real boost of energy to the performances.
Personally I had one rather scary moment: for one scene it is important to a plot point that I have a piece of cake (strawberry tart, to be precise!) placed on the coffee table next to my chair during a blackout. Blackout came and went and strawberry tart was there not! After a few moments of panic (luckily I had no dialogue for a minute or so) I smacked my lips, wandered off stage (and with the offstage words "where's my f*ing cake!") took the cake and wandered back onto the stage munching on it with a pleased expression, in time for my dialogue. Scary moment though!
But overall I was really, really pleased. There were a couple of little mis-steps in the dialogue from various of us but no great chunks got missed and nobody needed to be prompted. The audience seemed to enjoy it and the feedback from my friend Arthur and his parents was really positive.
So yah! The only thing to watch for tonight, after such a good first night, is that no complacency and over-confidence settles in...
It used to be traditional that the Tuesday night audience was a bit quiet, but this time they were a lively bunch. One of the real joys about having an audience is that they laugh and react both to things that the cast have long stopped finding funny and it gives a real boost of energy to the performances.
Personally I had one rather scary moment: for one scene it is important to a plot point that I have a piece of cake (strawberry tart, to be precise!) placed on the coffee table next to my chair during a blackout. Blackout came and went and strawberry tart was there not! After a few moments of panic (luckily I had no dialogue for a minute or so) I smacked my lips, wandered off stage (and with the offstage words "where's my f*ing cake!") took the cake and wandered back onto the stage munching on it with a pleased expression, in time for my dialogue. Scary moment though!
But overall I was really, really pleased. There were a couple of little mis-steps in the dialogue from various of us but no great chunks got missed and nobody needed to be prompted. The audience seemed to enjoy it and the feedback from my friend Arthur and his parents was really positive.
So yah! The only thing to watch for tonight, after such a good first night, is that no complacency and over-confidence settles in...
