Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath

Ah... sleep. :) We had another snow day today, so I have time to sleep in and update.

We had a rather productive rehearsal last Saturday and officially blocked The Exit, Toba, and the beginning of Genesis.

And oh my God.

Genesis is just amazing.

The head choreographer, Lindsey Orgren, asked her talented friend, Haylie Ritchie, to be her dance partner in Genesis, and then proceeded to create the most amazing dance I have ever seen in my entire life.

It's gonna be bomb.

The Exit is looking great too, but I'm still unhappy with a couple parts of it, and that isn't anyone's fault but mine, so don't take it personally if you're involved and reading this. XP

Toba is going to be great as well. :D Katy does an outstanding job of beating up Travis.

So, we have, in essence, blocked every single song that we're going to perform:

Genesis, The Missing Piece, Life is Looking Up, The Spider and the Lamps, Toba the Tura, The Oracle, The Exit, It's True Love, Meet the King, Doctor Doctor, and The End and the Beginning.

We need to work on just about all of them. xx

ESPECIALLY Life is Looking Up. We haven't gotten very far with that one and it's pretty much the most intricate song. Lots and lots of dancing. The Spider and the Lamps is really intensely intricate too, but Life is Looking Up has a huge chorus line involved whereas The Spider and the Lamps only has like six people being spiders. Hopefully. People are dropping like flies from our fledgling troupe.

We need to start thinking about the set. Especially since our set manager dropped out.

For the set, the only thing I can think of is revolving panels that have dark scenery painted on one side and light scenery painted on the other. Others have suggested simple black and white curtains. I really don't know. The main problem is that there is no real set in the first act because it's supposed to be neutral, so any set we come up with for the second act will have to be placed onstage during the intermission. We need to keep that in mind when thinking about it.

I watched the music video for Life is Looking Up, which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoV66UPGX_Q

It's very interesting. It's sort of an abstract summation of Razia's Shadow. And, strangely enough, the man who plays Pallis in the video looks very similar to the person playing Pallis in THAT's production, my friend Fernandez. It doesn't really make sense when he drags her away, though. Still trying to figure that one out.

We may have a labcoat provided by one of my old English teachers, Mr. David Walker. He also intends to donate $50. :) Thank you so much, Mr. Walker. It's pretty awesome how we still keep in touch and you haven't been my teacher since sixth grade.

My cousin, Jim Howell, is also donating $100 for the show. Thank you so, so much, Jim!

And also, I need to thank The Red Cup for letting us use their stage. I haven't properly done that yet. I'm not quite sure how, but I really probably should.

And while I'm on this crazy spree of gratitude, thanks to everyone involved. All the dancers, singers, actors, and crew. You all are the ones pulling the strings, keeping us together, and ultimately creating an amazing show. :)

Adios. :)