Happy New Year blogosphere. There has been a lag in posts seeing as how school just resumed session for winter quarter. The production (and these blogs) should pick up now that school has started moving again.
Yes, we audition tomorrow! My only concern at this moment is the lack of people. Winter quarter is a hard time. We try and cram so much into just ten weeks. Students are occupied with the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF), main stage shows, classes, other STP shows and other performance classes. It is a trial to get students this quarter but I am hopeful. It is helpful that I will be playing one of the parts myself but that still leaves six parts to be filled (five more substantial parts).
I've never been on the other side of the audition table before; I have to say I'm pretty excited. As an actor you spend so much time attempting to be exactly what other people want for your production. This time I get to decide what I want. Well, Danielle and I get to decide what we want. It seems to me to be a scary prospect. Well, here we go.
We had our first production meeting last week. It went well. We are definitely at the beginning of our process. The beginning of the process is not without its difficulties though. Our dates (March 4th and 5th) overlap with not one but two other shows, our set designer will only be here for half of the production and we have a lot of hoops to jump through. We're not changing our dates but we may be moving our start times to try and be accommodating to other productions. It'll be a full weekend but we want as many people to be able to see the show and we want to see other shows as well. All in all I'm determined to make this work. It has to now especially because Apocalypse Plays is my senior project. I am currently getting credit for this production (which is also a new exciting development).
We sign contracts tomorrow. And we audition. We're only days away from being a full blown production.
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