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Week Three

This week was a long one. With the musical happening and getting just a few days away from our show, it was tough to find time to breath. There's a reason they call this time "hell week." It was weird  to spend so much time in one space. Because we get dinner in the green room this week, I only ever left for lunch in the dining hall (sometimes). Every day was a flurry of light notes, run throughs of proof, tech for proof, and rehearsal and other odd jobs for OOTI. The OOTI performance went really well, though. Even though the turnout wasn't spectacular on Saturday night I felt like we had two really solid performances of a great show.
Now, Proof is tomorrow and Margaret and I have a lot of work to do together. With everything being so exhausting recently the thing we've been missing most was running the show. The tech is done, lights hung, set built, programs printed, now we just have to figure out how we say what we say (haha).
I wish there was more to say about this week but it really was just a lot of exhaustion and monotony. I loved it all, but I am tired and need to sleep.

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