IS IT CHRISTMAS!?
The whole weekend seemed to build up to the Christmas vacation. On Friday after rehearsal we joined the Signature Staff for a little holiday fiesta hosted by the lovely ladies in the marketing department (Rachel, Jackie, Megan, and Suzanne.) Here are some pics:
We begin rehearsals again today, after taking Monday and Tuesday off to celebrate Christmas. On Sunday, we showed up to rehearsal and everyone found $10 gift cards to Cap City Brewery (lovingly referred to by Signature regulars as 'The Office') waiting for them. We're still trying to figure out who the mystery Santa is!
But it hasn't been all play and no work. Rehearsals have started off with a bang! Eric has finished staging the first third of the show. It's been very exciting to watch the script on it's feet for the first time. Since the show happens on a football field over the course of one evening, Eric and Matthew have been working very hard to make sure that the show never becomes stagnant. You can see the wheels turning in their heads, but so far they have both done amazing work.
Our musical supervisor, Jesse Vargas, joined us on Sunday to review music with the cast and make sure all the piano arrangements were in good shape. Jesse has been touring with Clay Aiken's Holiday Tour as pianist, conductor, and arranger for the past couple months. He has become an invaluable member of the creative team and it was great to have him in rehearsal.
As promised, Nick and I will be updating this blog with pictures and videos. Here is a video of Andrew and Jesse rehearsing "Other Human Beings" - more like AWESOME human beings!
Milky White (star of Signature Theatre's production of Into the Woods) keeping the riff raff out of the festivities.
Check out the Christmas hooch!
The Glory Days boys and some goofy looking guy with a mohawk! Get out of the picture goofy mohawk pixie!
Eric and his singing Christmas tie!
We begin rehearsals again today, after taking Monday and Tuesday off to celebrate Christmas. On Sunday, we showed up to rehearsal and everyone found $10 gift cards to Cap City Brewery (lovingly referred to by Signature regulars as 'The Office') waiting for them. We're still trying to figure out who the mystery Santa is!
But it hasn't been all play and no work. Rehearsals have started off with a bang! Eric has finished staging the first third of the show. It's been very exciting to watch the script on it's feet for the first time. Since the show happens on a football field over the course of one evening, Eric and Matthew have been working very hard to make sure that the show never becomes stagnant. You can see the wheels turning in their heads, but so far they have both done amazing work.
Our musical supervisor, Jesse Vargas, joined us on Sunday to review music with the cast and make sure all the piano arrangements were in good shape. Jesse has been touring with Clay Aiken's Holiday Tour as pianist, conductor, and arranger for the past couple months. He has become an invaluable member of the creative team and it was great to have him in rehearsal.
As promised, Nick and I will be updating this blog with pictures and videos. Here is a video of Andrew and Jesse rehearsing "Other Human Beings" - more like AWESOME human beings!
Love,
James
posted by James at
7:09 AM
1 Comments:
And all this time I thought you and Matthew were slaving away. Looks like you're having a great time :)
J Diehl
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