Just found this blog over at MySpace … 2008? That's so long ago … half a decade … and me wondering when we're going to do another … must be the end of that line.
We put our 2008 church musical to bed on Feb 1, 2 & 3 ... the final week was incredibly intense ... rehearsals all weekend, Monday and Tuesday nights, (Wednesday off for some reason), dress rehearsal Thursday night ... opening night Friday, second performance Saturday, closing with a Sunday matinee. Phew. This show was so far beyond anything we've done before that I'm not sure where we go from here. We can't really go back to our casual modus operandi. The secret was having a REAL director this time around ... our previous directors were fine but they were like me ... part timers. Gerald was the real deal and he informed us that he saw no difference between amateur and professional theatre. It all had to be top notch. So no parts with two or three people grouped in front of a closed curtain ... in fact there was no curtain. This time the play happened in the church proper rather than on the stage in the auditorium. Friday night was a bad snow day in Toronto ... we only had around 100 people in the audience ... but they were really enthusiastic (as shown by their having braved the perilous driving and impossible parking). The weekend calmed down weatherwise and both performances were pretty much played to packed pews. The play was the creation of our director (Gerald Isaac) ... based on four plays by Stephen Schwartz: Godspell, Pippin, Children of Eden and Wicked ... our version was called SCHWARTZSPELL. There were 25 of us in the ensemble cast ... there were some 30 songs, several intense dance numbers, two keyboardists, some percussion, lighting, a smoke machine ... all played out in the sanctuary of St Clement's church.
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