Penultimate

I just finished tweaking a bit of choreography that I will be teaching on Saturday.  It’s finally here – we gather for the first time to create at 10 a.m.   The cast and artistic staff have been waiting for nearly two months to start the rehearsal process.  We get to explore the story of a dead theater alive with memories of those who have been touched by it.  We’re getting ready for an explosion of emotions.

So now is the time to say good bye to everyone.  This will be my second to last blog about this show.  It’s time to create theater and not talk about it.  My notes now will be with cast and will be applied to making a show come alive.  To respect the privacy of creating and the desire to protect those who will now emotionally open themselves up and try different things, silence is needed.  Rehearsal needs to be a safe place for creating the story.  The challenges we face together need to stay in rehearsal.  This helps the show grow.

I’m also going to unpublish my older blogs.  They are yardsticks for the artistic process now and filled with hopes and dreams for the show.  The time is now for making it real and no matter what I’ve written about the plan and hope for Follies, it will now become a reality and assuredly not line up perfectly with the plan.  It will be better because it will come alive.  Come and see the reality in April.  The dreaming now becomes hard work. Reality beckons.

I will write one last time about the experience of Follies.  I’ll do that in May and do a post-mortem.  Stay tuned.