Spring Break

1. Have fun!

2. Tuesday night movie night at Cassedy & Lorelei's house, 6:30pm: 280-7580.
Address is 2319 Telemark Lane NW.
Directions as follows:
*Get on Elton Hills heading toward Rec Center
* Pass RCLS (it'll be on your left) and keep going until Valkyrie Drive
*Take a right onto Valkyrie, go about 4 blocks
*Take a right onto Valkyrie Lane (not Court)
*Take a right onto Telemark. Go to end of cul-de-sac.
*House is red and black (go JM!)

3. Set Construction Wed, Thurs, Fri evenings at 5:45. Bring people, have fun. Here's an important tip -- Joel has 50 more ideas about what he can do for the show. He'll do however many he can, dependent upon help and time, not budget. Once again, you as a cast control the quality of the show far more than any driven and driving director. Let's make it an amazing set for our amazing show.

4. Practice dance steps. Yes, seriously, until you know it. Then practice it some more.

5. EITHER a) smile that you've turned in your bio to Brian or Amanda or me OR b) panic, and desperately email me offering naming rights to your eventual children and chocolate for Ms. Nieland.

6. Talk about the show incessently. At the grocery store, mall, long car rides, with small children. Text messaging acceptable.

7. Forget about the show for a while, recharge your batteries.

8. Come back off-script.

9. 4 hour rehearsal on 4.4.

Community building

Rehearsals are picking up in intensity now -- much, much better to crunch now than in the final week. Last night in rehearsal a productive game -- none of the ones I tried for warm-ups :(, but the naturally emergent "Machine" to demonstrate the ostinato section. Ideally, that is how they should be incorporated into the process.

Everyone needs two hours set construction. Bring a friend.

Ostinato section needs to be rhythmically coordinated, with exact patterns be each group/person.

Do you know everyone in the cast by name? Ask other actors how their day is going? Smile at them in the halls? Over the next month, you need a new group of best friends -- ones you can wholly trust on stage to support you and who will trust you to support them. As my focus begins moving toward production necessities, I'll have less time for this community building. Seniors especially, can you help out and pass on the sense of Theatre JM and what we're about?

Anyone want to coordinate a pizza and movie party for the cast during break? I'll provide the movie rental :)