First week complete.

Highlight of the week: I made a plug.

Seriously, me.  ME.  Rich taught ME how to make a plug and then connect it to a can light that previously did not have a plug.  YES!

What happened was that on Wednesday, Rich needed two extra can lights (stage lights made out of coffee cans, very clever) set up in the very, very back of the stage, to light the ivy backdrop for Importance of Being Earnest.  I had worked with Allie, the girl who was setting up and focusing the lights, for an accumulated six hours by that time, and she had to leave.  So I had the fun duty of putting those two can lights up in the back and somehow connecting them to dimmer six (all very techy stage stuff, most of which I STILL do not understand).

Anyway, I got two can lights out from underneath the stage, and connected their wires to plugs, which involved a lot of grunting and pulling of the plug from the protector and going "Oh, no" a couple of times, calling Rich to help me just ONCE and then finally I was done - TA DA!  Plugs.  They were connected to really long wires because they had to literally reach around the entire stage to get to dimmer six, which was in front of downstage left, and the can lights had to be upstage right and left, so not in the most convenient of places, mind you.

But I did it, while only calling Rich to help me one more time, and when I got back home and told my dad that I had made a plug, he did not believe me, but it is the truth.

So far, rehearsals for my scene night have been going really well.  At first I was panicked, thinking we didn't have enough time, now I realize we have a LOT of time.  This panic could fluctuate, of course, but as of right now, I'm fairly confident that we're going to have a really good show.

Yesterday I sat in on one of Rich's rehearsals for Importance of Being Earnest.  The actors were basically doing a read through, so Rich's job was very minimal, but I did catch him (and I wrote this down) saying something very interesting and true.  He was talking about subtletly onstage, and he said "Less is more when the focus is on you.  When the focus isn't on you, you have to draw attention back to yourself."

This is extremely true, I'm finding, especially with Sierra in the Saved! scene we're doing.  She's awesome, and totally commits herself 100%, but I find myself pulling her back just a touch here and a touch there, and I realize that it is truly less is more.  Her contribution to the craziness has to be a little more subtle because the audience is going to be staring at her and only her.  It's Bailey, who interrupts the madness (all will be revealed if you all COME SEE THE SHOW), who needs to use everything she's got, because she's pulling the audience away from Sierra and to her.

Anyway, this has been a really fantastic first week of Walkabout!  Next week Keihin will be back, and so we're going to plug him into the scenes he's missed and REALLY work his scenes with Daryon, which are kind of heavy.