JUNGLE- Dress Rehearsals

So in between tech and dress there was a lot of fixing lights and sounds, however I stepped even further away from the lighting mainly because I wasn't being told when and what was being done. But it was OK as I had more of a chance to check out what SM was doing, good ol' Laura. There were still major stuff ups occurring during the dress run, sound still had not had a chance to have a tech rehearsal with Kim so it put a lot of stress om Blue who had NO ASSISTANT (JEFF stepped in once to assist Blue).

Apparently the actual equipment has been playing up, which is the cause of some of the mistakes. Maddy did some changing around of lights, which added light up in the back OP side near the dress room door also added a SUN in the correct area for Olive to reach out to. Kim has suggested some changes which Maddy has done and I think lighting is getting there a bit more. Peri has helped out a bit more during the end, now ive stepped down, shes been there I think to help program the desk during the changes and also fixed up all the cords in the grid and added some safety chains that were not there.....

PROPS!!!!!

Props are such a big job and I dont think SM who has SOOOO much to do already should have to organize these (thankfully there is at least one assistant for Laura). We have all props now, bar a walkman which Kim said she would get for us, but it works without for now. Ive started to be able to just know what props need to be gathered at interval and which ones need to be added and where. LAURA has typed up our magic sheet of all the props preset for ACT 1 and another preset for ACT 2 as well as where the table is preset at these times. Ive also written up a sheet of props that need to be gathered at interval which makes it so much easier.

-So after every show we will preset the set and props ready for ACT 1 the next show
-All props for ACT 2 are on the props table in dressing room with black marker drawn around them so we know nothing is missing, also what each piece is for etc
- Then at INTERVAL we will get the trolley throw everything on it that is on the 'gather at interval list' and take back out to the props table.
-Then everything on the PROPS TABLE comes out and preset in the required positions.
-After the show all we need to do is bring out the trolley again and return everything ready for ACT 1 for thhe next show.

There has already been a gun broken and will be replaces payed by all of us including cast. Ive just reminded Jesse to be careful when bangs the gun on the table. we need to clean the table at interval. Vaccume after every show (set). Air con goes on before the show and during interval but is off during the show.

DRINKS-

Ive bought all the drinks and have gotten a hang of the food dye needed to make each colouring.

WHISKEY- Water 2xyellow drops and 1 red drop. Ive made each Whiskey colours a little bit different as the actual brands would be different IE the Talemore would be darker as 'its the best'.
BEER- Ginger ale
RED WINE- Grape juice
WHITE WINE- Water with yellow and red dye (Rosie has a lot of allergies)
CHAMPAGNE- Lemonade with red dye to make a Rose LOOKS GREAT as it froths

IM HAVING SO MUCH FUN DOING ALL OF THIS ;-)

I called the 2nd dress rehearsal, I stuffed up a few in the beginning however go the hang of it by the end ;-)