“out of the woods”

It’s amazing how quickly a show can pull itself together.  We had a pretty “rough” dress rehearsal Thursday night, followed by a preview the next night, followed by a 2nd preview and the opening on Saturday night, March 9th.  Hardly perfect – its difficult to get everything just right in so little time – but the show has great heart!  The performances are strong and the show completely entertaining and captivating – my first Sondheim, its amazing to sit in the audience and watch and listen, instead of sitting buried behind the monitor in the house adjusting the lighting.  And I still have A Little Night Music to look forward to working on later this summer.  http://www.shawfest.com/web/content.asp?docid=1_3_5_1

And now I find myself in Niagara-on-the-Lake for 2.5 weeks.  I’m out to do the “rep” work for the Royal George and Courthouse theatres.  In a strange confluence, the Shaw is presenting Lillian Helman’s The Little Foxes this season, which is the opera that Regina is based on, which I’m lighting next at Pacific Opera Victoria.  http://www.shawfest.com/web/content.asp?docid=1_3_8_1

And I’m also lighting After the Dance by Terence Rattigan at the Shaw.  We watched a movie at home a couple weeks ago called Bright Young Things – a Stephen Fry movie based on the Evelyn Waugh novel entitled Vile Bodies – a social commentary on the life of young people in the 1930′s, between WW1 and WW2.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325123/

Interesting how art imitates life sometimes.