revenge of the church ladies
Rehersal starts at 6:00 PM. By 6:05 I've unpacked my stuff & found a stand light & gotten as comfortable as possible squished into the few spare feet at the foot of the stage along with the 3 other people in my row. Most of the orchestra is already in place. It looks like most of the drama team & choir members are present but they are just milling around chatting loudly.
At around 6:30 a church lady gets on a mic & begins barking instructions to the choir. They are loading into the stage area & are instructed at leat 5 times not to take water with them. Since their stage area is completely covered in (electric) Christmas lights this seems a bit obvious. I think at least 2 people still brought their water bottles with them.
This year each choir member has been given their own radio. When they dial into the local station they hear the piano & just a little of the choir themselves. This is supposed to help them follow along to the music we've all been learning for 2+ months. (Some of the music we've even played in past years). Immediately - I mean within 1 minute of being instructed to turn the radios on immediately - there are shouts of "I can't hear anything!" - "I can hear everything!" - "I don't think we need these!" - "Yes! Let's get rid of them!" - "These don't work!"... etc.
There is a 7 minute discussion on why they do in fact need the radios & how to use them. During this time, various choir members are talking non stop. Which pretty much continues throughout rehersal. These are some chatty church ladies & men. It reminded me of visiting a preschool to do music stuff... the church folks all seem to have about the same attention span as those 4 & 5 year olds.
It just went downhill from there. I hate rehersals the last week before a big show. They are always long, drawn out chaos.
And after running over nearly 30 minutes, we get more lectures. Primarily on not bringing water on stage. Or tissues or other flamable items. Since apparently not everyone understood this rule. The director informed us all that one of the first years they did the production there was a "small" fire on stage. Great. I'm going to catch on fire while a pasty white kid introduces a latin song to be sung by some Southern (and white) Baptists.
At around 6:30 a church lady gets on a mic & begins barking instructions to the choir. They are loading into the stage area & are instructed at leat 5 times not to take water with them. Since their stage area is completely covered in (electric) Christmas lights this seems a bit obvious. I think at least 2 people still brought their water bottles with them.
This year each choir member has been given their own radio. When they dial into the local station they hear the piano & just a little of the choir themselves. This is supposed to help them follow along to the music we've all been learning for 2+ months. (Some of the music we've even played in past years). Immediately - I mean within 1 minute of being instructed to turn the radios on immediately - there are shouts of "I can't hear anything!" - "I can hear everything!" - "I don't think we need these!" - "Yes! Let's get rid of them!" - "These don't work!"... etc.
There is a 7 minute discussion on why they do in fact need the radios & how to use them. During this time, various choir members are talking non stop. Which pretty much continues throughout rehersal. These are some chatty church ladies & men. It reminded me of visiting a preschool to do music stuff... the church folks all seem to have about the same attention span as those 4 & 5 year olds.
It just went downhill from there. I hate rehersals the last week before a big show. They are always long, drawn out chaos.
And after running over nearly 30 minutes, we get more lectures. Primarily on not bringing water on stage. Or tissues or other flamable items. Since apparently not everyone understood this rule. The director informed us all that one of the first years they did the production there was a "small" fire on stage. Great. I'm going to catch on fire while a pasty white kid introduces a latin song to be sung by some Southern (and white) Baptists.
posted by Silver Turtle at
10:55 PM
2 Comments:
Perhaps the church should just get a video of the Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial incident... BTW, is there anyone named Kenny in the choir? I kept getting flashbacks to the first South Park Christmas special.
By
ediecat, at 12:39 AM
Night one went okay .. no fires.
Tonight I'll keep thinking of South Park through the whole thing though.
By
Silver Turtle, at 12:25 PM
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