Okay, so I'm going to try posting again. I mean, if you see this I was successful, and if I fail, then no one has to know about it! It's just been discouraging to sit down and try and type a lot again after losing an hours worth of work on another spectacular post. Here I am now though! I'm recovering because yesterday I apparently got some sort of 24 hour bug. I had a fever and chills and just aching. I actually went ahead and went to a recording for France Musique last night and to our Musique Sacree concert, but after the first half I decided I couldn't stick around. So I came home, took some meds, and went straight to sleep. Rough night, but I feel much better today. Just a headache now! :)
So, in my last post I was talking about all that we have going on this week. Saturday was supposed to be a day off, but they decided to have a rehearsal for Cosi, and thus we had to work in the middle of the day. It's interesting how most of our rehearsal are scheduled from like 11 a.m. to 2 or 3 p.m. So, right when you may decide to have lunch through when everything for lunch is closed. Very odd. Anyway, on Sunday we had a morning rehearsal for a concert that night that featured all the young artists here. Fun concert. The people were very nice afterwards and talked to us a lot.
Then Monday we had another Rigoletto performance. Tuesday was Cosi pre-final dress and the sacred music concert at night. Today is the final dress for Cosi, tomorrow is another Rigoletto performance, the Friday Cosi opens for real. Very stressful. Also, France Musique is here. They're recording some performances and such and broadcasting them around the world. It's pretty cool.
Oh! What I worked so hard to go into detail about in the last post! Our second performance of Rigoletto. So, the very first bit of staging that we do in the show is to come out in a party scene and blindfold a couple girls then put them up on a table with food and plates and stuff on it and have them walk across it. Blindfolded. From day one I thought this was a terrible idea. The table is secure, but very bouncy, plus they are stepping on plates and sometimes fruit and stuff, so we have to hold on to them and then take them off the other end. Well, during the second performance we ran out onto stage and there was a bowl of fruit on the table. A glass bowl of fruit. The bowl was also huge. There had to be 20-30 pieces of fruit in there. So we began walking the girls across the table. For the first girl I think we moved the bowl out of the way and then put it back in place. But then when I was walking my girl across the table there was apparently no one there to move the bowl. She stepped on the edge of it and sent it crashing down in front of me. It was actually really cool to see happen because it sort of dematerialized in front of me. Fruit went everywhere, apparently some of the glass ended up in the orchestra pit. We all just started kicking the glass under the table and then realized that we had to move the table, so a couple guys got brooms and dustpans and began sweeping it up. The rest of the night was a little scary, but we got through it successfully.
So, I think that's all for now. Hopefully I'll be posting more. Thanks to Jonesboro Rotary and Rotary District 6150 for following my blog now! I've been getting some good info about my club in Florence and am really excited!
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