Putting the Pieces Together

We wanted to get ahead of the game and decided to add sound, lighting, costumes, and makeup today! So it was really a full dress rehearsal, and we have two more days to pull everything together. The biggest challenge today was costume changes. Some students have to go from a "guard" to a "mouse" or a "fairy tale creature" to a "Dragonette" in a matter of seconds, so I stayed backstage to help them out of their previous outfits and into their new ones so they'd be ready for the next scene. Also, several costume pieces have gone missing. Some had to be borrowed for use in Alice in Wonderland in another company, but some have just been lost by the students. I've told them that they have to replace anything that's missing, but I am hoping that pieces will turn up.

 Here I am with the cast right before we started the run-through!

In addition to helping with costume changes, I also changed batteries in the microphones, put them on the actors (attached with tape or bobby pins), and pinned on head pieces like the Mad Hatter's and Mama Bear's.

Makeup also went well, thanks to our great team that has set up shop outside the auditorium. However, we've realized that we need to buy many more tubes of green paint for Shrek and Fiona because we've already run out!

Here's a picture of Shrek and Fiona during their duet, and you can clearly see the great makeup and costume work on both of them! We are staying true to the movie whenever possible.

Another day, another rehearsal. Two more until the curtain goes up on a real audience!