So Monday was my first real day of work. According to last year's tour report, this residency was a cast-all (which quite literally means, you cast everyone who shows up to the audition) with only 33 kids. Our optimum cast calls for 58 (54 actos, and 4 assistant directors). Our trainer, Sarah, was afraid that we might only have 20 kids audition and one of us might have to step in and play a couple of the parts. But no. We did not have 20, or even 33. We had 50. In the end we have 49, because 2 kids dropped and then one smart little seven year old showed up today who missed the audition yesterday and we cast her.
Work is really overwhelming right now. It's a lot to think about and remember. I am really having a great time, but I am definitely more exhausted than I can recall being EVER. This morning's rehearsal was fantastic, but by the time we got to the end of the day, it was really REALLY hot in the room I was working in, and everyone's attention was definitely waning.
Today one of the little girls in the cast decided to pronounce the word escape as es-cah-pay (<-my lame attempt at phonetic spelling). She's 8 I think. She also kept correcting me when I accidentally referred to Ranger Rooney, the part being played by her older sister, as "he" rather than "she" was I was explaining to them where said character would be onstage. I need to correct that- I seriously doubt that part will ever be played by a boy. Well anyhow, both of these girls and their brother have fairly large parts in the show...and their little 6 year old brother ranks among the cutest kids I've ever seen. I met their mom today too, who wants to help out anyway she can. She even offered us an extra car if we needed one!
We have a lot of siblings in the show. I bet this is particularly true on military bases. We incidentally cast a real brother and sister as Brother and Sister Hood. I discovered this when I was going around asking for names and phone numbers and Sister said to me of the boy sitting beside her, "oh, we have the same phone number." Talk about a funny coincidence!
We spent this afternoon at the downtown outdoor mall at the Apple store getting Sam's computer fixed. We ate lunch at McAllister's deli. It made me miss my school friends, since one opened up at school right about the same time that I graduated....not to mention the fact that I have at least 4 friends who work there. Sarah and I went to Borders while Sam was at Apple. Sam came over and met us after, and we all bonded over our mutual secret love of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
And now back to obsessively trying to hunt down a copy of the DVD of the Hamburg production of Dance of the Vampires- yes, Sam is in to bad German musicals too :-)
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