Here we go! For realsies.

Rehearsals have started, and it is making me super happy.
We had our first big Sunday rehearsal and we had fun doing too-cool-two-steps, charlestons and piqués across the floor, er, trying, with great enthusiasm!

Everyone in the cast will dance, and I think it's really important to get everyone at least trying the movements. Because if you don't piqué now, when will you if you don't take a ballet class?! The goal is that come showtime, every cast member is dancing all out, with conviction, with exuberance, and hopefully that energy will seep right into the audience. I really enjoy ridiculously cheesy musical theatre dancing. It makes me laugh. (There will also be some sincere lovely dancing too, don't worry.)

We worked on some vocals, and I was feeling out what our capabilities were for learning by ear. Pretty good I'd say. We filled the room with harmony and that filled my heart with joy. I want to focus on our natural musicality as singers, and get to a point where we are really listening to each other, hearing the harmonies, blending, singing as a group with emotion, feeling the music swell and flow.

Getting started on working with the cast is very fulfilling for me. It is a new creative project - seeing what our capabilities as performers are right now, and seeing how far we can push them, how much we can grow within this show. Exciting times.

- Janice