I survived! Between calling the curtain cues, the lighting cues, the sound cues, hitting play/pause AND conducting the kids, my brain almost short-circuited. But, despite the dead air, the missed cues, the confusion and the chaos, it ended up being a pretty good show by the closing performance. The kids had a blast and they were really proud of themselves.
Highlights from the last week:
Me: Bobby, when you come out on stage, you MUST face the audience when you say your lines!
Bobby: Okay. I won a public speaking contest today!
Me: Great! So you know how important it is to face the audience when you are speaking. Now pretend the curtain is behind us and the audience is in front of us, you have to face this way when you say your lines!
Bobby: Towards the curtain?
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Girls in the cast, talking in the wings when they aren't supposed to! (Grrr!)
Young Girl #1: (Listening to Gaston making his deal with Madam D'Arque)
"He's going to put Belle's father in jail !!"
Young Girl #2: ( Very concerned) "Just so he can force Belle to marry him."
Young Girl #1: (Very emphatically) "That's not very nice !!!!"
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After the Beast lets Belle go and the enchanted objects realize that the spell will never be broken:
Cogsworth (on stage): "...and now, it's too late."
Young Girl in the audience: "Why is it too late, mommy?"
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After the school performance:
"Gaston" (who's 13) trying to discuss something with me concerning the show.
Chorus girl (8 years old) in cast interrupts with:
"My friends are in love with you!"
"Gaston" didn't seem to be very interested but SHE was super excited about the concept.
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Me into the headset: Fog! We need Fog!
Two seconds later: No more Fog! STOP THE FOG! STTOOOOPPP!!!
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Me into the headset: Standby, fog!
Fog starts
Me: WHY IS THERE FOG?? STOP! STOP THE FOG!
Headset #1: SOMEBODY TOLD ME TO START THE FOG!!
Headset #2: SORRY!
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Cast bows....Chip runs onto stage and her mom comes up from the audience to hand her flowers. She refuses them. She moves to the back of the stage and then remembers that she has to be at the front of the stage.
Her mom tries to offer her the flowers again.
WHAP!
She lays the smackdown on the flowers.
SHE was not ready to accept flowers at that point. She still needed to bow.
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Audible whisper just before a solo: Here! Hold this!
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Maurice trying to hide behind Belle as he forgets his lines.
They're the only two on stage.
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Blackout
Curtain Closed
Music cued
BAM!!!
Back panel on one of the set pieces falls and narrowly misses one of the stage crew.
Oh well.
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Me: Bobby! Where are your shoes?
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