Much of today's rehearsal was spent on doing tech work and getting blocking into books (which will soon be unnecessary). I spent the first hour and a half working on the blocking with the students, following the same pattern that I have always used as a director: I talked them through the motions first, and then asked them to run it through once or twice while saying the lines. I did some light tweaking through the run throughs, but not a lot of real character work-I'm going to work on the details hopefully next week.
The second half of rehearsal was spent with all of the students working on the dance numbers and the songs, and I went into the scene shop to work on building the set. I have a team of high school students working on the set along with one of my stage managers to be a supervisor.
I asked a friend of mine to come into the scene shop to help build a set of stairs because I have no experience building them on my own from scratch. Thanks to the generosity of my former high school theatre teacher, I have access to a large number of materials, such as wood, tools, flats, and even props that I can use but none of which include a 10ft wide staircase.
My friend and I spent a good hour talking through the use and making of ramps for the student who is wheel-bound. We eventually decided on using the ramps that we had available and lowering the height of the platforms of the set. We weren't able to work for very long, but we hoped to get more done the next day
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