Rehearsals begin

THE REHEARSALS:

Rehearsals started on Sat the 25th, but because I’m a retail gal (and retail sucks!), I had to work and didn’t get to play with the gang till the following Tuesday. I got an SMS from Julie during the day offering me a ride down, and as she’s coming from Northlakes and has to go past my place, more or less, I took her up on the ride.

I stood outside my flat at 6.30 waiting for Jules, watching the cars approaching, as she’s only been to my place once before and I wasn’t sure whether she remembered exactly where I lived. As each set of headlights approached, I watched carefully. When I got bored with that I watched the possum in the tree near me teetering on a tiny branch eating the flowers at the end. I made sure I moved away from underneath the tree – a possum hat was not an accessory I wanted right at that moment.

Eventually a set of headlights I was watching went on to high beam as it came close to my place. No, not high beam: nuclear beam. The lights lit up the whole bloody street and the backs of my retinas! Once the spots in front of my eyes settled down I got into Julie’s 4WD, and off we went. I made Julie promise to never flash “Mickey” the fog lamps at me EVER again!!!

During the trip down we joked about how to kill off Jane, as Julie had auditioned for Narrator too. Ironically, it was Julie who got the role of Sr. Mary Hubert in Nunsense last year that I auditioned for, and we had a running joke throughout the season that I was ready to jump into her role if she had an ‘accident’. For pics of the show click here. (I’m the one in black!)

The actual rehearsal was only for the 6 divas, so I didn’t get to meet the new cast (boys). We got our scores and assorted bits of extra music. I’m usually an alto, but Brad’s made me a bit of a floater, so when we’re singing in 2 parts, I’m in the altos with Julie, but when we split into 3 parts I go into the middle with Kayleen who shares the 2nd Soprano part with me.

As some songs go from 2 to 3 parts and back again, I tended to sway to the left when I was singing the alto part and sway to the right when doing the 2nd part so that I could hear the others singing. Kayleen did the same, swinging from 2nd sop to Soprano, so we dubbed ourselves the swingers!

This was the night of the lunar eclipse, and I made sure we had semi regular ‘moon breaks’ so we could see it and the red moon that resulted. It was really cool, and would have been even better if we were able to turn the theatre’s outside lights off, but we couldn’t so we had to hold up our hands to block the light.

We wound it up at about 9.30, after having gone through ‘Jacob and Sons’, ‘Any Dream will Do’ and ‘Joseph’s Coat’. We ended up singing most of the songs (very badly – as a send up) on the ride home.