The final week of rehearsals priot to opening night is called "Tech Week", probably because that's when all the technical details of the play are supposed to be worked out. It started with the marathon "cue to cue tech" session followed by more set building and painting, followed by the first run through the show all the way. Most of us were at the theater just short of 11 hours (and some much longer) interrupted only by a short dinner break. By the end nerves were fraying and tempers were rising.
Today was the first dress rehearsal, the first chance that many of us had to try on all our costumes and certainly the first time we had a chance to see how the costume changes fit in with the scenery changes and the actual running of the show. I found that I had to change earlier than I had originally thought but could still man all my other assignments. Of course I only have one change of costume while some actors have as many as 6 changes or more.
We got the show down to 3 hours and that was still with several interruptions and re-dos. That doesn't count the 1/2 hour post rehearsal briefing and critique. It is exciting to see it all come together.
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