The Performance

The big day!

Of course the duration of the day entailed pre-performance nerves and paranoia sure you'll forget a vital line and freeze still and idiotically on-stage as Chipp pulls what's left of his hair out of his head, or I'll make unfortunate bodily noises at really inopportune moments. An
d the constantly thudding racket in your rib cage, sickly butterflies winging your stomach into a mess of unease all the while stupidly excited for the adrenaline fueled night ahead.

The first thing on the agenda for the final rehearsal was the transition between the two groups' sections (the third left out due to Sarah's terrifying quarantined contagion) where we had music in the background as we marched on stage in a mirror order of personalities and took their place. Then in a smooth canon move we peel off and go to the back where we move the riser lid and riser further back. After just a couple of run-throughs it was pretty smooth, and looked effective.

We had a couple of run-throughs, the first one slow to remember everything before we picked the pace up. We didn't adapt much as we didn't want to panic ourselves before the performance. I think the only things we changed was the direction I jump down from "Yes, Chair" to get into position with Caitlin: instead of facing forwards, facing sideways, as the audience can see what I'm doing much more clearly. And also, after "little explosions of love" the "Whoosh" Charlotte joins in to turn herself around to face the audience. Everything else, we kept the same and ran through, refined and tried desperately to remember cues.

Then it was the long process of everyone getting costume and makeup on before we did a dress run-through. 

Here are some pictures of our development through the hour:

With all the makeup done, and costumes on, we did a run-through with the lights, and someone taking photos. The run-through all went well, no-one forgot lines or cues etc. here are the photos (some):

And so... following this came the dreaded and awaited hour: the performance.

Watching the other group smash theirs with a sledgehammer (it went very well) nerves jangled and we boogied our way up to the front. Sadly, the placing of the riser went wrong and it was slightly wonky for the rest of the performance. To be honest, I can't really remember what happened, it's all a bit of a blur, all I can really remember was starting and what felt like two minutes later reaching the end. From what I can remember, it went really well. We hit our cues, for lines and movement, no-one went wrong and we put all our energy into it. Basically, I thought it was a fantastic performance. Well done gang!