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Topic: dreams
Posted By: trutter
Subject: dreams
Date Posted: 8/28/07 at 1:40pm
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Anybody continue directing in their sleep? over the weekend I had nightmares, which escalated into me asking people to "please be quiet backstage" over and over in my dreams. Am I just slowly going insane? Would be a simpler answer. Heheheh.  ------------- ------ Troy A. Rutter Author, "Kids in the Biz: A Hollywood Handbook for Parents" http://www.kidsinthebiz.com/ - http://www.kidsinthebiz.com/ A Heinemann Drama Publication |
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/28/07 at 2:06pm
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You got it the wong way around mate - this is still the dream, the other is reality!
------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: 75director
Date Posted: 8/28/07 at 4:56pm
Hehe not going insane trutter. Once I woke myself up saying "Hold Please" in a very stern and well projected voice. Who knows what the neighbors thought was going on at 4 a.m. in my place. 
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Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 2:56am
just means you're very focused right now, my husband was once dead asleep and suddenly blurted out a standard phone message he'd had to leave about a hundred times at work that day, and then rolled over and continued sleeping soundly.  ------------- "If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights." |
Posted By: DWolfman
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 12:12pm
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What??? You people actually get to sleep when you direct???
I've been having trouble getting any winks at all!
Oh, to "sleep, perchance to dream..."
;) ------------- Even a man who is pure of heart... |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 8:07pm
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I have dream directed before, and I hate it, it's just the stress of trying to pull it all together. I was told that when I was in A Chorus Line, I would do the choreography in my sleep. My partnered would sleep in the spare room just to get a good night sleep from me hitting him. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 8:42pm
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Blimey Daniel! Performing step kicks in the middle of the night! The 'flying wedge' will cause total evacuation every time? ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 8/29/07 at 9:36pm
The Director got ahold of the Original Broadway Choreography and about 60% of the cast are professional dancers. After the first night of rehearsal we crawled out of the theater. We all thought we would never make it through this show alive.  
By the time we opened no one complained about sore feet or legs anymore. But we ran the show for 6 months. The longest run we had for a show. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: bbpchick
Date Posted: 9/05/07 at 8:22pm
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Don't feel too bad. During my last show (It was a melodrama), I woke my self up trying to get the audience to boo and hiss and make noise. That was of course after hours of trying get to sleep.
lol I guess I eat, sleep and breath a play when I'm directing it. ------------- Kendra http://www.murphysblackbartplayer.com - www.murphysblackbartplayers.com You are NEVER too old to dress up! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/06/07 at 4:15pm
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It's possibly a very good job Kendra, you were not doing a Panto. It might have been a bit disconcerting Screaming out ;- "where is he?" "He's behind you!" "Oh no he's not?" "Oh yes he is!" ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: bbpchick
Date Posted: 9/06/07 at 6:43pm
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lol! ------------- Kendra http://www.murphysblackbartplayer.com - www.murphysblackbartplayers.com You are NEVER too old to dress up! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/07/07 at 7:42am
It was similar for us with 'ACL". [Off on a tangent again - sorry!] In fact the initial 12 performances, were almost sold out, before the audition process was completed. So i jumped in for our chops with the primarily blue rinse committee to & extended by a further 2 weeks [6 shows], they begrudgingly gave permission! Also it was in the hight of summer 40 in the water bag, for most of the rehearsals. I pushed for Air con to be installed in the auditorium & managed to get it for $10 000 (AUD) which they kept bleating on about, so much so in thier wisdom, they put the cost down against the shows budget. Abyway the bookings kept pouring in, so they had to extend for a further 2 weeks. Then stated that was the last & our show was holding up the next production, a gawed awful kitchen drama, directed by one of the purple circle. So the cast crew put it to the theatre that they would tour the show & that was hit soundly on the sconce, with a big no. rather than disapiont all the ACL mob, I fired up another theatre group & we produced the show else where. Frankly like your group we could have kept going for some time. But I must of upset the tinted circle - the wombats! Mind you I had done the show in between having a number of stokes & hospital intensive car - great form of rehabilitation. That is probably why it was such a good production. - I was in a dream & off on another plane some where? But that's all a t'other story ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |