Surprising!

I am pleasantly surprised by the number of people who have expressed an interest in this project. I had imagined (wrongly it seems now) that getting a cast together for this production would be hard push; given the subject matter and I had anticipated press ganging people into roles. Yet I am getting a steady flow of enquires from people for various roles and rather than scratching around so it seems that I will be spoilt for choice.

I feel that the key to pulling off this production (well any production actually) lies in the preparation and its going... okay. There are a few curved balls (see previous blog) but things are generally going fine. I may lose someone who I had hoped would read for a part due to circumstances beyond my control, but I suppose that opens up other possibilities I guess. Another individual who I had hoped to garner some interest from has graciously declined the opportunity and I understand their reasons perfectly. On the other hand another individual has spoken to me about a role and I am really interested in seeing what they can do with one of the characters.

As for other areas of the show, I now have a final set concept which is now almost "locked", subject to a bit of tweaking here and there. I have fifteen of the twenty three music cues programmed (although there will be some trimming there) and I'm half way through a lighting design. Hopefully my SM will be free to come on board soon so we can start to fill the technical jobs. Costumes are going to be easy... other than Roy... which is going to be... ahem... interesting.... So its all coming together and I think I'm still on course to have pre-production finished on time (which at the moment is scheduled for mid May). That of course could all change....