24 hour show

Hi Everyone. The theatre company I am involved with is planning to do a 24 hour show in a few weeks time. The concept being that anyone who wants to be involved, either on stage or backstage, turns up at the theatre on the Friday night where the rules etc are explained and then the title of the full length musical that we will be perforning the following night to a paying audience is announced...that gives us 24 hours to audition, rehearse, do sets, costumes, lighting, sound, learn the songs, rehearse the orchestra, do the program....everything in the space of a day.....wer'e doing it as a fundraiser! there must be easier ways of raising money than this but it will be fun! I'll let you know how it goes.

Well, just to let you know, the 24 hour show went on last night and went really well.....really well for a show that nobody even knew the title of the day before! At 8pm on Friday a local critic announced that the theatre company had 24 hours to cast, rehease, design sets, get costumes, do props, choreograph and rehearse the orchestra for a production of South Pacific! And blow me down if it didnt go off really well! We had a capacity crowd there who enjoyed the evening and the performasnce went off without too many hitches...a bit of hilarious ad-libbing when the strap on Nellie Forbush's nightdress broke, and when the odd line was forgotten, not to mention where the plug for the radio shack headphone reciever got shoved when it wouldnt go into the radio properly! Many people, including the critic said that it was a better show than many openeing night performances he's seen by various companies over the years who have been rehearsing for 3 months! All in all a lot of work done in 24 hours, but it goes to show how much can be achieved in such a short time!
damon

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