Halloween Weekend!

And what a lovely weekend it was.  I'm a little late on my posting, but hey, I haven't eaten dinner yet either, so it's not like I was procrastinating.

Went to Woodberry on Thursday for the weekend- I carved a very cool pumkin out of a pattern that Liza and I found- a barbershop quartet of ghosts.  Even though only four trick-or-treaters came down to her house, I feel as though it was worth the two hours it took to carve.

Saw Mr. Cirves's play- Moby Dick Rehearsed.  This was a play that we had seen about six years ago in a regional theater, and we thought it was great and were in a race to see who could direct it first.  He won.  The production was very cool- a bagpiper took to the stage between each scene change!  They also super-soaked the first four rows of the audience with the "sea," so I was lucky that I knew that beforehand and got a fifth row seat.

This morning before I left, Mr. C handed me seven beautiful black folders filled with draft five of the script.  I'll be handing these out to my actors tomorrow for our first rehearsal.  

When I got back to William and Mary, I went straight to the recording studios so that I could record Brian and Andrew at 5:00.  Brian stayed till 8 and managed to churn out every song that his character sings.  A few of them might need slight revisions, but overall he did a great and very efficient job (which takes a load off my mind since now I don't have to be in the recording studio every day this week).  Andrew stayed till 9:30, which was the point at which I realized I had nothing left for HIM to sing either.  I have a few songs that are almost written that he needs to sing next weekend, of course, but overall he's all finished too.  Now all that's left, for the most part, is the mixing.

I keep forgetting to mention this, but I wouldn't be able to put up this read-through if not for the help of Robert Black, whom I have enlisted as stage manager.  I should have put his name up on the cast list as such.  He's been scheduling things for me so that I don't have to, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing.  

I am still, of course, delightfully behind on all of my actual school work because of this.  I think that I'll go get something to eat and then get to that.