Forbidden Phoenix - Edmonton Day 4
We made good progress today. Ron was able to clean up a lot of the second act. I gave the actors the revised Iron Dragon scene this morning. There's a rough shape of a scene. I think I'll still have to look at the scene after the reading. Actually, I'm going to have to polish the whole script after the reading. A lot of decisions were made in a rush to accommodate what we were doing in the reading. I'd rather have the time to review each piece of dialogue and all the lyrics before we get into rehearsal.
I have to prepare a storytelling version of the first act and allow some room for songs so that we get the audiences up to speed. I wished we had made this decision at the beginning of the week so that I'd have enough time to prepare, but we did have to at least try to make things work. I think our plans were too ambitious, and I'm glad that we're pulling back tomorrow so that the actors can just make the second act work. Almost always, workshops and staged readings stop being about the script and start being about the performance, and that's always when things get tense.