The Forbidden Phoenix
Nothing huge to report on The Forbidden Phoenix front other than we had to cancel our invited dress rehearsal on Friday night because we need the time to work the bits. This often happens in theatre when people run out of time. The invited dress is always a fluid kind of event. Sometimes you just don't want to put the pressure of an audience on the cast and crew when they're still trying to sort out the timing of cues and the flow of transitions. The big thing now is for everyone to remain calm, do their jobs the best they can and try to be patient when we need to go over things.
I'm always amazed that the actors get three weeks to rehearsal, but the technical crew gets three days. In a perfect world, there'd be more time for tech. In a perfect world, there'd be more money for the arts. But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in Stephen Harper's Canada... oops... was that aloud? No matter; I'm just a niche issue to him. Sorry. I just had to get that dig in while the election was still fresh on my mind.