#thegrunch

I should probably have named this post ‘the good and the ugly’. Monday’s rehearsal of the 6th scene and the song Jazz Hands was lots of fun and productive. It is a long scene with lots of dialogue, but the blocking went well. They are starting to understand the spacing and balance I am looking for. Jazz Hands is a great song that they love singing, although it is written a little high for some of them. I am playing with the melody to lower a few notes without changing the key. That is actually kind of fun. The idea of the song is that no matter how bad things get if you have jazz hands you will be fine. So I have the challenge of choreographing hand dancing. All but 1 actor on stage will have bedazzled white gloves they will slip on while the audience is distracted. It will look great when it is done, but right now it was a bunch of waving. Also had 2 fathers commit to making theater boxes for us. So within a week or so I should have six 16” cubes and six 18” cubes to use for staging. I am very excited about this and very appreciative of the help. Still looking for parents to help decorate the sets. All in all it was our most productive day.