Headwaters is on the verge of true readiness for an audience, which is a lovely place to be on the Sunday before a Thursday opening.  Small space details will get finished tomorrow (Monday, July 7), and last minute costume and props changes are being made.  The company of performers have a good sense of what needs to be done before an audience sees their work – firming up last pieces of line memorization, staging, and singing. 

Today we had what was supposed to be a cue-to-cue technical rehearsal, but – because our lighting design was in and running well ahead of time – we had a speed-through instead, with every line and all the songs done at twice their usual speed.  This infused the company with energy, showed where memorization was sketchy, and was a lot of fun.  It hasn’t reduced the running time, strangely (an effect I’m accustomed to), but we’ll keep whittling away at the unnecessary pauses until the show is a streamlined train that slows down only when it wants to.  We completed a second run-through tonight as well, so both casts got back in the groove after a nice long weekend – two and a half days off!  This isn’t usually how things go the weekend before you open, but re-mounting a show has many benefits, and this is one of them.

We’ve gotten good press from the White County News again this year  http://www.whitecountynewstelegraph.com/articles/2008/07/03/the_arts/arts01.txt and Georgia Public Broadcasting should air a "Georgia Gazette" segment on Headwaters this week, so hopefully people will come.  Anymore, that’s a decision that people make at the last minute, so we must live in hope.

Onward, as ever!

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