2 days to go!

It's Wednesday morning. In 48 hrs. I'll be warming up for my 'Put-In' rehearsal with the principal cast, sets, orchestra, and my costumes. Til then...

Today I'll spend a few hours with Jonny B. (a g-dsend) and possibly Bart and Adam continuing the work we did yesterday on deepening and layering Il Mondo, Passegiata, and Love to Me. Il Mondo is an intense piece (so intense that really into it yesterday I nearly fell into the trap as it was opening up in the middle of the song--not good).

But scarily enough, rehearsal today will be pretty light. Tomorrow is a full run with the understudies and then Friday we go! I'm taking off from watching the show from now on so as to give myself a few nights of getting to bed early and also to keep my head clear of what other actors are doing with choices, rhythms, and so forth. Wow! I'm getting butterflies just thinking about it.

I feel like I've started to find Fabrizio and the rest will just have to come on stage in front of an audience. There's not enough rehearsal time to really work things until they're completely in my body to give me the mental freedom to simply 'be' up there by Friday night. But that's ok. I will do my best between now and then to try and really solidify the foundation we've built so I can jump off the diving board Friday night and have fun--explore in the moment and see what happens. That's all i can do.

So it's off this morning to buy some last minute things i need for my dressing room, rent a few more Italian movies, and then get to the theater by 1pm to work with stage management and crew on the 'flying HAT' bit at the beginning of the show. (Clara's hat flies off and I catch it and give it back to her...there's a bit of stage craft that allows the hat to 'fly'--a nearly invisible string that once i catch the hat i'm responsible for undoing...shhhh! don't tell anyone :)

Onward!