Rehearsals

And we're off!

With only three weeks and 1 day (which translates into 17 ish) days of rehearsal before I'm slated to go on as Fabrizio, there's no time to waste.

I showed up at the LCT Beaumont stage door and received my building pass, headed downstairs and met our stage manager Thom! What a great guy. After talking a bit and going through some paperwork, Thom handed me a tentative rehearsal schedule, introduced me to his team and showed me around.

Basically the first week of rehearsal was going to proceed as such: lots of watching the show, a few rehearsals on stage walking through Fabrizio's blocking (staging), some time with Laura the show's Dance Captain and u/s for Clara/Franca, some time with Ted to work on music, and a session or two with the show's dialect coach Ralph.

In the meantime i was off to the library. I wanted to try to learn to speak as much Italian as possible. I checked out some Italian movies and Pimsleur's audio CD's on Beginner Italian that I threw on my iPod.

I also went to Barnes and Noble and bought some books on Florence, some Italian work books, and the short story of The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer.