SQUEAL.....

We started tech for the awesome project, which means we finally moved rehearsals into the theatre.

It's gorgeous.  It's enormous.  The freaking prop bookcases are about 22 feet tall.  REALLY.  It's a huge, beautiful, glamorous, awesome, stunning, amazing theatre.  1800 people can sit and watch a show at one time, and the decor is red and gold and fanciful and overwhelming.  The ceiling is dark blue with starry detail.  Backstage is full of people who know exactly how to use this space to its fullest.

Everyone has a mic.  All 35 of us.  Everyone has a wig.  Everyone has a sheaf of detailed and beautifully made costumes.   The set piece for the fountain has a hawk carved out of foam board - the crew named it "Stubby".  The pit will have a 19 piece orchestra.

This is an enormous undertaking.  I guarantee this is exactly what teching a Broadway show is like, only everyone on this crew is of the absolute highest quality without being even vaguely diva-like.  (Which is probably true in some Broadway houses for some Broadway shows, but I wouldn't guarantee it.)

I have become a cog in this machine.  And I love it.  It's magic time, y'all.