Day Eight

Bellies and shoes.

As predicted, I have to gush a little bit.  Every day we add a few more pages to our workload, and every day the world of the show grows.  I'd make a gestational joke, but I'm too serious about how exciting it is to watch.  We're getting little tastes of costumes here and there - today a few pairs of shoes and a whole bunch of pregnant bellies (from all trimesters) were dropped off to use in rehearsal.

It was so nice to get to some humor after the thrillingly intense few days at the start.  Being Pregnancy Pact, of course, a lot the humor comes in the form of sexuality and boy is it sexual.  Through both of the scenes we blocked today, we just sat there thinking of what the room will be like at those two student matinees.  I am so sad not to be able to sit in the theater and experience the show in a room full of teenagers.  I'll have to ask someone else to write a guest blog post that day to let everyone know what it's like.  In the meantime, I'll just keep laughing at all the ways Joe and actors take what I already thought was pretty funny on the page and make it genuinely hilarious on stage.

After rehearsal we went with the whole cast to see the Playhouse's current production of Fiddler on the Roof and the late-night cabaret with members of the cast.  The show was great, headlined by David Brummel and Joanna Glushak.  (And I can always count on Chava to give me a good cry.)  The highlight of the show has always been and will always be "Do You Love Me?" - it is such a wonderfully simple and unexpected moment from those two characters - and the two of them were especially great in that song.  It was great to finally get to see a show in the theater and visualize what we see in the rehearsal room on the stage.  And the cabaret was truly hilarious.  It was about last year's flood after Irene and took some amazing songs (everything from Queen to Showboat to Destiny's Child) and rewrote some lyrics and made everyone laugh their faces off (myself included.)  The Avengers made an appearance, as did the Queen, and even the infamous cow costume that was rescued from the flood last year.  It was a hilarious and joyous way to look at just how far this theater and town have come in less than a year!