Day 3.

Show number 3: Dec 4th, Sunday - 3pm matinee.

call time today was at 12.30pm. i woke up at about 10.30 am. i had brunch and i was good to go. met up with Calvyn at his place at 11.40am and he drove. picked Roshan up afterwards and we were on our way. Colin didn't join the car-pool today.

we arrived at KLPAc by 12.15pm ish. then all us started up with personal warm-ups just as we did yesterday. after a while, we all got together and did some exercises together.

for those of you not in the know ... the group warm-up sessions serves as a good indicator to how well the actors are in *tune with each other (the more in tune with each other we are - chances are - the better the performance). however, for some reason, the group exercises weren't played as well as normal and the whole *energy / feel was kinda iffy. Joe immediately spotted this and after allowing us some time to attempt a *retuning - Joe headed up an exercise for all of us to follow. after which, things still felt a little *off but we were a bit more centered as a group after doing Joe's exercises methinks.

then all of us sat down to get last nights notes. in a nutshell, Joe told us that he believed last night's performance to be one of our best ever. see, our last Full Dress Rehearsal we had last Thursday night was a very good performance ... everything worked, from the actors to the lighting and the sound cues. so the Thursday night Full Dress was our bench mark to beat. and last night we beat it. as i said in the last entry, i felt good about that performance and i was absolutely right to think so.

so, the challenge all of us faced today ... was to repeat the same standard or do even better! talk about pressure man ...

personally speaking, i thought i did well today as well. although, just as our warm-ups ... the energy / feel felt iffy. it felt "up & down" to me - but fortunately - possibly more ups than downs lah.

and i noticed that not many people came today. i heard that it was a small audience (less than 120 people) as opposed to opening night (350 odd ++), 2nd night (i believe was close to 200, perhaps more) ...

although, at the end of it, before leaving, Joe said that he thought we did well today ... but he didn't elaborate further.

tomorrow, there is no show slated. we get the day off. and we begin again on Tuesday and continue every night till Saturday and one more matinee on Sunday. so, i guess i'll have to wait till Tuesday to hear Joe's notes about today's performance.

a bit of good news is that Tuesday night and next Sunday's matinee show is sold out already! cool...

ok lah - that's it for now. later.

the commonjack.