First Performance

Encore
The first performance of "Laugh In" was today and my personal opinion is: it sucked. The actors were pretty good I'm not exactly sure how many times they messed up but we had a LOT of technical difficulties. First off the 6th graders on spot lights never actually "hit" their target, Brenna did a pretty good job on the light board only messing up maybe 1nce or 2ce. The sound however had maybe close to the most problems. The worst though was in the beginning of the 2nd act, Kagwe came out to do his bit and he was wearing a mic. Mic 6. Nobody told me (Jake) that he was wearing a mic that was almost all the way up on the board. When he said the first line feedback echoed all around the auditorium. I (Jake) quickly fixed the problem. Other setbacks would be that a giant flat that was the Joke Wall was broken today while moving it on stage for the first time. Also nobody in the booth or backstage could hear during the performance. All of us in the booth were winging it at act 2. With help from Mr. Martz (who was on the stagemanager mic) gave us most directions. Unfortunatly I would have to give the overall performance a 5/10. Altough the actors did a decent job (minus a couple pregnant pauses and nervousness) the technical portion of the play definatly dragged the score from a possible 8/10 to 5/10. Hopefully we can master the cues and technical problems before the next show. (tommorow at 7:00)