Last Two Performances

Hey guys as you know the last two performances of the winter Small Ensemble were Monday and I'm sorry it took me a while to get them up here. Well I have to say these two were the worst two. Everybody seemed rusty from the weekend, it was sloppy work. Encore seemed to be out of character, jazz band was off beat, dance was way off, and Vocal Ensemble was hitting some foul notes. That was just the first performance of the day (and last of the elementary school) During the Ligon show we were running tight on time. The show takes about an hour and 20 minutes to run through and we only had a little less than an hour. So the Vocal Ensemble girls were nice enough to drop one of their 4 songs, and we tried spending less time in scene changes. Orchestra took way to long for their part and the stagehand techies were hardly doing anything, except for Michael sometimes. All in all we finished with about 2 minutes to spare and everything worked out somewhat fine. But the most unfortunate thing that happened during that second show was that to save time we cut the finale and went strait to the principal telling the students where to go. The bad part is that during the finale the 7th grade actors throw "snow" (paper confetti) from the grid or catwalk above the auditorium when everybody is taking their bows. Nobody told them that we cut that part out so while our principal was actually shouting through a mic at the students they dropped the confetti, which made the kids more excited and the principal more angry. You have to give it to the 7th grade thespians, they are stupid.