I was just reading a few other threads and the thought came to me. I don't think the director I work with EVER allows a "Tech rehersal" We just end up moveing things around the actors and never truly get that time to learn what goes where and when. Any ideas on how I might go about advising her to give us one?

Normailly, the cast takes the stage after we've completed the set building, with about 2 weeks before the show (this is high school nad that amounts to 5 TOTAL rehersals...inlcuding FULL dress the night before) and the crew moves things around when I tell them to. I always feel like I am interupting HER rehersal time when we need to change the scene. We just finished a show where she would call "okay go on to the next scene" with out allowing the crew the time to change the scene....and I was told " Just move it around the actors" when I said, can you give us time to move the set before you go on?Doesn't that defeat the purpose of things??? Cast learning to move around the crew while they change the set??? Just curious what others think and do....

Aimee

When you have complex set changes, the only way to make them quick and accurate is to rehearse them just like you rehearse any other element of the show. If the cast is not directly invovled in the scene changes then these rehearals can be done at another time.

Dan

Ask her to imagine this scenario.

She gets a call today; she's being invited to play Lady Macbeth on Broadway.  She needs to report to the theatre Saturday morning.

So she shows up at the Helen Hayes theatre bright and early Saturday, and is told that the show opens Friday.  There will be a couple of hours rehearsal each night, but the crew will still be building the set, so she'll have to work around them.  The director will be busy with other things, but he's sure she'll do fine; she's acted before, hasn't she?  Oh, and there's some scripts at the New York Public Library, probably.  Her fellow actors will be in and out, so she'll probably meet most of them before opening night.

What's that?  She doesn't think she could give a good performance under those conditions?

Well, NEITHER CAN YOUR CREW, doggone it!

It's amazing what we expect crews to do with one or two rehearsals dedicated to them.  It's sadistic and irrational to expect them to do it with none.

no tech? are you kidding? ask her how she would like to do the show with no set at all? if she wants scene changes then she need to give the crew time to work them out. I would do everything you can to get her to see your side, Like POB said she would not Act in a show under those conditions. This goes back to the idea of tech folks being 2nd fiddle. This lady need a dose of reality. Sorry to rant, I hate to see my fellow techies treated this way!!! If you don't nip this kind of thinking in the bud you will have nothing but misery. I hope it all works out for you. We should start a club: TUABHD    Techies united against bone headed directors..

I'm not sure we could find a roon large enuff to hold everyone would would want to join!