Secret Garden Musical

Day two of the technical rehearsal is underway – without most of the costumes! Some brave soul has just driven through the snow from Bournemouth with a car load of costumes, but others are stuck in delivery depots and nobody seems to know where or indeed when they might reach us. Thursday’s opening is approaching fast so Jackie, our wonderful Costume Supervisor, is laying down contingency plans with her chums in the wardrobe at Scottish Opera to provide emergency costumes if the real ones don’t arrive.
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It’s the sitzprobe. “What?”, I hear you say? It’s simply the first time that the cast meet the band and sing through the show from start to finish. Having spent weeks in rehearsal with only piano accompaniment this is first time for the actors to hear the full orchestrations, especially commissioned for this Edinburgh production from Chris Walker. Read the rest of this entry

When the usual docking bay at the back of the Festival Theatre was snowed in, we had to find an alternative route backstage for the huge lorry-full of Secret Garden set and equipment. Cue a lot of snow shovelling and make-shift ramp building at the front of the theatre to form an improvised route into Stage Door! Read the rest of this entry