Frog becomes frog...

Opening! Hurray!

The opening night performance was fantastical! The audience seemed very pleased and the actors were definitely in the zone. The Frog makeup turned out looking FABULOUS. We spray both his feet and his hair with green makeup so that he matches his green leather jacket and pants and whatnot. I must say that when spraying his hair green every night I appreciate the fact that I learned how to do it spraying my own hair weird colors in middle school and high school, otherwise I would probably screw it up.

All in all I would say it was a very smooth, high spirited opening, and I am super excited to continue with the run, because the way the show changes just slightly each night, is what makes the whole experience fun, even if it doesn't go as well as you had hoped. Now all that's left to do is sit back and enjoy the quirks of live entertainment, and of course watch Superfrog save Tokyo.

Alycia

Alycia Marucci, a frog?

Hello again everyone!

Another week down, and I am happy to report that we have made great progress since I last posted. This week has been subject to run-thru's and long work lists of very specific moments. Its working out very well though, the scene between Sayoko and Junpei in college changed a lot this week, and now the moments in that scene are clearer than ever.

I got to play Frog this week! Well, sort of. Mike was not in rehearsal on Monday, so we worked around most of the Frog and Narrator moments, but we had to work a couple of transitions with music, so it was necessary to know the specific timing of the onstage frog to narrator quick change, which means of course that I was asked to put on an overly large mens green jacket, white gloves and the narrator hat. It was pretty hilarious I think, the jacket pretty much swallowed me. I also always feel badly when I have to stand in during scenes, because usually all of the actors are forced to adjust to the fact that I am much shorter than their usual scene partner. If I could I would remedy the situation by wearing super awesome platform shoes, or boots or something, but alas, I am not equipped with such luxuries.

We have the weekend off of rehearsal for the fourth of July, so we will be 4 days away from the show after Wednesday night's run-thru. Usually something falls apart when you take that many days off from a show, so we will see what happens. I am hoping though, that enough has solidified in the last couple of days, and we worked moments specifically enough so that everyone will be able to fall back into it when we come back from the break...and before we know it we will be in tech! I love tech, its my favorite part of the rehearsal process because it moves both the fastest and slowest of all the rehearsals throughout the whole production process. More to come next week!

Alycia

Alycia Marucci, ASM, Round 2...Fight!

Hello again everyone!

This week has been quite productive in rehearsal. We managed to work on a lot of the dynamic between characters during scenes as well as add in music to some of the transitions. It is definitely a challenge working with live original music, but I think that the end result will be phenomenal, it already sounds really good when the chaos of adding the new element to the play subsides. We are doing our first run through on sunday, which should be super helpful for stage management to really understand the flow of the piece, as well as the specific timing for a lot of stuff that we haven't been able to work as a whole yet.

I have taken to spending my down time in rehearsal doodling on post-its and giving them to various people. Emily's and Eliza's production books are already littered with my periwinkle 2-dimensional masterpieces. So far I have successfully animated the following:

- the character of Katagiri as a cheerleader, jumping in support of Frog in the middle of his battle with worm.
- Sayoko hiding behind her japanese fan.
- the stage management team (with a caption stating that "Stage Managers are Coo.")
- the weather outside the rehearsal room on Sunday (mother nature thought it would be quite spectacular to allow the sun to show its face only during the hours of our rehearsal, and deemed the rest of the day rainy)
- a spy. (unrelated to the text of the play, it was however a secret-spy note regarding very important prop information...)

more next week once we start doing run-throughs!

Alycia

After The Quake: Alycia Marucci

I suppose I should introduce myself since this is my first blog entry. I am Alycia, the second assistant stage manager for After the Quake. This is my first time blogging, so we will see how it goes. Ummm…

I am super excited to be working with Company One for the first time! I am having an amazing time in rehearsal, everyone who is here is fantastic, the attitude in rehearsal in incredibly low-key, and yet we still manage to focus and move forward really well.

We are a little over a week into rehearsal at this point. We finished blocking the show yesterday, and we are going to begin reworking scenes tomorrow morning. So far everything is going along smoothly, we are working with props and are partially off book so we are doing well.

We had to change rehearsal spaces because we had a morning rehearsal today, which meant we had to bring the props from our normal rehearsal space to the BCA studio in the south end. I must say I felt slightly ridiculous carrying 90’s cordless phone, an empty sprite can around in my bag all day.

I hope that was a good first blog entry! I would write more now except that my foot is falling asleep and I feel as though I should attend to the situation. More to come next week!

-Alycia