Wednesday was not bad for an opening night but it threw up a few details which needed to be ironed out. The problem with the Playhouse shows is that the actors are afforded very little time in the theatre. They come in for the tech on Monday (but this is really for the backstage crew and the actors do not get to perform any scenes - they just walk the stage), go straight into the dress on Tuesday and open on Wednesday.
Effectively you end up putting on a show with no real rehearsal time in the performance space.
A quiet matinée on Thursday - it's not really a grannee/kiddee play - afforded us the opportunity to smooth the creases (we were delighted that a girl appeared to have come all the way from America to see the show) and we had a happy show in the evening with an unusually large Thursday night crowd. This was good as we had quite a few parents of the cast there.
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