It's been a long few days...

Get in - Technical Rehearsal - Dress Rehearsal - Opening Night!

• Get In - During this I mainly had to paint all the trucks a dark grey colour so they would match the stage. The trucks were originally black, which is a normal colour for a stage. Think of it like a camouflage
• Technical Rehearsal - This was almost a smooth run through! Other than when the crew and I had to mark up/out or even 'Spike' the stage; which is a process of placing pieces of coloured tape on the stage at the base of set pieces so we know where they go during scene changes. "How to spike a stage!"
• Dress Rehearsal - The dress run went very well, the only times we had to stop was when the choreographer wanted to change a couple of dance moves.
• Opening night! - The audience was great, laughing at every joke, and even booing the baddies when they came on stage. Only one slip up on our part, when we were pulling one of the trucks out from the wings during a non-blackout scene change it got caught up with the black tabs (curtains). So I was on stage for much longer than anticipated trying to untangle the blacks from a very small wheel.

There's another evening performance tonight, then matinees and evenings until Saturday night. I've been wearing jeans and a pink shirt because the director wanted us to fit in with the cast and the 60s theme during scene changes, it's a nice change from blacks.
A lesson learned today:
Always check the colour of the stage floor before building the scenery onto your trucks, you might be in for a surprise.