This has been a CRAZY weekend, burly-wise. Ever have a show that just sneaked up behind you and bonked you on the head? It wasn't until halfway through the week that it sank in that I have a show on the 13th, and I'm nowhere near finished with my costuming, nor do I have my final choreography set. Normally, I'm done waaaay ahead of time, but that pesky day job is sucking my will to get anything done. ::sigh::
And so, I finally sat down Thursday night and sewed and glued until my poor shoulders and neck were stiff. Managed to get a few more touches done today at practice (more on that later), and still have a pair of shimmy panties to finish tomorrow after day-job time. On the drive from rehearsal on Friday, I listened to my music over and over until I had the choreography set in my brain, then walked through it at home and again at today's rehearsal. Still need to practice with ALL of my costume elements, now that the costume for that number is finished.
So, costume-wise, I have my solo costume finished, my duet costume finished, and my group costume almost finished. And I realized today that I will be changing into three separate pairs of pasties through the course of the show. Ouch!
Here's a quick rundown of our weekend pimping our show with Super Happy Funtime on the 13th (at Juanita's! on the River Market! Come see us!):
Friday: Rehearsal for our new group number!
Saturday: Spent the entire late morning into the afternoon running burlesque errands (i.e., shopping for supplies to finish costuming) and visiting the venue to discuss setting up dressing areas and seeing the overall stage size. Then, made ourselves all sparkly and headed to LittleRocktoberfest (free beer!) to serve root beer floats and hand out handbills for the show all night. We were pretty wiped out by the end of the day.
Sunday: Slept in a bit, then off to more rehearsal! To make it easier and more efficient, decided not to make it a dress rehearsal. Afterwards, spent an hour getting interviewed about burlesque on the Pow Wow with Amy Pannell show.
We're taking the day off tomorrow from rehearsing, but I'll still be costuming! Then we're rehearsing every night until show. Never let it be said that burlesque is not a major investment, both time-wise and money-wise. Oh, and I still have to go to that pesky day job.
Exhausted burly girl signing off for the night.
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