Oh to be dressed!

Sorry it has been so many days before I have written, like I said it has been a very long week of tech. We have had 10 hr days since we got here last thursday.

But, Lots of things have gone on. There was the first day we had to put our costumes on and see what problems we were going to face changing from scene to scene. Now in almost every scene we are either in a different place or different year, or some kind of different person, so in every scene we have a different costume on. Now since this is an operetta, we don't stop the music or the singing, so that means people sometimes only have one line of a song to fully change clothes, and I mean everything, down to socks and shoes and all. There are a couple poor cats who only have a black out to change clothes, which is the one scene ends, there's a blackout on stage to change the set, and then the lights are up on a new scene, and they have to be on, so those people have to under dress, which is putting on there next scene's costume on under there previous.( and there are some who under dress 3 and 4 costumes at a time.)

I however am not so unlucky. In fact I have I only one change that I come right off, and have to go right on for the next scene, but the costume i have to put on is just overalls and a tangtop, and a miners helmet.

What's really cool is the only time we're in our dressing rooms are before the show and after the show. We get into our under garments get into robes and then go on stage where the gondolas of our costumes are, and then we just leave it all there, and go back. It's pretty sweet actually. Now something in the profesional world of theater I didn't know was that we have dressers at each city. Local people who come in specifically to just dress us backstage. It's a job they get payed for, but I found that it's customary to tip if they are good, and if you have a long run at that theater with the same dresser. It works kind of like a waiter, you tip to the service. Well that was news to me!

What's real fun is there are so many styles of costumes we could do many shows, Guys and Dolls, Newsies, Titanic, and certain scenes from A League of Their Own.