Rehearsal #2: Mouth-Sync and Photos

We started rehearsal last night with a few warm-up games, including Bipity Bipity Bop, which I hadn’t played in a long time. We warmed up to it pretty fast and soon all were having a raucous time. Mandy, who arrived a little late after dropping off the photo equipment and parking her car, said that as she was walking down the hallway to the theater it sounded like a sit-com in there, which had to be a good sign.

Then we all used a puppet and lip-synced part of a song we had brought in. That way we could practice our mouth-sync without the added burden of figuring out what to say. I did Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt. I had practiced it a few times with just my hand, but I was surprised to see how much harder it got when I also had to control the puppet’s arms. Wow, that was a whole other layer of thought that threw me off.

Everyone else’s songs were hysterical. Sure, we can all use some work on our mouth-sync, but we didn’t do have bad and picked up some useful pointers from Mandy.

Then we went over our dance vocabulary again and worked up a good sweat just in time for the photoshoot portion of the rehearsal! We needed to take shots for the program of the new cast members and then take some shots for the flyer. We dressed ourselves and the puppets up in Indian garb and got some good shots. I took a lot of pictures. I’m hunting for a good photosharing site to post them on and then I will link to them here, or embed a slideshow. Stay tuned.