Crunch time

You forget when you're working on a new work that, sure, the first part might be all fun just reading new scripts and working on music at your leisure, but there comes a point when you've gotta get stuff done and you hardly have any time in which to do so. I think Guarding Gold Street has hit its crunch time.

Guarding Gold Street is the musical we're doing this fall, a new work by Sean Michael Flowers and Marya Spring Cordes. The students of Auburn who have been working on this show are using these five weeks that we have to workshop and explore. Mostly we're just there working to help Sean figure out how he really wants the show to be. But it's safe to say that while it will always be play, the work aspect has just hit us. Mostly off book by Monday and Tuesday. Completely off book by Friday. Yikes!

But honestly, I'm not sure any of us would really want it any other way. What else would we be doing with our weekend anyway? (Oh wait, there's a football game on Saturday...?)

Either way, it's wonderful to be part of such a collaborative effort. The first time I did a new show, A Beautiful End, I was a freshman and I wasn't on stage a lot, so I'm not sure I fully appreciated what we were doing for Christian or how collaborative of an effort it really was. This time around, so much about the approach is the same, but it feels entirely different. Maybe it's my added age or the nature of the show or the fact that it's a smaller, ensemble cast. I don't know. Whatever it is, though, I know it's going to be an incredible experience. Probably the most important thing I've ever worked on. And if I've already said that on this blog, I apologize, but it couldn't be a more accurate statement to how I'm feeling right now.