Unraveled Dress Rehearsal!

Hi everyone,

We wanted to fill you in with some details for the dress rehearsal! Rehearsal is at 6:30 pm at St. Matthew's. We will be starting at 6:30 so you must arrive a few minutes early so we are ready to go. We should be finished by 10 pm. The photographer will be there to shoot the dress rehearsal so be prepared to ignore him and give it your all!!

Things to Bring:

• your Xara dress
• your Xara shoes (gym slippers or black flats with no heel)
• black leggings
• your black Xara belt
• your Pull shawl and gloves
• Claire/Camila/Kristin: Pull dancer costume - skirt, shirt, dance shorts 
• your Reverberations costume including shoes
• hair elastics/bobby pins/product
• stage makeup 
• tuning fork (if applicable, Christina will also bring some)
• snacks and water for yourself
• music and scripts

Costumes:

Wanting Memories

• short Xara dress
• leggings
• Xara shoes
• hair down but off the face

Pull

• long Xara dress
• Xara shoes
• shawl
• gloves
• hair up 

Reverberations

• individual costume
• shoes
• hair as appropriate to your character, but off your face

Makeup:

• the look for all three pieces is fairly neutral, but we need to see your beautiful features
• foundation/concealer
• blush
• eyeliner/mascara
• lip colour (fairly neutral)

Notes for Sunday - at St Matt's!!!!!

Hi everyone!

Just a few quick notes about this Sunday's rehearsal. Both of us will be passing on our artistic notes from last Sunday's run later today.

• This Sunday we will be rehearsing at St. Matthew's United Church (our performance venue). The address is 1479 Barrington St. Rehearsal will go the usual time (1:15-4-45 pm). This will be an amazing opportunity to get used to the space and feel more comfortable with singing and moving on that stage!
• Enter the church from the side door. Go down the steps and there will be someone waiting at the door to let you in.
• This Sunday, you must not be holding scripts for any part of rehearsal. We need to be off book, so please check all your questionable lines and notes to make sure you are feeling really solid.
• Please bring all costumes for rehearsal this weekend. This includes shoes especially (Xara shoes for Wanting Memories and Pull, character appropriate shoes for Reverberations), as we need to hear if shoes will make too much noise on that floor for Reverberations. 

Further artistic notes soon! WE'RE ONE WEEK AWAY!!!!

xox

Two Weeks Away!!!

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for your dedicated and focused rehearsal energy on Sunday. We had to rehearse lots of little finicky bits, which isn't always the most fun, but ultimately it will make the show seamless! So thank you for always being so professional!!!

• Rehearsal this Sunday: We will first be rehearsing Pull & Wanting Memories, and switch gears to Reverberations for the last half of rehearsal. Please bring ALL costume pieces for both Pull and Reveberations (excluding your Xara dresses). We need to see EVERYTHING this week so we can get a sense of how it all looks together, and if we need to make any changes. If you're still missing a piece of clothing, now is the time to ask your friends and look around to complete your costume.
• All your music, lines, and blocking for Wanting Memories must be memorized this week. Please especially review the "so, yes, and" bits of the song Wanting Memories as they are still messy.
• SELL SELL SELL! Get those posters up and sell those tickets! Tenille will be at rehearsal this Sunday with more tickets if you need them.  We all know how special this show is, so make sure to get the word out in every way that you can so we can share it with others!

That's it!!! From here on in, it's up to all of us to work together to make this show magical. That goes for everything from preparing your music/lines at home, to having focused energy in rehearsals, to selling tickets and spreading the word about the show! Let's do this team!!!!!!!!!

Unraveled Notes for Sunday Jan 13

Hi everyone!

We wanted to give you a few reminders before rehearsal this Sunday... But first, thank you all so much for your hard work at the Power Weekend!!!! All three of the pieces have come a long way thanks to your dedication, energy, and commitment. So now we need to KEEP IT UP!!! Continue practicing your music, lines, and blocking throughout the week to keep it fresh and continually moving forward. We have three rehearsals left before the dress rehearsal so we don't want to move backward at all. Make sure to check in with any spots that felt shaky to you on Sunday.

If you missed rehearsal this weekend, it is your responsibility to get any blocking or music notes. Please make sure to check in with someone from your section.

A few other notes:

• Tonight is the fundraising night at the Bus Stop Theatre! Make sure to invite all your friends to come out to this awesome night. Thanks so much to the groups who have organized this evening!
• This Sunday will be our first rehearsal with Claire Gallant!! We are so excited that she will be with us finally! We will be running through Nada and Pen Pen with her first, just for music. Then we will start and stop and go through all the parts that have cello/piano/text etc. Remember that singing with just cello is different than singing with just piano, so be prepared to listen extra closely and be fully engaged. At 3:45 pm we'll start working on Wanting Memories and Pull.
• You'll receive tickets and posters to Unraveled this weekend, but tickets are already available for sale on our website via Paypal! Now is the time to spread the word and make sure people have this date in their calendars.
• This Sunday please bring all your costume pieces for Unraveled, including your Reverberations outfit and shawls/scarves/gloves for Pull. If you have more than one option, please bring it.
• We still need to be spreading the word to tenors and basses about Sweet & Low! Ask people you think would be interested as we need to start making a confirmed list of singers.

Thanks so much everyone! You are all amazing and we can't wait until Sunday! SEE YOU TONIGHT!

Unraveled Show Week - FIRM dates and times

We are sad to say that we learned over the holidays that we were not successful in our last-resort grant application for Unraveled. Therefore, we will not be having an intricate lighting plot but will have, simply, a lit stage and our beautiful singing and moving! Although we always like to work with lighting, the simplicity of this is not unsuited to the subject matter.

So, without lighting, we will have one fewer rehearsals during show week. Here is the FINAL and FIRM schedule! Please book off ALL of this time (and the time you need to get ready and transported) NOW!! A reminder that the rehearsal before the dress rehearsal, as well as the dress, are mandatory for being in the concert.

DRESS REHEARSAL: Wednesday, 30 January (6:30 - 10:00 PM)
SHOW: Friday, 1 February (5:30 - 10:00 PM)