Info for Sun Sept 15

Hi everyone!

Thank you all SO much for such an excellent retreat weekend. We made tons of progress on Constellations, and had a lot of fun while doing so! :) Thank you for your positive energy, hard work, focus, and enthusiasm! We are off to a great start!!

Thank you to Erin for posting lots of detailed information about the retreat weekend. Make sure to check out her posts on the blog for homework, seating order, and other important details.

Reminder that if you missed any part of the retreat weekend, it is your responsibility to meet with someone in your section to go over all musical and blocking notes to get caught up for Sunday's rehearsal.

We wanted to let you know the By-Call Schedule for the next month. This refers to what will be happening in the first hour and fifteen minutes of each rehearsal (1:15-2:30 pm). Full company rehearsal starts at 2:30 pm sharp, so please be a few minutes early.

Sept 15

• 1:15-2:00 pm   Soprano Sectional
• 2:00-2:25 pm   Auditions: Magnificat (music solo), Andromeda + Cassiopeia (movement + speaking role solos, see details below)

Sept 22

• 1:15-2:00 pm   Alto Sectional
• 2:00-2:25 pm   Auditions: Muses (speaking roles)

Sept 29

• 1:15-2:25 pm   Text workshop - all As (S1a, S2a, A1a, A2a)

Oct 5 OR 6 (see Facebook poll, time to be confirmed based on results of poll)

• 1:15-2:25 pm OR 5:30-6:30 pm   Text workshop - all Bs (S1b, S2b, A1b, A2b)

This Sunday:

Auditions: We will be auditioning for the Magnificat solo this week. If you're interested, please have a look over the music, and listen to the recording of us performing the piece that is posted on our Facebook page. 

We will also be auditioning for the Cassiopeia and Andromeda solos this week. Both of these characters will have very little text, but each role will be very character-driven, involving movement and embodying the character. Andromeda's role will have more dynamic and vigorous movement compared to Cassiopeia's. Here are the preliminary character descriptions for the two roles (also found on your list of characters attached to the Constellations synopsis):

Cassiopeia - The vain Queen. She is beautiful, self-involved, and craves the center of attention.

Andromeda - Cassiopeia’s daughter. Kind, beautiful, with a determined spirit.

For the audition, Claire will give everyone a few basic movement and character activities and we'll do them all together so she can get a sense of who might be a good fit.

To help you prepare for rehearsal this week, here are the pieces we'll be spending some time on: I Himmelan (Swedish text and movement), Ave Maria (music and movement), Warrior (memorized), Revontulet, and Vepsian Pathways. You haven't received a score for Vepsian Pathways yet, but it is now uploaded to Soundcloud, so please listen to it and familiarize yourself with the piece. We will also take the last half hour to look at the music for the Radio Radio collaboration.

Last thing: We will also be doing the contract signing as well this Sunday, so please bring your handbooks with you to rehearsal and we'll sign them all as a group!

Thanks everyone!!! We can't wait for an awesome rehearsal on Sunday!!!