Notes for Sunday September 20

Hi everyone!

Great rehearsal this Sunday! It is exciting to see and hear parts of the show starting to come to life! Here's the plan for this Sunday (it's a busy one):

Schedule

1:15   Men's Sectional/Hag Auditions
1:45   Women Arrive & Warm up
2:00   SATB Music
3:15   Break - Queen Auditions
3:30   AGM
4:00   SSAA Music
5:00   Blocking 

Note that it will be men only from 1:15-2:00pm working on music with Christina. Claire will hold auditions for the hags (see notes below) from 1:15-1:45pm in either the gym or Sunday School room. Anyone who is not interested in auditioning for the hags should arrive at 1:45pm for the Xara-only warmup which will take place in the gym/Sunday School room.

Auditions

QUEEN - See Erin's notes: re what to prepare for this audition.

HAGS - These will be movement/text auditions. You can audition for one, or all three. The three hags are as follows to give you a sense of the characters of each:

Mara, the Sleep Hag - Crone/demon. She's the ugly scary one. Slumber and nightmares.

Sits on the chest of sleepers and strangles them with her long fingers or ropes.

Cailleach Bheur, the Weather Hag: Symbolizes winter harvest, destructive winter wind, and winter storms. Strong and powerful. Giant.

Babd, the Battle Hag: Can transform into crow but appears as a warrior woman. Strong. Female. Most beautiful of the three. Madame Death. "Phantom Queen" "A monster in female form" "Spectre"

Banshee-like battle cries which foresee the future of a battle or to tell who dies. Battle helper/brings confusion.

Claire will ask you to do a short movement improvisation for the role of Mara. She will provide a text to work with for the role of Cailleach Bheur, and a movement improvisation & text selection for the role of Babd.

Note: If you are unable to be present at rehearsal this Sunday to audition, but are interested in either the Queen or one of the hags, please let us know via email. We can arrange additional auditions before or after XYE rehearsal on Tuesday, Sept 22 as needed (location: Bethany United Church).

Memorization Schedule

We have had a little mix-up in the memorization schedule in terms of what was posted online VS what was said in rehearsal - our apologies! As per what Christina requested in rehearsal on Sunday, Mountain Nights & I See You need to be memorized for Sunday (not Tundra as stated on the blog). The memorization schedule blog post has been updated to reflect this change.