18 November 2019 South Pole: Pause

South Pole: Pause

I’m taking a break from South Pole prep to get ready for our last national Jargie the Science Girl! show of 2019! I’m so happy the dates for the South Pole matched up perfectly with our touring schedule. I’ll be traveling perfectly sandwiched between two big performances. Serendipity, indeed.

This week we are performing at the Ebell Theatre in Santa Ana for nearly 700 young scientists. I am bringing my Extreme Cold Weather Gear, of course, to show it off in the lobby and maybe even on the stage! (We are mapping out placement of the gear during today’s rehearsal).

If you’re curious how we prep for showtime, here are the type of rehearsals we are having leading up to the show on Thursday:

Script review- to make sure any text needs to be updated/improved; to assure I’m completely memorized for the scripted parts and comfortable for the improv parts
Cue-to-cue: Our stage manager will join us for this rehearsal, where we go from tech cue-to-tech cue to make sure my timing is on point and all of our tech is programmed properly. Tech cues in this show include lighting changes, sound effects, and projections.
Dry runs: A dry-run is a full run of the show without any of the messy experiments. When we get to the messy parts, I just mime them. The goal of this rehearsal is to make sure our pacing is consistent throughout and that I know how to move all of our props during the show. We have so many! Our list currently has over 100!
Timed-wet run: This is a full run through, as if we had an audience. We time this rehearsal to make sure our show is not running too slow or too fast...it needs to be JUST right.
Load-in: This is our time in the actual theatre. We will set up the props on the stage and run all of our tech cues to make sure they look good. Last rehearsal before the show!

I’ll let you know how it all goes!

Talk soon, friends. Jocelyn