Lindbergh’s Rehearsal Log: Day Ten
Posted by Claybourne Elder on April 12th, 2010Lindbergh’s Rehearsal Log
Day: 10
Weather: Sunny skies
Hours of rehearsal: 70
Days until first preview: 21
Pairs of rehearsal shoes in hall: 14
*Note: After your first costume fitting, the shop usually brings a few pieces of your costume, or ones like them, to the rehearsal hall so you can practice moving in them. As we’ve been staging the show this week, the wonderful staff here at the McCarter have been bringing in costume pieces and putting them on shelves organized by our names. We look a little strange in our period hats, shoes and jackets over our t-shirts and sweat pants, but its really helpful to learn how your costume feels before you have to spend every night in it. It’s also very helpful in character development to remember the time period that you’re working in while you’re creating the show.
*Note: The United States Army was trying to develop an airplane in 1903, but the plane wouldn’t fly. The New York Times wrote that maybe in 1 million to 10 million years they might be able to make a plane that would fly. Only eight days later two men were successful in flying the first manned plane. They were Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville. They had made a propeller-driven airplane and it had stayed in the air for 12 seconds. It was called the Wright Flyer. They made three more flights that day at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Only five people were there to see the flights. The first plane they had built was a glider that measured 16 feet from wing tip to wing tip. It cost them $15 to build it. The gasoline-powered plane they flew at Kitty Hawk cost them less than $1000 to build. They learned to love to “tinker” from their mother. She was always fixing and repairing things. The boys earned money by making home-made mechanical toys. When bicycles became popular, they opened a bicycle shop.
Posted by Claybourne Elder, who plays Charles Lindbergh in McCarter Theatre’s Production of Take Flight.
