Lindbergh’s Rehearsal Log

Day: 12
Weather: A little overcast in the evening, but a beautiful sunny day again!
Hours of rehearsal: 84
Days until first preview: 19

*Note: Today marks the end of our second week of rehearsal. We’ve learned all the music, done table work, staged individual scenes, had costume fittings, seen design presentations on the set and visited the theatre. But today for the first time we started staging the parts of the show with the entire company. This show presents a particular challenge in that it is the melding of three separate stories with their own specific styles. To allow for the styles to develop without bleeding into the other two, we have been rehearsing our “arcs” separately. For example, the Wright brothers will meet in the morning for a few hours to work with the director while in another room Amelia Earhart is rehearsing music and in yet another room the Lindbergh arc is working on choreography. Then we all switch splitting our time with the music director, director and choreographer. So we were definitely excited about being all together today and it was great to have the energy of everyone in the show bouncing off each other.

*Note: During lunch some of the cast played frisbee on the lawn while others lounged and chatted. Princeton is beautiful!

Posted by Claybourne Elder, who plays Charles Lindbergh in McCarter Theatre’s Production of Take Flight.

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