The Hump

From Rachel:  It's hard.  That point in the process when you know all your lines and don't run into the furniture.... and you have to push yourself over the line so that it isn't just "this is what I say and where I walk."   'Cause you do it correctly enough times and it can feel like it is done.  And it isn't.  Even more so with a piece like this.  It isn't enough to know the choreography and execute it.  Timing, precision, story.  The success of the show is in the crafting, moment to moment, and then selling it big and wide to everyone -- even those outside the theatre on the street.  I know we can all do it.  We took a good step forward tonight.  And that is why it was the perfect nite for Ice Cream Sandwiches.  But don't let that artificial vanilla goodness satiate you.  We have to keep at it.  Cause in the end, it is the detail and the specificity and the grandness of it all that separates a show from a spectacular.  And we are nothing if not (a) spectacular. 

(I think this was a rallying pep talk via blog post. The ice cream made me do it.)