Dancing in the 4th Act: August 2014

Monday, August 25, 2014

The Party's Over...for now

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The curtain came down on FODAR 2014 this afternoon after a glorious 4 day run. DITTA's cast marched across St. George St., ( a la Beatles on Abbey Road) through King's stage door and onto the stage for the Festival's final performance. It was exhausting and exhilarating; a privilege to perform on the same program as Mocean Dance and JD Dance. After we've all had some sleep and several hot baths I'm sure we'd do it all again.... can you hear Randy's groans???

Nat has a little snooze 'n snore prior to our places call.

Wayne and an adoring fan: daughter Emily

And then it was time for the cast party at Angels Adrian & Sally's home, conveniently located within sight of the theatre. It was also time to say so long to JD Dance, and their fantastic collection of vintage dresses!

Jesse & Jordana: JD Dance

Andrea, videographer and Arts Unleashed coordinator

Zak has a heart-felt moment

Judy and Adrian

Thanks to Sally & Adrian for being the hostess' (hosti?) with the mostest (mosti?)

Happy hour for Sally and George

Jerri and Pauline share a laugh

Teens = pizza = happiness

Just foolin' around....

Xtra big thanks to our technical crew, Doug Cox & Dillon Tonkin, for making us look and sound so good!

And so it's on to Montreal on September 12. Randy will squeeze in a few more rehearsals before we leave to open the Quartiers Danses Festival.

To Chief Angel Randy: It's been quite a ride! Thanks for making us soar!

xxx

The Company of Angels

Saturday, August 23, 2014

2nd night: nailed it!

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It was a long day, with a 2:30 pm call for Dancing in the Third Act dress, a break, and places call sometime after 8:30 pm. Before we did the dress rehearsal, we got to watch Jordana and Jesse's dress for an Army of Barbie and A Mark. For Barbie, the stage was covered with an army of beautiful vintage dresses that they zipped in/out of, while dancing! Also featured were enormous boobs, white disco boots, blonde wigs, and super-sized lipsticks. A Mark was more about dance than story, the two women fluidly partnering each other. Every time they touched their hands left a black print on their white tank tops and skin. Bring on the Tide!

While we waited for our call at the old Post Office, some of us texted (Wayne), some of us played cards (John and Adrian), some of us put on make-up (Pamela and Melissa), some of us read (George), and some of us snoozed (Nat).

Texting

Carding

Reading

Make-up-ing

Snoozing


Sally has angel hair!

We trooped across to the STAGE DOOR and after a couple of tweaks from Randy, we even had time for a group back rub!

BTW, the show was magic!

Friday, August 22, 2014

Another opening, another show, another standing O!

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Opening night! We arrived at 2 pm for a Teen Angel dress, then got to watch Mocean's dress for the elegant Canvas 5 x 5. Because there are 19 in the Teen Angel cast, we used the old Post Office building across the street from the theatre as dressing and green room.

Pam had carefully instructed us to enter the theatre through the stage door, by the boardwalk, not through the lobby door, where the audience was coming in. When the places call came, the ever-attentive teens made a bee-line for the lobby! Pam let fly a $%#%$%! as the ever-obedient seniors trooped to the stage door.

What is it about 'stage door' you didn't understand?

What a difference an audience makes! We even wow-ed ourselves! The audience laughed, clapped, a few got teary eyed, and in the end they gave us a standing ovation. Then it was over In the blink of an eye....until Saturday....

Wayne, Terry, and Pauline outside the old Post Office

Waiting for the call to places

Leyla does Pauline's eyes

The teens were well supplied with eye-liner, lip gloss, mascara, eye shadow, and blush. The seniors had some make-up too, but most of it was 25 years old!

Leyla, Melanie, Diana


Guys in make-up

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Several of the senior angels are early morning tai-chi-ers on the wharf. Because Pauline and grand daughter Diana were doing a radio interview with CBC One at 8:10 am, Nat brought the Beetle to the wharf, and turned up the radio so we could listen! They gave a wonderful interview on Teen Angel and Diana managed to name all three businesses she has summer jobs with!