{"id":44,"date":"2007-06-06T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-05-28T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:16:23","slug":"meanwhile-something-about-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/meanwhile-something-about-a-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, something about a show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only one who thought my new Macbook Pro was the most important thing to happen at the Reagle Players yesterday.  We have quite a few Mac users among the creative team, cast and crew, and many people were very excited to come back from dinner and see my new purchase.  I had just enough time to drive up to Burlington, buy it, swing through Burger King and get back, so I didn&#8217;t have any time to start playing with it.  In fact I didn&#8217;t even open the box until the first break.  But then much oooing and ahhhing commenced.<\/p>\n<p>I did basically one thing with it during the entire evening at the theatre, which was to set it up to use my Treo as a modem, and then download a small app to check the LCD for stuck pixels.  It&#8217;s one of my bigger fears in life to spend lots of money on some wonderful computing device and find it&#8217;s got a bad pixel that I&#8217;ll have to stare at for years to come.  I watched the white screen carefully as it booted up for the first time, looking for any signs of uneven backlighting, bad pixels, or other display problems.  I am happy to report that this machine passed the LCD test with flying colors.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, in the midst of this important event, in the background we continued trying to put on a show.  Last night we did a work-through of Act I, which was very exciting.  It wasn&#8217;t quite a run, but moved fairly quickly.  We were also able to have rehearsal on stage, which was very helpful for everyone.  It&#8217;s definitely starting to look like a show, and it was the first time that the ensemble got to see a lot of the principals&#8217; scenes and musical numbers, so it was kind of like having a real audience.  &#8220;Good Mornin'&#8221; brought the house down.<\/p>\n<p>As <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Singin&#8217; in the Rain<\/span> comes closer to completion, I was also greeted by this sight as I pulled into the parking lot before rehearsal:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_N56tAfvyxqM\/RmbdY51q9xI\/AAAAAAAAADw\/dE2UY4PFBqk\/s1600-h\/kingandi.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_N56tAfvyxqM\/RmbdY51q9xI\/AAAAAAAAADw\/dE2UY4PFBqk\/s400\/kingandi.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072985450191976210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The set of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">King and I<\/span> under construction and being painted by the talented Matt and Jamie.  A lot of Reagle&#8217;s sets are rented, or purchased from other renters, but this one is being built and stored in the back warehouse.  A lot of it was already constructed when I arrived for the summer, and this week they have started painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only one who thought my new Macbook Pro was the most important thing to happen at the Reagle Players yesterday. We have quite a few Mac users among the creative team, cast and crew, and many people were very excited to come back from dinner and see my new purchase. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,6],"tags":[26,19,135,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}