Unit 2 tech run

 On Friday the 6th of december we did a full que to que with a band run as well. This year we didn't get as much rehearsal with the band as we wanted due to the difficulty of the score and the high intensity of dance and scenes in this show. Myself and the actors for Callahan and Emmett did luckily have an opportunity for a few hours of band rehearsal just before the full band run, just to go over anything that could possibly slow us down in the band run with the full cast. On the Friday, to make sure that both casts had a chance to run songs and get a feel of how to work with mics and band, we decided to run Act 1 with one cast and Act 2 with the other. Working through Act 1, we quickly realised that we wouldn't be able to work through all the show's songs in that one day. The final confirmation that we would not be able to get through to the very end in just one day was when we hit 'Chip on my shoulder', working on this song was very difficult to both casts because of the amount of vamps and set changes running throughout the whole scene, all together making it a 7 minute song with 4 set changes, some of which occuring in as little as 17 seconds moving from Elle's bedroom to the classroom using the Delta-nus to move the bedroom out and the students bringing the benches in. Because of the difficulty of the score for the song and the difficulty in the different singing parts, it took the other cast 2 and half hours to work on the song from beginning to end. This caused our day to last over 8 hours with the cast i was apart of having no actual time on stage running,this really tested the maturity and patience of the cast because we knew that it would be difficult for a few of the younger cast who hadn't been part of the process before. We managed to finish off Act 1 at 3:30 so we started Act 2 after a short break for the whole cast. Act 2 was a much shorter run time with us managing to smash it out in about 2 and a half hours with no major mistakes.