The Boards, Thursday Evening (Petey Sci-Fi Rehearsal)

[furnaceface]

Ah, the first day of rehearsals at the Boards. It was just the sort of thing to make Jono show up looking... if not happy then at least slightly less grumpy than usual, with a stack of scripts in his arms complete with sheet music. It might have been the therapeutic smashing of creepy dolls with a crowbar that had him in such a good mood. Or maybe it was the sheet music that did it for him. Even Sweet Transvestite could be soothing if it was played well, damn it.

Really, if you wanted happy, you need look no further than Troy: the fluster and panic of a first rehearsal was generally guaranteed to have a smile fixed on his face. "This is going to be awesome," he said to Jono, as an aside. Turning to the gathered performers, he added, "Hey, everyone, thanks for making it out! I hope you're all excited for this -- I know we are!"

"Before we get started, I have the scripts here," Jonothon's excited face looked much the same as his 'Yes, I certainly do appear to be awake today' face. "There's enough for each of you to take one, and you can feel free to make as many notes in the margins or mark them up however you see fit. They're yours to keep. Today, we're going to just be acquainting ourselves with the script and the music of the show, since I know a good many of you showed up for auditions without even the faintest idea what in the world you were getting yourselves into."

Which had amused Jonothon to no end, really, but they were in a show with underwear and dry humping, and he was going to have to break it to them sooner or later, after all.

Underwear, dry humping, incest, cannibalism... Really, what didn't the show have? "At some point," Troy continued, "I was thinking we could watch the movie all together, but I want to get rehearsals underway first so that we're not locked into that as the 'right way' to do things. Theater's not about that. The movie's iconic, yeah, but with a live show like this, what you all bring to the roles is just as important as how someone may have played it once before."

"So, everybody grab a script," Jono said, "and take a seat. We'll do a read-through of the script, pausing for the musical numbers, which we'll just play on CD for this one rehearsal so that you get a feel for the vocals. If any of you have any concerns or questions about any of this, feel free to ask Troy or myself during the read-through, or to grab one of us after rehearsal. Shall we begin?"

[Open rehearsal! Script (with audience participation cues just 'cause) is here. Cast list is here. Yaaaaaaaay!]

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Arrive/Mingle!

[furnaceface]

Grab a script, make yourselves comfortable among the theatre seating, try to ignore the growing pile of brutalized dolls with crowbar-shaped blunt force trauma damage on them.

There's water with lemon in it today, and oranges, because while you don't really particularly need to worry about presentation today, it's cold season, and your directors are strictly anti-colds.

There are also a few spare crowbars, in case you feel like you might need one for the walk home later, because Jono is also anti-creepy-dolls.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[gastronomistic]

Water with lemon and oranges.

How cute.

Vincent had a bag of muffins with him, just in case anyone wanted some carbs to go with their vitamin C.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie grabbed a script and found a spot that she felt was well-lit enough to see if anything small and creepy was sneaking up on her and settled in to read.

Poor thing should have maybe done her research and rented the movie before now, because her eyes were getting really wide.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[wasthecuteone]

"Hi," Petra said, sidling up next to Annie. "Want to walk back to the dorms together? Safety in numbers and all that? Because I have seen a few horror movies in my time and I don't want to be killed by dolls so please say yes."

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[whenshewasnice]

It was kind of a miracle Natalie had shown up. No, not because of the dolls. The dolls she could live with, creepy as they were. She was good at crushing things when need be.

Nope, it was because she was still not quite over the fact that her name was on the cast list. And she hadn't even auditioned. Except under the influence of gremlin venom.

She took a script but she looked wary.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn was jumpy. Quinn was trying to conceal her jumpiness by clutching the script in one hand and hot water with lemon in the other, but she was jumpy.

The next time she spotted a doll, she was likely to smash its head in.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[wasthecuteone]

Petra had a crowbar. Petra felt like her crowbar was by far superior to water with lemon today. "Hi," she said to Quinn. "Annie and I are going to walk back together so the dolls don't eat us, you in?"

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

When Hayley arrived, she actually had a crowbar of her own in her hand already.

And may have been hurriedly stuffing something red into her pocket as she got in the door.

"This stuff, maybe I didn't miss it as much as I thought I did," she said.

But she was having trouble not smiling.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle would not take a crowbar, thank you; she'd run into a couple of dolls on her way down and was mildly perturbed by the whole thing, but she'd made up her mind that if any of them tried to get threatening at her she'd just try to make friends with them instead.

Because that wasn't at all creepy, right?

She took a copy of the script and a cup of lemon water and found herself a seat to sip (oooh, tangy) while she read through and marked her parts.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules arrived, half a headless doll still sort of impaled on his fist.

"Did the island enter the Twilight Zone when we were not looking?"

He finally shook off the half-doll from his arm into a trash can.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna totally reached for a spare crowbar. The creepy dolls were making her extra paranoid today. With good reason in her opinion.

When she was sure there were no dolls near her, she took a seat and, crowbar still in hand, began reading the script.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

Rebecca was maybe a tad bit scowly at her assigned role.

This was not how it was supposed to work. She was a senator's daughter, damn it. And she was hot.

Ugh.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[wasthecuteone]

Petra grabbed a crowbar and then very quickly climbed on top of a seat, perching there like it was totally normal. She was extremely supportive of being anti-creepy-dolls. Extremely supportive.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy was there and in his Green Lantern uniform rather than civvies as he kept an eye out for those goddamn dolls.

"This island," he muttered to himself.

Read-through!

[furnaceface]

And sing-through! This should be a breeze for anyone who already knows the show, of course. But those poor people who haven't had their Rocky Horror cherry popped yet...? Well, Jono seriously considered buying red lipstick so that he could draw a 'V' on their foreheads, this week.

Re: Read-through!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn had seen the movie, but she hadn't cared enough to find out who the lips at the beginning were.

That might have been a mistake. She realized as she was looking at the script and waiting for the read-through to start that the very first song, which was a solo, was, um. Hers.

No pressure, Quinnie.

"Are we doing 'Science Fiction' as a solo?" she asked, trying to sound like she didn't care.

[OOC: She'll do it, but she'd be open to offers of a duet/backing vocals/moral support.]

Talk to the Directors!

[furnaceface]

Who are available to answer your questions or address any concerns you might have about your roles. Once they ping in.

Re: Talk to the Directors!

[furnaceface]

Jonothon (and his trusty crowbar) were both there, keeping an ear out for people singing off-key, and an eye out for any freakish little dolls that might have some terrible desire to be smashed to bits with a hefty chunk of solid iron.

Dolls were so much more eerie when they were peering around seating at you in a theatre. Don't judge him, damn it.

Re: Talk to the Directors!

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy had somehow managed to miss the dolls, so he did not have a crowbar in hand.

But he might wish he did, before the night was out.

The Crew!

[furnaceface]

Because there are sets to build and lights to arrange and props to wrangle, and they're welcome to come in to do any of the above whenever they so desire.

Even when the island is being invaded by horrifying playthings.

Re: The Crew!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi had come in caffienated. Early. She'd missed the dolls.

Let's see how long that lasts.

Re: The Crew!

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie was seemingly a little bit jumpy once he'd arrived for rehearsal.

Creepy dolls did not equal a completely calm Fredward Benson. Don't mind him...

Re: The Crew!

[selfhelphero]

Billy was clutching his binder to his chest when he came in, looking more than a little freaked out. He'd seen some weird things before, but the dolls were a little too creepy, and he was trying not to feel bad about having to zap them to get through town in one piece.

OOC!

[furnaceface]

I have a dragonfruit. It is hot pink and mysterious. I killed the dragon myself on Wednesday morning to get it.

That said, I still totally jumped ten feet when I refreshed my flist and that doll icon was the first thing I saw at 2:30 in the morning.

Dragons are way less creepy.

Re: OOC!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

There's a single-page text version of the script here (http://www.rockymusic.org/showdoc/rhps-transcript.php), if anybody else is interested.