Author: JessicaLane

Hello!
I am sorry for the delay! We have been very busy and guess what! We have now run the show 4 times in 24 hours! Crazy, no? I cannot believe the amount we have accomplished in these last two weeks. It’s incredible.

Everyone has been spending countless hours getting their music and lines and blocking together and it just keeps on getting better and better. It’s getting to a point where I am concerned I may have peaked too soon, but we have a 2 day break and I am sure when I come back from that I will be feeling good and fresh again. 🙂 You have to come see this show. Seriously. It’s going to be awesome! I’m totally psyched.

Anyway, as Karianne mentioned, on our last day off we went whale watching, and, to our dismay, there was a severe lack of whales. We did, however, get to go on a beautiful boat ride and see the coast of Halifax and surrounding areas as well as some brave souls held a lobster. His name was Larry, I asked. I wasn’t so much about holding Larry, but I did throw bread off the back of the boat to the seagulls who went NUTS. It was pretty awesome. I will attach some pictures of the brave lobster holders. Apart from singing, I also enjoy taking photographs.

Thank you for reading and I will try to update again sooner rather than later!

Until next time,
Jessica

Here we are again!

When I last left you, we had just begun staging. Well, after another long day in the shop, we bring you another completed act! Hooray! This show is coming together so quickly! It’s madness, I tell you!

Staging is going well! There are so many fascinating concepts coming together and it’s going to be not only audibly interesting, but visually too. I can’t wait!

Mostly I am super excited for the costumes. It is going to be Victorian Steampunk. If you are unsure of what that means, google it up. Am I going to have to pay copyright for using “google” as a verb? I hope not. That would be silly. Anyway, the best reference I can think of at the moment is the movie “A Series of Unfortunate Events” . This still may not help a lot of you, but essentially the concept is Victorian garb with “modern” gadgets…but not so much modern as what the Victorians may have thought would be modern in the future? It sounds far more complicated than it actually is but it is going to be awesome! Lots of leather and crinoline and flight goggles and scarves and, basically, all things that are good. The Nicklas costume concept (what I and Maureen Ferguson will be wearing) is based on an “air ship captain” which is going to be so wicked. Think Amelia Earhart punk-ed up. So exciting!

On an entirely different note, a large amount of us went to see the final installment of Harry Potter last night. It is so much fun to go in a big group, it was a hilarious bonding experience. (ie) At a very serious and quiet part of the movie, when I was probably crying, all you can hear from down the row is Darrell Hicks (one of the Hoffmann’s) put his hand into the bag of popcorn and rustle around for approximately two minutes and then crunch loudly. During this time, William Ford (tenor, playing multiple roles) and I were chuckling to ourselves. We had a good laugh afterward and laughed even harder when Darrell asked us in a woman-ly British voice, “Do you want anythin’ from the trolley?” We laughed. Really hard. For most of the walk home. It probably isn’t nearly as funny since you can’t hear the inflection in Darrell’s voice and aren’t aware that he is nearly 6′ 5″ with long hair and a beard. Maybe you had to be there. But my point is that it has been so great getting to hang out with fellow work shoppers outside of rehearsal. There are just so many wonderful personalities and we have so much fun together. It’s an amazing experience and I am loving every minute of it!

Well, I hope that didn’t bore you. If it did, I am sorry and I will try to gather some more interesting info for next time. 🙂

Until next time,

Jessica Lane

Alrighty! Hello, hello hello!

Ok, I apologize if the formatting ends up being weird when I publish this, I am totally flying by the seat of my pants here and will try to get things ironed out by my next blog.

It’s getting late so I am going to keep it short and sweet!

So here we are, 3 days into rehearsal and holy smokes! What a 3 days it has been! We finished out musical rehearsals and I am just completely in awe of the voices I get to sing with. It’s unreal and it is such an honour to get to work with these people. And while the singers are out of this world, we would be nothing without our phenomenal production team. And I promise I am not being bribed to say this. For real. But seriously, folks, these people are amazing. They are so good at what they do and I am inspired every minute I am working with them. Amazing. What more could a singer want than a supportive working environment and constant inspiration? Other than a post rehearsal beer, not much, I tell you.

Anyway, we have a big ole’ stagin’ day tomorrow so I had better get some shut eye. I sound like a cow boy. I’m sorry.

For your viewing pleasure, I have attached a photograph of the waltz rehearsal we had this evening, led by none other than the very talented Andrew Pelrine, tenor and choreographer, lifting mezzo-soprano Sarah Neiman.

Thanks for giving this a read! And again, I am not sure how the formatting is going to turn out this time, so my apologies if it’s all jumble-y.

I shall return with more Tales of Lane shortly.

Always,

Jessica Lane