Opening night is next Friday for "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" and it's really shaping up. All the kids are doing great, and we adults are pretty good too. Except for one thing. Every time I have been in a play I have had to relearn to project. Every director, at one time or another, has told me to speak up, speak louder. But this time I thought things would be different. Rae, our amazing tech person, has hung lights and mics around the front of the church and I thought, finally, I won't need to worry about volume. Wrong. This evening's rehearsal was only for the adults in the play. I have a small but fun part and it was good to really work on my lines and delivery, but, wouldn't you know it? One of the first directions I heard was "You won't have a mic so you will need to speak louder. Since we are performing this play in the sanctuary it's a big space to fill with sound. Happily, I was able to rise to the occasion. Now if I can just keep this big sound going for my small part, for six performances, all will be well. Fingers crossed.
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