director – CSOPA

January 2015

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #11

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, cultural centre, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honest reaction, honey, improvement, kessia, killer, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, moving in, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, quote, rad, randolph, raven, school, set, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tickle, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 9th, 2015 NUMBER OF DAYS UNTIL WE ARE IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE = 1 NUMBER OF DAYS UNTIL FIRST AUDIENCE = 5 Today was our last day in the banquet hall. Honestly it's going by so fast I have to constantly remind myself to enjoy every moment. Today started

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #10

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, cultural centre, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, improvement, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, moving in, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, set, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 9, 2015 DAYS UNTIL CULTURAL CENTER = 1 SOOOOOOO EXCITED. Our set has been moved in if I'm correct. We (the cast) are moving in soon. I can't believe it. It honestly seems like a month ago we were still working through and learning songs. It has gone by so

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #9

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) Jan 4, 2015 So today was super rad and really interesting because we did our first run through of all the dances with the orchestra. Of course there were some bumps in the road. But we ran everything from the bug tap number, to the tango, the salsa (sorta) style

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #8

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

http://youtu.be/UgOhrhZWrYw Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 3, 2015 Today was our second sitzprobe, which was totally awesome. Of course there were the little bumps in the road. As Andrew called it 'Deer in the headlights look' when a song didn't sound exactly like the rehearsal track which I was very guilty. Other

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #7

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, awesome, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, macdonald, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 2, 2015 Today was our first sitzprobe! Sitzprobe is a German term used in opera and musical theatre to describe a seated rehearsal—the literal translation of Sitzprobe—where the singers sing with the orchestra, focusing attention on integrating the two groups. In case anyone didn't know. Basically we

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #6

Tags: acdc, addams, arts, awesome, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, cold, csopa, dark, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, macdonald, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sleep, soreness, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, veggies, wednesday, wonderful|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) Dec 31, 2104 Today was a pretty decent day. Except for how cold it was, a lot of people are kinda getting sick and we are all getting a little anxious for the show. BUT ASIDES FROM THAT it was pretty good. As usual our daily working on scenes and songs

December 2014

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #5

Tags: addams, arts, awesome, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, cold, csopa, dark, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, exit, facial expression, family, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, macdonald, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sleep, soreness, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, wednesday, wonderful|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) December 30, 2014 Today was our second run through of the whole play. I'd say it went pretty good! Our usual routine an hour of running things that we need to tighten up; dances, harmonies anything that needs tightening up. Our run (which was soooo cold, with a wind chill of

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #4

Tags: addams, arts, awesome, brittany, chilliwack, christmas, csopa, dark, denevers, director, facial expression, family, grandma, hannah, hilarious, kirsten, lines, macdonald, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, randolph, raven, school, soreness, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, wednesday, wonderful|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) December 29, 2014 Our first stumble through today! A stumble through is when we work through every scene from the beginning of the show to the end in order as if it's a real show, but there are always a lot of stops and starts and that's ok. Today was

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #3

Tags: addams, arts, awesome, chilliwack, christmas, csopa, dark, denevers, director, facial expression, family, grandma, hannah, hilarious, kirsten, macdonald, move toward the darkness, musical, parodies, performing, posture, raven, school, soreness, tales, tangles, tango, the tango, theatre, wednesday|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5IUT6sIN6o&list=UUC0NHKHn00eojuz3uwKCTjA Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) December 28, 2014 Today was our second day back and I will be completely honest, I was pretty sore. And when I say pretty sore I mean I don't think I've ever been that sore. Of course you know that you've been working hard when you get out

January 2014

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #22 (THE END)

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, align entertainment, amazing, annoyingness, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, basket case, bawling, beautiful fairy, beauty sleep, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, bummer, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, cast, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, closing, clough, clutz, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, crying, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, dinner, director, directors, donkey, dragon, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eye glitter, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fat, fiona, fiottnay, fire alarm, fire curtain, fly down, fly up, flying, flying deer, freak flag, friends, gah, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, green, groans, grow, guilty, handsome, harness, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, incapable, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, klutz, knees, krista, last day, lie, life, lift, lights, lisa, love, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, mom, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, nervous, new years eve, night, no excuses, no regrets, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opening night, opinions, orchestra, pages, passionate, peed, performance, performing, peter pan, piggies, pinky swear, Pinocchio, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, pooper-scoopered, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, relationships, robinson, rockstar, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, self-confidence, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, spilled, spinach, stairs, stinky, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, stunning, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, tech run, teenager, thankful, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, two show day, ugly ogre, unbalanced, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, warmup, watching, water, wonderful, wrap, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

Jan 26, 2014 Well, that's a wrap. Shrek's all done, and for me CSOPA's all done. But to be honest, as sad as it is, I'm ready. I think after A Year with Frog and Toad I didn't feel like my time at CSOPA was over but now I do. And that's not at all

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