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Friday, July 13, 2012

Die Zauberflöte

Hello, everyone!
   I told you I had some exciting news. In addition to The Impresario's Dilemma, the HPAF is performing Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). Guess what? I'm the Assistant Stage Manager!
  So far this job is pretty neat. I am in charge of props, sets, and singers. I let the singers know when their scene is coming up. I tell the set movers when to change the set. I also run around like crazy backstage, hissing things like "where's the rope? Who has the portrait? Hey! Where did Papageno go?" I also get to hang out with the opera singers. That's my favorite part.
   I think that Rick, the Stage Manager, is getting kind of frantic - it's less than a week to the performance now, and a lot of the singers still have their noses buried in their books. We are still blocking out the whole thing - telling the singers where to move when they are onstage, which side to come on from, when to pick up the pillow, etc. I have to write all that down just in case Rick forgets what he said. 
   One more thing - I have a new poll over to the left of this post. See if you can figure out which opera is my new favorite before the poll closes!

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