We are finally on the stage! Days to go:8

Wahoo! We finally got to be on the stage today! And what a stage it is! This is not your normal community theatre, that's for sure. This stage required the assistance of the Las Vegas stage engineers to come and get it ready for this show. The stage (costing a million dollars) can now do things it never could do before, and we get to be the first run with all it's modifications.

The best part was being able to do the sword fighting scenes on stage to see how much spacing we actually have, and to make sure that with the new spacing, we don't accidentally lop someones head off, (These are real swords boys and girls.) and to get used to going up and down stairs in the fights. Here are a couple of pics of the action.
We did have someone rack their knee on the center column, that was no good, but it was a reminder of how we all need to be careful of all your moves, not only for swords, but for the stage as well. I'm just glad we get to do 3 full run-thru's on the stage before opening night. I'm telling you, this stage is another character all on it's own. Parts rise and lower, parts rotate, the center section can transform into stairs, it's amazing! I just hope it's nice to us from here on out. We don't need anymore injuries. So we have One week until opening night! I can't believe it's almost here. Thanks for reading. More tomorrow.