With a full run scheduled for Friday, Oct. 11, the cast was working all week to solidify blocking and lines.

“I felt pretty comfortable with my lines the first part of the run through,” commented Junior and ensemble member, Connor Ruckman.

A run of the full show means that the actions and everything involving what the actors have to do on stage is finished. The game now is putting those things together to make one coherent show. 

Running the show helps a lot with seeing where the missing pieces lay.

“When we got to act two, I started to get a little lost on staging since I wasn’t as familiar as I was with act one,” Ruckman continued.

As actors and crew prepare for longer rehearsals as tech week begins, everyone is starting to prioritize themselves and their health.

In previous years some kind of sickness has always carried over through the cast and crew just before performance days, but this year, to prevent that, the long tech schedule has changed, only calling in the entire company for two days, leaving stage management to work alone the rest of the week.

“Having no actors on stage these first two days has been very beneficial,” senior and Production Stage Manager Kayla Balikiyan-Davis said. “We are able to focus more on the tech side, making sure that the lighting and sound cues were completed without distractions.”

Make sure to support this fall’s production, opening on Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. 

Tickets are being sold by all members of the show as well as Room 303. 

Tickets are also online, and can be found on Instagram @vnhstheatre!