It’s cooled off by then, Sutherlin points out, and the atmosphere becomes charged when the stage lights go up. But they, too, know it’s all part of the process.Īround 8:30 or 9 p.m., every day, they run the songs, the scenes and the whole show. The actors, singers and dancers are clearly uncomfortable, in their heavy turn-of-the-century clothes, under the bright afternoon sun. Everybody’s here right now, that’s where the process is supposed to be.” “We’re still doing the final touches on the set.
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The full nine-piece band joined the company at the Demens site a day ago. Everybody is still working to find their rhythms.” And we have to start shaping it back together. “It’s the time where all the other creatives get to add their components – which is great, but that just means everything falls apart. Ragtime is in “tech week,” Sutherlin explains. Top-tier creatives for “Ragtime”: Heather Beal (choreographer), Macy Smith (costume shop manager), Alexa Perez (assistant director), Erica Sutherlin (director) and Latoya McCormick (musical director). You never really step into your whole costume parade, or costume moment, and go ‘All of this is excellent.’ You adjust.” “Well,” she smiles, “I think we got a lil’ journey. I get to see what’s working, what’s not working.” “I approved the designs, and I saw the renderings, but this is the first time I’m seeing the costumes on the bodies. Cast of the musical Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre, directed by Peter Flynn. “This is day one of them putting on clothes,” director Erica Sutherlin says.
Still, the annual “park” show must go on – Ragtime opens April 12 – and after several intense weeks of song-and-dance rehearsal inside American Stage’s air-conditioned theater building, the large company will meet here, six days a week, eight hours a day, until everything is finely-tuned and pitch perfect.Ĭostumes for Ragtime, a story of early immigrants and the American Dream, have just arrived.
Petersburg, and the cast and crew of American Stage’s Ragtime: The Musical, gathered on and around an open stage in Demens Landing Park, are feeling it.
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