The Sound of Music

It's been crazy. The production and staging of The Sound of Music held at the Lionel Wendt has seen packed houses almost on every night thus far, with only a few days to go till closing night.

To think I wasn't even going to be in the production, but only help front of house, and yet here I am being the Stage Manager of all things!! If it wasn't for my crew I don't think I'd be able to maintain 10 days of flawless backstage navy seal like operations. It's a huge responsibility. If we screw up the show suffers exponentially. Luckily we've had just a few mess ups here and there, which hopefully the audience didn't notice. Fingers crossed for the rest of the shows.

From the lights to the sounds, sets to the backstage crew and actors, this production has been probably the most stressing. But it's encouraging to note that the Sri Lankan public is willing to fill up every seat in the Wendt, and sit through almost 3 hours of music, acting and theater, applauding through it all.

One things for sure, come next year I think i'd rather be ON stage, cos, well I miss it. But thats not to say I haven't enjoyed hanging backstage with my old actors and working together to ensure that everything goes smoothly on stage, under the lights while the music plays, filling our ears. It's a great sight and experience when the curtain call ends, and the audience is still clapping, knowing that we've done a good job.

Fingers crossed for the remaining shows...