![]() ![]() An actor's most common dream/nightmare is standing on stage in front of an audience not knowing what happens next, or what your next line is, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or not being there at all. I like to think of the show as being like a really classy Disney movie dream/nightmare, after a big hallucinogenic night out. There are 19 'musical moments' in the show, lots with complicated harmonies or group dances. ![]() (Not actually, there are wires controlled by big burly men in the flies, it's just made to look like it's me. Ropes in my hands that hold award winning actors' lives at the end of them. We are creating the castles he conquers, the knights he vanquishes (on their steeds) the damsels in distress he rescues, the giants/windmills he defeats. In terms of set changes we the company are quite literally building Don Quixote's world around him. There are most certainly another 59 un-quick changes (which mean the actor has at least three minutes to get into his/her costume). The dressers have 59 quick changes to do in total. Every member of the company has around 10 different costumes in the show, ranging from a dirtied up galley slave in chains to a duchess in full farthingale, corset, ruff and fan. If there was a production that one would hope to have a dress rehearsal for, it was this one. ![]()
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