Orders of Appearance and Traffic Patterns
Tips for our quick-changing Dual Members
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Are you a dual chorus member who finds yourself having to make a quick change this year? While Sweet Adelines International attempts to give directors a little extra time if they are directing one chorus and singing in another, the same cannot be said for chorus members who sing with two chapters (can you imagine the jostling of choruses that would have to go on?!?).
But fear not! Below is some information which should help if you find yourself having to make a quick change between chorus performances: |
• Rooms will be available right off the backstage area for singers needing to make fast changes when one chorus performance quickly follows the other.
• Bring ALL of the second costume parts in a separate shopping bag and/or garment bag to the stage area before the Thursday afternoon briefing or Friday's Quartet Contest and leave it in the dual changing room. A coat rack will be available on which to hang your costume, plus floor space for a bag. BAGS AND CLOTHING SHOULD BE CLEARLY MARKED WITH YOUR NAME AND CHORUS.
• Members who have several choruses in between appearances can change more leisurely in one of the nearby restrooms. There might even be time to go back and join your second chorus somewhere along the traffic pattern. (Note that unless the second chorus is onstage immediately, singers waiting for their next chorus will have to leave the backstage area until chorus #2 is next onstage.)
• Make sure you know exactly what each chorus is wearing for contest way ahead of time; is anything suitable for both?
• Let both directors know -- and remind them often -- that you have to leave the stage first and you'll probably be the last one on for the second chorus; riser buddies, too! We will have a curtain, so you can pop onstage at the last second if necessary and no one will notice.
• There are approximately four minutes between choruses, so practice making the costume change, timing how long it takes and figuring out how to avoid messing up a hairdo.
• Pick one or two helpers from your first chorus to help you with the fast change about to happen! Also, make sure you provide them with a good-sized, solid shopping bag so one of them can gather up and haul away the first costume and all of the pieces (shoes, nylons, socks, pants, dress, slip, top, jewelry, bits, coat hangers, garment bag, lipstick, extra makeup, whatever!)
• Bring ALL of the second costume parts in a separate shopping bag and/or garment bag to the stage area before the Thursday afternoon briefing or Friday's Quartet Contest and leave it in the dual changing room. A coat rack will be available on which to hang your costume, plus floor space for a bag. BAGS AND CLOTHING SHOULD BE CLEARLY MARKED WITH YOUR NAME AND CHORUS.
• Members who have several choruses in between appearances can change more leisurely in one of the nearby restrooms. There might even be time to go back and join your second chorus somewhere along the traffic pattern. (Note that unless the second chorus is onstage immediately, singers waiting for their next chorus will have to leave the backstage area until chorus #2 is next onstage.)
• Make sure you know exactly what each chorus is wearing for contest way ahead of time; is anything suitable for both?
• Let both directors know -- and remind them often -- that you have to leave the stage first and you'll probably be the last one on for the second chorus; riser buddies, too! We will have a curtain, so you can pop onstage at the last second if necessary and no one will notice.
• There are approximately four minutes between choruses, so practice making the costume change, timing how long it takes and figuring out how to avoid messing up a hairdo.
• Pick one or two helpers from your first chorus to help you with the fast change about to happen! Also, make sure you provide them with a good-sized, solid shopping bag so one of them can gather up and haul away the first costume and all of the pieces (shoes, nylons, socks, pants, dress, slip, top, jewelry, bits, coat hangers, garment bag, lipstick, extra makeup, whatever!)
