{"id":17828,"date":"2019-06-20T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17828"},"modified":"2019-06-21T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:12:08","slug":"victoria-operatic-society-braces-for-a-whole-lot-of-nunsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/06\/20\/victoria-operatic-society-braces-for-a-whole-lot-of-nunsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Operatic Society braces for a whole lot of Nunsense<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Victoria Operatic Society (VOS) mounts theatre productions twice a year; with\u00a0RENT\u00a0<\/em>and Shrek the Musical\u00a0<\/em>already under their belts, the assumption was VOS was done for 2019. However, that\u2019s not the case: VOS recently announced a surprise third show, Nunsense<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is kind of unusual for VOS,\u201d admits director Doug Crockett. \u201cWe don\u2019t normally\u2014or haven\u2019t in years\u2014done a summer show. Normally we just have the two: the spring and the fall shows, and we do the big productions. We had been talking about wanting to do a smaller show because there\u2019s so many good ones out there, but financially it was never really a viable thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nunsense<\/em> is a surprise third 2019 theatre production for Victoria Operatic Society (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A grant from the Royal & McPherson Theatres Society gave the company funding for the third show; this meant that VOS had just weeks to mount a complete production\u2014about half the amount of time they typically have, according to Crockett. With such a tight time crunch, the company had to be strategic when picking what show to do. Settling on the musical comedy about a group of nuns in the throes of a talent show, Crockett was confident casting wouldn\u2019t be an issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe chose Nunsense<\/em> because it does have a smaller cast\u2014five women\u2014and we just knew that there were some amazing actresses in town who would be able to pull this off,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the casting was complete, the challenge was then learning an extraordinary amount of material at lightning speed\u2014not an easy feat, considering the cast and crew are all volunteers with lives and jobs outside the theatre. This means a lot of long evening and weekend rehearsals\u2014and even then, the team tries to sneak in as much extra rehearsal time as they can, stretching their Sunday rehearsals a little longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was only going to be three hours to begin with and then the actresses actually said, \u2018Can we add another hour to this, please?\u2019\u201d says Crockett. \u201cSo, we\u2019re like, \u2018Sure! Come on in whenever you want!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nunsense<\/em> includes a large tap dance number, choreography, and singing; however, the structure of the show helps to make it more manageable for the cast, according to Crockett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach one of them has a sort of featured song and scene and everything,\u201d says Crockett. \u201cSo, the way the play is written, each one of them has a moment. So that\u2019s nice for the actresses\u2014and also, they get to focus in a little bit more on their particular scene and storyline. You know, again, it\u2019s such a short amount of time to rehearse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actresses are also preparing for the unpredictability of audience interaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause the premise of the show is that it\u2019s a fundraiser, the audience is actually the audience at the fundraiser,\u201d says Crockett. \u201cSo they come out at the beginning and they say, \u2018Welcome to our fundraiser; if you haven\u2019t heard, this is why we\u2019re having it,\u2019 and at certain points they go out into the audience and interact with the audience, so it becomes a little bit of improv for them too, possibly\u2014depending on the answers that the audience gives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite how hectic mounting the production has been, Crocket says there is one thing the women in the show won\u2019t have to grapple with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the reasons we picked the show,\u201d he jokes, \u201cis because it\u2019s only five women, they\u2019re all nuns\u2014limited costuming!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nunsense<\/em>
Various times, Friday, July 12 to Sunday, July 14
$35, McPherson Playhouse
rmts.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Victoria Operatic Society (VOS) mounts theatre productions twice a year; with\u00a0RENT\u00a0and Shrek the Musical\u00a0already under their belts, the assumption was VOS was done for 2019. However, that\u2019s not the case: VOS recently announced a surprise third show, Nunsense. \u201cThis is kind of unusual for VOS,\u201d admits director Doug Crockett. \u201cWe don\u2019t normally\u2014or haven\u2019t in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}