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It's a very different kind of focus during rehearsals now. A lot of times (Keene) will say 'Imagine it in the hall' and once you hear something like that it reminds you of what you are going for.

Jennifer Nelson

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Alfred Jarry

I'm just excited about the opportunity. I'm surprised I made it and excited that I am now a part of it. I know the rehearsals are far away, but it's going to be worth it.

Laura Nunez

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

George S. Kaufman

He?s such a dedicated actor. He?d drill himself on his lines every day before rehearsals. And he moved from one character to the next seemingly effortlessly. I learned so much just watching him during rehearsals.

Kevin Bergen

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Jerry Cantrell

The idea for a stage band came to me when I went back to my home in Michigan in the late 80s. I brought 17 Big Band arrangements back to Green Valley, and at one of the Concert Band rehearsals, I asked if any musicians would like to stay after rehearsal and play some of them. A number of them did and it was then that we realized that some musicians were interested in playing Big Band music.

Bill Dwire

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

My life would be much, much easier if I could have an hour or hour-and-a-half-long rehearsals every day after school. But it doesn't work for the kids.

Jim Ackley

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film. What was hard was when I came to London for ( Proof ) rehearsals, (and) I had to leave her. But it's good for her to see that I work. I'm home all the rest of the time. It doesn't feel sad now.

Hope Davis

The dialogue about corpses washing up was difficult to get through in rehearsals.

Brad Wright

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Graeme Edge

We're in rehearsals and Katrina's hitting, and we're hearing about the National Guard troops and equipment that is not available for disaster relief because they're over fighting in Iraq.

Brad Wright

During rehearsals, I would occasionally cross the line a bit and use some material that was pretty filthy, ... The cast would crack up, and director James Lapine would say, 'That is so wrong.' On Sunday evening, October 2, some of that material will be used for the first and possibly last time in front of a live audience.

Jay Reiss

We bumped into each other while shopping in LA and she invited me to one of her rehearsals. So I went and it was great. Courtney was fun. She's cool. She's a very passionate and intense person and she actually reminded me of my mom, so I felt very at home.

Fefe Dobson

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

Damon Hill

I work as much as I can [during the school year], but it's really hard as a theater major [because I'm doing plays and rehearsals at night].

Teresa Nelson

Based on what Oprah has seen in rehearsals, she has been very enthusiastic about everything the show is doing creatively.

Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson

We have five to six hours of rehearsals during the week. These students have put in a lot of hard work and deserve to be at the state level.

Renae Misner

He had joked to chorus members they would be assured of a standing ovation. He makes all our rehearsals fun.

Dora Murray

As kids growing up, it wasn't unusual for him to take us to rehearsals and sometimes to opening night parties on Broadway. These were the people he worked with.

Barbara Wagner

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

Nicholas Hytner

And I think that on this record, we've accomplished the mission we set out at the beginning of the first rehearsals. And that was, not to just make the best Rage Against the Machine record, but to make the best Rage record by a wide margin. We've made the heaviest record to date and it's our funkiest record to date.

Tom Morello

All of the situations we encountered, we'd anticipated because of all the testing and rehearsals we did. We were never taken by surprise.

Patrick Adiba

Rule of thumb is that every concert set, which includes rehearsals, costs about $10,000.

Noralee Monestere