CIC Rehearsal - Counter-Productive Lover

So tonight we finally decided on a team name: Counter-Productive Lover.
I have to say I never thought I would be in a group with a longer name than my College team (Suspicious of Whistlers), which has a whopping 21 letters - but here I am with this new 22 letter name...sigh.

Seriously though I'm actually pretty happy with the name - it wasn't my top pick of the final 10 we voted on tonight (though in a way I'm glad it wasn't as now I'm storing that one in my back pocket for a possible future team name - mwuahaha), but it was definitely better than most (I'll give you one more example - the closest runner up was: Rad Dad ... sigh).
Also (and this is the main reason it won in my opinion) this name came up organically in a previous rehearsal from a series of scenes involving a (you guessed it) Counter-Productive Lover.
Anyway we now have a brand spanking new MySpace page - if you're on it feel free to be our friend: MySpace.com/CounterProductiveLover
(If you're not on it ... stop by and check out the logo and eventually we'll have some video up there - I promise).

The Rehearsal:
Anyway tonight was our last rehearsal before our first performance this Friday (quick freaking turn around - am I right?) - so tonight was all about running through our show format (which we had luckily figured out at the end of last the last rehearsal).
Also tonight we found out that sadly our Director Jorin isn't going to be able to make our show - he is booked for two shows himself already, both suffering possible number issues (performer wise). Luckily Jorin enlisted a good friend (and fellow performer he works with) to meet us at the show, warm us up, and take notes for us - and he was there tonight for us to meet and get a feel fr his warm-up style.

So our guest coach, Louie, went ahead and warmed us up (fairly typical exercises, some to build energy and some to focus our concentration) and then we jumped right into running our show. We're going to run for around 25 minutes Friday, so that's what we aimed for tonight. Our first set I was feeling a little out of it - I was thinking too much and a little tired, though it was surprisingly good for our first real run through (read: mediocre).
Our second and third runs were fantastic though - I guess that first set warmed us all up and got us in the groove. We all played very quickly and brought a ton of energy and it was a lot of fun.
Both Jorin and Louie agreed that if we had a show like either of those runs we'd be the hit of the night - and that even our first set was entertaining enough (just lacking in pacing and energy).

We left the rehearsal and headed out to our usual bar to hang out - all of us ery pumped about the upcoming show - Jorin giving us the final note: Have as much fun playing Friday as you did tonight and you can't go wrong.