A successful and well-planned rehearsal ensures a smooth production of your beauty pageant. Here's make the most of your time while directing a beauty pageant rehearsal.
Instructions
1. Schedule an appropriate number of rehearsals for the type of pageant you are directing. If your pageant is large with involved production numbers, you should have as many rehearsals as your venue allows. If you are directing a small local pageant and you have only rented the stage facility for a weekend, you have to try to fit all of your rehearsal needs into one or two rehearsals.
2. Be organized. Have your contestants arrive in shifts according to the age categories or portions of competition they will participate in. Have your light and sound technicians in place and your stage dressing completed before any of the contestants arrive at rehearsal. Have numbers, scripts and stage markings ready and waiting for the participants. Make sure your emcee is familiar with the script and your stage crew is prepared for moving whatever they need to move to make the show flow.
3. Encourage contestants to rehearse as if they are competing. Many times contestants do not want to give their best at a rehearsal in order to maintain a certain amount of secrecy about their act or clothing. Talent acts should not be marked during rehearsal. It is essential that the stage crew and technicians see the performance just how it will happen on pageant night so that appropriate light and sound levels can be set. Women should practice all modeling categories in the actual shoes they plan to wear for the competition.
4. Complete a total run through. Run the script and competitions beginning to end at least once. Include a faux crowning so that when the time comes, the winners will know where to stand if their name is called on pageant night.
