Kiss Me Kate Update

This past Saturday we ran through the first act. I unfortunately caught an illness called nasopharyngitis, an infection of the throat where the throat meets the nose which is essentially the inhalation/exhalation passageway. This prevents me from speaking, especially with projection, and from singing. Although I knew all my lines and lyrics, I could not speak or sing by orders of my ENT. So someone read my lines and I mouthed the words to all my lines and I was spot on. Maybe I'd miss a "to" or "from" in the Shakespeare parts but I'd consider myself pretty accurate for my first time doing Shakespeare. What was upsetting though was not everyone knew the lines. It was made very clear that by the Act I "stumble" through or run through, that everyone was to have their lines/lyrics memorized. It's very difficult to do scenes and run through them fluidly. I'm hoping this does not happen for the Act II stumble through as that will happen very close to Hell Week and by then everyone needs to know what they're doing inside and out.