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R & J January

Here are the rehearsal dates for January:
January

Strike

Great Show, Folks!

IDR

Okay, folks. We're hovering around 91% energy and 82% volume. You've got to let it rip tomorrow.
Don't hold back.

Call tomorrow is 5:30. Do not be late.

• CONNOR - You are still moving your feet a lot as the bishop. This is especially noticeable because of your costume. It tends to sway a lot.
• ALEX - Don't stand center stage in the post-bishop section of the PROLOGUE. You will be in the projections. Go directly to stage left.
• JULIA - In I DREAMED A DREAM, stand up quicker and immediately cross to stage right where we originally blocked you.
• ALEX & JULIA - The white roses look great. We'll use them.
• ME - Remember to give a rose to Greg before the show
• ME - Talk to James about doubling the second lovely ladies song to give JULIA more hair time
• ALEX - you and JULIA should be dead center at the end of DOCKS. This falls under the category of finding your light
• EVERYONE - Do not roll the bed, lift it. Practice this before the show if you need to
• HOLLY - Make sure to point in the direction of the well
• LOGAN & HOLLY - When you get to rehearsal, spend a few minutes practicing with the duffel bag
• EVERYONE - Where was the red table cloth during ABC CAFE
• ANDY - THE PEOPLE'S SONG: all I wrote was "damn". I meant that in a positive way.
• STUDENTS - Have your guns during the PEOPLE'S SONG
• EVERYONE - The bench in RUE PLUMET must have been set by someone who was very confused. See DANNY for proper bench setting instructions
• VALERIE - If no one brings out flowers, leave your book in the garden for HOLLY to take during ONE DAY MORE
• ESTEP - Sit closer to Marius during RUE PLUMET. He's handsome; you want to be near him, etc.
• VALERIE & CHRIS - Get the bed off quicker in the epilogue. Practice when you get to rehearsal
• EVERYONE - DO NOT FIRE YOUR WEAPONS. If you do not hear gun shots, do not pretend to fire, just aim.
• DANNY - Get everyone into the auditorium tomorrow and play the cannon sound for them. STUDENTS: die at the cannon sound
• GHOSTS - Take the sheets off the tables when you sit down in the CAFE SONG
• LOGAN - Hold your stomach when you get punched
• EVERYONE - The table was too far stage left during the ABC CAFE
• DANNY - have someone close the cyc before the house opens
• DANNY - Check the clip lights backstage
• DANNY - Make sure you are giving the crew, James, and Carolyn the same time checks you give the cast. Here are a list of time checks you should give:

1. 30 minutes to house
2. 20 minutes to house
3. 10 minutes to house
4. 5 minutes to house
5. house/30 minutes to places
6. 20 minutes to places
7. 10 minutes to places
8. 5 minutes to places
9. places
10. (during intermission): 15 minutes to places
11. (during intermission): 5 minutes to places
12. places

• ME - Get walkies
• EVERYONE - Make sure you get your mics before the house opens
• JULIA - pin that dress up
• ALEX - lose the top hat
• ELIZABETH - What needs to be done to speed up the transition before THE BEGGARS? It took forever. Get with the people doing this transition and figure something out.
  
• EVERYONE - Are you having trouble hearing the orchestra? let me or Cliff know.
• JENNA - Make a sign that you can stick on the door from the hall into the kitchen that reads, "please do not lock this door during the show", and tape it to the door.
• STUDENTS - Get angry during your choruses in the ABC CAFE
• DANNY - MARY needs to be there to help JULIA off the Pepsi machine

A word about the cast party:
We will have the cast party in the auditorium after the show. There will be food, drink, music and destruction...of the set, that is! If you have a electric drill/screwdriver you could bring, it would be super helpful.

Final Dress

Things went a lot better tonight. We are far from where we need to be in terms of volume and energy, but we made some real positive progress.

Thursday's schedule
3:30 - 4:00 => JAVERT AT THE BARRICADE
4:00 - 4:30 => CURTAIN CALL
4:30 - 5:00 => THE DOCKS
5:00 - 6:00 => DINNER
6:00 - 7:00 => PREP
6:30 => HOUSE OPENS
6:50 => DIRECTOR'S MINUTE IN THE BAND ROOM
7:00 => CURTAIN
? => POST PLAY NOTES IN THE BAND ROOM

While everything can be louder the following parts were particularly soft:

• CHAIN GANG
• END OF THE DAY
• MASTER OF THE HOUSE (CHORUS)
• THE BEGGARS

Tonight's notes:

• ALEX - Don't kneel during the Bishop's stuff
• ALEX - Do not start your last PROLOGUE solo center stage, start it stage left where I put you
• BRAD - When you are breaking up the fight, be busy eating and enjoying the fight until Valjean appears. I want to see that you are interrupted and have to put on your foreman hat, so to speak. Try to show a contrast between the guy who enjoys the fight and the one who is the reluctant adult supervision
• BRAD - When you say "virtuous" you are mocking Fantine. Let's hear that.
• ALEX - Use the top hat in the shadow
• VALERIE & EVERYONE - if you take a drink of something, swallow. otherwise it looks like you are just holding a bottle to your mouth
• LOGAN - I can see you transitioning out of your *character*, but I want to see you transitioning back into it. This should be labored, like putting on a heavy coat.
• HOLLY - Be careful not to anticipate the bag being thrown. You are flinching before the bag is even in the air. Not anticipating something you know is about to be thrown at you is extremely difficult - see the dvd extra features for the movie Dodgeball for examples - but I know you can do this.
• ALEX - At the top of THE BARGAIN be clearer about to whom you are speaking.
• HOLLY - During THE BARGAIN, when you get up to join your husband, cross upstage of Valjean and Cosette
• TAYLOR - When you are standing still during THE ROBBERY, clasp your hands behind your back. You can do this as a constable whenever you are awaiting instructions. It's a shame because you do such a good job of hanging your arms by your side comfortably. This is very, very difficult to teach young actors. But I need you to look more formal.
• ELIJAH - Move around more when you are on the bridge. You tend to stand in the same place.
• ESTEP - When you sprinkle the flowers, hold them higher
• STUDENTS - Hold guns during ONE DAY MORE
• ESTEP - Don't pretend to have pockets when Valjean gives you money. Just hold it in your hand
• ALEX - Have money to give to ESTEP
• TYLER - When AMY brings out the crate for ON MY OWN during THE BARRICADE, bring a book to put on it. Any book will do.
• ALEX - do all the knife business with your left hand. you can borrow the knife tomorrow afternoon if you want to pracktice
• ALEX - cut the business about the gun shot after you let Javert go. It's not necessary
• YISEON - You are singing too much upstage during JAVERT AT THE BARRICADES
• ALLIE - Take the sheet of the table, put it on the ground, strike it when you leave the scene
• CHRIS - make sure you don't see any ghosts
• VALERIE - make your storming off stormier. the audience really needs to know you are angry
• ANDY - The paper in the music stand is your prop. Set it before the house opens. Just use any scraps of paper. If you are nice to Kathy and the cute piano player in the front, they might put them on their stands for you
• ALEX - Don't smile when you are dying
• ALEX - We need to see more of a contrast between sick Valjean and free, dead Valjean. Think about the weakness of limbs and the struggle you are going through to stay alive long enough to tell Cosette you care
• LOGAN - Don't put your hand on Cosette's shoulder at the end. With both of you doing it, it looks like your are making her do something.
  

Second Dress

I forgot one important thing about tomorrow: Wednesday is performance conditions, so no watching from the audience, no asking for cues, if there's a problem on stage, fix it in character.

Wednesday's schedule:
3:30 - 3:50 => ABC CAFE
3:50 - 4:00 => LITTLE COSETTE
4:00 - 5:00 => JAKE + SOUND EFFECTS WORK
5:00 - 5:50 => DINNER
5:50 - 6:00 => HOW TO HANG COSTUMES W/ MR. CARTER
6:00 - 6:30 => GET INTO COSTUMES, CHECK PROPS, WARM UP
6:30 - 10:00 => RUN SHOW

Tonight's notes:

• CONNOR - 1000% better as the Bishop
• ANDY - do not move the light off stage until it is completely out
• JULIA - remind me to talk to James about your hair moment
• TAYLOR - While pushing KLEIN brought some much needed energy to the stage, it may have been a little too hard.
• ASHBURN - We need to see you in more pain once you get up from the crash
• EVERYONE - Whoever pulls the cyc in THE CART CRASH needs to do so as soon as the on lookers begin to exit the stage
• EVERYONE - Dialogue is frequently in the context of a conflict that demands one character trying to persuade another in some way. Are you trying to convince someone of something? Convince them! Don't try to convince the audience you care. Convince the person or persons to whom you are speaking. Also, think about the stakes of the arguement: what do you stand to lose if you fail to be persuasive? what is on the line?
• ALEX - More stage presence
• EVERYONE - I don't know who strikes the bed after FANTINE'S DEATH, but you forgot.
• HOLLY - Go easy on the bottle. Drink about half as much.
• LOGAN - When you have your *special moment* in THE BARGAIN, you are speaking to Fantine. Look high in the sky to a fixed point and keep your gaze, there.
• EVERYONE - Louder in THE BEGGARS
• VALERIE - Watch your light in RUE PLUMET. Do not go too far stage left.
• CHRIS AND VALERIE - Get used to reacting to Eponine's scream. I know you can't hear it now, but you need to be startled by it. Really startled.
• DANNY - Get one of your ASMs to have a push broom she can use to brush off the food Eponine throws at Cosette during THE BARGAIN. She can do this while the cyc is drawn before THE BEGGARS.
• LOGAN, ASHBURN, ALLIE, ALEX, CHRIS - Move all the stuff for THE SEWERS stage left about three and a half feet
• BRAD - White athletic socks are not part of period costume.
• JULIA - Be sick in THE DOCKS. I'm not seeing it at all.
• VALERIE - Talk to me tomorrow about spurning Valjean in MARIUS & COSETTE