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.
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