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