Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2019 0:03:05 GMT
Respond as requested to these notes. You have until Monday at 2:30!
We had a lot of late people today and some of them didn’t give us any notice. Remember you have to do that if you know you’re not going to make it on time. It’s not as big of a deal as it will be 2 weeks from tonight...opening night!
(ducks)
Here are notes from Act 2 today:
I told everyone who was here at 2:30 to get their mics and be ready and warmed up by 2:45. They didn’t really do a bang up job on spreading that info, but it gave the pit a great warm up to work with.
Remember when the music gets spooky/scary/ominous that’s when Belle comes out. Other clues are the forest appearing on the white curtain.
Cast who is in the next part with the castle, don’t hang back until the entire scene is set. As soon as the chair is there, the beast needs to be in it and the dialogue needs to begin. Do not wait.
Stage Crew was really not on it here for Something There. No table? I thought we established that it comes out with the rest of the stuff.
Mrs. Potts/Belle and the soup...you don’t rush the soup scene. It’s cut from the Broadway version, but there is plenty of time to do it here. Belle exits moments before the Beast sings and makes it obvious that she’s looking at him as he leaves. Beast had 30 more seconds after Belle left before he sang today. He sings about her just now glancing at him as she leaves. Belle, make that glance obvious.
P 72 Beast “forget for a little while” You dropped the last 4 words.
Beast and Belle you can slow down your library scene. It’s literally supposed to end with the music ending. You had a bit of time.
Collin- Challenge time: Get the script out of your hands on Monday. You’re doing great, but that script is in your way. You’ve come very far for not having this part very long.
(side note: Did anyone show Collin how to sign up for this thing?)
Beast and Belle- Same thing with the 2nd library scene. Too fast.
Human Again ensemble- You need to be looking at the audience...not each other.
Maison des Lunes
You know the song...work on making it more evil, plotting and sinister. This really shows us how evil Gaston is that he would even do something like this... We don’t want the audience feeling sorry that the Beast kills him later.
Lefou- Your mic wasn’t picking up too well during the song. It was on though. Was it close to your mouth?
Good job Cogsworth, Lumierre and Beast remembering that your scene begins right after Maison des Lunes ends. If we can get everyone to exit not in their way that would be awesome. Stage crew needs to practice that scene change. It was...interesting.
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Mrs Potts- You forgot the words to one of the most famous songs in Disney history?
We need a sound crew because I need to work with the light crew. This show is so D’Arque.
Beast- Why do you walk past Belle and go to Lumierre and Cogsworth when you say “I must speak from...” ? They are just in the shadows cheering you on and encouraging you. You look at them, see them and take your cue from them. Belle should not know that they are there.
Belle- When you run off for what we think is the last time, we should have you run off stage right. Because you’re colliding with characters coming on and we’ve already established that stage right is where you and Maurice entered the castle. It would make sense that it is also the exit.
Beast “If I Can’t Love Her” you sang the first 2 lines wrong. You started with “No words..” It starts with “No spell...”
Scene 5- Page 86.
Belle and Maurice come on as the white curtain is closing. We need to make sure you finish your dialogue a teensy bit earlier.
Side note: Cast is doing a great job making sure the mics are off when they are off stage. I appreciate that as your acting sound person. Remember when you are on stage, I can’t crank up your voice. You do need to project into them. Some of you barely registered, and some of you were perfect!
Belle- A Change in Me— When you move somewhere and stand, stand still...you kind of dance a little. Don’t sing your last line walking behind Maurice. That looked weird. You didn’t do it the 2nd time.
Belle and Gaston – You need to work out the slap scene before Monday.
Gaston- You need to cheat out a lot. You spend too much time looking upstage (towards the back) and you’re doing a show for your audience not the actual mob. You don’t have to look at who you are talking too. Pretend the mob is all around you (like in a circle.) Make the audience part of your mob! Side note: Are you really Gaston? Because you swing around a lot and stand and move like a teenager. Remember how Kesler told you how to walk and move? You totally lost that.
Those “I ams” were so fake sounding. Do you want to kill this Beast or not?
Battle scene was way off from the music. Lumierre was saying “sacre bleu!” during fun jaunty music... It was better the 2nd time. We need to work this Battle again. We’ve been using the pit music to stage it, but part of the problem maybe how different the pit sounded today.
One of the problems is right at the beginning... The main enchanted objects charged to early. Listen the music and charge on the “charge” music.
Beast—That is glass covering your rose. You need to be 100% careful with that. It’s Stadium High School’s and they actually had that custom made for them. We can’t replace it. If it shatters because you bumped into it... you’ll see a grown man cry.
Gaston- Slow down your dialogue. Watch the movies. Gaston doesn’t speed though his dialogue. It’s slow and deliberate. I believe the main score does show when Gaston is supposed to say his lines. They are definitely not one on top of the other. I suggest watching the fight scenes from other versions of the show on Youtube. Notice how the Beast is taunted and abused by Gaston because the Beast has given up.
Fight- We worked this out with the pit music. What happened? We worked on this for sooooo longggggggg....
“Is This Home” – We’ll need to get all of that dialogue in before Belle starts singing.
Belle and Beast Kiss- You do know you’ll have to do that, right?
Transformation- We should take time on Wednesday or Thursday and work out how this will look exactly. The plan is to keep Beast and Belle in the dark and to have lights flashing and fog machines galore to cover them. We need to figure out how to change Morgan from Beast to Prince in the time given (which is plenty) and not make it look like we’re hiding what is obviously an ordinary make up change. We don’t have the ability to do like they did on Broadway where they hooked the Beast onto wires, raised his body and spun him around a dozen times. I know a way to do that without wires and actors in black clothing, but it would require picking up Morgan from the ground and lifting him up... If you want to try it...I would not say no.
After the kiss- The objects with lines need to be onstage and saying that dialogue. You’ll mess up the ending if you wait or hesitate. Don’t rush your lines though. That also doesn’t help either. By rushing you actually did catch up and overtake the music. Which was kind of good, I guess?? If you aren’t sure of your music cues, watch a version on Youtube and forward to this scene. You’ll notice that the music changes with each entrance.
When Belle and Beast are dancing, everyone should be watching them. I’m seeing people looking at the pit..at each other...at the floor... You were just transformed from objects into people and it’s because of these 2 people! Smiling would be good too. Because you’re happy? Right?
That’s it.
You have a generous weekend to read the notes and should have them checked by 2:30 on Monday.
In the meantime, go over EVERYTHING this weekend. I highly looking at the music and the choreography. When we meet on Monday, we’ll be a mere 7 rehearsals from an actual audience. That is going to go soooooo fast.
There’s already a thread about next week. Take a look at it. We want to focus on getting some things down before we start running through Act One and (maybe) Act Two on Monday. There’s a great show in here somewhere and this is the week that we bring it out. It’s not going to be great unless we all band together and work to make it great.