Notes - 04/29

ANNIE notes: Sunday, April 26

Monday and Tuesday we will have curtain at 4:00 and we will run the whole show, however long that takes.

Act 1
Grand drape: please work on opening in one, continuous motion.
Orphans: I could not hear the “Good night, Annie…” lines.
ALL: starting this afternoon actors can no longer be in the house during the show.
Molly: I could not hear “you must be real sick”
Props: The buckets still have labels that need to be removed and could be distressed a little more
Orphans: You were late sometimes on when you put down your buckets in HKL
Props: We need more ordinary bed pillows
Props: Where was the bag Mr. Bundles brings in with clean sheets? Kathy W was to have brought it in for you.
Molly: I did not hear “help, I’m stuck”
Cues: Is Ms. Spies being cued to bring Chanel?
Annie: Do you know how to cue Sandy to sit?
Flies: Do you need help with bringing in the street backdrop?
Sound: We need a siren during the Hooverville scene
Hooverville: pick up your cues
Soren: open up more when you read from the newpaper
Mr. Barnes: Hooverville was a little too quick
Hooverville: clean up your choreography
Orphans: don’t start to line up for Little Girls until the 4 orphans are first kicked out.
Props: Hannigan is still missing props for her desk. See Ms. Hannigan for what those are.
Orphans: don’t line up until after Officer Ward has left. You should follow behind Grace when she comes on.
Grace: You need more “style” to your hair. Do you have ideas for how it should look?
Hannigan’s desk was too far stage left
Shift crew: how can we tighten up the shift from Hannigan to Warbucks? Can the stairs be coming on as Hannigan’s wagon leaves?
Servants: don’t put down the carpet. You carry it on and right back off stage on the other side of the stage… it’s going to “another room”
Mrs. Pugh: Don’t enter and wait while Drake is dancing. Come on just as you’re introduced to Annie
Grace: clearer with the motion picture camera pantomime
Warbucks: project and articulate
ALL: project and articulate
ALL: if you can see the audience, they can see you
Props: where is the frankfurter vendor’s box/crate?
Curtain: late for NYC
Street people: you’re exiting too late in NYC
Costumes: Can the Boylan’s have coats during NYC?
Lt. Ward: FYI you have a brief scene after NYC
Cues: Was Sandy cued after NYC
Props: Miss Hannigan needs tweezers
Cues: Why wasn’t Grace cued?
Tech: remove the film from the Hannigan door’s window
Lily: You forgot to close the door again.
Crew: For Warbucks, a reminder that you can bring on more than one thing at a time. Have an actor help if you need
Crew: where were the flowers on the table when the table came back out in Act 1?
Grace: exit USL, not DSL before Warbucks solo
Crew: careful not to crowd the furniture for Warbucks… have a little spack between the table and the chairs
Warbucks: Your scene with the locket… slow down and articulate.
Warbucks: I did not hear “I’ll get her a brandy”
Servants: Open up and back up more when Warbucks is on the phone during “You Won’t Be An Orphan For Long”…. People in the left side of the house can’t see him at all.
Curtain comes down just as the music swells and finishes at the end of Act. I.

Act 2
Mr. Barnes: Where will you be standing during the show? We can’t have you standing where you are currently… a lot of audience members are not going to be able to see.
Mr. Barnes: tempo on “Fully Dressed” was too fast in the radio station, and then too slow in the orphanage.
Fred/Wacky: talk into Bert’s microphone
Crew: mid curtain was late being opened to the orphanage.
Lily: Rooster should be wearing your hat. See the costumers about a different hat for you.
Props: we need a fake knife
Crew: why don’t the actor’s playing FDR’’s cabinet bring on the desk?
Marine guard: slick back your hair and carry your hat under your arm. Also work on a more military style of turning as you exit.
FDR cabinet: become more and more optimistic as you sing “Tomorrow”
FDR: either wheel yourself or have someone wheel you stage right to Annie as she is getting ready to exit so that you’re out of the way for those who need to cross to the left, and you’ll be more open as you sing the reprise.
FDR: please review your lines
Props: where are the questionnaires that Grace is looking through from the prospective parents?
Annie/Grace: don’t throw away your lines as you become sad. It’s hard to hear them right now.
Crew: we need to hear the sound of crashing when Grace exits, before she says she’s ok.
Annette and Cecille: you can’t enter from SR as that’s the front entrance, technically. Can you come from upstairs, then take Annie back upstairs?
Warbucks: push off the settee, don’t pick it up and carry it.
Mr. Barnes: “Gussie her Up” from I Don’t Need Anything But You was too quick.
Props: where are the driver’s license and birth certificate for Rooster to have, and the check for Warbucks?