Notes for April 27
General notes:
ALL: review your scripts. We’re starting to get some paraphrasing and missing some lines.
The tech crew needs to rehearse some of their scene changes. As a result, we will need to move the curtain time to 5:00 instead of 4:00. Please adjust your call time accordingly. If we are able to start at 5:00, the show will run to roughly 7:30.
Actors who wear mics: make sure you get your sound check in with Connor. See him when you arrive as to when he wants to do this with you.
Before curtain, we will need to run the “Gussier Her Up” sequence with the orchestra.
Parents: If you’d like to take some photos that require a flash, today would be the best day to do so, as tomorrow we’ll have an invited audience.
No personal things should be left backstage.
Tonight, younger kids are going to have the cafeteria as their green room.
Don’t touch things that aren’t yours. Several costumes are turning up missing. In addition, don’t go into the dressing rooms unless you are asked to—the costume crew is working hard on finishing the costumes and need some space.
Act 1:
Connor: Make sure you talk with Mr. Barnes on how you will communicate with he and the house manager on when we can start the show.
Mr. Barnes: please bring a piano light
ALL: you can’t come into the house once the show has started. We need to practice what a real show night will look like.
Molly: louder on your line “you must be really sick”
Props: where is Bundles’ bag?
Flies: street scene is taking too long
Connor: can you burn a copy of the voice over for the Hannigan’s to practice with if they need?
Mr. Barnes: when will I see your real position during the show?
Lights: is the SL burn barrel working?
Breanna and Gracie: don’t be caught behind the group infront of you during the leg choreography in Hooverville.
I can’t hear the orphans on Hannigan’s section infront of the curtain before Little Girls
Orphans: louder a little sooner during Little Girls when she opens the door to quiet you down.
Mr. Barnes: Little Girls had problems aligning with Hannigan.
Props: missing things in Hannigan’s desk. See me if you need to know what.
Tech: Remove the film over the window to Hannigans office door.
Connor: we need to rehearse scene changes.
Hastie sisters: Don’t enter the dressing rooms unless you have been asked to do so.
Mrs. Pugh: louder on your lines
Annie: Where is your coat?
Men: bring black socks. We don’t have any here for you.
Lights: why isn’t the street lamp working?
Props: if we’re using a tray for the hot dog vendor then we’ll need hot dogs for it.
Connor: Please ask Josh/Liam when the NYC backdrop is being fixed
Officer Ward: wait until they start NYC the second time to interrupt them
Flies: the NYC backdrop does not go out until after Sandy exits
Lights: don’t go out while Sandy has not yet entered
Mr. Barnes: do we have music to cover the NYC to Hannigan change?
Rooster: we see you waiting behind the door to enter.
Lily: when you enter, you take the radio off the desk and put t on the floor by the desk
ALL MEN: be thinking of how you’ll wear your hair. Look on line for pictures if you need to know what 1930’s men’s hairstyles looked like.
Warbucks: was your mic on in the Tiffany’s scene?
Grace: you should exit where Annie is going to come from when Warbucks sends you to get her.
Warbucks: really think about what you’re singing in “Why Change a Thing”. Don’t be afraid to show us the emotion that he’s feeling and the contradiction.
Mr. Barnes: Won’t be An Orphan For Long was sounding thin.
Servants: really sing out on WBAOFL
Annie: have your journal on the top of the stairs
Act 2
Studio people: you look like you’re marking. Really think about what’s going on in the scene and commit to it.
Orphans: louder on your lines around the radio.
Lily: you should have a hat as Mrs. Mudge
Rooster: don’t take out a cell phone
Props: where is Rooster’s knife?
Mr. Barnes: Easy St. reprise had a rough start
Sam Selbie: you need a tie
Tech: the radio nees to be on the SL side of the desk.
FDR and Perkins: FDR should wave to Perkins to turn off the radio right before the voice over finishes, and Perkins turns it off.
Men: reminder, your hair should be styled for the 1930’s
Annie: Careful, you were sharp during “Tomorrow”
FDR Cabinet: All but Emily Krause look bored or angry when you should be looking enthusiastic. Remember, you are starting to become optimistic.
Sam S: Push FDR SR to talkto Annie as she’s about to exit so that he’s out of the way for your crosses at the end, and we see him better.
Mrs. Greer: are you wearing ankle socks?
Spot: you should be on during Something Was Missing
Warbucks: don’t say “sorry” if you make a mistake
Warbucks: really articulate “I want to adopt you”
Mr. Barnes: problems with Something Was Missing
Where was the crash when Grace exits and then says “She fine”
ALL: project during the next scene with Annie
Warbucks: make sure it sounds like you think Grace looks very pretty
ALL: don’t break character, even if the music is not the tempo you were expecting
Mr. Barnes: “Gusier Her Up” was too fast.
Mr. Barnes: in general I Don’t Need Anything But You had problems.
Props: where are the birth certificate etc?
Rooster: find a piece of paper or something if they don’t have a prop for you.
TECH: we should find a different extention cord…we see the orange one too well.
Props: Where was the check?
Mikey G: Bring FDR onstage upstage R, not downstage
Drake: you entered too early
Rooster: you entered too soon and we lost several lines
Rooster: don’t show that you see a problem with the check until just as you are reading “the jig is up”
Mr. Barnes: New Deal For Christmas was a bit quick
FDR: you were slow on entering with “On Swanson…”
Orphans: don’t get so caught up with your presents that you miss crossing to Sandy. Also, take care of your presents. They need to look nice for two weeks
Chorus: You entered a little late for “bows”
Mr. Barnes: go right into the exit/curtain call from the bows
ALL: faster for the curtain call or we’ll run out of music.
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