Note on Run #1

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- Waterhouse

Run #1

-       Backups need to practice together in front of the mirror!

-       Brod review timing of Wake Me Up

-       1^st time seeing everyone since summer. And more movement until end of song – do NOT walk straight to spots.

-       Kids in America too slow

-       Confidence Makenzie!

-       Jessica – yay for energy and shining star-ness!

-       Louder on Kids

-       Thanks, Ezra, for changing where you’re standing on Kids!

Assembly

-       Faster to Assembly – no exit, just sit!

-       Ezra – tuck t-shirt in

-       Alf and Kirk – start to applaud, then awkward no applause

-       Cheyenne – hide white bra strap

-       Great pace and enunciation, Zach!

-       Stay frozen!  It’s really obvious when someone moves, since everyone else is so good!

Girls Just Wanna

-       No talking!  (mics not always muted)

-       Cheyenne – nice eyeshadow!

-       - Jessica and Kailey cheat out more

-       Jocks – don’t hug the curtain and shallower diagonal

-       Jocks – strut in sync?

-       Billy – cuff Huey when he’s being dumb

-       Huey – other MJ noise for 1^st one

-       Jonah – smoother “(other sentence)….Hey, Tiff" pickup

-       Girls – be excite for song!  That’s why you just can’t help but dance!

-       Nice smiles, Kacey, Jessica, Becky, Chrsitina, Angelina

-       Boys – less cool, more horny

-       Move to cube with purpose and smiles!

Footloose

-       Chism – say line w/o mic, then get it for the song

-       Jocks – hitch up jacks for butt twitches

-       Look up at us, not at the ground on foot work and skiing

-       Nice “whoos!” girls!  (boys step it up)

-       Robert – don’t hide behind A/E

-       Yay, Steven for picking this up!

-       Hold “Yeah!” until Blk

Evil Kenivel

-       Ladies – have to cheat out more in lines!

-       Girls – really show disgust at A/K force chock

-       “What chu looking at fool” not the same as “Willis”

-       Love the backpack look, Feargal!

-       Anthony – “be in the 90s” (like "be in the year 3000!”)

-       Anthony – more sarcastic for “Rusians”

-       Nice reaction to phone, girls (Kailey) and boys!

-       Feargal – “How gnarly” instead of “Oh Mylanta!”

-       Great keeping focus, Zach!

-       Nice casual paper drop and palming of it

-       No exit, jocks, just go to setas

Election Assembly

-       No sitting until Mr. Cocker says to

-       Set boxes before scene (who brings on)

-       Jonah – work the crowd!

-       Nice outfits, girls!

-       Cheerleaders “run” to Mickey

-       Jonah – good hold off after "Hell"

-       Maybe slower rap to understand his words?

-       Like the reading glasses, Reb.

-       Corey give Michael a dirty look?  Help clairfy what happened

-       Students – nicer with applause

-       Kacey and Kate –you’re so cute!

-       Michael A. – hold off question until after laugh

-       Rochelle – nice attitude after CD, cheat out to aud for question

-       Corey, Cheyenne, Michael – show us how weird Feargal’s song/ proposal is (you’re in sight of aud.)

-       I like Mr. C. confiscating the football!

-       Crowd – a bit more “talk” about Feargal’s weird song

-       Rebecca – add line “Okay, Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time to vote!”

-       Nice accessories Becky, Victoria, Joleigh

-       Students “discuss” once you finish voting until Miss B. calls them back

-       Feargal – hold note in star position instead of collapse

-       Help the nerds change the set!

Dream Sequence

-       Great Yoda/Obi voices, A.K

-       Make sure blacks are all the way closed

-       Antony – 2^nd force line with L hand instead (to keep from blocking face)

-       Nice robe, Ezra

-       Cute picture, Cheyenne!

-       Yay Death Star!

-       Yay Leia!

-       All Star Wars costumes – Yay!

-       Light Saber?

-       Darth no block hands?

-       Watch floppy hand!

-       Close blacks after E crosses

-       Ez – wake up from dream and check for hand

Let’s Hear It

-       Practice Desk Moving?

-       Jacob – have clipboard for roll

-       Eileen, Bran – cheat out

-       Check dialogue lines (missed cues?)

-       Ezra – I like the no overshirt for this scene

-       Students – vocal reaction to Corey’s concert

-       Kate – watch hair (need to turn a bit more) & set slightly farther back

-       Kacey and Kate – run to front of desks

-       Show off the boys – come downstage and show us

-       Hold off on photos until 2^nd verse/chorus

-       Kate – cue for verse

-       Be on trap or in front of Blackboard, hand off photos to Eileen instead of students

-       Mr. Cocker – wait to see her to get the flowers, Bran enter sooner? (whoever gives mic to her be 1^st off)

-       Kiss – way too close, no room to move in, hence awkwardness

-       Miss B. – great look.  Maybe scruncie instead of red elastic

-       Be waiting in the wings to get the desks!

Proclaimers

-       Joleigh – acoustic guitar

-       Cubes? Crowd?  Set change too slow

-       Huey stand so we can see you when you talk

-       Sunglasses work!

-       Plaid shirt for Jonah?  (Kacey needs it)

-       Crowd – react to song!  A) It’s an awesome song.  B) The boys are good at it

-       **Learn blocking! (with me)

-       Jonah – tie with sleevs in back, hold off until you see what Corey’s done (you’re copying him again)

-       Ezra use guitar?  E first, then J

-       Take off sunglasses at end of song so we can see your awesome Madonna contemplation

-       Crowd can react to rejection

Magazine/Letter

-       Jacob – You rock!  You’ve been consistently the one who’s making sure things get done.  Thank you!

-       Make sure you have your props!

-       Boys, pull it together.  Really shaky opening

-       Billy – you can skip to the end.

-       Huey – say, “Yeah, with extra pickles!” for joke

-       Freeze between cuts

-       Awesome shoes, Chism

-       Nice folder, Eileen

-       Jocks – hold on top of platforms for girls laugh

-       Jacob – reveal to aud. after swimsuit yes, at "Mother Say"!

-       RUN THIS SCENE FOR DIALOGUE!

-       Jacob – you stay, Reb. goes when you point

Man in Mirror

-       Jacob – point feet at Zach’s hovel

-       Jacob – loosen tie ‘cause you’re cool?

-       Yay Mak. Ezra for quietly jamming along, getting into it!

-       Chorus – Na’s (forgot cue?  Super quiet)

-       Jacob – look at Reb. “Could it be?” line together

-       Louder “Washed out dream” (but good cue)

-       Jocks – no banner.  Maybe posters take down?

-       Hold and face aud for raps, remember? “If you want to make the world a better place” etc.

Act II

Nothin’s Gonna

-       No sunglasses for concert

-       Good vol. Mak. & Jessica

-       Side to side’s fine, but do it all together

-       No semi-circle, instead do platforms like risers

-       Nice hair volume Christina!

-       For last chorus add arm waves

-       Nice grooving, Chris

Love Shack/Eclipse

-       Ezra, unzip jacket after concert and no jacket at party

-       Set up house  during scene before (table, cups, TV, Atari,  couch)

-       Boys swim suits?

-       Yay, Victoria and

-       Nice Sage & Cyndi

-       Trap on floor

-       Reb. add pearls for both dresses

-       Sammy – set out light in intermission,

-       Ezra review Eclipse

Walking on Sunshine

-       Michael – snap for Huey to give you his back to write on

-       Feargal – missed entrance/Zach late line (p. 42)

-       Feargal – paint the fence move is different

-       Zach, review lines in this scene

-       Girls enter chatting

-       Eileen get mic from Jock??

-       Watch curtain gap UR

-       Michael’s name gets the biggest squeals/reactions of all

-       Ladies, go over lines for scene

-       Christina – sing to letter for “yous” at the beginning of your song

-       Christina – you sound great now look confident (don’t make the last of the jazzy good a question)

Car

-       Ezra – mic?

-       Zach – Less onstage as show goes on

-       Cheyenne – thanks for compensating for no mic

-       Jonah – ride on standing up?

-       Jonah – mic off?

-       Chorus – face toward audience as you circle

-       Maybe not so many sit on it (sinks a lot)

Centerfold

-       Jacob “That image of you pops into my head” – “image” – dirty!

-       Enter like students – talking, etc. until Jacob yells at you

-       Jacob – tells us!

-       Whoo!  Rebecca!

-       Jacbo – push her behind the chalkboard instead of lift

-       Rebecca – ditch mic for dance (you’re loud enough)

Lost in Your Eyes

-       Christina Letter!

-       Christina – sing off stage at J’s back

-       Nice smile, Michael

-       Girls – what happened to the movement?  You’re frozen!  Frozen is bad!

Never Gonna

-       Nice outfit, Steven!

-       Cyndi – the outfit works

-       Stick of gum?

-       Great dancing Billy, nice expression Cyndi

-       Steven – review song with Walters

-       Good reactions to “sick” Joleigh and Victoria

-       Mel, Kim, Tiffany run on earlier (cross with Billy)

-       Cyndi – keep punchline (“cheap”) out to the audience

Material Girl

-       Chism – Walk away hand

-       Katie – way to play off scared of being drop in character

-       Chris – no reaction if you miss it!

-       Yay everyone else for “Rich” jackets bit

-       Ditch the hearts when?

Fight Scene

-       No use of balcony (it’s not masked)

-       No reaction to mic issues

-       Chris – stand on stairs instead?

-       Jonah – “Well, um…” – as if you’re about to say yes!

-       Emily, Mak. Joleigh good reastions

-       Feargal stop Jonah earlier, Jonah circle instead of straight line if needed

-       Jonah, pocket mic after last line

-       Sound effects on mic? (Chism)

Cheer up

-       Eileen sob into hands at opening

-       Slow down, Eileen & louder

-       Ezra – get lines down for the scene, and keep going over Kirk’s line (Kirk just run on top)

-       Anthony’s mic?

-       Need a note to start song?

-       Snap for Don’t Worry, arms and rock for “Come on Eileen”

-       Eileen (& all) – hold for applause

-       Jonah’s big ears?

-       Ezra other hand?

Teachers Makeup

-       No table/chair (just run into each other)

-       “Great” Jacob, sounded dull.  Be thrilled!

Prom

-       Nice costumes for Prom!

-       Prop mic for Feargal?

-       Jacob – measure someone DSC so we know why you have that.

-       Joleigh – add a sash?

-       Cheyenne – have underslip for top?

-       Chris – prom socks & glove?

-       R&J hold center until “principal”

-       Crowd – remember, you need to migrate more.

-       Zach – “dating a fashion designer” hard to understand – keep up the slow pace and enunciation you had at the beginning

Bows

-       Jacob and Rebecca play with each other

-       Nice crowd dancing on Laura and Debbie;s

-       Wait for mic on SL

-       Jonah – roll up shirt sleeves with jacket sleeves (love the pastel!)

-       Nice energy on Da da das

Change mics before you change costumes (be there to get it!)