Below are all of Ms. Mason and my notes from the second run on Saturday. It's in show-order, but I listed the person/people each note pertains to in the column on the left for easier scanning.
If you'd rather see it in spreadsheet form so you can sort it by name, the link for that is here.
Please remember to leave a comment (or email me if you have issues with commenting) that proves you read and remember your notes!
See you tomorrow!
Waterhouse
| Act 1 | ||
| All | Overture | Review your cue for the "la la"s and "Josephs" in the overture to sing into Mic 11 |
| Narrators | PROLOGUE | Better emotions/and gestures! |
| All | Any Dream Will Do | Good note of change of entrance to the house, everyone. It looked much more dynamic |
| Jonah | Any Dream Will Do | Jonah – let’s slow you down and hop up on stage at “And in the east” |
| Brothers | Girls playing boys – let's butch you up with makeup - thicker eyebrows, maybe some stubble on jawline | |
| Narrators | Jacob and Sons | Come to center and x DS over the brassy horns at the top of this song |
| ALL | Jacob and Sons | Shout the Brother's names along with them |
| Chorus | Jacob and Sons | Instead of awkwardly poking through, make it natural. |
| Jonah | Joseph's Coat | Pet the sheep, make friends with it |
| Jonah | Joseph's Coat | Nice use of the block and good call kneeling next to it. Looks good! |
| Braden | Joseph's Coat | Cross to the Narrators to admire the coat from a distance when the girls crowd around Joe. |
| Brothers | Joseph's Coat | Great volume! |
| Narrators | Joseph's Coat | Cross to USC when Joe's group goes UR |
| Braden | Joseph's Coat | Cross to USC when Joe's group goes UR |
| Narrators | Joseph's Coat | Late ribbon entrance? |
| Emma | Joseph's Coat | Nice adjustment with your empty hand - you were right not to fake it with a missing wand |
| Narrators | Joseph's Dreams | Thought Bubble needs to come on sooner. Can you do it? |
| Techies | Joseph's Dreams | Corn should bow to the audience |
| Brothers | Joseph's Dreams | Much better cheating to the audience to grumble! Looks and sounds great! |
| Techies | Joseph's Dreams | We need a big star for Joseph |
| Brothers | Joseph's Dreams | Put on your gloves during the star puppetry and have your hats on before you stand to dance |
| Brothers | Joseph's Dreams | Stack your baseball hats in front of the lights to help hide them |
| Gillian | Joseph's Dreams | Find gloves. We have a lot of pairs. |
| Brothers | Poor, Poor Joseph | Take off your gloves and fedoras during the instrumental before the rap |
| Ishmaelites | Poor, Poor Joseph | Freeze after you hit your marks (end of your entrance) |
| Cameron H. | Poor, Poor Joseph | Awesome job hamming it up! You're hilarious! |
| Robert | Poor, Poor Joseph | Make sure your face is covered so we don't recognize you as Pharaoh. If your hat doesn't reach, swap hats with Maggie. |
| Brothers | One More Angel | Quicker on the hat change here |
| Brothers | One More Angel | Have the orange kerchiefs tied around your neck and tucked under your shirt to facilitate the change |
| Chorus | One More Angel | Wear your kerchiefs in other places besides the neck for diversity from the brothers |
| Johnny | One More Angel | Watch where you fight the sheep so it's not humping your face |
| Techies | One More Angel | Take off or cover up the Hawaiian bands on the cowboy hats |
| ALL | One More Angel | Be cleaner with the hat roll-off before the "Paradise" tip to the sky |
| ALL | One More Angel | Much better enthusiasm on the hoedown! |
| Hitchkickers | One More Angel | Make sure you review the video for timing your section. |
| Johnny | One More Angel | Your stage makeup looks really good. |
| Michael | One More Angel | Drop the fabric off DR at the top of the dance, not at the end. |
| Jacob | One More Angel | Just go back the way you came instead of crossing R after you get the coat. |
| Maggie | Journey to Egypt | Just stay on stage to sing your solos |
| Kristen | Journey to Egypt | Just stay on stage to sing your solos, review your part |
| Jackie | Potiphar | Much better downstairs |
| Kylen | Potiphar | Hold your head wiggle until the pause |
| Christina | Potiphar | Much better on the cross |
| Jackie | Potiphar | Stand up when you say "You're mine!" |
| Chism | Potiphar | Review the dance video for this - you missed a section |
| Jonah | Potiphar | Review the dance video for this - you missed a section |
| Kylen | Potiphar | Review the dance video for this - you missed a section |
| Shaely | Potiphar | Review the dance video for this - you missed a section |
| Chism | Potiphar | Pelvic thrusts were lost. Bigger, hammier , and cheated to the audience (or make up something of your own to fill the music) |
| Narrators | Potiphar | "Below him" |
| Jackie | Potiphar | make sure you're not covered by Kylen when you're patting Chism's cheek. Move L if you need to. |
| Jonah | Close Every | Nice coverage for the slow curtain! |
| Chorus | Close Every | RUN THE ENTRANCES |
| Kylen | Close Every | Make sure your shoulders are covered. |
| Jonah | Close Every | Really nice emotional journey on this song. You do a great job of balancing the emotions with excellent singing |
| Chorus | Close Every | Hold the turn around until the start of the next song so the candles stay "lit" through the applause |
| Narrators | Butler/Baker Dreams | Should we have you cross and circle Joseph with candles of your own during this narrative to be more dynamic? |
| Matthew | Butler/Baker Dreams | Enter UC through the curtains |
| Emma | Butler/Baker Dreams | Enter UC through the curtains |
| Matthew | Butler/Baker Dreams | Better job telling us the story! |
| Matthew | Butler/Baker Dreams | Microphone issues? |
| Emma | Butler/Baker Dreams | Microphone issues? |
| Matthew | Butler/Baker Dreams | React bigger to hearing that you'll be saved. Maybe kneeling in gratitude? Wiping a brow? |
| Sarah | Go Go | Awesome outfit! |
| Jonah | Go Go | Awesome Sha-La's with shackles! |
| ALL | Go Go | Make sure you remember the new ending to Go Go |
| Act 2 | ||
| Techies | A Pharaoh Story | Blues open when chorus starts to sing (“When Pharaoh’s around”) |
| Emily | A clip-on bowtie would nerd you up! So would emphazing the highwater pants with rolled cuffs | |
| All | The bigger Egypt makeup looks great, but EVERYONE needs to have it, not just part of the group | |
| All | Poor, Poor Pharaoh | Group enters at “Poor, Poor pharaoh, what you gonna do?” and stands in neutral until the dance starts |
| Robert | Poor, Poor Pharaoh | Enter later and in character - we can see you under the red lights |
| Narrators | Poor, Poor Pharaoh | Stay against the wall in the Narrator spot with Joseph |
| Jonah | Poor, Poor Pharaoh | Stay against the wall in the Narrator spot with Narrators |
| All | Song of the King | Better job on the dance! |
| All | Song of the King | Arms should end in a diagonal split |
| Girls | King Reprise | Stay diagonal and wide for the kickline! |
| Cameron H. | King Reprise | Stand near Cameron V. to help the showgirls down the stairs |
| Jonah | King Reprise | Let's chat about how to use the showgirls to illustrate |
| Sierra | Stone the Crows | Nice job being excited about Joe's promotion! |
| Robert | Stone the Crows | Let's thicken and blacken your eyebrows to match the eyeliner now (which looks goo!) |
| Robert | Stone the Crows | Nice reactions to the girls! |
| Narrators | Stone the Crows | Cross DS earlier so you're at the base of the stairs while the girls are fawning |
| All | Canaan Days | RUN SET CHANGE!!! |
| Brothers | Canaan Days | Review cues and exaggerate moustache reveals |
| Jacob | Canaan Days | Be sad after you cry, not just during the cry |
| Brothers | Canaan Days | HHHMMMSSS??? |
| Brothers | Canaan Days | Stand when you sing the chorus (drunkenly), then slump back when Chism sings |
| Jacob | Canaan Days | Stay passed out on the table unless you are singing |
| Chism | Canaan Days | Nice "fix your moustache before we get the women-fruit" |
| Chism | Canaan Days | Run the tango a lot. Do it in the hallway between classes |
| Michael | Canaan Days | Run the tango a lot. Do it in the hallway between classes |
| Kasey | Canaan Days | Run the tango a lot. Do it in the hallway between classes |
| Christina | Canaan Days | Run the tango a lot. Do it in the hallway between classes |
| Brothers | Canaan Days | You totally missed the ending of the song again. |
| Narrators | Canaan Days | Kasey – nice expression as they sing. Christina – be more confused about what they’re doing. |
| Brothers | Canaan Days | Add chair twirl over end instrumental before slumping down to sing to the audience |
| Emily | Back in Canaan | Much better volume on solo! |
| Brothers | Brothers Go to Egypt | It's now a curtain scene! |
| Guards | Grovel Grovel | Look at the brothers over the bowing part at the top of the song |
| Sarah | Grovel Grovel | Not bad for a sneaky entrance! |
| Narrators | Grovel Grovel | Just take this song off. You two hang out backstage for it. |
| Brothers | Grovel Grovel | Face the audience until the last possible second when you go to get the food. Your backs should be to us only for 2 seconds or less. |
| Brothers | Grovel Grovel | Someone left a purple scarf bundle on stage near the stairs in full view |
| Guards | Grovel Grovel | Face forward instead of watching Joe plant the cup. |
| Alex | Who's the Thief | Nice guard face |
| Kylen | Who's the Thief | Nice guard face |
| Emma | Who's the Thief | Nice guard face |
| Guards | Who's the Thief | You have a ton of time to cross back upstage to the cubes over the slow music. Take your time walking and don't rush. |
| Brothers | Ben. Calypso | You can acknowledge the person who gives you the hat instead of ignoring the hat's sudden appearance while you're dancing. |
| Narrators | Ben. Calypso | There will be applause after the Calypso - hold your next line for that |
| Guards | Ben. Calypso | Have some kind of Island wear for this song besides just the hat |
| Brothers | Any Dream Reprise | Nice improv with the swaying. Let's keep it just until "May I return" |
| Chism | Any Dream Reprise | Good instinct to balance the space by crossing right |
| Sierra | Any Dream Reprise | Don't hide behind Jonah |
| All | Thanks for the hard work today! The show is getting better and better and I love and appreciate every single one of you! |
I will slow down in Any Dream Will Do, pet the sheep in Joseph's Coat, review the Potiphar dance, and stay against the wall with the Narrators in Poor, Poor Pharaoh.
ReplyDelete- Jonah
Read it
ReplyDeleteI will not let the sheep hump my face, and I will review Canaan Days.
ReplyDeleteHi its Emily and I shall:
ReplyDelete-Review cues for "lalas" and "Joseph" during the overture
-Be more butched up as a bro (heavier make-up, etc.)
-Shout each of the bros names, not just my own
-Put on gloves during puppet show (and have them on me in my pocket to do so) and have my hat prepared to go on before hand
-Take off gloves and fedora before the rap
-Have baseball caps by the lights at the beginning
-Have hoe-down handkerchief tied beforehand
- Have better hat changes
-Have more enthusiasm during hoe-down
- Be better with hat roll off
- Review the hitchkick
- Keep candle lit through applause for "Close Every Door"
- Remember new ending for Go Go Jo
- Get a bow tie and roll up pants more (actually I did both and I am definitely SUPER excitingly nerdy)
-Stand neutral at beginning
-Have arm be diagonal at end of Song of the King
-Run set change for Canaan Days (ad nauseam)
- Be more dramatic with mustache reveal
-Review cues
-Stand drunkenly for chorus
-Remember when to hum
-Review ending of Canaan Days
-Add chair swivel at end
-Remember that Bros to Egypt is now a curtain scene
-Face audience as much as possible when getting food
-Make sure Canaan Days attire is put away out of sight before Grovels
-Acknowledge receiving a hat for Calypso
-Continue sways with Dream Reprise
I, Jackie, promise to make my costume and makeup better, sing all la las and then enter down aisles, make sure my hat is in the right place and it is on for the right moment, Potiphar will be better, and to make Canaan Days better(most important)
ReplyDeleteI, Shaely, will:
ReplyDelete(in Act 1)
- Review my "la, la" and "Joseph" cues in the overture
- Shout out the brother's names & stay natural in Jacob & Sons
- Be cleaner w/ the hat roll-off before "Paradise" tip
- Review my hitchkick timing and the section I missed in Potiphar
- Run the entrances in Close Every Door & hold the turn around w/ my candle lit
(Act 2)
- Keep up the bold make-up and stay diagonal and wide for the kickline in the Reprise
- Run the set changes for Canaan Days (even though I am in heels)
- In Grovel Grovel, look @ the brothers over bowing part, face forward instead of watching Joe plant cup, and take my time during the slow music
- Have Island wear for Ben. Calypso.
okie dokie so since there is a lot of chorus notes i will do them all because i am too lazy to write them down but on the specifics i will 1.enter as the pharaoh when they start singing (the narrators) 2.check the hats might switch with maggie
ReplyDeleteI'll look at when to start la las and Joseph part of the overture, shout all the brother's names with the narrators, move to the narrators and still admire Joseph's coat when the girls move in, return to the "tent" after getting the coat, work on the Close Every Door entrance and timing, remember the new Go Go Go ending, enter at the right time before song of the king and be neutral until the beginning, end with arms in diagonal split, be sad around the crying and passed out every other time, only stick out the sheep on "we are down to our very last sheep," look over the brothers when they bow, and look straight ahead at the start of Who's the Thief.
ReplyDeleteI, Kylen, will review overture, shout brothers names, hold my head wiggle, review my dances, and make sure I have my shoulders covered. This may be a double comment but my phone was being stubborn with commenting.
ReplyDeleteI, Maggie Long, solemnly swear to uphold all of these promises:
ReplyDeleteOVERTURE
- I will review cue for the "la la's" and "Josephs"
ANY DREAM WILL DO
- I will remember the new entrance change
JACOB AND SONS
- I will shout the brothers' names and I will pose more naturally at the end
POOR, POOR JOSEPH
- I will freeze once I hit my mark as an Ishmaelite
ONE MORE ANGEL IN HEAVEN
- I will wear my handkerchief somewhere other than my neck
- I will be cleaner with the hat roll off before "paradise"
- I will continue to maintain high energy for the dance
JOURNEY TO EGYPT
- I will stay on stage
CLOSE EVERY DOOR
- I will run and remember the entrance
- I will wait to turn around until the audience clapping fades
GO GO GO JOSEPH
- I will remember to add my pizzazz to my costume
- I will remember the new ending
POOR, POOR PHARAOH
- I will enter on "Poor, poor pharaoh whatcha gonna do," and stand neutral until the dance
SONG OF THE KING
- I will end the dance with the diagonal split of the arms
KING REPRISE
- I will widen and keep in the diagonal formation for the kick line
CANAAN DAYS
- I will run and remember the set change
GROVEL GROVEL
- I will look at the brothers as the bow in the beginning
- I will look forward instead of at Joseph as he plants the cup
WHO'S THE THIEF
- I will take my time to cross back upstage at the end of the song
BENJAMIN CALYPSO
- I will find some sort of island wear
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteIt seems that my nice comment i just wrote out didnt post so Im gonna try to recreate. Hi my name is state your name and I solemnly swear that i am up to no good. (sorry, had to.) Anyways, I will gladly review songs and the parts I am responsible for singing. Also, I will run the tango to no end with my good compadres. Thank you, by the way, I also thought it was funny telling Levi to fix the mustache. But yes, further than that, i'll also for sure be running the whole canaan number. Im excited about the addition of the drunken swaying and im hoping it'll do a lot to liven up our poor sad little number. I will check cues as well as lines and the dance for the potiphar scene, as I admit it needs work. I'll play with the hips and see what i can do. Thank you guys for taking the time to make sure we're succeeding. Behind the wall of whines and complaints, we really do appreciate it a lot.
Sincerely,
The Chiz man
Oh woops I probably just wrote that all out in two different comments. I just now saw the little notification saying "your comment will be visible after approval." Also i realized i began my comment with the same opening you used in the blog post. How awkward, indeed. Train wrecks are my specialty
ReplyDeleteI, Michael, promise to sing all the la las, put on the fedora and gloves earlier and take them off earlier, to drop off the fabric sooner, to exaggerate the moustache reveal and review the tango multiple times, to sing the hums and the end of Canaan days better, to acknowledge the person giving me my hat for calypso.
ReplyDelete