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!)

Notes on Run #2

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Run #2

General Notes

- Much better at freezing!

- The movement and enthusiasm is much better over all

- Girls – Cheyenne and Katie – go further UR so you can be singing to the boys

- Boys – yay!  Better timing on Footloose.  Fist, not a finger on the all backs

- Too long for change from Kissing Teachers to Proclaimers – band?  Lights?  Faster?

- For Shot point at where the woman went (off stage DR) instead at the man singing

-       Jacob move Chalkboard as soon as blackout

-       Everyone on the car – get off and immediately get desks

-       Desks on stage  - front row of desks on wing Left, 2^nd row in alcove

- Blocking change! – Billy and Backups go off UR instead (easier change for Billy, no crashing into girls)

- Material boys – all need ties (bowties? Neckties?)

- Fight Scene – E/L/D pick up hearts

- 1 girl per guy to help change

*Brod./Jonah – can we diagonal the kick?  Is that safe enough?

*Robert/Anthony/Ezra – You drop the fight news because you see Corey talking to a girl! If awkward – make it super awkward!

*Ezra, Cheyenne – make sure you’re center for the dance

- Crowd – keep slow dancing until the music picks up, then move into your circle

- Vogue hands as well as thumps for Material Girl

- Girls in bow – do Robin Bumps instead of head side-to-side

Act 1

Wake Me Up

-       Better looking, Backups, shoulder to shoulder

-       Review your words, Backups!

-       Backups – review your moves so you follow the same beat

-       Nice excitement, Anthony

-       Better greeting!

-       Great enthusiasm, Shaely & Sage

-       Ezra, tuck in your shirt

-       Love the tribal shirt, Sage

-       Emily – show the audience your camera to help us know what you’re doing before you gesture for everyone to squeeze together

-       Smile for the camera, Makenzie, Jacob, Kyle, Cyndi

-       Cheyenne – Stand further forward (Jonah shadows you)

Kids

-       Alf and Kirk – I like you tuning the radio

-       Love the movement chorus!

-       Louder singing!

-       Stop moving on “Oh, say can you see!” (and Jess, grab your hula hoops)

Assembly

-       Candidates half-stand to acknowledge your names and ID you for the audience when Bran says them

-       A/K – good job on the awkward applause

-       So much better!  You guys are doing a great job across the board!

-       Chism and boys – louder on the cat calls for Cyndi

-       Zach – the line is “I would have been happy with one girlfriend – just one” (not “happy with just one girlfriend, just one”)

-       Much better freezes!

-       Broderick freeze pushing glasses in profile to make sure you don’t look like you’re picking your nose.

-       Feargal – nice clapping for your ladies

-       Great reaction, crowd, to Feargal, but you peaked too soon – you  need to give yourselves room to build over his whole speech

-       Bell sound effect Bobbi!

Girls

-       Ezra – more enthusiastic as you list her good qualities, less depressed

-       Mel, Kim – much better cheating out!  Yay!

-       Ryan B. – White jacket for Kids, not for “normal school” scenes.

-       Chris – say your line “Twins” at the same time as the boys exclaimation “Twins!” and speak quicker.  Maybe play it as if you’re making a joke

-       Other three jocks, focus on the girls so when you give Huey a “you idiot” look, it’s more obvious

-       Boys – be horny and stand so we can see you

-       Girls – better block!

-       Boys – good applause for them!

Footloose

-       Yay Steven for taking the note to move R for the song!  Looks good!

-       Love the jacket butts, boys!

-       Boys – remember to do the chest bumps (without someone whispering “chest bumps”)

-       Feargal – you can de-wedgie as the boys circle you

-       Ryan B.  and Michael A. – smile!  You look stone faced!

Flirting, Feargal, Football

-       Cyndi – bigger sarcastic “Ooooohhh” to the board line

-       Feargal – hook holster to outside of backpack, then pull it out of the holster to answer it.

-       Ezra/Robert – maybe point out the joke that you’re putting on a charity concert to raise money for  (not cancer, not AIDS, not starving kids in Africa, but) Prom

Election

-       Boxes?  Who’s bringing them on?

-       Don’t break Feargal’s CD!!

-       Jessica – the others have blue pom in right hand

-       Ladies – stand and go upstage to center stage - face the boys instead of staying among them

-       Cheer – missed the dorky cheer rolloff (at least 2 of you did)

-       Mic needs to be center of the stage, not the platform (line up with brass plate)

-       Students – bop and “yeah” along to Michael’s rap

-       Ezra – let’s move the dirty look to after you say “The thing is…”

-       Clap for Feargal, students

-       Good pointing, Michael A.

-       Good reactions to CD Christina, Kailey, Jessica

-       Kasey – longer shirt or shorts

-       Brod – “And you remember those jingles used to go” – tell the audience that one

-       Thanks for the new line, Rebecca!

-       So cute with the box sitting, Feargal!  But let’s have you stand instead

-       Ezra, Cheyenne, Jonah – stand up together next to the cyc for the voting and afterwards (instead of sitting)

-       Kasey, Kate – stay up on cyc until blackout

Bedroom/Believe

-       Bed on sooner in blackout

-       Nice eyerolling at the Yoda questions, Ezra

-       Good sound effects, Kirk

-       Good escalation of enthusiasm in questions, Anthony

-       Ezra – add Bueller to your line (“Well, have a good day off, Bueller”) (but don’t emphasize the irony/joke - we're just making it clearer)

-       Ezra – you were right about the claps (my bad), we were just missing the spot on Zach/Makenzie

-       Ezra – maybe obviously count your friends and recall Yoda to explain to the audience why you suddenly leave

-       Ezra – fake arm is especially obvious when you’re practicing the light saber.  Can you bend the elbow?  Hook the hand in the belt?

-       Robert – R2 waddles like a penguin more than shuffles on knees

-       Sage – need to take Ms. Mason’s note about your exit (finger up to give advice, then no, shake head)

-       Steven, thanks for taking your notes.  Like the gun!

Let’s Hear It

-       If the lights come up in the classroom while you’re adjusting a desk, play it off as you would in a classroom

-       Better cheating out, Eileen/Bran!

-       Ezra – good sneaking in late, since you had to

-       Ezra – “Corey said she has a thing for them as well”… wait, who said that?

-       Jacob – nice use of chalk! Very natural to check the dust on your hands

-       Better reaction, class, to concert

-       Zack – you don’t need to stand to say “This should be interesting” – just turn to us

-       Go to trap over 1^st Chorus

-       1 Photo per line

-       Good fumbling, Eileen

-       Girls –react to the pictures, sing to them, Eeee over them!

-       Change of line:

o   Rebecca “Hi Sweetie!”

o   Jacob (Gets the flowers) “Surprise!”

o   Rebecca “What’s this for?”

-       Love the awkward chalking when Kasey runs in, Jacob!

Proclaimers

-       Jonah – stand where Jessica is sitting (on platforms next to bench) and come down stairs

-       Jonah – no glasses at top of song (ah, good, you fixed it)

-       Background people – well, I’m glad you fixed the props, but it was WAY too distracting the way it was handled

-       Yay Steven, Jessica, Mak. for jamming along

-       Ez, Jonah – better at the challenging each other!

-       Guitar bit?  What happened to it?

-       Jonah – wait to get skirt until you see Ez do it

-       Good crowd reaction to “brother” line

Letter/Magazine

-       Jocks – if you need a bit more time, fine.  Jacob’s there, he’ll just read the magazine.

-       Steven – read the lines of the letter a bit more like the songs (follow the rhythms)

-       Steven – make sure it’s in Eileen’s locker (3^rd over)

-       Jacob – maybe no feet on feet of table?  Looks a little youthful

-       Jacob – show us the magazine cover as you show Bran.

– Bran – react when you see the magazine cover – you know what it is!

-       Girls – freeze between cuts and freeze in bigger poses (like Rebecca’s finger up “Not Nude” pose)

-       Jacob – Way to carry on with the song!

-       Front row – What happened? Half of you missed the entrance?

Man in the Mirror

-       Rebecca – when you join in for that 1^st line, cross to Cocker and put your hand on his shoulder, then Jacob pull away DS

-       Chorus – a bit more excited at the chorus “I’m starting with” (you’re at a 2, make it 4)

-       Nice energy, Rebecca on the end!

-       Chorus – you need to build to the stand up so there’s a reason to stand and sing

-       Jonah – after the locker bit, step to the side for Feargal to open the door and sing there – oh, good, you did it at the end.  Let’s do it earlier

Act 2

Nothing’s Gonna

-       Samara – can you leave an undershirt between the bikini and the sheer?  It’s a little too immodest for a school concert

-       Better formation!  I like it better than the semi-circle

-       Justin – can you stand up for your guitar solo?

Love Shack/Eclipse

-       Ezra – the jacket stands out too much for the era.  Let’s ditch it for the concert

-       Jonah – cheat out!  You’ve got your back to us more than half the time

-       Steven – run out all the way to the lights

-       Chism – face us for the rap

-       Everyone move downstage – stop hugging the curtain

-       Hot tubbers, use your upper body to dance along

-       Were still missing a large portion of dancers using swan arms.  We divided you, why are some not doing them?  Also, arms go all the way over your head, not just up to shoulder height.

-       Quicker set change!  Party goers all come back on after Eclipse to help!

Walking on Sunshine

-       Christina – good “Ooh!  That’s me!”

-       Kate – I like your growly voice as you read the letter.

-       Kate – build the excitement as you read “Michael FELDMAN!!!!”

-       Kasey –review your cue line for the song!  (Well said like a 12-year-old girl, Mr. Walters!)

-       Much better confidence and smiles, Christina!

-       Jocks enter DS so you can go all the way up without the weird steps

-       Looks good with the jocks!

-       Make valentines

-       Jocks – need to work on strutting, especially not putting your backs and heads to the audience

-       Girls – shut the locker after you pull out the Valentines

Car

-       Jonah – try not to give driving instructions (“Left, Left”) – your mic is live right before you come on

-       Jonah – check the Hey, You timing – it feels off

-       Good adjust for space, Jocks

-       Everyone UR (behind the car) go up on the platform

-       Love the rooftop pose, Jonah!

Centerfold

-       Jacob move Chalkboard as soon as blackout

-       Everyone on the car – get off and immediately get desks

-       Desks on stage  - front row of desks on wing Left, 2^nd row in alcove

-       Yay for taking the “talk to the audience” note, Jacob!

-       Reb – maybe every other snap to have quicker rip off?

-       Not in sync with the dance right before “1, 2, 3, 4”

-       Weak ending – Actors, don’t fade out with the music

Move the Corey/Kirk desks first as blues are shutting, then the rest

Lost in Your Eyes

-       Christina – PROP!!!

-       Jonah – stop talking into your mic off stage

-       Jonah – great holding pose.  It’s good!  It’s funny!

-       Jonah – move cube off other way, by chance?  Zach’s spotlight bleeds

Never Gonna Give You Up

-       Better sync, backup girls!  Keep working on it – make it awesome.

-       Billy – on the “Ooh, Give you Up!” lines, turn (partially) to your backups and encourage them to amp it up to impress Cyndi

-       Backups – if Billy misses the words, stick with your original move order instead of trying to match him.

-       Thanks, Jessica, for adjusting yourself out of the line

Material

-       Looks much better in sync, boys!

-       Boys – look straight out from your body for heart thumps

-       Boys toss hearts at diamond part

Fight Scene

-       Chris – great “casual” against the locker

-       Chism –quicker on the “Yeah” for Kasey’s turn

-       Jonah/Brod – I like Jonah stopping on the platform

-       Chism – you’re doing a new sound effect and reacting still!  Go you!

Cheer Up, Eileen

-       Kasey, Kate – get the other two cubes for Eileen’s bench!

-       Nice scene, Ezra and Cheyenne!  Good accommodating for no bench

Teachers Make Up

-       Nice laughing at bad joke, Jacob

-       Rebecca – “Thank You” more surprised, maybe?

Prom

-       Kailey – heels?  Jellies?  The flats are modern

-       Girls – no leggings – pantyhose

-       Jessica – no leggings

-       Becky – no leggings (slipping down)

-       Christina – no leggings

-       Rochelle – pantyhose (not colored)

-       All (esp. Angelina) – if no dance partner, don’t dance with someone invisible, treat it as you would at a dance

-       Ezra – jeans?

-       Good “secretly” chorus

-       Cute dancing together, Kailey, Chism!

-       Looks much better with migration, couples!

-       Much better movement for the monologue

-       Great smile over turns, Cheyenne!

Bows

- All soloists be R (mics)

- Steven – start moving  down on 2^nd “My memory has just been sold”

- All soloists – start walking to mic on last line before yours

- All Soloists – be on the brass circle.

- If you’re not passing a mic, go next to Zach with the spare mic until they need it

- Better on the footwork!