Notes from Run Two

Hi, all!

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!

Potiphar Dance

Tango Run 2

Tango Run 1

Potiphar

Tomorrow we will block the Potiphar scene.   Ms. Waterhouse and I will work together to mesh the dancy bits and the acting bits.  We need Narrators, Joseph, Potiphar, Mrs. Potiphar, and her two ladies in waiting. I assume the rest of you are working with Walters, but I'll let Waterhouse explain that at the start of rehearsal.

The Potiphar scene has been done many ways.  Originally the wife just saunters about with her harem, pulling clothes off Joseph.  The revival made it 1920s style and had the wife dance about much more aggressively to conquer Joseph.

We're going to keep it rooted in modern jazz.  Nothing too complicated her.  Some vamping, some pointing and kicking.  It's a super short piece really. 

Inspiration, huh?  Well, as far at the intent of the scene, enjoy this clip from Singin' in the Rain (my All Time Most Favorite Movie).  In this extended dream ballet sequence, Gene Kelly plays the naive country boy come to the city for success, and encounters the leggy Cyd Charisse.   Look how she plays sexual power without being overtly erotic.  Look how Gene Kelly handles a women a full head taller than himself. 



But in our version, with our bumbling wife in drag and PG sensibilities, we might skew a little more like this.

Surprise!

We are going to squeeze in another dance rehearsal tomorrow.  I'll cover the Apache dance in Canaan Days and if there is time afterward, we will review Hoedown.  Apache has Chism, Michael, Kasey, and Christina.  The rest of you will be working with Waterhouse or Walters of course.  Then you get me at the end for review.

An Apache dance is a sultry French style with elements of tango.  News to me, it's pronounced "ah PAHSH" like the French would, not "ah PACH ee" like the Native American tribe.  It's a little sassy, and according to wikipedia "The dance is sometimes said to reenact a violent "discussion" between a pimp and a prostitute."  Our version will not be so racy, but there will be some slapping.



Ours will NOT be acrobatic like these.  Let me put that more clearly: Chism, don't break the girls trying to copy these moves!

Pharaoh's Dream Reprise Video