Notes: 2/10
-p. 9: Maggie, start your initial entry earlier, but move a bit more slowly
-p. 9: Lennox family, great physicality and pace on the initial entry
-p. 10: Dreamers, sell the dance throughout! The steps are pretty much there, now engage each other a bit more.
-p. 12: Ella, find her bratty, pompous attitude...look down your nose at people below you.
-p. 12: Clara, just speak the lines...don’t actively try to ‘do’ anything with them. Keep it simple.
-p. 13: Johnathan, ‘correct’ your wife with the line ‘What a nightmare it must have been’...it’s more of a ‘go easy on the girl’ kind of statement.
-p. 13: The wagon comes on in the dark prior to the Shelleys’ lines...we’ll restage this today.
-p. 14: Dreamers, go over your entry/initial singing cues for ‘High on a Hill…’
-p. 17: Colin/Annia, group tighter on the corner when you come to a stop.
-p. 18: Grady, nail both the physical entry, and the vocal entry.
-p. 19: Maggie, enter just a bit sooner prior to ‘I heard someone crying’
-p. 19: Diego, stand DC of the platform for ‘I heard someone singing’
-p. 21: Grace, solid with the dialect...just slow up a tiny bit.
-p. 22: Grace, really try to console her with ‘eh now lassie…’
-p. 22: Grace, don’t grab the wall...it’s fake ;-)
-p. 25: Ella, leave first at the end of the scene. Let Grace’s line ‘Mary Lennox’ bring you back.
-p. 26: Annia, watch rushing your curtsey during the dance...try and sync up with the female characters in front of you
-p. 26: Alex/Johnathan, watch having your turn-steps getting out of sync with the rest of the group...be precise.
-p. 27: Diego, open up to the audience.
-p. 27: Both, let’s get you moving around the space more.
-p. 28: Ella, on Diego’s ‘and then one morning…’ line, you can hear and react to how bizarre that series of words is.
-p. 29: Jackson, start the song onstage
-p. 33-34: Ella/Levi, good scene
-p. 36+: Jackson, slow up and clarify your diction a bit...got a bit rushed.
-p. 39: Ella/Jackson, you did what I asked trying to ground the opening to the song and take your beats...a little too much! Now, after those initial couple of lines the pacing can pick up.
-p. 40: Ella, convince the bird to let you in...it’s improving, just be clear in your arc here.
-p. 41-42: Ella, stay focused within the scene
-p. 41-42: Jackson, smile! Enjoy this!
-p. 44: Ella, find your intimidation and awkwardness during the conversation with Archie.
-p. 44: Diego, her reaction to the school option really throws him...he really doesn’t get kids
-p. 45: Diego, don’t rush ‘Speak up, child’...let her hesitate
-p. 45: Diego, let the spoken ‘A bit of earth’ be a realization...a ‘huh, really?’ sort of statement
-Dreamers: In general, let’s do a little more physical work.
-p. 49: Diego, make sure you’re not farther center than Annika and Alexandra when you sing ‘Lily’s Eyes’
-p. 51: Ella, take the candle with you to explore the house during Storm II
-p. 52: Ella, wait for the Dreamers to clear before you say ‘Who are you?’
-p. 53: Cassidy, find his bossiness on ‘Come back tomorrow’
-p. 57: Cassidy, stay lying down after the shot.
-All...get those lines down!
-All...stay in character/focus throughout, until you’re offstage.
-p. 60: Dreamers, once you face front on the weird, discordant stuff, don’t turn to face Mary any longer.
Act II:
-Diego, general note: I think he fears messing things up. He kind of wants to help and to do the right things, but he also can be paralyzed into retreating.
-p. 73: Jackson, tease her through that opening sequence, have fun with your friend!
-p. 75: Ella, great job nailing down the actions under the lines during the song and dialogue here!
-All...the word ‘yea’ is pronounced ‘yay’.
-p. 77: Cassidy, great energy!
-p. 77: Parker, tighten things up here...it’s gotta cook!
-p. 78: Parker/Zoe/Grace, you have have to nail down the sense of countering each other in your movement...constantly read and react to each other’s movement relative to the audience
-p. 79: Grace, very well motivated on the exit.
-p. 79: Cassidy, every time he has to admit he’s messed up, it’s gotta be almost painful
-p. 81: Cassidy, great arc under Maggie’s song...keep it up!
-p. 81: Maggie, a blocking change here - don’t sit down right away, go to the headboard and look down. Don’t sit until the two of you are singing simultaneously.
-p. 89: Cassidy/Grace/Jackson/Ella/Levi, keep the reality of sick boy/middle of the night tense throughout.
-p.89: Cassidy, you can’t stand up straight...you’re too tall
-p. 93-94: Maddy, much stronger in terms of timing and attitude
-p. 95: Ella, you have to pass downstage of Maddy after the food stomp.
-p. 98: Grace, you have to enter much further into the room
-Diego, ‘Where in the world’ was great
-Cassidy, the end hug was totally delightful...keep it
-Dreamers, smile and look at Mary as you hit that final song
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