Good work everyone! Keep working....I feel the shows a bit intimate and we all could be a bit bigger in facial reaction and vocal strength. I will tell you if I think you've gone too far.
Notes this morning will be brief as I was on stage a good deal of the time as Max. Thanks for bearing with me.
REMINDER - For all who use the following words please pronounce them as follows:
Franz - Frahnz
Berthe - Berteh
Frau - Frow (like Ow!)
Fraulein - Froy-line
Bremerhaven - Brem eh haf ehn
CHILDREN - PLEASE REVIEW EACH NIGHTS NOTES FOR ANY CHANGES AND INFORMATION THAT MAY BE REVEALING TO YOUR WORK...EVEN THOUGH IT'S MEANT DIRECTLY FOR THE OTHER CAST!
KIDS - WHEN YOU ARE PERFORMING YOU MUST HAVE BIG HEALTHY SMILES!
Thanks to all for working on "Froy-line" It's awkward now, but we'll get it.
Nuns - Our Alleluia spacing was messy. We will review it at rehearsal today. We should be set on where your eyes should be looking.
Maria/Nuns - let me know if you're comfortable with what we changed yesterday and apply it in today's rehearsal
Mother A - remember to take a left circle cross to the desk at the crest of applause. Other nuns break and reassemble upstage at the desk with her.
Sister Berthe give us a bigger reaction as the bump on the scene.
Confidence - Micah make sure you play further downstage so we can separate you from the scene change.
Peter and Ally - let's spend two minutes on the "You would have made a fortune" sequence before we run today.
Peter - make sure you have a tray and polishing cloth when you come in./
Kids - you need to adjust your spacing to let Brigitta in. You need to review the name announcement sequence with the Captain. It was pretty messy.
Brian - we still need to address a whistle for Maria
Colden - great read on I'm a BOY! Nice job.
Brigitta - thanks for getting the guitar to Maria...please put it back when she hands it over to you.
Liesl - You're doing great work on this with the exception of "What do I know of these" just see me on it.
Liesl - You look great up there and are so natural . We need to look at "Bachelor Dandies" it's the only really confusing moment to me. Let's review your kiss with Rolf. It looked like you had done this before. It should be the awkward first kiss feel. You should yell at center after he leave.
Liesl - Rolf can't do his "I know, I know" hands unless you try to correct hims at "Going on,.." You missed the second one.
Rolf - Review what we changed on the bench after your yawn with Liesl so she knows we want you standing up for this. Have fun pulling it back around for a potential kiss.
Rolf - "Can I come again tomorrow" sounds like your saying "oh darn it" as opposed to "hey! this was fun, let's do it again!"
Colden/Lynne - Colden is hysterical in the pop corn sequence. You kids need to have fun!!
Madison - Let's intimidate Kurt with a squenched face, mean look and not the push.
Brian - I'd like to add a thunder clap at the kiss for 16/17 for when they break. It reinforces the rain and makes a bigger impact on their breaking the embrace. Can we have rain/thunder sound in the transition?
Kids- All the entrances for "Goatheard were too far to the right. You should be just left of center.
Sawyer - cut the "heh heh" in this scene it seems forced.
Kids - Keep singing during the leapfrog until Maria says "Captain." It can be louder too and gigglish!
Jeff - Good job with 'Captain! I still think you need to discover the feel for "frauline"
Sawyer - remember to cheat out.
KIDS! You have to have expression on your face. How do you feel about your father singing after all this time?
Brigitta - Rocks, but she needs to cheat out a bit.
Ally - When the Captain whistles for you during the children sequence, you glide not march. You refuse to surrender your dignity.
Act 2
KIDS - Goatherd seene needs to be you being your most mischievious. Have fun with the blindfold sequence and laugh it up.
Nancy - anticipate your entrance so you're further into the terrace when Maria finishes "Favorite Things"
Liesl - Instruct Friedric to take guitar out from the terrace table when you leave, after Maria returns.
Kids - try asking Maria questions at the end of Fav/Things and let her walk you as a group DR so we clear the terrace entry way.
Nancy - remember to suggest with your hand when you move Max off the chair, not push.
Something Good - nice job. When you pull out on "nothing comes from nothing" just admire each other.
Micah - Let " All I could wish for is here" be to him, but it's too embarassing and you can't look him in the eye for it yet. That makes you retreat to consider how this could be deserving for you.
Wedding - Jeff M. let's talk through it before we run it tomorrow...in the break
Brigitta - Your "no" to Max must sound like "of course not!"
Nice job on the presents tonight
Liesl - Let us see that you've learned something from Maria when you get to "I'll wait a year or two"
Brian - just a note on needing applause for the concert sequence.
Brian - We need spot lights for the concert sequence.
Austin - we need to talk about your holding of the gun. See me.
Elsa and Kids - I think they need to move to you as we are totally covering the Captain. So they move to you while the captain gets up and then you process out as usual.
Elsa- With the ring, take it off without Georg knowing, and when he kisses you hand, draw it up and drop the ring in his hand so we can see it. It's too intimate presently and I can't really tell what happening.
All - unless Brian instructs me otherwise, we should be enter DR for the Garden and not so far upstage. There may be problems with this, I will seek out Brian.
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