February 20

Everyone	·         February 22, 2015 (this is Thursday’s critiques.  If you did it right, I omitted the problem.  For the most part, the problems weren’t corrected) Blog grades on February 12, 19 and today – must be in by 1PM.         Step on lines (this was only good in the redneck scene) ·         Women – no fingernails or toenails painted on Thursday. ·         You heard Brooke – everyone needs to be different ESPECIALLY in crowd scenes. ·         After the scene, Old friends, good times, the CROWD is the transition from that scene to the Job of a lifetime scene. ·         Can’t do without me – crowd and noise (Nathan was the only one we heard, but it cannot be a laugh) ·         At the capitol scene, Anne oohs Glory glory Hallelujah after “rich man.” Payton will do this ·         Who holds the sign for Mac Murphee so that Willie can grab it.  Judge.  You have that ·         Everyone else does the staggered turns. ·         Walking is too loud, girls.  ·         After The Old Maid scene, Anne Oohs Aint Misbehavin ·         After The Secret with Lily, oooh Glory Glory Hallelujah ·         People noises in crowd scene – hair of the dog – you are responsible for your own props in picnic scenes.  Popcorn, soda pop, beer, taffy, cotton candy, etc. ·         People in back impeachment signs in the back of the Hugh scene. We need to work on that.  Seems like some would be in front as well making it hard for Hugh to cross. Paige, Nathan & Maky be in front.   ·         In bad speech, Paige, Maky and Hugh stay on so that not everyone leaves at once. ·         More people in DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS cross after Anne and Jack scene. ·         Booing Tiny sounds the same – Maky – shout Judas. Judge is the only one who boos.  Jacob – get out of here.   ETC. ·         People passing through – maybe with an impeachment paper between Adam scene and before Adam accepts the job.  ·         I have it – ooh Glory Glory ·         I got me a gospel – EVERYONE INCLUDING WILLIE SINGS EVERY MAN A KING. ·         I KNOW I’VE WRITTEN THIS BEFORE BUT MRS. K WROTE IT ALSO – THE CROWD NOISE IS THE TRANSITION BETWEEN SADIE SAYING HE CAN’T DO WITHOUT ME AND WILLIE SAYING THEY TRIED TO RUIN ME AND THEY ARE RUINED…… ·         Lucy start oohing Glory glory with the rich man  the crowd needs to be angry because people are trying to impeach Willie. ·         If you have read this far, text to Couch 470-9940 – I am serious about OAP ·         AFTER JACK IS IN LILY’S APARTMENT, AND HE ASKS WHERE IS IT, OOH GLORY GLORY …INSTEAD OF EVERYMAN A KING. ·         CUT SCENE 26 ·         MacMurphee needs diction each time his name is said. ·         Everyone sing Humpty Dumpty behind flag(Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.  HD had a great fall STOP)  and fade when Crony 2 says Boss,….. ·         Keep Willie scene #28, but no words – just a crowd passing through. Jack stops and speaks to willie. ·         No noise putting up ladder. ·         Freezes during hospital speech were bad. ·         CONSONANTS ·         Chronicle - diction Reading the paper – ·         Tiny – read the paper with the bid going to JH Moore in redneck ·         Jack – read the paper at funeral with kids dying as headline ·         Woman 2 (Figure out a name), & Editor read papers about Stark and Macmuphee head to head when Stark says I have a speech here….. ·         Hugh read paper Stark backs Mac Murphee for governor after that scene where he supports MacMurphee ·         Lily, Lucy, & Mother read one paper about Willie elected governor during the crowd transition. ·         Judge reads about impeachment
Stage lights	·         Red light in back while Willie is stumping the state ·         Red light a little longer when school falls.
Music	·
Lights	·         Lights on Jack at the beginning – may have to cross fade a lot. ·         In bad speech, crossfade lights off Willie and onto Sadie and Jack.
Redneck scene	·         Levels are needed. ·         More of you need caps or hats.
Times	4 ½ Jeffers Construction 9 – Ain’t Misbehavin – after Sadie spends night with Willie (we were 30 sec behind here) 14 –Quit making plans a long time ago ( We were one minute behind here) 18 –He can do without me 23-Waters of the bay (2 minutes behind here) 28 –I know that he hates your guts 33- I’ve done right 38 singing Humpty Dumpty behind flag
CUTS	Mother – Say this – Jack, your father left us when you were six years old.I explained that Daddy had gone away.  You looked up and said, Mother I’ll always love you. Willie – A man goes away from his home and the voices he hears are not the voices he carried in his ears a long time back when he left.  He cannot hear the voices from the past saying –Come back, boy, come back. Jack :say – Let’s just try this on for size, Mr. Dolph Pillsbury, county commissioner stated that the bid of JH Moore for the construction of the school was accepted even though…. Mother – Say I know it was wrong but I loved Monty Irwin. Judge – say Nothing is ever lost and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life. Cut Hugh’s last line in the play about the telegraphs. Dolph – Cut and it ain’t nobody’s business. Cut scene 26
Sadie and Jack	Step on Willie’s last line in bad speech.
Sadie	Watch pausing the same amount of time before each of your lines. Practice You’ve been framed as if you are embarrassed to tell him. More seductress as you say sap line. CONSONANTS Don’t let the end of your sentences die.  Sandlot on name calling - sap
Dolph	Be more animated as the commissioner.  Cut and it ain’t nobody’s business. Punished against an honest man should be as loud as the beginning of that line.  Don’t let it fade. CONSONANTS
Sugar boy	Diction with first lines. CONSONANTS
Willie	Slow down You think you are funny, so laugh at your own jokes. \CONSONANTS I’ll kill him.  Figure it out. Need to see you drinking
Hugh, Tiny, & Woman 2	Work on lines at funeral – needs more emotion.   DICTION, boys
Willie and Tiny	Someone look at a watch so you know you are late for a meeting  when you exit so suddenly.
Lily	Do stage business.  Get up when Jack comes in.   Become emotional gradually.   Hear breaths.
Lucy	·         You are not believable in  your lines at the beginning as wife or teacher. CONSONANTS ·         Don’t sway
Lucy, Tiny, Sadie	·         Establish yourselves before the first bad speech.
Sadie	Wait until the crowd quiets down before saying your line when Willie exits. Get madder each time you have to speak about Willie liking someone else.
Willie and Anne	When Willie leaves, kiss Anne on the cheek.  Anne, we must hear a bigger reaction when you see Jack in the office.  Don’t forget to call him Jackie.
Jack, Tiny, Sugar Boy, Sadie, Willie	React more VOCALLY when Adam accepts the job and when he speaks of a threat. Make sure that you are not using the same motions in the office scenes.  They are beginning to be predictable.     Willie, you loosen your tie and roll up sleeves each time.   Have the decanter on the desk and use it.  Tiny – take a drink often.  Sugar boy – clean your gun.  Sadie – fix your hair, lipstick, etc. Need to see Tiny and Sugar Boy moving in different directions so it is not predictable.  Read the paper.  I have magazines to use.   At the beginning , you two need to have fun, but as the impeachment comes, no more magazines, laughs, etc. Sugar boy, be careful that you hands are not always on your hips. Laugh differently
Judge	You need a belt or suspenders. Stay out of last scene because you have been killed or wear your townsman shirt with a cap/hat.
Judge and stage lights	Give your lines after dying behind the flag with blue on the flag behind and in front.
Editor	Before hospital speech – say something instead of laughing.
Jack	That would be enough by ordinary standards – work on this and don’t let ending fade. We need to feel the love you have for Anne before you say we oughtn’t What size shoes?  We have to fix that today. Arithmetic – diction CONSONANTS You have been betrayed – show emotion with Willie. Only pause where there are punctuation marks in your dialogues. Sell the Damascus line to Tiny Bring scrapbook to Adam, Anne, scene. Laugh at the tramp line louder. Will you change your mind?
Tiny and Sugar boy	Come in from left stage to put first bench out.  Be sure that the pad is red and blue with all of Anne’s scenes and the dollar one with the judge’s scenes.
Payton and Kadyn	Take heals and practice wearing them to school or around the house.
Adam	Be DSL and look at Willie and Anne by the ladders USL.
Adam & Tiny	You have to do two things – 1. Talk about the gun   2. Tiny gives Adam the gun.
Willie, Sadie and Jack	The transition before Hair of the Dog must be faster & Sadie you have to button your blouse back – be embarrassed if you see Jack and Tiny.
Anne	After Sadie sings Ain’t Misbehavin – you sing entering USR to DSC. Watch hands and movements in all scenes except swimsuit scene.  You seem more like a teenager.  No heels with swimsuit. Children’s home – diction.
Mother	Say at the end instead of you killed him, the judge..   say you killed him… your father.
To Do	Gray jacket for judge Fake ice for Mother’s glass Tape bench and Lily’s chair flags