2nd Dress Notes

**All: Remember Rehearsal Now Begins at 500P tomorrow, 11/6**

Act I
1 - Watch rushing the VO at the top…wait for the music, Fran
5 - Play your objective…where are you trying to lead him, Cassidy
10 - Don’t take the light change out of Monty’s apartment until he comes downstage for writing the letter, Emma
10 - Please change your exit to the same door you came in from D, Cassidy
11 - I should never hear anything from backstage…doors banging are terrible tonight, Cast/Crew
13 - I Don’t Know What I’d Do was really nice, Nico and Rivkah
14 - Watch rushing your dialogue…this is key information, Rivkah
14 - Find your beats…you’re talking about being a D’Ysquith in the same way you’re referring to his dead mom, Rivkah
14 - Project, Airelle…
15 - Cut the picture frame for Sibella’s Apartment, Max
15 - Smooth out your entries and exits from stage…make it as intentional as any other acting, Scene Changers
16 - Go directly to your light as it changes into Foolish To Think, Nico
17 - Find his power and empowerment when he sings of being a man of respect, Nico
17 - Wait for Monty to start leaving before triggering the light shift going out of Foolish To Think, Emma
18 - Make the decision to not follow the tour…don’t just stay behind, Nico
20 - Well loaded on the character front tonight…well motivated, Johnathan
20 - Hold your poses except when singing…This is likely a change, Portraits.
23 - Realize you forgot about the mute guy…make it a separate beat, Johnathan
23 - Hear him talking badly about the poor…decide then that Lord Adalbert is a schmuck, Nico
24 - Solid quick change going into Ezekial, Costumers and Johnathan
25 - Hear his architectural references and shrug them off, Nico
27 - You can’t vocalize your fall from the tower, Johnathan
28 - You should never be seen from the house, Curtain Pagers
30 - You can take the into Chizzlemere a beat or two earlier, Emma
30 - Gotta get on a beat or two earlier…make your entrance sooner, Nico
31 - Try to be farther upstage for your line as you start Poison In My Pocket…NVM, You figured it out, Nico
32 - Bigger exaggeration on the sawing motion, Nico…
34 - You can delay those Voice Overs a bit longer, Fran
35 - Work the into D’Ysquith Sr costume change, Costume and Johnathan
36 - Make sure to have all of your props (mom’s picture)…this can be preset in your pocket at top of show, Nico
37 - Practice the vest change at top of rehearsal, Nico/Duncan/Eli
37 - What’s with dragging furniture and whispering under this scene, Backstage Left?
38 - Great sales job on the song…you really seem to be trying to pump him up, Rivkah
39 - When he stepped away from having your head on his shoulder…him moving away is unusual, so you can react to that, Rivkah
39 - Don’t rush into your line after the kiss…You want to linger in this, Nico
40 - Can you smooth out that veil unreeling, Cassidy?
41 - Don’t come out until the applause, Nico
41 - Don’t drink a beverage you don’t have, Sharon
41 - Great punch timing and sound, Nico/Duncan/Liam
42 - Nice grounding into Henry tonight, Johnathan
42 - Can we get Liam a bar rag to clean up with, Props?
46 - No light change until they get up from the table, Emma
48 - Great light timing going into Phoebe’s entry, Emma
48 - Great energy…you’re killing it, Hyacinth
51 - Bees were super early…wait for Johnathan, Fran
52 - WAIT FOR THE APPLAUSE, SOUND AND LIGHTS!!!
55 - Don’t cue the ‘blings’ until Johnathan puts his finger in the air
56 - Don’t destroy that headpiece by squeezing it to death, Johnathan
57 - Get farther onstage heading to Africa, Entourage
59 - Get the tempo at the end of Lady Hyacinth dialed in, Johnathan
60 - Look at the folder weird and root through it while you’re waiting for the scene change, Nico
61 - Get in your light…don’t cross so far away if you need to, Johnathan
62 - Scene change should be starting earlier going into Monty’s apartment…both the ons and offs should be happening simultaneously, Scene Changers
62 - Work the entry into the couch thing…make it organic and authentic…go after him, Rivkah!
65 - Give that barbel proper weight, Johnathan.
65 - Here are the pronunciations, Johnathan
65 - Much faster coming in on the scene change, Scene Changers
66 - Project, Dory…
68 - Nice light shift into Lady Salome, Emma
68 - What happened…those sound cues can’t be rushed Fran!!
69 - Don’t come so far downstage to start your song, Nico
70 - Much better timing on the doctor, Ezra!
72 - Farther upstage, Johnathan…
73 - Push yourself past what you have to do because I told you, and inhabit those moments as people, all!

Act II
Start Time: 910p/1003p (w/delay)
74 - Take her hands when you kneel next to her, Nico
76 - Thanks for taking the note…that was a good level, Ezra
77 - No rushing behind the cyc…someone rippled the whole thing under Johnathan’s solo
79 - Can we double the length of 15b to accommodate the scene change
79 - Need to run this scene change tomorrow…
81 - You should never sit in a buttoned suit jacket, Nico
82 - Some nice work under the scene, Nico and Rivkah
82 - You both need to do the ‘door’ scene farther onstage for lighting, Hyacinth and Nico
83 - Nice blind entrance, Rivkah
84 - Nice interaction work on the couch, Hyacinth
86 - Acknowledge it when you back into a chair, Hyacinth
91 - Why so late getting onstage with your chair, Rachel?
92 - Nice physicality…now don’t wander so far down the platform and out your light, Johnathan
93 - No grabbing the wall to get out of the portraits, Duncan
95 - Fabulous presence!  Project your dialogue with the same attitude, Sophie
96 - Why do we have the wrong chair onstage for Lord Adalbert, Scene Changers?
97 - Make sure to get out clearly the ‘risked marrying Lionel’ Rivkah
97 - Bowls can’t be first, Servants
98 - Can’t lean on or shake the table with plastic glasses, Johnathan
99 - No hat on Shingle during this scene, Costume
99 - Stay standing after talking to Shingle, take the song standing in the light pool up left, Nico
100 - Don’t lose his aged physicality and get young…the voice is phenomenal, Johnathan
104 - What is all the crashing backstage!!!!
105 - Harmonies are all over the place, Servants…let’s work this preshow tomorrow
106 - Note what your scene change responsibilities are coming out of Highhurst all
107 - Get farther left to start the scene, Nico and Theo
108 - Stay in the light, Nico…
110-111 - Our energy has gone away completely…why, all?
112 - Make sure things are on their spikes in the prison cell…the bed was way off, crew.
114 - Chairs both upstage and down need to come out at the same time, Scene Changers
115 - Need to spike interrogation room chairs downstage, Deck Leads
118 - Pantomime your doors, Theo…
119 - Isn’t there a light cue at the start of the 2nd Horrible Woman, Emma
122 - Know where the cheer is from backstage…conduct if you need to, Deck Leads
123 - What happened to the orchestra, level wise under the last couple of songs
123 - Jumped the gun on Chauncey’s cue, Emma