Act II Stumblethrough Notes

ACT II:
74 - Project a bit more, Nico
75 - Be precise on your blocking moves when in sync...visualize the cuing and movement, all
75 - Personalize this blocking…motivate everything with why YOU’RE there, all
77 - Ground his movements, smaller, choppier, slower…find his age, JP
79 - Don’t take your eyes off her during this song, Nico
80 - Really go after those lyrics…Phoebe hasn’t officially happened yet, so she’s your one and only at this point, Nico
80 - We need sherry glasses, props
81 - Find his assuredness, his enjoyment of having the upper hand here…it’ll set up us ripping the rug out from under him in the next song, Nico
82 - Do we have a bell, props?
82 - Watch overplaying the drink, Hyacinth
83 - Push your mime skills…be as specific as possible on everything you handle, Rivkah
83 - We need to have gloves out there…do we have them, props?
85 - Your manic energy when hiding Sibella is GREAT Monty energy…room for much more of that amazing scale, Nico!
88 - Solid scene…almost there, all!
88 - No vocalizing your energy offstage, Hyacinth!
89 - Don’t give in to him quite so quickly, Rivkah
91 - Don’t rush into ‘I’m Famished’…Let it settle for a sec, JP
92 - Remember your bows, Nico
92 - Look over that pre-Final Warning bit, all
93 - No lining up opposite someone…remember your shoulder alignments, Sophie, Rivkah, and Hyacinth
96 - Gesture Sibella over to talk in the most unsubtle, subtle way he can, Nico
96 - Keep your focus when fighting for the next thing/line/moment if you go up…sustain your energy, all
98 - Why are we missing 1/3 of the dishes on the table, cast?
99 - How do you all react to Monty’s increasing weirdness, all?
99 - Are short dishes, props?
100 - One servant needs to remain onstage to justify Monty’s ‘Oh for God’s sake now, another servant’s looking’…can you remain, Cassidy?
102 - We need to take the flintlock off the rifle, props
102 - Just have a glass of port you’ve been holding in hiding for him…you won’t have a serving station there, Cassidy
103 - Don’t hit your spots until the beat you start singing, servants
103 - Work this one a bit more…listen to the accompaniment when you’re going, JP
105 - Energize your bodies when standing still, servants
107 - Excuse Phoebe with a gesture before you go downstairs, Nico
107 - You have to meet Monty at the center stage point right when he gets there, Theo
107 - Let’s pull the wandering around in much tighter…play out to the house from the pool of light that’ll be there in front of the up, Nico
110 - Not bad, given it’d been so long since we touched it, all
113 - Work the lines in the Prison scene, all
114 - Go ahead and talk to the audience, Nico
115 - Spike the Interrogation rooms, Management…
115 - Good energy and sense of the lyrics as dialogue…Bring this to everything, all!
118 - Stagger your body positions to shoulders, Theo and Ezra
118 - Do you have letters, Theo and Ezra?
121 - Watch starting the ‘we have to go’ gesture too early, Liam
122 - We need to hear the cheer at the right time, ensemble!
123 - Keep a ‘rabble, rabble’ going backstage after the cheer, ensemble
125 - Step out on ‘The thought occurs…’