Tuesday Dress Rehearsal Notes
Set orchestra and conductor cues
Look at curtain castle/gobo pattern – needs to be pretty/fantasy
Tiara for Tessa Queen and fancy rhinestone necklace – if you have one bring it
Tessa black shoes for queen?
Tommy needs orange shirts
Make 3 hoods
Kyle use other belt or we need to cover this one with gold
Belts for 3 v-neck knights – Austin (paint pink)
Sew sheets to mattresses so they aren’t saggy
Purple throne pad lumpy – just paint instead?
Hem Elizabeth yellow skirt
Taper knights legs – Austin
Sleeves on Abby’s bodice
Aprons for two senches – Mrs. Weinstein
Jester costume – Mrs. Weinstein
Check light on scrim for stormy night
Check scenes behind scrim to be sure it’s dark when it’s supposed to dark or light
revealed when it’s supposed to be light
Start at 4:16
Work first cue and blackout so Tommy and David enter in dark
Set cue to bring up lights behind scrim during first narration
Belt for Dauntless
Need another frog for Dauntless
Scott try not to let scroll hit floor – just almost – it clunks on the mic
Scott wait until the end of the Jeopardy song before say time is up
Look at hem of Dauntless – not clean and straight – short in back
Matt Widener needs belt
Zach wear hood up for Opening for a princess – so we don’t see how cute you are yet
Zach take down hood when say Chivalric knight of the Herald
Spurs?
Zach should not have facial hair – must be clean shaven
Zach’s mic going in and out
Trim strings on harry’s tunic
Larken’s hat?
Finish Queen’s hat and necklace
Harry should have hood up for I wish to make a perilous journey, then take it down
for reprise
Larken missing ribbon – Rachel this is your prop to check!
Cross on Harry looks better with trim
Harry picking up Larken doesn’t look natural
Blackout after the lightning crash
Add bridge and stairs to baridge lights for scene before Shy
I don’t think Paxton needs slits for dress??
Need to dye dress and finish sleeves and pockets
Paxton breathing too hards?? Lt the mic do a lot of the work
Paxton missing cues for entrances
Boys don’t forget to act in Shy – Maatt Widener great face
Boys toss of Paxton was not wonderful…
Add spots to Shy on Winnifred
Be sure Shy has cyc color
Scott almost chase her to L to show her your trick as you exit
Splash sound cue??? Taped or aynthesized
Harry keep hood up until you stand up
All react to Paxton and men offstage
Kyle tug tunic down in back?
Leah need teal socks or tights
Need to add bloomers for king – white
Guitar sound for strike up a tune on the “fiddle”
Great singing and dancing for King, Jester and I
Wizard mic not on
Good start for magic act Scott – nothing up my sleeves
Add stars to tablecloth for wizard
Be sure to use green ight up pea
Put something colorful into vial – pink? So we see it
Practice change into bedchamber - slow set up – have girls set chair and props
Check bedroom cue - lose stage right light an add cyc
Kyle meets Paxton move downstage a bit – all make an arc not a line ¼ R
Cape for king?
Gold trim for dauntlee on sleeves and hem?
Add sparkle rhinestones to white camisole
Spot Winnifred not too bright
Can’t hear girls sing gluggle uggle uggle
Be sure floor mics are facing right direction to avoid orchestra
All hold end pose 4 seconds or until audience applause dies down for all songs
Decrease intensity about 10% for lines of girls – don’t need area A much
Paxton good jo with bump and clean up
Larken make big deal of holding up dress and ripping it – practice
Props ring bell offstage for Harry’s entrance
Too Dark in E for Harry’s entrance
Paint lines for curtain black – team curtains – batten at bottom of curtains to hold
straight?
Add cue when Larken and Harry XD to floor – add C lose K
Add sparkle to wizrd hat
Lights start to dim as Tiffany speaks over dance at end
Tape a washer to bottom of curtain crenellations
Steam corridor curtains
Carolyn squeal as Tommy comes in too
Tiffany late for entrance – good improv. Tommy and Leah
Scott good deadpan face as exit – but don’t turn to us again as leave
Maybe larken can wear hat down on back when dancing?
Ideally Tommy would have a brighter colored hat – Teal trimme in silver?
Tommy gesture for water rats
Add light on K for top of Normandy
Lose J for Normandy, need just a bit of the corridor curtain
Add cue to take spot out/ and black out behind scrim
Need more chorus faces for Spanish panic –
Paxton make bigger deal of ripping off sleeves and skirt
Gold and maroon costume looks goo on Paxton – could raise another in above knee
if wanted
The headband looks great – adds focus to her
Trim Tommt’s V?
Diction on Fred – no clue what chorus is saying
End act 1 – Time 5:34 (1 hour 18 minutes)
Act 2
Start time 4:48
Write orchestra light cues for conductor after orchestra tunes
House to black on second tune
Curtain light out before last tune
Blackout and orchestra out as curtain opens
Be sure curtain lights is out before curtain opens – on “shy” in entracte
Run opening and closing curtain cues tomorrow before start
Entr’act a bit rough…?
Look at curtain pulleys
Trim overhead curtains/tighten ropes, etc.
All going to crouch and pop up or not?
Add touch of light on portcullis for Quiet
Where is our star drop? Add for Act 2?
Look at cyc dimmers – set brightness for best coverage
Corey when king appeals to you about where to go – can you signal I don’t know?
We’re not hearing the exit “quiet” – it has to continue as our scene changes
Light coming through back of bedroom curtain?
Hug/kiss still not working – arm punch?
Paxton keep legs together when sitting – gold or burgundy or? Unders
Great job on Happily Paxton!
Harry must project – The king musn’t come with us
Trim string from king front of tunic
Shutter cut on corridor curtains has shifted
Be sure to do a dimmer check before each show
Missing Dauntlesss cape
Kyle belt too low – cuts back wrong and pulls up
Need 3 times for change Corey
Tommy when you are going now – start to go up the stairs
Scott bigger show of scarf befoe you turn it into a cane
Need dry ice??
Pocket on tunic for magic trick for Leah
Leah follow Mr. Sullivan
Matt Willis missing
Need bigger choral sound for end of Soft Shoes
Rachel sounds so pretty
Nice swagger Zach
Work turn lift with Mr. David
Emma add pink blue and purple stones – about 9 total
Bed mattresses look great – pull up top sheet make it tights
Spray glitter on bird curtain?
Use QMT mirror – give other one back to Mr. Miller
Need P.O. for Publix for dry ice
Paxton funny looking all round for bird
SB sit like an owl??
Elaina make a bigger try up adder then big yawn an fall back – intent not clear
SB use arms as sing in cage – sit at edge?
Pin feathers to elbows and raise tail for bird
Paxton wear nude camisole under
Need top of bed cue
Scene change music after Nightingale?
Practice scene shift
Tiffany stay SR for Scene 8 – look at X
Andrew toss rather than throw bird into cove
Finish Paxton’s nightgown
Kyle – missing C for “Can”
Kathleen and Kristen’s couples counter R as King goes center
Don’t hear chorus
End 6:46 (58 minutes)
Set curtain call at 3:30 tomorrow