Feb 12

February 12, 2012

Rose and Moe Lee	Great opening!  Loved it all.
Dancers	Great job.  Need more people noises.
Robertson	DICTION – Germany At times you sound British After dancers, stop and say your lines. Be in the back scenes when you are not in the front.  Pay attention to the weather. Put bench out for the Quinn and Robertson scene. Red white and blue. Stop and say lines. They also believed – to audience. During Lee’s speech on Mississippi, hat off and coat off in back.
Grandpa	Hat off in the house.
Rosman and Irene	Good job giving Banks money.
Women	Late reaction to Moe’s entrance
Rose and Moe	Great job in last scene.
Quinn	Be sure you are dancing in the light.   SMILE.  Rehearse dancing, so that it seems second nature. As Frank, move the phonograph and stand back and walk in front of it in your first entrance
DIana	Good entrance in bar scene.
Quinn & Robertson	SLOW DOWN.  Love the rapport between you two and the reactions.
Doris	Seem more involved in the string game. Be more offended when you ask – who do you want to take out. Startled by Sidney when he first approaches you.
Fanny	Have the bill pin thing, with the bills crooked.  Come out as soon as you change so that we have more people in the background.  Thanks for giving 100% even though you were sick.
Lee	Watch your hat.  It shadows your face.  Remember to be already hat before  you take off shirt.
EVERYONE	Smile while dancing. Do not cross in front of people who are speaking – particularly Quinn in first scene. People in back have a purpose and MOVE IN SLOW MOTION. Use a chair for Diana so that she can fall into it. Everyone needs stage business. Black gloves only REACT TO IRENE”S lines During transitions, we need some to walk downstage, and it cannot be Irene each time. Slow motion in back – during Moe and Lee’s line about money – freeze There is one time when Irene is in the back by herself. This should not happen.  I will come after you if you are not back there.  Ty and one other guy were USR. I would like everyone in back during the women’s scene (except for women and Grandpa) so that in last scene, you have your back to the audience and turn around slowly and after Moe and Rose’s last scene, you start forward on Americans.
Needs	Big clock on 8’ pylon in Moe’s house.
Moe	Use cane to emphasize joke.  I can’t remember your first joke, but the second – Now that hit cane once is serious hit twice.
Bar men	Give Diana a dollar
Rose	The second time around was your best.
Banks	Can you stand up and talk and mime asking people for money? LOVED the way your back was to the audience prior to welfare scene.
Miss Fowler	Put chair out for Miss Graham.
Edie	Lines out to audience. Use upstage hand for gestures. Do something – work on it. Use lower register.
Women’s scene	Freeze was great second time.
Sidney	If you have time, go to Banks and put money in hat. Clipboard for composing music.
Marathon dancers	Dance closer to the scrim.