February 23 Rick Garcia

Notes on the Clinic February 23

Quinn	at the beginning -  More animated – different faces – ahhh at the end. Make it bigger. Watch noodle arms I started out as a clerk… Don’t get up until you do the line about the wall. We need to change your Rian white shirt. As Quinn, you have to be forceful – understand what you are saying.   Ask your dad to talk about this.
Everyone	The bar scene needs to be faster – more urgent. Strikers move slowly Dance in the Mississippi scene. At the end – left stage was too heavy. STEP ON LINES  We can cut down on time if you will do this. Who are you and what do you lend to the story? We will change on stage especially those of you who just change jackets. Vocal warm-ups each time. ·         Write a subtitle for each scene. What human need does each scene represent.  There should be a word symbol for each scene – hope, greed, pain,  ove, etc. ·         As well as being a character, you are also a symbol-a verb-  in that scene. ·         We need more human interaction – we need to feel for the people – the humanity of those times. We need to see the humanness in those stories. ·         We need to see the economic history via dance. EVERYONE – hit the consonants. You  have overcome the biggest battle – the dialect – now work on the diction. We need something over the bar for Franny and Sidney’s scene. Everyone – listen to the radio – either agree or disagree with your faces and bodies. Each character needs a master gesture – one that is consistent with that character.  I want to see these on Sunday. We need to see you thinking on stage. What are you really saying underneath the lines? The END – Just like you did it there – two steps – everyone freezes, then Robertson steps out.
Robertson	Cannot understand the line that has 30,000 in it. DICTION Ease into the dialect.
Myrna (ABBEY) Fanny	We need a different sweater.
Fanny
Mr. Fowler	We need to fix your sweater.  No Polo logos. We need more expression. You need to be a lot louder and more assertive. The line is Miss Graham from the Times is here.   Speak to her before she comes out – carry on a conversation.
Doris	Don’t break the fourth wall by looking into the audience while you are being talked about. We will put  you in a chair.
Lee	No hope – hit the p. We need to see the heat on the Mississippi.
Rose	Money, money, money – say each one differently – the last very sad.
Irene	Cookin – no g
Music	Let the Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries last longer. Shorter time with the buzzer.
Moe, Rose and Lee	Rick said we needed to see more age in the three of you.  We need to see and hear the burden of life.
Lee and Robertson	We need to see more of the relationship.  It is the American story through Lee’s journey.  Robertson needs to express and react to Lee.  We need to see how his story affects you.  Robertson is the audience’s gauge.  Step closer to the audience and react with them.  We need to see the two worlds.
Clarence & Robertson	Be bigger, Clarence – more cocky.  Robertson – work on diction.
Joey and Lee	We need to see the physical relationship between you two.
Banks	Acknowledge the money
Edie and Lee	Edie – more a woman of the world.   I know we keep going back and forth. Do not get angry – or at least not as angry.  Lee needs to let her remark hurt him.
Women’s group	We need more panic with the knock.  Rose move the stool to your place at the table.
Rose and Moe	More panic with the buzzer.  Figure out how you feel about each other.  I liked the fighting then collapse on Rose’s part.
1.	Opening Introduced to the Baum family
2.	Robertson and the bar scene
3.	Rose and Lee pawning jewelry
4.	Robertson, Irene, Grandpa, Rose – bank scene
5.	Banks, Quinn and Robertson
6.	Fanny and Sidney
7.	Rose, Moe, Lee  - It’s going to be a good day
8.	Rose – funny face – Lee and Mississippi
9.	Sidney and Doris
10.	Welfare
11.	Lee and Edie
12.	Women’s scene
13.	Rose and Moe
14.	The end