GINGER – BALLET TIGHTS!!
Wolf – No Morph suit – the no hands thing is freaky. Black
shirt underneath to hide the riding up of the porter jacket instead.
Sophie – Black socks, plz.
Porters – look like you’re having more fun in the opening
number – only the gendarmes should be serious in this one.
Octave – be pacing away from Syl until “oh, preach preach
preach” and turn back to him suddenly on that line.
Oct/Syl/Scapin – loving the timing on the interrupts here.
Syl – can you do the nodding off thing during Oct’s story
more exaggerated? Still wake up on “no, scapin, I mean it this time”
Scap/Syl/Oct – Scap and Syl should be more in line with Oct
during charades, because we’re losing all the reactions on Ainsley’s face
because she is turned upstage.
Syl – don’t forget to react FAST if Octave turns around.
Like red light, green light.
Syl – previous “marriage”
Scap – still losing “I would have used it against him” –
needs to be enunciated more/louder
Maddie – this was actually the first time I’ve really seen
you have fun with this dance. If messing up makes you laugh, I’d rather have
you messing up and having fun than doing it perfect and having a gendarmes
face. I mean, obv I’d prefer you looking like you’re having fun and doing it
right, but if I had to choose one…
Hya – YES!! DO THAT ON THE PIANO EVERY NIGHT!
Scap/Syl – I’m loving that you get more exaggerated in your
imitation behind Oct/Hya every night.
Scapin – Deadpan face for “my trousers fit”. Go ahead and
make awkward eye contact with an audience member for that one.
Arg – the make-up has transformed you, and your physicality
is the best it’s ever been. Keep it up!
Porters – do not kick smol wall. It is noisy when you kick
smol wall.
All – I’m hearing voices from backstage. None o that.
Arg – “then I’d make HER my heir-ess”. Emphasis in “her”
Syl – great big dumb guy stance!
Syl – lunge toward audience is really improving!!
Scapin – “you could work at…. Southwest Stageworks”. Pause
and then really enunciate.
Nerine – Volume = better. Can you do slightly bigger jumps?
Scapin – great delivery on “she’s got a nice trunk”
George – yup, can’t forget to go into gendarmes theme.
Marina, you can approach George and clear your throat to
prompt him if he really forgets.
Arg – You’re still reading as nervous on “that’s very true
about apples”. Chipper. Be chipper.
Arg – thank you for remembering to not hit yo cane on ground
when you exit.
Leander – lovely fencing stance.
Scapin – once again, phrasing makes it sound like you came
home covered in blood and bandits.
Leander – volume.
Scap/Selina – let’s practice a bit with that cloak Velcro before
tomorrow.
Lea/Scap – this fight scene is looking so kickass that I can’t
even.
Syl – And they’re taking your Zamboni – let’s add a microscopic
pause for Lea to say the “Zerbinette” afterwards. Because you yelling the
sentence “and they’re taking your zamboni” is just… hilarious.
George/movement – can someone from movement raise George’s
hand first before heading into the audience?
Zoe – you need a fake moustache as Syl’s stunt double. Yup.
Scapin – Maybe slap the moustache back on Syl gentler so he
can “shave” it easier?
Syl – On “the cold never bothered me anyway”, we need a
silly wooshy snow noise on the spin afterwards.
Argante/Scapin – This is at least the third time I have put
this note in here. After Syl leaves, when Scapin goes to get him back, Argante
has to chase him across the stage. You like… half did it tonight. Scapin, get
at least as far as the hedge before he stops you.
Ger – can your reaction be more alarmed at each new thing
Scap says in that sentence? “5 hundred crowns” *shock* “life of slavery” *more
shock!* “two hours” *ALL THE SHOCK*. And then your line is reacting to the
first thing and it is funny because we expect you to react to one of the other
things.
Scap – excellent escalation of how fed up you are with
heading about that boat.
Ger – You can’t tantrum with the hand holding the money… its
jingling makes it too hard to hear your line!
Scap – “I cannot allow you to applaud that man.” If applause.
Scap – yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas foreign menace angle
line.
Nerine – Cues!
George – take a touch longer after Scapin exits for you to
exit. Maybe give some nice big old sigh or something.
Act II:
Oooooh.. Argante… Cues….. Be there for top o Act II, lad
Movement – Scapin still needs to be there longer to catch
Nerine. Like, Zoe should pull him away right as Nerine starts to fall. Maybe
Zoe should pull /scapin onto Argante’s stairs instead of across the stage?
That sun. Is so funny. I’m dying.
Zeeeeeeeeerby – hips hips hips hips hair flip. Do it MORE.
Zerb – excellent laugh. So good. So over the top. Yes.
Scapin – good shushing.
Scapy – sword be shhhhhhhh until you are a French
intellectual. Play with sword during fight call to remind yourself of this.
Sophie – I can HEAR you make gun noises with that pool
noodle back stage.
Scapin – be disappointed that he says hit the sack, and then
gesture to hit you instead, so he knows to give you the shmakenze. Schmankenzie?
Whatev.
Ger – Maybe instead of the hedge, kick the bag off stage
right? It’ll be easier to retrieve without the audience noticing.
Ger – I love that your timing is hitting so that you’re
almost stepping off the stage and then stop for “so easy to make money”
Zerb – yes. Good. Elongate the hell out of that why.
Syl – can’t project happy face again until “didn’t mention
you”
Syl – can you do nervous face instead of shock face on
hearing Arg’s theme?
Nerine – “you changed your name… again?”
Argante – yes. Turtle.
Scap – yo PTA mom outfit has a dreadful necklace. Let’s make
sure it ends up with the costume and on you tomorrow.
Nerine – Lines lines lines
Hya – if Nerine drops that line, ad lib something, like you
did last night.
Oct – good on “welcome, eh”
Lea – run in holding bracelet prop already in your hand
Syl – No, no you cannot crab walk offstage. It does not
actually help you leave without us noticing.
Scap – keep miming the story whether or not Syl looks back.
Scap – Wail a bit more before clearly asking if you are
center in a normal voice. Then resume whining when picked up again.
Nerine – maybe don’t go so far as to bap them. Just try to
stop them from where you are prettily posing.
Nerine – louder on “okay”
Oct/Zerb – better on the slap. I think we have to go with
Zoe actually going to slap Ainsley and stopping right as you start to touch her
and then Ainsley turning her head sharply…. It’s still too obviously fake.
Scap – be behind (SL) of gma Sophie as you push her so we clearly
see you pushing her.
Wolf/Arg – Good stalling tactic with the booze!
Scapin – still need to flirt longer! Shimmy at him or
something.
Syl – YES!! YES YES YES GREAT TELLING US THE BAG IS SCAP!!
Wolf – go ahead and spit-take when Sophie is revealed from
bag.
Wolf – and then you question the booze. It is a time-honored
comic bit. That we are honoring. With our time.
Maddie – YES! Actually, ripping the curtains down works so
much better. And then you can turn to Geronte and be all “oh sh-“ Do that from
now on. That’s your blocking now.
ETHAN. MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH YOUR FIANCEE!! Because when she
is all cuddly on you and you are watching what else happens on stage, it reads
as you not caring about her.
All – we need to take a weeeee bit more time before Scap’s
entrance.
Porters – hold still during the wedding – you are drawing
ALL the focus right now, and should be drawing NONE of it.
Gendarmes – yes. Good dancing during final dance. Very funny
when Maddie tries to get Marina to and it doesn’t work.
Lea/Zerb – dance closer together with more eye contact
during final dance, because you look a bit like awkward middle schoolers right
now. Like awkward middle schoolers when your friends want you to hook up so you
are dancing to humor them but you don’t actually like each other.
Zerb – during George appreciation, you can start laughing as
soon as Hya kisses him and Oct gets all indignant. Like, that’s what you find
funny.
I AM SO PROUD OF ALL OF YOU HOLY CRABAPPLES THIS IS
BEAUTIFUL.
