Notes from Wednesday

All,

Notes are directions, not suggestions. Read and make changes tonight.

General Notes:
Make sure the costume crew is aware of your quick changes and someone has committed to helping you. Actors, you are responsible for pre-setting your own costumes from quick changes. This should give you some peace of mind, too. There are empty garment racks on either side of stage to try to keep us a little better organized. Use them!

Your. Mic. Is. On.
Look at your lines backstage when you are not in a scene. No shame! Do it!

Nuns- spacing in Preludium is bad.

Costumes-Shorten Valeria’s apron (pin up)

Crew- be at center of curtain at end of Preludium to let nuns through

Lights- Take stained glass out of Maria’s stair cue

Lights- Wait on hills light cue until Maria is approaching stage and music builds

Costumes- Shorten Maria’s apron (pin up)

Bethany- see me for Sound of Music movement. You’ve done so much with it- let’s make it perfect!

Lights- Stained glass windows in Abbey/ Mother Abbess' office?

Nuns- Sing “a clown”

Kiran- sing with group three through the entire song

Katie- wait for applause at end of "Maria"

Lights- Cue in Mother Abbess’s office with highlight

Katie- work on a solution for your veil with Mrs. Timmel tomorrow

Katie- stay open to us when you’re telling Maria about the Captain

Maria- it would be a nice touch if you have the paper in your hand that Mother Abbess gives to you when you enter the Von Trapp house

Maria- knock something over when you get into the house. Remember, she could "throw a whirling dervish out of whirl!"

Maria- don’t forget your joy at doing God’s will. As much as you’re trepidacious about this experience, you're excited

Kristen, Gen- knee socks

Gen- point to yourself on “I’m nine”

Gen- I love the way you’re holding the guitar

Kids- top of Do-Re-mi gather on the stairs on either side of Maria so it makes more sense when she brings you downstage.

Liesl- wait on the tea/bread motions until they’ve guilt-stared you into participating. There’s a longer gap there if you do that and it's funnier

Juliana- Make sure you sing “do” when Maria gets you up.

Joseph- walk upstage of the group after Do-Re-Mi so you stay open to us

Toni- try very hard to have that quilt entirely covered by the dress.

JJ- goofy bow and lead her to the stairs- I think it’s too early for you to take her hand before you sing

JJ- she’s calling you out- she’s cute and funny- laugh a little

You two- get real close on the platform before you back away

JJ- kiss her hand while standing instead of taking her to the platform to sit

Crew- you’re doing a brilliant job with these transitions. Make sure you are in the wings waiting for your “entrance.” Speed is as crucial for your entrance as it is for the actors’.

SR Girls- prefold the quilts so that they’re exactly how you need them. We’re getting two more comforters tomorrow so exactness isn’t important

Liesl- flinch at the first mention of your name in the beginning of Maria’s prayer and creep more slowly so you don’t end up so far SL.

Kurt- run to the opposite corner of the bed so that you’re opposite Luke when you enter

Bethany- you do a beautiful job yodeling while sitting down

Von Trapp kids- you’re having the TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Folks in the Town- run off a beat or two earlier if it helps you all get offstage before the last beat of music. It’s important to the audience’s understanding of the song that we do not see you after the final note.

SR Girls the chairs do not need to be right up against the table

Seamus- you must be onstage when lights come up on Scene 6.

Seamus- stay open to us as you read telegrams.

Max- take your hat off inside

Max- don’t forget to get up and cross when you hear the bells

JJ- hold the “heil” longer and stay open to us

Max- GOING TO, not GONNA

Seamus- you should be APPALLED at this … this.. game they’re playing. Let us see that in your face. Don't forget to blow the whistle before you say "straight line!"

Seamus- throw the kerchief at her so she can catch it. OR OR OR throw it the way you’ve been doing it and…

Bethany- pick up the kerchief as you say you’re not home long enough to know them

Toni and Joseph- make sure you treat the trays with glasses like they are filled with liquid.

Seamus and Bethany-Chuckle in love. That scene is so cute, but you're SO SERIOUS about it. It's a lot of things but totally serious is not one of them.