Much Ado notes from 2/19 run

***This does not include any notes given last night***


Hero /Bea - Take places in before lights up

Shalom - Can the earmuffs be up on your hat?

Bea - Pay more attention to the Leo/Messenger conversation

Decide to stir the pot a little about Benedick

Firmly close your book (make it pop?) 

Leo - VOLUME

Bea - Find a place to wear the messenger’s cap (or try to)

SOLDIERS - Marching on entry works

Ben & Bea - fight was low energy / going through the motions.

CROWD - Good reactions to the B&B fight

Ben - in sickness, anger…NEVER with love

Ben/Claud/DP - see me about the horse for hire line

DP - watch diction on bridge/flood line

Leo / Antonio - VOLUME

Antonio- be excited about the news you are sharing

Leo - diction

Bora - maybe no hand to cover mouth on ‘smoking’

Bora/Conrad - Great job directing traffic for D.Gianna

Bea - good ‘get you to heaven’ voice

Bea - wooing..repenting (with Hero down stage center) look up to heaven on ‘repenting’

Bora - hold the ‘Travolta a bit longer after the dance

Antonio - It is okay to hold your mask over your face. Scene needs you to be hiding your identity

CROWD - Dance with each other during the mini-scenes (NOT out to audience)

Bora - hit MARRY her (to Claudio)

Ben - “prince hath GOT your Hero”

“...she TOLD me…”

Hero - react to Ben’s anti-Beatrice rant. 

DP - it’s okay to leave Hero’s mask off stage

Bea - ‘Cousins, God give you joy’ didn’t we change your exit to Up stage?

Bora - slightly less drunk/compromised during dumb show. It will be hard enough for the audience to track.

Ben/DP/Claud/Leo - Great reactions to Balthazar’s song.

Ben - Cleaner ‘pop’ up on first entrance after the song (from behind stairs)

Crisper when moving/with plant. Lift/move/set. Being specific will keep it clean and funny

Leo - watch diction when laughing

Ben - work out a signal with Baxter to bring you back if out there too long

Bea - don’t go up in register ‘bid you come to dinner’. Go down. Be more disdainful

Hero/Urs/Marg - VOLUME

Bea - take longer on center cross around platform with the hat.

Can you ‘bounce’ more when sneaking with the hat. The up/down is a funny visual

‘What fire is in mine ears’ you are NOT mad. Don’t throw the props in anger. DISBELIEF/Stunned

Keep the skip up the aisle

Ben - enter farther on ‘loves me/loves me not’

Don P - hit ‘I will DISGRACE her’

Dog - Good with looking like you will hit Salem and transitioning into ‘knighting’ him

Sunny - ‘Watch offends no man’, shake head. Better visual with lantern light

Bora - good with ‘duckets’

Bora/Conrad - good scene before the arrest

Watch - be acknowledging Bora’s story with each other and be taking notes during it


INTERMISSION


Marg - more ‘common sense’ mentality when talking to hero about men/marriage

Bea - sit on the end of the platform stairs?

Marg / Urs - help hero strike props (hat box and whatnot)

Dog - don’t pick flower when Leo is on stage Do it immediately or bring it on with you

Bea - Music should cue your entrance for wedding

Bea/Hero/Leo - Slow down for the wedding march. Slow WAY down. It’s not a race, its a parade

Leo - let music begin to fade out before talking to Friar

Ant/Urs/Bea - more calming/soothing/care/concern for Hero. She’s having a bad day

Bea - too shrill after ‘how fares the lady?’ could not understand (might have been a diction issue)

Leo - nice with ‘mine’ monologue

Watch out for shrieking

Antonio - Help Hero and Bea up off of the ground

Bea - Don’t go into full crying. Soft sobbing should work. It is too abrupt

slow speaking pace when you are down on platform

Better with Kill Claudio (nice work)

Ben - not afraid to ‘kill Claudio’. Disappointed/regret she asked

It is the one thing you won’t do

Sexton - No smiling. Be the boring parent

Dog - try dragging the umbrella off stage at the end of the scene (sad they did not write down you are an ass)

Leo / Ant - VOLUME

Antonio - you need to be reacting to the conversation between Leo & claudio

 - fight was much better. Keep tightening it up. The more specific you are, the funnier it will be

Ben - bigger beat change between challenging Claudio on the stairs and ‘you have killed an innocent…’

Be ominous without yelling 

Bora - Volume on admission to Don P. & Claudio

Pick up the pace a little during admission story

Leo - ‘Which of these is he…’ LOOK AT BORA AND CONRAD!!!

Leo/Claud/Don P - VOLUME dropped out during Claudio’s kneeling contrition

Leo - money prop?

Don P - good exiting with Claud

Marg - VOLUME

Ben - Louder when singing your poem

Ben & Bea - ‘for what parts’ have more fun/laugh/enjoy this moment more

Don P/Claud/Ben - we need to fix the conversation after the reconciliation hug

CROWD - React to Ben & Bea ‘no more than reason’ the same as you did in the first fight in act 1

  • Okay to ad lib a little at the top of BOTH weddings

  • AWWW! At the poems

  • Wait for music before dancing




 

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