NOTES: Much Ado 2/20 run

 Much Ado notes for 2/20 run


Messenger - VOLUME

Bea - Good ‘pop’ of the book

Messenger - more good natured, playful (when Bea steals your cap)

  • Don’t put the hat back on before announcing the soldiers are approaching

Conrad - trim the beard

Antonio - Slow down, VOLUME

Marg/Urs - good looking confused when Leo starts talking about what to do

Bora - more of a stereotypical ‘stoner’ laugh (I am certain youtube has options)

Bora/Sunny/Conrad - have to hit the Charlie’s Angels pose

Bea - slow down in the scene right before the masquerade ball

Hit all three (woo/wed/repent) 

CAST - Nice on the dance - Nailed the ‘Travolta’

Balthazar - Can you get your first line to Margret out in one go? Too disjointed and breaks up the flow.

Bora/Conrad/Sunny - Dance costumes (REMINDER)

Bora - stress ‘MARRY’ in ‘…MARRY her tonight’

Ben - entered too early during Claudio’s monologue

Ben - watch diction during the all the jobs you ask DP to send you on (everything leading up to HARPY)

Bea - Consider Don Pedro’s offer of marriage for a beat or two

Let him down gently (kind of risky how a PRINCE might react to that news

Exit Up Center on ‘cousins, grant you…’

Bora - Where was the remote control

We are going to cut the ‘sponsored by’ slide

Marg/Urs - nice job with chairs. Nailed it.

Baltha - song is improving, but keep working on it. Definitely going the right direction

Garden Scene 1 - Solid, you guys crushed it. Looked like you were having fa great time

Even the leaf bits Oz ad libbed were funny.

Bea - “...If you have no stomach..” means “If you don’t want to come in, fine by me. That’s your problem Ben”

Bea - WALK with a slow ‘bounce’ in your step, don’t actually hop

You can stop about half way for a line or two (leaving the image of you and the hat center)

Hero - VOLUME

Urs - great projection tonight

Bea- Start mono with hat on (what fire is in mine…

Take hat off after ”...Benedick, LOVE ON!!” Spread arms - hat in one hand and magazine in the other

DP/Leo/Claud/Ben - the scene in the study (before DG’s entrance) was off

His was glaring after how well the garden scene went

Dog - ..bless YOU… (hit YOU the second time you repeat the line to Sunny

Verges - tighten up your cues. That scene needs to keep up its pacing

Dog - open up the trench coat

Salem - VOLUME


***TONIGHT you will have a full 15 minute intermission***


Marg/Hero - VOLUME

Marg - great playfulness with the dress. Nice work

Verges - why were you late?

Shalom - different costume for scene with Leo/Dog. I think Miller is pulling one for you

BEA, LEO, HERO - SLOW DOWN DURING THE WEDDING MARCH. 

Sexton - I believe Miller is pulling a robe for you to wear over your costume for the interrogation scene

Watch - You should have other clothes to wear to the wedding. You can’t be in the watch costumes as you learn about the events of the wedding during the interrogation scene

WEDDING - There was a problem with cues after DP/DG/Claudio leave

Leo - “Let her DIE!” Make that a pronouncement, a judge passing a sentence

Friar - VOLUME on monologue

Ben - don’t look down during Friar’s monologue (it looks like the actor is checked out)

Hero - you were very sad. Good job

Bea - better with the crying in the chapel scene after the wedding

Bea - try placing your hand on Ben’s when he touches your cheek

Dog - let Bora/Conrad get the ‘finger tickle’ bit in

Clean up the umbrella bit

Loose the hat. I think it is throwing of your timing and spacing (face to face with Bora)

Keep the sad umbrella drag

Antonio - VOLUME

React to Leo/claudio

Keep working on the fight. Movements need to be specific and consistent

Good running out of steam during your fight

Bora/Conrad/Dog/Verges - We are cutting the handcuffs

ABBY - LOOK AT ASPEN AND SAVY!!!!

Claudio - reminder, try looking up and out during your contrition to help with the volume

Marg - flirt more with Ben “sonnet for my beauty”

Ben & Bea - better moment on the stairs

Bea - “For them all together” deliver that line towards the lights/balcony. You are so content you don’t need to look at Ben for that

Friar - Don’t react to the Hero reveal. It was your plan!

CROWD - Nice reactions to B&B’s final ‘fight’

Good with the AAWWW! At the poetry reveal

CURTAIN CALL - Jax, can miss your bow. Slides with names on them are running like credits

DOGBERRY - cut the mouth bob during the bow.  

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