Critiques September 30

September 30, 2016

 

Everyone	Learn lines by Sunday STEP on lines – almost interrupt. Exaggerate DICTION in the first song. People in one of the first crossing – Will, Darlene, Luella, etc.  Part of you come from right stage and some cross from left meet about 1/3 way in.  Have a purpose. Why are you entering and why do you exit? Stay in character at all times. Someone in the Laymon family or CC needs to take the suitcases off. LEARN LINES
Basil	Smoother with lines, not so choppy Do not yell in scene after Norma comes to the house. Why didn’t you diagnose ringworms and cold water in the first scene with health salts.
Ferris	Louder and be more confident – like you were Wednesday
Buddy	In the diner, go to the window first, then see the storm, then say your lines. Do not be late for entrances. He has to find her – DO NOT SCREAM.  Be more lost. Do not scream after worm scene. 1. We can’t understand you 2. It seems fake.
Basil, Dewey	Go in the hardware store.  Buy something and it’s heavy, so Dewey sets it down to rest and you both have your conversation. Basil, you might help him carry it the rest of the way.
Norma	See if Elmer Gantry or the biography of Aimee Semple McPherson is on Netflix.   You need to be softer and committed to saving everyone. Varying speech cadence might help. React to leave me alone
Darlene	DICTION especially with the new lines. The worm scene is feeling robotic.  Change it up a little.
Jaden	Good job in the worm scene.
Abi	Great job filling in for Kate Munson. You are every director’s dream of an understudy.  You knew every line.

 

September 25 Rehearsal

September 25, 2016 Critiques

 

Everyone	Get up smoother from the dance. Clap on time No pregnant pauses. Careful on the gray set pieces.  You are all too loud. When you are walking as villagers backstage, talk or carry something. Do not sway.  Plant your feet. Watch standing profile.  Make sure you can always see the EXIT signs at the back of the auditorium. Step on lines Don’t talk backstage. Don’t break character Be sure that your sentences do not die. Be just as loud at the end as you are at the beginning.
Ferris	Be louder.  Practice using more emotion when speaking.  Speak like your parents would be in the same situation. Work on anger with CC Wastin my time – angrier Pushy lady line needs to be angrier React to coffee being a nickel.  You have to pay for CC’s too because he has no money.
Ferris & CC	Come in earlier in coffee shop scene.
Buddy	See the bird, approach it slowly, pick it up, touch it to your face then lines.  DO NOT SCREAM. Itch more Stay in character
Light on the people who are in focus.
Lights/Sound	I know it is boring.  Do not watch games during rehearsals.
Norma	Be more concerned when CC let’s go of Buddy’s hands.
Well diggers, Basil, Luella, Jennie Mae, Buddy	When one group is talking, the other group is frozen.  Both groups yell in excitement at the same time.  We will rehearse this scene again.
CC Buddy	Talk on the way to Norma’s. LINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Melvin	Be more in the group at the river. Memorize your lines
CC	Stay in character I was a preacher – cheat out. Roll pants up to knees.
Norma	Gasp when they get the right number. Praise Jesus or something similar. Happier when you take the beans.
Dewey	Great job reacting.
Goldie	Out while Ferris has line about pushy lady
Ferris Buddy CC	Comfort Buddy when he is scared.
Women	Hats off in the store
Jaden	Giggle when Darlene says naked
Jennie Mae	After I can’t be watchin him all the time, Daddy. ADD I dress him, I Feed him… I need to spend more time with my friends.
Luella	For all we know, this guy is a smooth talkin’ con man.add We don’t know nothing about him.
Norma	We know he’s a preacher.
Luella	What church is he with?
Norma	Why, Luella, he’s a Christian a course.
Luella	Well that doesn’t mean you can trust him, you know. What kind of preacher’d work in a garage?
Goldie	I expect you been showin our new friend around town, huh?
Ferris	Ain’t much to see.
Goldie	Why, there’s the dry goods and the vew a the river. You seen the church, ain’t ya?
Dewey	How do you figure the boy knows like he does? I mean , you done your fair share a doctorin, Basil.
Basil	I’m no doctor, son.  Most things’ ll heal alone.
Dewey	But how do you figure the boy knows like he does?
	Darlene and Norma will be in the hardware store reading the Bible. Basil and Luella are standing on gray – watching the land.
Darlene	And God said let the waters be together.
Basil	You see there?  The way the ground soaks in the river?
Norma	And God said, Let the waters under the Heaven be gathered together.
Basil	The highland’s all turned and the seeds’re all in.
Luella	Be a real good summer.
Basil	Yeah, the farm’s lookin fine.
Norma	And God saw it was good.
Darlene	I thought we already did that one.
Norma	That was for light.
Darlene	God thought all of this stuff was pretty good, huh?
Norma	In the beginning, yeah.
Norma	Best salts in the county.A bad rash is a tough thing to shake.
	Scene 11 Norma goes into Goldie’s diner
Norma	When you hear what happened not half an hour ago you’ll say it’s just like I told you all summer.
Goldie	Let me get you some coffee.
Luella	Just half a cup, Goldie.  Too much’ll give me the skitters.
Norma	The beans…. These beans are a sign.
Luella	Tastes like plain old candy to me.
Norma	That man’s got the spirit clean through him.
Goldie	But he told me right to my face, he gave up on preachin.
Norma	You can’t toss off the spirit like you toss off a coat.  It’s a gift he has.
Luella	Norma…That man is amazin. I was half way to Zion when it started to rain. I’m peddlin along,.. I says, “Luella, the thing to do here is use your umbrella.  But to hold the thing u and ride the bike all at one, I had to steer with just my left hand, see?
Goldie	No wonder you fell.
Luella	And when I go to get up, I can’t move!There I am on my rump in the road, and I’ve just about given up hope….I look up through the rain, Goldie, and who do you think I see comin?
Goldie and Norma	The new preacher!
Luella	HE says to me, Mrs. Bennett, get up off the road, you’re just fine. The longer I’m talkin the more the preacher keeps starin… Like he’s seein clean through me.
Goldie	Did he touch you?
Luella	His voice is real cqlm qne he says, “Mrs. Bennett, get up. I tell you, I never felt better.
Norma	I never seen nothing like it.  He’ll bring the whole town to the Lord.
	Scene 17
	All stagger coming out & at different paces.
Luella	It’s gonna rain soon.
Norma	It’s fixing to rain awful hard, dear.
Dewey	Would you look at that sky!
Goldie	You’ll have to wait out the storm to get home.
Melvin	Awful dark clouds.
Darlene	I never saw the sky so full before.
Luella	It’s been a good summer for rain.
Goldie	Nice summer. Basil goes up to well diggers
Basil	Are the tools in?
Dewey	Yeah, they’re in.
Goldie	Gonna storm most of the night, I’m afraid.
Norma	Would you listen to that wind?
Luella	It’s a season for storms.
Darlene	I can’t sleep when it’s stormin.
Goldie	Best get inside before the sky splits wide open.
Norma	You’ll be alright. Hugs Darlene
Basil	I haven’t seen the sky like this in years.
	Buddy is heard calling Mama offstage as thunder and lightning roll. Ferris claps Melvin on the shoulder & heads down to Goldie’s. Basil puts his coat over Luella’s head. They exit USR Melvin exits USL Norma is in Dry Goods.  Dewey & Darlene run in looking at storm. Goldie & customer talk. Ferris comes in, talks to Goldie. She shakes her head no,  then he exits. Norma, Dewey, Darlene, Goldie, Customer freeze after Ferris exits.
Music	Scene 2 –Breck Scene 4 – Norma Scene 5 – Brooklyn Scene 6 – Brooklyn Scene 7 – Breck Scene 8 – Clayton – Thunder Scene 9 – Brooklyn Scene 10 – Breck Scene 11 –Breck Scene 12 Breck Scene 13 Breck Scene 14 Breck Scene 15 Brooklyn Scene 16 – Brooklyn Scene 17 – Brooklyn Scene 18- Clayton – Thunder Scene 19 – Breck Scene 20 - Breck