Pickup/Photos Day - 2/16

Here are the pertinent details for our upcoming pickup rehearsal/photo shoot day, 2/16:

Calls: 

-Actors: In costume, makeup, warmed up, and onstage by 440pm (costume and dressing rooms open by 300pm for flex day).

-Crew: 400pm to ready stage for full run of show.

Run of Show:

-Go/Act I: 445pm

-Intermission: 5 minutes

-Go/Act II: 545pm

-Supplementary Photos/Notes: 630pm

Some notes about the day:

1) Make sure you eat before you get into costume! We have flex starting at 230pm-ish...there's plenty of time.

2) Once you are in makeup and costume, no eating...plan for that.

3) We will be shooting photos from the house during the run of pickup...we will get anything we can't get from there at 630pm.

4) Full out, full energy in your pickup rehearsal...keep the integrity of the show intact.  Treat it as you would a full performance...'cause it is.

5) Check your props and costume pieces prior to 440pm...because, duh.

6) Hopefully you had a good break...your audience is waiting!

7) Check in with any questions!

- jm

Some notes from your Stage Manager...

All of the times listed below are exact and need to be exact unless you have a very good reason, and have communicated that with one of us SMs!

This is the Actor pre show, intermission and post show expectations.

Pre Show:

• Put personal items in the drama room

• SIGN IN!

• Lovers + Oberon & Titania be in shoes with hair up (if needed) for fight call at 5:30 

• Other actors are permitted to get ready as soon as they arrive but are still required to be there at exactly 5:30! During this time you are either in the costume shop hallway (includes dressing rooms obvi), drama room, or auditorium. If you aren’t in these spaces, then someone who is in one of them is aware of where you are...preferably an SM. Also if you're not in these spaces you aren’t wandering around.

**NOTE FOR DRESSING ROOMS: 3 people to a dressing room. In the dressing rooms you have 7 mins to get into your costumes. We are doing makeup and everything else outside of the dressing rooms. This does not mean we leave the hallway messy, though! Clean up after yourself, please. 

• Warmups start at 6:50 in the Drama Room!

• Places at 7:25!

• Go at 7:30!

Intermission:

• Double check where your own props and costumes are.

• Water! Please hydrate!

Post Show:

• Put your top of show outfit in your box (the outfit you wear first)

• Every clothing item that you have that needs to be backstage for the show needs to be taken to the costume shop to be hung by costuming. This includes accessory/goodie bags, wings, shoes, etc.!!!!

On a lighter note here are the spirit days (this is for everyone and is just for fun! Also all of these are open for interpretation!):

Preview 1/10: Magical Flower day (Floral patterns)

Opening 1/11: #Lovers day 

2nd show 1/12^2: ASM day 

Pickup Rehearsal 1/16: Roar…ROAR (Animal prints lol)

3rd Performance 1/17: POV you're attending a triple wedding! 

4th Performance: Dad Day 

LaSt PeRfOrMaNcE: Fairy day

-CP

Show Week…Day 1!

Hey folks…happy Show Week!

For tonight remember:

1) Call is at 530pm today. That is for EVERYONE including crew. Expect that we’ll stagger calls later in the week, but for today we need everyone on time.

2) We are releasing today at 1000pm. Make sure that this is communicated to your families…we will likely need that time, especially for 1st Dress.

3) Eat beforehand! We won’t, for COVID reasons, be providing food or snacks…take care of yourselves!

4) Maximum of 3 actors and one makeup assistant in each dressing room. Unfortunately, this will really change our preshow culture…but thems the rules right now.

5) Sign in sheet is in the Drama Room. All cast and crew will need to sign in each day to make Dad’s life easier!

See y’all later…let’s do this!

- jm

Crew Joins Up - 1/31!

 Hey y'all - Super excited to be launching into our Tech Week!  While details will roll out once we are together, here are a couple of things:

1) Crew joins up for the first time!  They're excited to see the acting work and I know we're gonna rock it!

2) The call time for crew tomorrow is 330pm, so that we are ready to go right at the normal call time of 345pm.  Remember my mantra: Early is On Time; On Time is Late; Late...you're [redacted] ;-)

There'll be more to come...but for now: Let's do this!

- jm

River, Orie, Eden:

 Can you all send me/find out your ring sizes??? (Maybe ask one of your parents for their opinion) and email me the size! Thanks

Notes from Thursday, 1/27

 Hey gang, 

Here's a few Candor (dad) notes from 1/27:

Larson: "Oh no, oh yes" monologue a little fast and little too quiet. Better at "Be as thou was meant to be"

Cass & Joey: Smooth transition

Peter & Marissa: Louder. Always louder!!!

Aspen: "You're eighteen years old"- Couldn't hear this line

Lovers: Thanks for taking my note on the Shakespeare stuff

Joeyy: Is that fall feeling okay? 

EVERYONE LOUDER IN ACT 5!

Ania: Better on Techno mini-monologue and staying engaged during R&J. 

Mechanicals: Okay character choices when Pattie introduces R&J. 

Peter/Marissa/Aspen/Sivan: Thank you for staying engaged during R&J.

Eden/River/Orie: You still look uninterested during R&J. 

Shay: Good character choices

Elias: Take your sass further. I see it, but I know you're capable of more. lol. 

Joeyy: Is Mia supposed to cue you? "Look, here comes Romeo?"

Mia/Denis: Checked in the the "Dies" We just need consistency!

Molly: Don't break character. I know Quinlyn is funny as hell, but stay in it. 

Peter: "No, no, no!" We need more! 

Denis: "Hard to get" Louder. You need to match Ania. 

THAT'S ALL FOLKS! IF ANY OF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, COME TALK TO US! 

SEE YOU ALL MONDAY!

Friday, January 28 Rehearsal Schedule

 Rehearsal 10am-2pm

10:00-10:30- Helene Monologues pg 23-24, 46-47

10:30-10:45am- Helene/Denis blocking pg 39

10:45-11:00am- Nikki Monologue pg 73-74

11:00-11:15am- Titania/Oberon pg 69-70

11:15-11:45am- Romeo/Juliet Death Scene pg 85

11:45-12:00pm- 2.1 Staging Lovers interrupting Fairy Party

12:00pm- ALL CAST CALL

12:00-12:15pm- Hippolyta/Athens/Phyllis pg 77/78

12:15-12:30pm- 2.1 'Dancing Queen' choreography pg 32

12:30-1:00pm- 3.1 'Help' Intermission choreography pg 54

1:00-2:00pm- 5.1 'Never Gonna Give You Up' choreography/staging End of Show pg 85-86