ℹ️ General Update ℹ️

We had another great week fine-tuning our singing & dancing! I've modifed a couple rehearsals this week based on where we've progressed these past two weeks, including reducing an hour for the DJINN on Wednesday and changing the focus Thursday from more ensemble singing to blocking our opening scenes (which means the DJINN won't be needed Thursday, either). However, I've needed to add most of the principal characters to Thursday's rehearsal.

Costume information information and needs will likely be shared out next weekend.

🌟 Superstars of the Week 🌟

📚 Homework (DUE Thu, Feb 12) 📚

Extra Work

Carter, Michael, & Veda:⌛ In addition to the other work below, rehearse your ensemble dances an additional hour. (1 hr)

Carter, Daniel, Gibson, Lilly AR, Mabel, Ollie, & Veda:⌛ In addition to the other work below, rehearse ensemble songs you are least familiar with for an additional hour from among these choices: (1 hr)

GUARDS: ⌛ In addition to the other work below, fine tune your poses in "One Jump Ahead." (15-20 mins)

SKELETONS 1-3: ⌛ Work on projecting your solos stronger in "Dungeon Ditty." (5-10 mins)

Aladdin & Jasmine: ⌛ Review the following:

• "One Jump Ahead" rhythm on p 14. (5-10 mins)

• "Whole New World" imagined locations, with a plan for 9 specific moments (10-15 mins)

• (Jasmine only) Practice "One Jump Ahead Reprise." (10-15 mins)

Primary Homework

AGRABAHNS, DJINN, & ENTOURAGE:

• 🎤 Singing - Review the following: (45-60 mins)

  • #2 - "Arabian Nights 2" - Practice the lyrics "Oh, we come...mirage" without a script using the Perf Acc track & holding the whole notes on one pitch on "days" & "moons." (5-10 mins)
  • #9 - "Dungeon Ditty" - Practice clear final "t" sounds on "plight," "won't" (with a breath), and "night" (after 4 beats). (5-10 mins)
  • #20 - "Whole New World" - Practice your entrances without a script using the Guide Vocals then Perf Acc tracks, starting from the beginning, & holding the whole notes on p 43. (10-15 mins)
  • #26 - Jafar's Demise - Practice at least twice to review lyrics & accuracy. (5-10 mins)
  • #28 - Finale & Bows - Practice with your script at least three times & write in your script differences you notice between portions of these songs & their originals. (10-15 mins)

• 💃 Dancing - Practice your choreographed dancing. (30-45 mins)

Aladdin, Genie, Iago, Jafar, Jasmine, & Sultan: 📖 Practice your most needed dialogue memorization or acting experimentation. (30-60 mins)

STAGE MANAGERS: ▶️ Complete a read-through with guide vocal tracks of the entire show & turn in a list to Mr. Hart of your 5 biggest questions. (45-60 mins)

DESIGNERS: 🔊 Review the updated costume & props plans after Monday. (30-45 mins)

AUDIO TECHNICIANS: 🔊 Review the updated Sfx plan after Monday. (30-45 mins)

ℹ️ General Update ℹ️

It was an excellent singing rehearsal this Friday with our long-awaiting school day! Please double-check the rehearsal schedule due to a few changes the next couple weeks from the weather. This week's homework is much more specific and students are more similarly prepared than in previous weeks due to some hard work by many! For most, it is about 90 minutes this week. Prop and costume information information and needs are getting very close to being ready to be shared, as our designers have completed a lot of tasks these first few weeks.

🌟 Superstars of the Week 🌟

📚 Homework (DUE Fri, Feb 6) 📚

Briella T, Milah B, & Serenity:⌛ In addition to the other work below, rehearse singing the six assigned ensemble songs from Week 4 for an additional 30 minutes, and your learned ensemble dance for an additional 30 minutes. (1 hr)

Elise M: ⌛ In addition to the other work below, review the costume design plan your teammates have updated and check out each of the links I've placed within the plan. (1 hr)

GUARDS: In addition to the other work below (you are also ENTOURAGE), complete this:

• 🎤 Singing Practice - #23 & #24 - The "Prince Ali" reprises 1 & 2 (15 mins)

• 🕺 Poses in "One Jump Ahead" (10 mins)

AGRABAHNS, DJINN, ENTOURAGE:

• 🎤 Singing: For some of these, you are only working on a small section, so you don't have to start the track at the beginning if you know your music well.

  • #1 - "Arabian Nights 1" - Practice holding the whole notes on one pitch on "days" and "dreams." (5-10 mins)
  • #2 - "Arabian Nights 2" - Review and practice the lyrics "Oh, we come..." & "glass is right, so stop by, worthy friend..." and holding the whole notes on one pitch on "days" & "moons." (5-10 mins)
  • #6 - "One Jump Ahead" - Practice and confidently prepare being ready for "Vandal!" on measure 115, after the guards shout, "Wrong!" (5-10 mins)
  • #9 - "Dungeon Ditty" - Practice at least twice to review lyrics & accuracy. (5-10 mins)
  • #13 - "Friend Like Me" - Practice at least once to review lyrics & accuracy. (5-10 mins)
  • #18 - "Prince Ali" - Practice at twice once paying special attention to Groups 1 & 2 lyrics on measures 62-69, pitch accuracy on measures 79-90, the tempo change on measures 110-115 (gradually slower) & 116-120 (gradually faster), and the rest on measure 119. Mark these difficult spots all clearly in your script before you practice. (10-15 mins)
  • #20 - Practice at least once to review entrances & ensure you sing at the correct times. (5-10 mins)
  • #26 - Jafar's Demise - Practice at least twice to review lyrics & accuracy. (5-10 mins)
  • #28 - Finale & Bows - Practice with your script at least twice and write in your script differences you notice between portions of these songs and their originals. (10-15 mins)

• 💃 Dancing: Practice the dancing for the one song you've begun learning choreography for so far. Mr. Hart is very sorry for forgetting to record our most recent run-through so that your practice videos will be better quality. (20-30 mins)

Aladdin, Genie, Iago, Jafar, Jasmine, Sultan: 📖 Memorize the remainder of your dialogue and review and practice all dialogue. (60-90 mins)

STAGE MANAGERS: ▶️ Watch at least 5 episodes of Positively Emerald by Broadway.com, which highlights backstage elements of the Broadway production of Wicked. (75-90 mins)

DESIGNERS:

• ▶️ Watch at least 3 episodes of Positively Emerald by Broadway.com, which highlights backstage elements of the Broadway production of Wicked. (60-75 mins)

• 💬 Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, look back over the updated costume plan (Mr. Hart will not have updated it until late Sunday night). Using the comment feature, while you have selected a cell (choose Insert-->Comment), and add questions or additional considerations to the ideas I have begun to finalize. At this stage, you'll need to avoid editing the plan directly in the cells, but this is a way you can still have input. (10-15 mins)

AUDIO TECHNICIANS:

• 🔊 Christian & Ethan: Finish your Week 4 homework. You can see Colin's examples now in Scenes 1 and 10. Complete at least one row per page. (90-120 mins)

• 📢 Colin B: Find some more sound effects (sfx) ideas to place in the audio plan document (you can find that on the 2nd tab of the bottom of the sheet now). Specifically consider what the background noise of a setting might be, even if there were no plot/play/action/dialogue/song. Then see if you can add a few more general ideas, perhaps just one for each scene/setting. An example from a show like Frozen, in the ballroom scene at Elsa's coronation ceremony, "soft, gentle waltz music," or "soft overlapping conversational small talk in a large space." (30-60 mins)

🌟 Superstars of the Week 🌟

📚 Homework (DUE Wed, Jan 30) 📚

👯 AGRABAHNS: Memorize your dance for "One Jump Ahead."

👯 DJINN: Memorize your dance for "Friend Like Me."

👯 ENTOURAGE: Practice your dance for "Prince Ali." (2x15 mins)

📑 Carter, Gemma, Gibson, Lillian T, Ollie, Zachary: Learn & practice the "Prince Ali" dance. (additional 1-2 hours)

Aladdin, Genie, Jasmine, Jafar, Iago, Sultan:

• 🎭 Review & practice dialogue & acting in Scenes 1A-7C. (30-60 mins)

• 📖 Memorize assigned dialogue in Scenes 8A-9B. (30-60 mins)

DESIGNERS:

• 👒 Complete a design idea for your assigned principal character in the costume plan spreadsheet. (30-60 mins)

• 👑 Gabe & Taytum: Check the ideas for the Princes in the costume plan sheet from Elise & Asher and complete & modify as you wish. Review the rest of the costume plan document. (additional 60-90 mins)

STAGE MANAGERS:

• 👀 Review the updated scenery plan, props list, costume plan, & audio plan documents. (30-60 mins)

• 📝 Lennix: Read through the entire script with music twice. (additional 1-2 hrs)

AUDIO TECHNICIANS:

Revisit the audio plan and input all solos and dialogues from the dropdown menus available. Assign a specific mic to each character, and if they have a solo or dialogue on a page, choose their name from that column. It is ok for more than one character to use the same column, just not at the same time. I've begun the first scene for you as an example. Split the work by scene: (1-2 hrs)

🌟 Superstars of the Week 🌟

🎩 Casting Updates 🎩

📚 Homework (DUE Jan 23) 📚

🚨 Makeup Work (Overdue)

• 🎤 AGRABAHNS, DJINN/SKELETONS, & ENTOURAGE (including UNDERSTUDIES, excluding DANCE CAPTAINS/CREW): Practice & finish memorizing each of the following (1-3 hours):

• 📑 Brayan, Briella T, Charlotte B, Daniel, Emmalyn W, Gibson, Leighton, Lennix, & Reese: Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal tracks two additional times. (1-2 hours)

• 🎤 AGRABAHNS 1, 2, 4, & 6 and GUARDS 1, 2, 3, & 4: Learn your solos & dialogue in songs. (1-2 hours)

• 📑 Estella B, Gabe, & Reese: Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal track one additional time. (30-60 mins)

• 👯 AGRABAHNS: Practice your dance for "One Jump Ahead." (2x15 mins)

• 👯 DJINN: Practice your dance for "Friend Like Me." (2x15 mins)

• 👯 GUARDS: Practice your dance poses for "One Jump Ahead." (2x10 mins)

• 🧑‍💻 Brayan, Carter, Charlotte B, Charlotte N, Daniel, Ellis C, Gemma, Kaiya, Lillian F, Lillian T, LJ, Milah B, Skye, Vivian, Wyatt:

Find the ProductionPro invitation in your school gmail account, follow the link, and setup your ProductionPro account. Let Mr. Hart know if you need help. There will be a delay before you can complete the next ProductionPro assignment listed below, so try back the next day for that step. (5-10 mins)

🛠️ New Assignments

• 🧑‍💻 FULL CAST:

In ProductionPro, turn on the Director's Notes layer. To do this, go to the Binder, click the script, then select the dropdown menu from the top-middle of the page (probably says, "My Notes"). In the popup window you see, click the gray eyeball icon beside "Director's Notes" to turn them on. This will allow you to see all of the relevant notes from me for everyone throughout the script. Explore highlighting and putting notes in your own layer. For help on a web browser. For help on an iPad. (5-15 mins)

• 📑+🎤 LAMP VENDORS & CAVE GUARDIANS: Note your assigned lines by number in your own scripts from the ProductionPro Director's Notes layer. Learn your solos & dialogue during song. (1-2 hours)

• 📖 Aladdin, Jasmine, Jafar, Iago, Sultan: Review & practice assigned dialogue in Scenes 1A-6 ("Arabian Nights 1" through Aladdin entering the Cave). (1-2 hours)

• 📖 Aladdin & Genie: Memorize assigned dialogue in scenes 7A-7C ("Hello, Genie" to "Hello, Avis"). (1-2 hours)

• 🩰 DANCE CAPTAINS: Review & finish choreographing dance moves for (2-3 hours):

• 📋 STAGE MANAGERS: Read-through script cover-to-cover once with guide vocals playing songs. Thursday, review the sound effects document and the props list document. (1-2 hours)

• 🧑‍💻 AUDIO TECHNICIANS:

  • Transfer your sound effects (sfx) ideas to the audio ideas list here, filling in a row for each idea, at least 6 ideas for each designer. (1-2 hrs)

  • Wednesday or Thursday, after a couple others have added ideas, revisit the page and add a couple of your thoughts to the right about other designer ideas. (5-10 mins)

  • On Tuesday, check for a new Audio layer which I will share and review the time stamps in pink. (5-10 mins)

    • Ethan: RENAME your old Audio layer, "Ethan - Audio." Delete all transferred annotations from your layer so you don't see duplicates. (15-20 mins)

• 🪔 DESIGNERS: On Tuesday, revisit the props list, which I will clean up and update. View the new "Props" layer I've shared with you. (5-10 mins)

  • Estella B, Gabe, & Reese:

Create a new layer, or rename your layer, "[Name] - Props." Share this layer with Mr. Hart, Ms. Fuhrman, and each of the other designers. Then input a note in ProductionPro on your props layer, similar to an examples you'll see in yellow on the first page, for each of the approved & assigned prop ideas into your props layer of ProductionPro. (1-2 hrs)

• • Asher, Elise M, & Taytum:

On Wednesday and Thursday, review the ProductionPro props layers shared with you and verify the assigned & approved prop ideas from the list have been entered. Create a new layer, or rename your layer, "[Name] - Props," and share this layer with Mr. Hart, Ms. Fuhrman, and each of the other designers. Add any missing items to your own layer. (1-2 hrs)

General Update

• We have a cast of excellent singers, and when they sing music they know, it sounds incredible! Our crew is off to a strong start organizing, creating, focusing, and troubleshooting! Our understudies are excited and prepared to jump in and fill in for anyone who is missing! Aladdin, Genie, & Jasmine are well-prepared with their solos (I haven't yet worked with Jafar & Iago on theirs)!

• ProductionPro's software engineer has been on vacation and are expected to return Mon, Jan 12, at which point they should immediately be troubleshooting why access to my Director's Notes layer in the digital script is unavailable to me and the entire cast & crew.

• Costuming for the entire ensemble, for the purpose of economy and simplicity of a very large cast, is likely to include a base layer of a solid-color tee and perhaps leggings, jeans, or shorts of specific colors. We may ask for most families to supply these basic items and the footwear but are just beginning to work on the vision for that, with our student designers brainstorming ideas for the staff volunteers to consider and approve.

• Students need to remember to remain near the front door if not picked up on time. Mr. Guthrie can monitor that area safely after rehearsal, and I exit that direction to verify pickup.

• A script idea a student suggested for more easily managing theirs was to visit Office Depot and have it spiral bound. The student reported it cost them $2.50 and 5-10 minutes. This is completely optional, but certainly could make managing a script on stage and in rehearsal more convenient.

• Completing a social contract for the musical seems redundant currently, based on behaviors observed, so we are using our already established pack social contracts combined with the agreements from the musical Participation Form as our guide for now.

Homework (DUE Jan 16)

• FULL CREW & CAST:

Verify homework for the winter break was completed (scroll down to Week 1). If not, catch up as soon as possible. More homework than usual was given that week, and many in the ensemble did not complete their most important assignment adequately, memorizing three important songs. Additionally, half of the cast has not accepted the invitation to sign up for their ProductionPro account. (0-3 hours)

• AGRABAHNS, DJINN/SKELETONS, & ENTOURAGE (including UNDERSTUDIES, excluding DANCE CAPTAINS/CREW): (1-3 hours)

  • Practice & finish memorizing "One Jump Ahead" & "Prince Ali." (incomplete homework)

  • Memorize "Arabian Nights 1," "Arabian Nights 2," & "A Whole New World."

• FULL CAST: Memorize ALL assigned dialogue in Scenes 4A-6 (Aladdin's Home w/ Jasmine through Aladdin entering the Cave...use ProductionPro to find scene numbers). (0-1 hour)

• STAGE MANAGERS: Review & study crew and cast list, including pictures, on web page. Read-through script cover-to-cover once with guide vocals playing songs. Wednesday or Thursday, review the costume ideas document and the props list document. (1-2 hours)

• AUDIO TECHNICIANS:

Break down each of the ensemble songs into sections (find the obvious transition parts of the songs), and finish placing time stamps into your scripts. Here are the primary ensemble songs: #1, #2, #6, #9, #13, #18, #20, & #28. Check back on ProductionPro on Tuesday afternoon, and see if you can load your script and add the Director's Layer. Then I will also add an Audio layer. Turn on the Audio layer and add the time stamps into that layer of your digital script. This is complicated, and I can discuss it Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon with Colin & Ethan at those times to clarify. Christian, you can visit with Colin or me on Wednesday if you have questions. (1-2 hours)

• DESIGNERS:

Read the full script focusing on prop ideas, while taking your own notes. Especially notice any likely required props (items which need to be used in the play because they are specifically mentioned in the script & help tell the story). Also, feel free to consider possible props which help the audience better understand a character, group of characters, setting, or scene. Then add your items (at least 3 each) to the props list here, filling in the row. After a couple others have added ideas, revisit the page and add a couple of your thoughts to the right about other designer ideas. (1-2 hours)

• DANCE CAPTAINS:

Practice your choreographed combo ideas from previous homework enough that you can confidently demonstrate them in front of your ensembles and/or the CAST. Mark the specific measures in each song which you have a combo idea choreographed. Finally, make a harder or easier version (1-2 advanced or simpler move options) of each idea. (see Week 1 homework) (1-2 hours)

• Brayan OG, Evelynn AT, Penelope M, Veda P: Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal tracks two additional times, noting instances of any group singing & questions about your characters' involvement in scenes/songs. (1-2 hours)

Homework for Winter Break

• FULL CREW & CAST:

  • With your parents, review the updated Calendar, Resources, and Crew & Cast pages on this web site and let Mr. Hart know if you have questions.

  • Check your school gmail account for the invitation to your digital script from ProductionPro and setup your account.

• FULL CAST: Memorize:

  • ALL assigned vocal solos,

  • ALL dialogue during songs, and

  • ALL assigned dialogue in Scenes 1A-3 (beginning through "One Jump Ahead").

• AGRABAHNS, DJINN/SKELETONS, & ENTOURAGE: Memorize ensemble rhythm, lyrics, & pitch patterns for "One Jump Ahead," "Friend Like Me," & "Prince Ali." (Dance Captain's may focus on only memorizing their own assigned ensemble songs for now.)

• STAGE MANAGERS: Memorize names, faces, & all roles of entire crew & cast. Use the Crew & Cast page on this site to help. Focus most on the students in your ensemble group.

• AUDIO TECHNICIANS: Memorize the song titles & track numbers of the entire show. Know which of them are songs and which are mostly background music.

• DESIGNERS: Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal tracks three times.

• UNDERSTUDIES: Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal tracks two times.

• DANCE CAPTAINS: Choreograph & memorize 4-6 basic combo ideas (2-4 8-counts) for each of your assigned ensemble songs.

  • AGRABAHN DC: "Arabian Nights" & "One Jump Ahead" (Agrabahn ideas)

  • DJINN/SKELETONS DC's (contact each other, if you'd like, to coordinate or delegate): "Friend Like Me," "Dungeon Ditty," & "Whole New World" (Avis ideas)

  • ENTOURAGE DC: "Prince Ali" (+tumbling ideas) & "One Jump Ahead" (guard ideas)

• Aven M, Chloe R, Collins F, Eli N, Gemma B, Kaiya N, Lillian F, Peyton W, Skye C, Wini B, Wyatt M, & Zachary B:

Read the full script with music playing the Guide Vocal tracks two additional times, noting instances of any group singing & questions about your characters' involvement in scenes/songs.