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TECH WEEK SCHEDULE

01/06/2020 Monday

2:40 – 3:00 | Cast & Crew Meeting

3:00 – 3:30 | Expectations

3:30 – 4:00 | Prep for Q2Q

4:00 – 6:00 | Q2Q

6:00 – 6:30 | Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 | M/W Act 1

8:00 – 9:00 | T/R Act 1

9:00 – 10:00 | Notes

01/07/2020 Tuesday

3:00 – 5:00 | T/R Act 2

5:00 – 5:30 | Dinner

5:30 – 6:00 | Notes

6:00 – 8:00 | M/W Act 2

8:00 – 9:00 | Work Additional Notes

9:00 – 9:30 | Notes

01/08/2020 Wednesday * Starts at 1:30 for Headshots!

1:30 – 3:00 | Costumes, Hair, Makeup

1:30 – 3:00 | Tech Transitions

3:00 – 5:30 | M/W Whole Show

5:30 – 6:00 | Dinner

6:00 – 6:30 | M/W Notes

6:30 – 9:00 | T/R Whole Show

9:00 – 9:30 | Notes

01/09/2020 Thursday

3:00 – 5:30 | T/R Whole Show

5:30 – 6:00 | Dinner / Notes

6:00 – 7:00 | Pre-Set

7:00 – 9:30 | M/W Whole Show

9:30 – 10:00 | Notes

01/10/2020 Friday

5:00 | CALL TIME

01/11/2020 Saturday

5:00 | CALL TIME

01/15/2020 Wednesday * Pickup Rehearsals

3:00 – 5:30 | T/R Cast

6:00 – 8:30 | M/W Cast

T/R Cast 01/09/2020

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

EZ – Elizabeth

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

RF – Robed Figure

ACT 1 Notes

INTRO

C & J – You can exit stage right door after your intro

C – I want to show you how to hold your jacket

C – Don’t exit stage until after the end of your line

ACT 1 SCENE 1

Z – Please don’t dust the table; focus on the piano, fireplace, pictures, etc

Z – ‘I’ll answer the door’ – cross immediately to the door on this line; you can stop when Elizabeth asks you a question

ED – Even slower walk please and please project!

C – Your hair needs to be pulled back out of your face a little

C – pg 16 – When you sit down at the chair next to the desk, please cheat the chair out

C – Quiet steps when you exit upstairs

AG – Remember to have your gloves when you first enter

AG – Look at Edgars longer and make it a bigger deal about how weird he is when you say your ‘Buttress of Notre Dame’ line

ED – Look at audience for ‘Lucky if all we get is a storm’ – this has to be very loud and very big

Z – For your line ‘Oh Miss Masters, Miss Lanthrop is dissatisfied with her room’, make sure you are downstage on the platform (otherwise the lights don’t hit you if you are too far upstage)

ED – You can’t blow out a candelabra

C & TJ – pg 22 – TJ, can you try to connect with Celia more when you are sitting at the table? That will make her rejection more comedic

JK & S – When you first see each other, can you please have some sort of vocalization before crossing?

C – You are bragging when you say your ‘Corsage of chrysanthemums’ line

Z – Give the drink to Jack or someone closer to you if need be; you shouldn’t have to exit with a drink in your hand

EVERYONE – When Edgars exits downstage left, please follow him out with your eyes and have very big expressions – he is a strange one!

H – Pick up your cues and lines; you have a few lines where you like to wait before you say them or have long pauses in between

H – ‘Gracious, no?’ – pick up this line

H – Careful with the umbrella (don’t swing it around too much!) – also make sure it isn’t too close to or in front of your face

H – Make sure to look at your watch before Agatha passes back your book; there are inscriptions on your watch that she needs to be able to read, so make sure to have it out!

EVERYONE – pg 30 – I need everyone to have some sort of small movement on the line ‘but which one’

ACT 1 SCENE 2

H – I need you to cross stageright to the doors after ‘You are a prime one suspect’; you are currently blocking the chair that Sally needs to see

EZ – Please stand when you read the will

H – look out to the audience for your line ‘quick mind is essential’

TJ – Don’t stand right behind people; if there are people behind you, counter so that you can be seen (specifically page 35)

Z – pg 35ish – ‘Murder’ NEEDS TO BE MUCH BIGGER PLEASE!

H – I can’t have you fall completely on the floor when you are scared by Agatha

H – You have to explore the molding first before you see that there is something special about it

EVERYONE – Can you please have vocal responses with every clock chime? ALSO the stakes need to be higher; if there is a death after every chime past 13, that means your life is GRAVELY in danger

ACT 2 SCENE 1

TJ – I need a way bigger vocal and physical response when Agatha attacks you

ED – pg 43 – Exit downstage left hallway, not the panel

AG – When Edgars enters from the panel, make sure to counter so that you aren’t standing directly in front of him

H – ‘I’m doing nothing’ – don’t drop the end of this line

ED – You exit RIGHT after you say ‘Pleasant dreams’ – don’t wait for Zenia

C – ‘Commit murder’ – play a little bit with TJ and his shoulders; make him nervous!

ED – I need more vocalization from you and struggle when the Robed Figure takes you

S – Be aware of your PJs when you faint on the couch

H – PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLOSE THE PANEL WHEN THE LIGHTS COME ON after Sally faints

AG – I need some sort of scream or panicked sound when the Robed Figure pulls at your hair

Z – Can you hold your candle lower? You are holding it right in front of your face

ACT 2 SCENE 2

AG – You enter from the downstage right double doors; CLOSE the Elizabeth Masters panel and then you exit downstage left

TJ – Don’t back away when Sally and Jack re-enter from the dining room after ringing the bell; they have to see you first before they see Celia

TJ – We need PJs for you – you should change into them at the same time Celia changes into hers

ACT 3 SCENE 1

CT – YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE LETTER!!!

AG – Don’t anticipate that Carter is Lee Rustover; you don’t know yet!

S & TJ – I need a bigger reaction and vocal response to when Carter is announced to be Lee

AG – pg 72 – You have to take the candle off with you before you leave; it is on the desk

S – You have to close the panel behind you before you got to the curtain and hide behind it

Z – When you are hiding up against the wall, look nervous and worried

S – pg 76 – Remember that you have to knock on the panel!

AG – You need to be on the other side of Elizabeth for the reveal; Hannibal should be on one side and you should be on the other

TJ & JK – You should change back into your suits before your last entrance on stage

EVERYONE – PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT! For some reason, this particular run-through was very quiet!

M/W Cast 01/08/2020

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

R – Roger

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

RF – Robed Figure

ACT 3 SCENE 1

H & AG – Any time you are on the platform, please be as downstage as possible so that the spots can hit you more easily

TJ – Project when sitting in the chair after ‘waking up’

AG – With your wig, you do have to cheat out more and say more of your lines to the audience so that we can see your face

CT – Make sure to say your lines while you are pouring your drink

JK – ‘I’m Carter Forstman’ – has to be a bigger reveal

CT – ‘Forstman’ rather than ‘Frostman’

AG – We can’t have you sit on the platform because the couch covers you; instead, can you lean against the wall when you say ‘I’m confused’?

H – Make sure you close the panel after you show it to them and they get to explore a little bit – it needs to be closed before the fireplace death

ACT 3 SCENE 3

RF – Make sure to use the same action to close the panel behind you when you are sneaking through the scene

Z, S, & H – Make sure you are not looking at the ground when you are at the table having your discussion

S – Practice ‘the Bells of St. Mary’s’ – you only need to know the last little part

AG – When you have the gun after you have picked it up from the piano, you need to then point it at Roger Masters (use it to keep him in his place) – don’t just pick it up

H & AG – Make sure to have some sort of vocalization after Hannibal gets shot

M/W Full Run

C & J – Look at the booth for your announcements; don’t look down!

J – Make it clear he has won you over with his storytelling

C – Don’t drop the lines when you are on the upstage platform before your exit – we want to hear them all please!

ACT 1 Notes

R – You don’t need to get down on your knees to pour your drink exactly; you can stay standing and guess – the audience won’t know

Z – Wait to move – stay in your place, until after ‘I’ll go answer the door’

TJ – Don’t stand behind Celia; be to the side of her so that you can be seen

TJ – You can keep the closet door open when hanging jackets; you don’t have to go inside

ED – After taking up Celia and TJ’s luggage, you have to come back down the stairs before letting in Agatha and Sally

TJ – ‘Do her bidding’ – can you be closer to Roger for this? Cross to the desk

ED – ‘We’re lucky if all we get is a storm’ – please project and say this very loudly

ED – Your character should move hardly at all – only if absolutely necessary. That is why she calls you the statue on the buttress of Notre Dame

S – For your first entrance, you enter from the hallway rather than from down the stairs

R & CT – If you are too far away from each other to shake hands, just look at each other and nod

Z – Wait to say your line ‘Beware Sally of everyone and everything’ until everyone else has gone up the stairs and out of earshot

S – pg 23 – ‘I must be nervous’ – THIS HAS TO BE SAID AFTER YOU EXPLORE THE PIANO, because during this, the robed figure is looking at you through the picture frame. You keep saying this right as you enter; PLEASE WAIT!

Z – pg 25 – Quiet feet please as you go off stage

EVERYONE – Bigger reactions and facial responses to Edgars and Zenia when they exit after giving you cocktails

S – Wait to say ‘I saw someone’ until after the lightning flash

H – As soon as the blackout occurs, just stand in front of the doors because it is now harder to see you in the windows

H – Longer pause after ‘I would’ when you first enter

EVERYONE – You need to vocally react and respond to Hannibal’s entrance; most of you should be startled at this event

S, R, JK, & CT – pg 28 – You guys tend to form a vertical line on stage; be aware of where you are, and try to vary to make a pretty picture

H – pg 29 – You have to check your pocket watch a little bit earlier

ED – Faster pickup for your line ‘We are here’

TJ – Can you be more strict when you tell Celia ‘Sit down, you’re making a fool of yourself’

CE – ‘Break the will! Obviously he was insane’ – face the audience when you say this line

S – When you get Agatha’s note, I need you to cross ALL THE WAY to the stage right doors before looking at it so that you are out of the way

AG – pg 37 – ‘Sally what are you saying’ – face the audience – anytime you are the actor furthest down stage, you should be facing the audience please!

S – Look out through the doors when you are searching for Roger

S – pg 42 – Please review your lines

ED – pg 43 – You exit the downstage left hall

EVERYONE – pg 43 – everyone should be startled by Hannibal’s ‘Marvelous’

H – pg 46 – You want to light one candle at a time, and you will have to get a separate match to light each candle

H – ‘Oh dear’ – this is a cue line; the lines won’t go back up unless you say the whole line (make sure to say ‘Oh dear’, instead of just ‘Oh!’)

RF – pg 48 – Blow out Sally’s candle after you close the doors behind you

S, AG, H, RF – I want to change it so that Sally faints on the couch; that way you don’t have to pick her up and take her

H – You have to take out your gun and the handkerchief of bullets when you explain why you didn’t shoot the figure after Sally

H – pg 54 – You have to grab the gun from the table before hiding behind the curtain

ACT 2 & 3 Notes

S – You have to pound on the piano when you get frustrated; you can start out nicely, but slam the keys before you say ‘Music doesn’t soothe anything’

TJ – You will have PJs

AG – pg 56 / 7 – Make sure to close the door behind you when you exit from the garden

TJ – pg 58 – Look out to the audience when you say the line ‘cops at a speakeasy’

JK & S – pg 59 – the second kiss I would like to change so that you don’t have your backs to the audience

AG – pg 56 – You have to nudge or touch Hannibal when you see TJ and say ‘Ah’

CT – ‘It’s true’ – this needs to be a faster pickup

CT – pg 71 – You can take the drink with you when you go up the stairs

H – Wait until Jack is fully up the stairs before you say ‘Such an intrepid man’

H – pg 77 – Make sure to close the panel before you leave

S – I need you to look up more; please don’t look at the floor, otherwise we lose your face!

S – You only have to plunk the last part of the ‘Bells of St. Mary’s’

H – The time to put the gun on the table is when you are talking to Zenia

T/R Cast 01/08/2020

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

EZ – Elizabeth

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

RF – Robed Figure

ACT 3 SCENE 1

H – ‘Or is it number four?’ – Make sure you are looking at the audience for this line

H – Make sure your candle is front of your chest, rather than your face

TJ – You have to look up more when you are sitting at the desk; otherwise, your face gets shadowed quite a bit by the candles

CT – Make sure you have your letter with you

AG – We can’t have you sit on the platform because the couch covers you; instead, can you lean against the wall when you say ‘I’m confused’?

CT – ‘That’s all I am saying’ – Make sure you are saying this out to the audience so we can see your face

H – ‘I highly doubt it’s worth…’ – Make sure you have your face out to the audience for this

TJ – ‘Oh damn’ has to be said out to the audience before you turn

TJ – The reason why you go to hide behind the curtain is because you see Zenia’s candlelight from the stage left hall after you come down the stairs

TJ – Please review your lines and cues

H – You have to close the panel before the fireplace death

ACT 3 SCENE 3

AG – You can take your candle with you up the stairs even though the lights are on; always keep your candle close by

H – You have to make a noise before Sally says ‘What’ and you explain to her the lamb

H & AG – I need one of you on each side of Elizabeth Masters for her reveal on the couch

AG, H, & S – You have to have some kind of vocal response when Elizabeth takes the gun

H & AG – Guns always have to be pointed at Elizabeth; otherwise, she could get away or harm you

ALL ACTORS 01/07/2020:

Make sure you are using pencils or black pens only on stage! Please do not use blue, red, or any other color, and no pens with caps!

ALL need to be much louder, please!

QUIET footsteps when you enter and exit the stairs, please!

M/W Cast 01/07/2020

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

R – Roger

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

ACT 1 Notes

C – Make sure to look out and up to the booth – you were looking down at the ground a lot

C – Make sure you do not sit behind the basket on the couch

ED – When you say your line ‘Yes’, make sure to be on stage before you say it, and please be louder

ED – Careful – the candle wax is hot! Please hold the candelabra upright

ED – When you enter, enter in character for Edgar’s physicality (have your head look up slightly, see that no one is there, and then change your physicality

ED – You have to be louder with your ‘cocktail’ line

EVERYONE – When Agatha gives her number to Sally, everyone else shouldn’t notice; you should be distracted or otherwise engaged looking for something else

ACT 2 SCENE 2

S – Make sure to practice the bells of St. Mary’s

S – You play a cheerful song or tune, and then slam your fingers ‘It’s no use!’

S & JK – Make sure to ring your bell multiple times; I believe the bell is near the fireplace but make sure to check with an ASM

S – Wait until Carter exits before you say ‘Jack, that was a wonderful gesture you just made’

JK & S – When you are cheek-to-cheek, can you hold your upstage hand?

JK & S – Review your lines for the kiss scene

CE – Make sure when you die in Hannibal’s arms that you are on his downstage shoulder, closest to the audience

T/R Cast 01/07/2020

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

EZ – Elizabeth

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

ACT 1 Notes

Preshow announcement – please stand in the middle of the carpet and look up at the booth when making this announcement!

C – Please wait a little bit longer after lights first come on before saying your first line (count to two)

ACT 1 SCENE 1

Z – Practice turning off the candle; please make sure your back is to the audience when you pretend to blow it out

Z – You can dust the piano and the mantel, and any wood surfaces; then you can do things like fluffing pillows and the like

Z – ‘Two bodies… forces of darkness’ – face the audience when you say this

ED – Bigger physicality please for your character – I would love to see more of a slouch

TJ – Physicality needs to be a little bit more formal

ED – Did you come in twice with luggage? Make sure to come in with Celia and TJ’s luggage, and then go back out to welcome in Agatha and Sally with their luggage

ED – Look at the booth when you say ‘We’re lucky if all we get is a storm’

AG – Nicely hang your jacket over the couch

Z – Please be on sooner before you say ‘Sally VanViller’ – you have to look and see that it is her before you make the exclamation

Z – Stop Sally before she goes up the stairs, but make sure to wait to say your line ‘Beware of everyone and everything’ until everyone else is up the stairs

TJ – ‘Townhouse in New York’ – during these lines, try to connect with and reach out toward Celia in several ways so that she can reject you

S – ‘Oh what was that? Silly me, I must be nervous’ – the picture frame closing is what prompts you to say this line

JK – When you escort someone, make sure you hold your arm at a 90* angle (i.e. your fist should be between your waist and your chest, squarely in the center of your torso) so that the person you are escorting can hook their arm and hand through the crook of your elbow

JK – Make sure you are not behind Celia and TJ; counter so that you can be seen (pg 26)

TJ – pg 26 – pick up your cues please; make sure to hold the bowl of the glass with the stem between your fingers

Z – Bigger ‘Unexpected guest’ please

EVERYONE – More vocalizations during blackouts please

CT – Be closer to Jack when you say ‘So did I’ – you were too far away this time, and so the cross felt really awkward

H – When you enter, make sure to continue your lines while you are taking off your jacket, and keep your Holmes book under your arm

EVERYONE – you were forming a lot of vertical lines on stage; be aware, and make a pretty picture

H – If you are going to point at the book with an umbrella, only make one large gesture

CE – Can you hide your left hand after Hannibal points out your ring?

CT – We can’t have you drop Hannibal’s jacket on the floor; go ahead and drape it nicely over the back of the chair instead

H – See the jacket sooner, and look for the closet before saying your line ‘This is the closet, I presume’

H – ‘That’s where the launch leaves from’ – make sure to look up so we can see your face

EVERYONE – When Hannibal says ‘Which one?’ – start walking around and show some movement; you think he is on to you

ACT 1 SCENE 2

ED – Quicker pickup for ‘We’re here’ please

EZ – The time that you are going off of is the grandfather clock

EVERYONE – before Hannibal’s ‘Perfect!’, I need everyone to build up nerves and tension; be busy with something or some action

H – ‘Are we?’ – Make this a rhetorical question, rather than an inquisitive one – make Sally feel nervous

EZ – Can you stand at your desk a little bit later in your counting (for example on chime 10 or 12)

ED – I love the idea of you being the only character who stays almost perfectly still during all the chaos, with the exception of when you can’t be seen and need to counter

H – ‘Marvelous’ after the reading of the will needs to be sooner

EVERYONE – Make sure to vocalize even more during the blackout when you need to get off stage in order to disguise the footstep noise during your exits

EVERYONE – Vocalize and have a reaction to when Hannibal presents the will

Z – Bigger ‘Murder’ after ‘Set up for what?’

EVERYONE – When Agatha gives her number to Sally, everyone else shouldn’t notice; you should be distracted or otherwise engaged looking for something else

S – ‘I know who’s here under false pretenses’ – Face the audience for this line

TJ – No pillow on your lap please

AG – ‘Never sent the telegram’ – say this out to the audience, or face the audience during this delivery

EVERYONE – Don’t anticipate looking for Elizabeth Masters – you all started searching before it was suggested!

EZ – Take scissors with you during the blackout

H & AG – After ‘A clue?’ – Can you have a vocalized response about whether you are happy or not that you both said the same thing?

ACT 2 SCENE 1

AG – ‘Not a sound’ – You have to listen first and then cross to the panel before saying this

TJ – Bigger freakout when she pretends to kill you!

TJ – Get away or create distance between you and Agatha after this event

H – Faster ‘Marvelous’ as soon as you come out of the hallway and start talking about bones

ED – You can leave after you say your line ‘pleasant dreams’

EVERYONE – Quiet as you exit up the stairs to go to your rooms please

H – When you see Sally and the robed figure, make sure your gun is not in front of the panel; it needs to be your candle instead

H – Try not to have your gun and Holmes book in the same hand or arm; it’s not safe!

JK – ‘I’ll go’ – you say this in a 20’s HERO type of fashion! Let me know if you have questions about what this means

H & AG – Cheat out when you are back to back with each other

Z – Hold your candle down a little bit lower so that it isn’t blocking your face

Z – pg 54 – if Hannibal is pointing a gun that close to you, you need to be scared; back down a little, rather than approach him

ACT 2 SCENE 2

JK & S – Make sure that you commit to running off the stage – you can’t stop once you reach the entryway when you are going to ring the bell!

CE – ‘I am frightened’ – show us that you are frightened!

S – Wait until after Carter goes up the stairs before saying ‘Jack that was a wonderful gesture’

AG – pg 61 – Can we change you to enter from Stage Right Hall instead of the stairs?

H – You can’t put down your glass and then walk away from it during the poison scene; the glass has to stay in your hand and you need to stay near the fireplace

AG – When wearing your wig, you have to look up a lot more

M/W Cast Notes 01/03

GENERAL NOTES

1. Everyone review your lines (and your cues)!!!

2. Make sure to bring your shoes and other undergarments to Q2Q on Monday!!!

3. Those working with the guns, please come to Saturday’s build day

4. If Easton feels better, we will have a rehearsal tomorrow from 12 00 to 2 00 for Act 2

5. There is a key to the notes below; make sure to search through everything, and let me know if there are any questions

6. When I give a note, I expect not to have to give it a second time; please make sure to take these to heart!

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

R – Roger

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

INTRO

J – ‘This place scares me’ – Fear needs to progress before you say this line

C – Come down into the room sooner

J – Feel free to stay up on the platform for longer than Chuck does – you can!

J – ‘Places like this’ – That gesture needs to be less graceful – please face the audience when you say this line!

C – ‘So did murder’ – Make sure you don’t drop the word murder

C – Offer hand to Judy

ACT 1 SCENE 1

R – Pour only a little bit of liquor into your glass

R – ‘Odd couple’ – You don’t need to whisper this

CE – ‘Shut up’ – You can pick this up faster

R – You can stay at the desk when you tell TJ to get his wife a drink

CE – Be startled by Zenia’s ‘Room’s ready’

R & AG – The escort is looking awkward – you can drop this

R – You don’t need to be annoyed by Celia not liking her room

TJ & CE – Faster pickups during the scene between you two

CT – Make sure to cheat out when you first meet Jack

CT – You don’t need to cross to Jack for the introduction – he will cross to you to introduce himself

R – Review your lines and cues for this scene

CE – ‘This place is filthy’ – something has to prompt this line. What is filthy? What do you see that is filthy? The chair, etc?

H – Make sure to check your list before identifying the different people

R – Don’t lean on the desk – you are a proper lawyer

H – ‘Road’ – can you have some sort of gesture to clarify this for the audience?

AG – Hannibal’s bible has great interest to you; hold on to it, rather than place it next to you on the chair. Thumb through it, investigate it, etc

AG – Pass the book back to Hannibal later, because that is when you see the detail on the inscription of his watch

AG – I liked how you made her older; make sure to slouch a little more, and take more time to sit down and get up

CT – You are not interested in the telegram; just drink your drink, and face the audience so that we can see your facial reactions

ACT 1 SCENE 2

AG – When Hannibal says ‘Impossible’ – roll your eyes or show us your reaction to this statement

JK – Find specific moments to write. What is important to him? You don’t always need to be writing or taking notes

R – Pick up your cues for this scene

H – ‘Three minutes to go’ – Look at your pocket watch

R – Can you make ‘Those uninvited’ more subtle?

H – Wait even longer before you say ‘Perfect’

R – Make sure you reference the clock or your watch for any time references

R – Pick up ‘Please, Mr Hicks’

TJ – ‘Thirteen? That clock is wonky!’ needs to be bigger

EVERYONE – React to Zenia’s over-the-top ‘If you dare!’

TJ – ‘Sit down… fool yourself’ – Sit Celia down

CE – ‘Easy street’ – feel free to slump down after this, or show your disapproval in some way

R – You don’t have to put the will back into the envelope

R – You don’t have to laugh after your look

AG – ‘So am I’ – can you say this to the audience, and have some sort of reveal pose?

H – Review your lines for this scene

CT – ‘I thought you were Sally’ – be on stage when you say this line

ACT 2 SCENE 1

TJ – After you enter, you cross to the desk

TJ – ‘What are you doing?’ – You have to be more freaked out and get out of there after she tries to ‘kill’ you

CT – ‘What did you find?’ – You ask this because you are nervous that he has found your liquor stash – the stakes need to be higher here

H – Anytime you reference Holmes, use your book as a reference, or read through it, etc.

H – You won’t have bones to give them!

Z – ‘Evil more potent than electricity’ – You don’t need to pause in the middle of this line

CE – ‘Still, you have a point’ – Look TJ down first, and realize that he maybe could do it

TJ – ‘Cut-up’ – take a moment to be scared of her – you think she could be the killer!

H – Gun has to stay up and on Agatha until the power flickers

AG & H – After the power goes out, your weapons no longer need to be up

ACT 2 SCENE 2

TJ – ‘I’ll be damned’ – Each time you say it, this needs to get bigger and bigger

TJ – ‘I’m not sure’ – Look around! You are truly not sure if you are alone and this scares you!

TJ – I need the blackmail to be a bigger deal to you – higher stakes please

CE – ‘I’m not a wicked woman’ – while you are saying these few lines, can you try to connect with Hannibal in some way?

H & CE – Continue to say lines after she gets shot – don’t want for her to be on the floor to say your lines!

H – ‘Not now, my boy’ – more high stakes; you don’t have time to deal with his interruptions

T/R Cast Notes 01/02

GENERAL NOTES:

1. Everyone review your lines!!!

2. Make sure to bring your shoes and other undergarments to Q2Q on Monday!!!

3. Those working with the guns, please come to Saturday’s build day

4. There is a key to the notes below; make sure to search through everything, and let me know if there are any questions

5. When I give a note, I expect not to have to give it a second time; please make sure to take these to heart!

THANKS FOR A GREAT REHEARSAL!!!

KEY:

J – Judy

C – Chuck

Z – Zenia

ED – Edgars

EZ – Elizabeth

AG – Agatha

H – Hannibal

CE – Celia

TJ – TJ

S – Sally

CT – Carter

JK – Jack

INTRO

J & C – More energy, review blocking (Specifically when by Stage Left Chair 3)

C – Curtains are at the door

C – Make sure to have your journal

C – Make sure to respond to Judy’s disgust (are you proud of yourself, do you feel the need to comfort her, etc.)

J – Make sure to look up – we want to see your lovely face!

ACT 1 SCENE 1

Z – Make sure when you are dusting, you dust things above the fireplace, candelabras, etc – probably won’t be dusting the table with a feather duster!

Z – ‘Forces of darkness beyond our knowledge’ – look up and out toward the audience

EZ – “Sister’s Sister-in-law” – Make sure you emphasize the two sisters and enunciate

Z – ‘Rooms are ready’ – this needs to be bigger, enough to scare Celia

AG – Wait until Edgars leaves before saying ‘See him on the buttress of Notre Dame!’

S – Can you curtsy at Elizabeth instead of nod?

S – Feel free to look at and connect with Agatha when you say ‘All I ask…’

Z – Your exclamation ‘Sally!’ needs to be bigger; same with ‘The clock struck 13…’

Z – Feel free to back away whenever you say ‘Don’t touch me’

S – After Zenia warns you about everything, you don’t follow her upstairs because she scares you; but you see the piano, which is a comfort to you, which is why you cross over to the piano – that is your motivation for crossing

JK & S – Need to work when you meet for the first time; it should be extremely over the top and it should be choreographed

JK – ‘Name sounds familiar’ – Stare CT down

S – Find some stage business to do when you are down stage left of the table after the engagement line

S – ‘Thank you Zenia’ – try to touch her

Z – ‘Thank you Zenia’ – back away from her after she tries to touch you

H – Make sure you are checking your list before you identify your people

H – Pick up your cues

H – Have fun during all of this! We want to see you enjoy every part of your first case (specific part is the rowing!)

H – ‘Delved into what I know best – Crime!’ – Make sure this is a different stance; have fun!

H – Make sure to give the book to Agatha after reading the Author’s name

H – Don’t be offended at Carter not having your jacket; just pick up your jacket and go to hang it in the closet

AG – Make sure to stand closer to Hannibal so that you are close enough to actually see the engraving on the watch chain

ACT 1 SCENE 2

AG – Please have a large gesture for when you say ‘Incognito!’ – since you are sitting, we can’t see you!

H – Pick up the pacing for your ‘Perfect’ line

Z – ‘Read the words from beyond the grave’ – higher stakes, please

EVERYONE – REACT to the fact that Hannibal is the one that took the will! How do you feel about this? Show me!

EVERYONE – Remember to vocalize and respond to every new piece of information

CT – Faster pickups for your lines please

JK – ‘Missing person, possible heir’ – Step downstage / center stage to make this a bigger deal

Z – ‘Murder’ – bigger deal

CE – ‘Break the will’ – this needs to be MUCH bigger (there is NO WAY he was sane enough to make this choice!)

H – ‘His or her identity’ – You are mirroring what Agatha did earlier, and subtly accusing her by repeating the statement

S – ‘You are not my Aunt Ernestine’ – please point toward her – it will draw the audience’s eyes more easily in that direction

AG – Use your journal to rip a page out of for Sally’s note

EVERYONE – Vocalizations please!

H – Before you say ‘look again’ – you have to have already looked and identified who is missing

ACT 2 SCENE 1

C – Stand on ‘What did you find?’

AG – Spend more time looking and listening before you say ‘I can’t hear him’

CE – ‘Can’t anyone do something to get us off this island?’ – Stand up on this line – you can sit back down when they tell you to do so

CT & JK – You are too close to each other before your fights – step back a little bit!

JK – ‘What can I say, I’ll go’ – you are taking the higher ground, and you think you are the HERO

CT & S – Please work the slap scene

CT – You don’t need to raise your hands the entire time while Agatha has the fire poker to your back; you can lower them eventually

H – Don’t put down the gun until ‘We found our murderer!’

ACT 2 SCENE 2

S – When you are scared of Zenia, don’t turn your back to her – instead, back away from her

S & JK – I liked your holding hands when you were brainstorming with the bells; but you can let go when you are headed to the dining room

S – Can you find a way to connect with Celia when you say the line ‘Aunt Celia, it looks like you’ve seen a ghost!’

S & JK – Can you have a longer build up to the first kiss?

S & JK – Third kiss needs to be a little longer

AG – Don’t throw away your ‘Lucretia’ line

ACT 3 SCENE 1

AG & H – Work getting over to the desk in a choreographed manner; it will increase the comedy

JK – Make sure to always have your journal with you

JK & S – Can you find some stage business to do right before Agatha identifies Lee Rustover?

S – ‘Dark smudge’ not ‘grease’

S – The ‘lamb’ line can eventually turn out to the audience

H – you have to make a noise before Sally’s line ‘What is the matter?'

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