Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Wednesday's rEHEARSAL - COMMENT


Wednesday rehearsal

Everyone
Wind at beginning
Wind with narrow steep way
Whisper during heart scene.
Gutman
Laugh in old beginning after hitting yourself
Line at well – show difference between how you feel about dry well and spring at Siete Mares.
Pat Gypsy’s derriere after Baron is killed
Head Guard
Do not move when frozen
Bigger on hey
Reread critique from yesterday.
Marguerite
Louder on all fugitive lines
Casanova
Diction love that is tender
Love use of eyebrows
Jacque Casanova with flourish
Madrecita
Be more out there with curse – whole body
Kilroy
Bounce around
Real hard kiss – knockout
I have morals – diction
React to Gypsy’s announcement.
Cash in on – fight
Just like a dream - bigger
Guitar
Play more at block 7
Lady M
Watch C & M then say line stepping on Marguerite’s last one.
Diction – dry ice to audience on ladder
Villagers
In champ scene – you get up – go to Kilroy – then return to exact places – CHANGE THIS UP.

 

April 13 - COMMENT


On to Regionals

“Challenges are what make life interesting.  Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.”

Everyone
IT IS A LOT OF CHANGES, BUT YOU CAN DO THIS.  WE WOULD NOT CHANGE THINGS IF IT WERE NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE SHOW. LEARN THE CUTS AND BE READY FOR A GREAT PERFORMANCE TOMORROW MORNING. YOUR DIRECTORS WORKED ALL DAY SUNDAY AND INTO THE EVENING SO, TOGETHER, WE CAN BE ONE OF THE TWO SHOWS CHOSEN NEXT WEEK.
Step on lines.
Hear guitar and whispering a couple of beats before lights come on.  Whispering must FADE out with Quixote’s first line.
Do not run in the back. If you have to cross, do it in character.
DO NOT HIT CURTAINS – Automatic drop in rank
During Fugitivo scene, move ladder more Center Right stage.
Bird people at beginning – shift with Quixote’s line.
Get back in touch with your weirdness.
FREEZES.  If you don’t know where they are, then ask someone.
If an actor has left something on stage, snatch it up – villagers would do this.
LAUGH DURING PATSY SCENE!
Quixote
No lines until Dreamer has finished playing.
Big yawn and stretch before line about sleeping.
Music
Late on first dance (old beginning)
Lights
Darker red on old opening.
Head guard
Pour water on Survivor and tease her with it. Laugh as she licks the ground.
Amy, Kylie
Walk differently as villagers.
Gutman
Martial law
Brother to them slower
Get back in touch with your weirdness – edgy – laugh like you used to during old red dance after opening.
Try not to talk into the curtains.
Kadyn
Didn’t hear you sing.
Kilroy
Don’t sidestep –moving toward L stage.
You need to have as much energy throughout the show as you do in your opening entrance.  As though you are ready to run or fight all the time, except after breaking your heart with Esmeralda.
Need to hear you breathing as you go to look at Survivor.
# 7 is vacant – look at hat – let us see you “get” that it belonged to a dead guy and drop it. Vocally make a noise Ugh, etc.
Watch end of sentences – dying
Flautist (Brooke)
Play just enough for us to know that the street cleaners are there. It is beautiful, but a little shorter.
Kilroy an Gutman
CROWD LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY WHEN HE IS CALLED THE PATSY.
The uniform of a Patsy.
I know what a Patsy is…  a clown in the circus who takes prat-falls ( a humiliating fall onto one’s buttocks) , but I’m no Patsy!
You are now the Patsy.
With a pathetic attempt, Kilroy tries to make friends with the Officer.
LEAVE PONGO SELO IN
What did he say?

Kilroy & Casanova
Do not cut lines in Morse Code scene.
Casanova and Marguerite
Don’t exit – stay on stage.
Lady M
Come in earlier – waiting for ….
Step on Marguerite’s last line - I don’t understand….
Diction throughout – make sure we can understand you on ladder.
Casanova
Deeper voice
Standing on Abdullah – My name is Jacque Casanova – brandish cane or cape.
One cord – use the red one.
Mummer
Take the crown away

 

 

Sunday, April 10, 2016

CHANGES & CUTS FOR REGIONALS


 CHANGES

Opening blue wash – guitar playing. Villagers look like birds at rest. Gutman is in a position with a cat of nine tails at his back – no shirt and slash marks on his back.  It is midnight. Quixote is already on stage. Evan comes through with hoop. No guards on stage at beginning. After he says lonely, everyone shifts as birds. G puts shirt and jacket back on. Old wanderer’s dream - Our old beginning.  

Prudence – bark more.

Casanova – what has happened – weariness and disgust.

A wind sings across the plaza, a dry gourd rattles.  The Survivor’s head sags forward.  He sits down slowly.  Jacque strikes the terrace again with his cane and starts toward the Survivor.  The Guard seizes his elbow.
Remain on the terrace, please, Signor Casanova.

 

Loan Shark: I don’t want no ……8.50. No Dice. Kilroy turns around and crosses DCS.

Casanova
(Complement) You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit, and (warning) that’s not to be tolerated. (MORE SECRETIVE) It has to be extinguished.

 

Casanova
Later, after the wine. He takes his cords, wraps them around her, and pulls the front of her dress up with his cane.
 
 
Marguerite
anxious old hawk!
 
 

 

Casanova
There’s a rumor of something called the Fugitvo….a non-scheduled flight. 
Marguerite
how does one get on it?  HE PULLS THE CORDS TIGHTER AROUND HER ARMS AND HANDS. (She looks at him and he avoids her glance).   The truth of the matter is that you’re terrified of the Terra Incognita
Casanova
I’m terrified of any place on earth without you with me!
Marguerite
IMPORTANT
Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. SHE BREAKS FREE OF THE BONDS. CUT HONOR AND CAPE AND CANE LINES

THIS BONDAGE SCENE LEADS TO LADY MULLIGAN SAYING -  I DON’T UNDERSTAND……(GUARD GIVES HER A BOTTLE OF WATER  WHEN SHE ENTERS)

PEOPLE CROSSING OVER THE LADDER MUST SHOW A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE/AFTER.

Marguerite
 (Jacques returns with a bag of money)                   I have thousands of francs!
Pilot
Payment is only accepted in pounds.  Next, please.
 
Marguerite pounds her forehead with her fists.   She thrusts bills at him.

 

CASANOVA IS DOWN ON HER LEVEL WHEN SHE IS ON THE GROUND. –BLOCK 10

Marguerite
 
 
 
We’re a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and we’ve grown used to each other.  That’s what passes for love in the Camino Real (REEL).   What is this feeling between us?  when I clasp your anxious old hawk’s head to my breast? The violets in the mountains can’t break the rocks!
 

 

Esmeralda
 
Champ!
Kilroy
I used to be Champ. SHOUT
Esmeralda
Be champ again!
Gypsy
Not eligible!
Esmeralda
You’re still the undefeated Champ of the golden gloves!
Kilroy
Nobody’s called me that in a long time!
Esmeralda
Champ!
Kilroy
My resistance is crumbling!
Esmeralda
Hero!
Kilroy
Geronimo!  (He takes a flying leap from the steps to the center of the plaza.  He turns to Esmeralda.

 

With the new lines we added about being in the dark – Esmeralda is empty – scared – lonely.

 

CUTS

Casanova
Excuse me, Madam.  (He tears himself from her and rushes into the Siete Mares.)




 
Prudence
You’ve got to be realistic on the Camino Real!(reel)
Gutman
(Gutman has come out on the terrace:  he announces quietly). Block one on the Camino Real.
 
Block One
Jaques
Signora, all of these things…..
Prudence
What? (Gutman laughs.  A woman at a distance sings).
Casanova
Dreams! (Prudence continues with less assurance)
Prudence
You’re not so young as I thought when I saw you the terrace by candlelight.  Ho Ho!  I bet there is one old fountain in this plaza that hasn’t gone dry! (Casanova recoils when she pokes him. Gutman laughs).
Prudence
  A dream is nothing to live in, why it’s gone like a….(Casanova moves, but she grabs his arm.)
 
Casanova
Excuse me, Madam.  (He tears himself from her and rushes into the Siete Mares.)
Prudence, dazed
What block is this?
Gutman
Block one.




Gutman
Questions are passed amongst them like something illicit and shameful. (He leans forward and whispers.)
Gutman
What is this place?   What is the meaning of …SHHHHH…. Ha Ha

 

 

Gutman: (Reworded) You will be after a night at the Ritz Men Only if the check doesn’t arrive tonight.

Gutman
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams, and the love of the people belongs safely only to you… their Generalisimo! (The described action is being enacted. The Survivor is now blinded.)
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Officer
What is it you want?
 
Kilroy
Where is Western Union? 
 
Officer
No hay Western Union. 
 
Kilroy
That is very peculiar. I had to retire from the prize ring because of my heart.  I was the light heavyweight champion of the West Coast, won these gloves!  --before my ticker went bad--- (Places the guard’s hand on his chest) I’ve got a heart in my chest as big as the head of a baby. Ha Ha!  The medics wouldn’t okay me for no more fights.  They said to give up liquor, smoking, and sex!  My real true woman would have stuck with me, but it was all spoiled with her being scared and me, too, that a real hard kiss would kill me!  He notices a lack of attention in the officer and he grins.)
 
Officer
What is it you want?
 
Kilroy
What is this country?  I was so glad to get off that rotten tub that I didn’t ask nothing of no one except my pay. (He jerks out his wallet.) Ha Ha!
 
Officer
Ha Ha!
 
Kilroy
Ha Ha!
 
Officer
(Making it sound like a death rattle)  Ha ha ha ha ha (He turns and starts into the cantina.  Kilroy grabs his arm)
 
Officer
What do you want?
 
Kilroy
What is the name of this country?  (Officer thrusts his elbow in Kilroy’s stomach and twists his arm loose with a Spanish curse. He kicks the swinging doors open and enters the hotel.  As soon as the Officer exits, the Street People come forward and crowd about Kilroy with their wheedling cries) 
 

 

Kilroy
Thanks, but tonight I’m going to sleep under the stars.

 

Kilroy
Don’t try to hang no vagrancy rap on me!  I was robbed and I got plenty of witnesses to prove it. Check other people, but only ask nursie – You were a witness?

 

 
CROWD LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY WHEN HE IS CALLED THE PATSY.
Gutman
The uniform of a Patsy.
Kilroy
I know what a Patsy is…  a clown in the circus who takes prat-falls ( a humiliating fall onto one’s buttocks) , but I’m no Patsy!
Gutman smoothly
You are now the Patsy.
 
With a pathetic attempt, Kilroy tries to make friends with the Officer.

 CUT SHANGHAIED LINE

Kilroy to audience
What did he say?

 

Nursie
Where is my lady bird?
Gypsy
Idiot!  I told you to keep her door locked!

 

Lord and Lady Mulligan – enter from DLS as if you are exiting from hotel. Streetcleaners enter from URS.  They pause CS then follow Lord and Lady out. (may save some time). Lord OOOO after giggle at me. Lady M pushes Lord ahead of her as she tries to protect him.

Lady Mulligan
STOP!
Lord Mulligan
SHUT UP!
(Gutman speaks to the audience)

 

 

Kilroy
My resistance is crumbling!

 

Kilroy
I don’t know what the hero is chosen for.
 
 

 

Gypsy
 (She shuffles and deals.)
Ask me a question.
Kilroy
Has my luck run out?
Gypsy
Baby, your luck ran out the day you were born.  How big is your heart?

 

Kilroy
I hope that you sail the dangerous night to the golden port of morning!
Casanova
Thanks, Brother!

 


 
BLOCK FIFTEEN
 
 
La Madrecita crosses to the fountain.   The gurney is wheeled to DSC covered with a white sheet. Besides the table stands a Medical Instructor addressing students and nurses fall in white surgical outfits. They lean the gurney and the streetcleaners move him toward the gurney where he leans against it.  The two assistants fasten bars across him. Kilroy awakens.
 
Instructor
This is the body of a vagrant.
 
La Madrecita
This was thy son, America…
 
Instructor
He was found along the Camino Real.
 
La Madrecita
Remember his time of greatness, when he was not frightened.
 
Instructor
His death due to natural causes.
 
 
The students take notes and there are keening voices. He takes out knife & assistants hand instructor the heart.
 
La Madrecita
Blow wind! (whispering wind is heard offstage) (louder keening voices)
Keen for him, all maimed creatures, his homeless ghost is your own.
 
Instructor
First, we will examine his heart.
 
La Madrecita
His heart was pure gold and as big as the head of a baby.   Humankind cannot bear much reality. HE STIRS She says – Rise Ghost, Go, bird!
 
 
At the touch of her CROSS, Kilroy stirs and pushes himself AWAY FROM THE BONDS.  HE rubs his eyes and looks around him.  Voices offstage – Ole!  Ole!  Ole!
 
Kilroy
Where am I? 
He notices the dissection room and approaches.  The instructor removes a glittering sphere from a dummy corpse.
 
Kilroy
My heart!  Yes, siree, that’s my heart!
 
Gutman
Block Sixteen!
 
 
 
 
 

Kilroy
(Kilroy rushes forward) That’s mine!

 

Kilroy, panting
It don’t belong to no State, not even the USA. help me get out of here!  I don’t understand what’s…… happening, it’s like a …..dreamjust like a….dream. 
 
A clear shaft of light falls on him.  He looks up into it crying.
 
Esmeralda appears in a childish nightgown on the Gypsy’s roof.
Kilroy, softly
It’s just… like a …..dream
 
He leans holding his heart like a football, watching Esmeralda.
Esmeralda –SHE MUST STEP ON HIS DREAM LINE
I want to dream of the Chosen Hero, Mummy.

 

Kilroy
I had one true woman which I can’t go back to, but now I’ve found another.

 

Quixote
DON’T …PITY…… YOURSELF!
 (Quixote takes out a pocket mirror and combs and grooms his beard and mustache)

 

Awkward scenes –

Kilroy’s entrance.

Guards

Officer
You just dreaming that you have money. (He spits between his teeth.  The officer crosses to the fountain.   Kilroy stares at him, then bawls out)

 

Kilroy
I can remember that I used to be ---- CHAMP!
Baron
Used to be is the past tense, meaning useless.
Kilroy
Not to me, Mister.  These gloves are gold. I never hit a low blow and the fixers never got to me. (Loan Shark and Baron clap hands slowly three times to show sarcasm)
Loan Shark
Congratulations!  My final offer Take it or leave it. 
Kilroy
I’d hustle your heart on this street before I’d leave my golden gloves.
Loan Shark
laughing
 
Baron
The name of the Camino is not unreal! ( bum sticks his head out a  window and shouts)
Kilroy
This place is confusing.  Nothing seems real.