Sunday's critiques

Items we need by Monday's rehearsal
Vest for Roth
rag shoes for crazy woman
Wind/rain sound effects
Dirty crazy woman's blanket
Meat for Zack to sell - research this Dylan
More costumes for different characters. Paint sticks and signs.
Costume addition for Justin. Shawl for Zack and dif hat with hair.
Hat on Alina
Joel needs hat and shirt
paint the back of signs
safety pin Shelbi's pantaloons
2 small spray things
Titanic, Norma Rae, Newsies
Sandbags
Purses for girls with sewing supplies, kerchiefs, and aprons.

• August at the beginning
• Everyone, hit verbs in sentences.
• At the beginning, Zack and Justin - everyone stage business. Be bigger on stage - all guys at the beginning. You look frozen.
• Street people louder
• Bridget, say your line quicker.
• Ruth has a stern frozen look.
• Anytime anyone is talking, LOOK AT THEM
• Roth, no hands behind the back. Come in if possible and we will look for a vest.
• Murmur after Anya first mentions STRIKE
• Margaret was the only one showing the effects of the heat.
• I don't know who suggested it, but look at your scripts and see which parts are during certain times of the year.
• Society girls, pull hats back.
• Teresa with the rosary - great job
• Anya, your purse should be with you all the time.
• More murmuring in Lannon's meeting.
• People, show weariness in Lannon's meeting. Be frustrated and in a hurry to leave.
• Joe, watch "yer."
• Could not understand Stolle
• Stolle was not lustful.
• Anya, Thug Roger, Bridget, need to be slow, no in dancing - Kara & Alli
• Roger, kick Anya sooner.
• Josh, more rough with Teresa
• Cohen, slow down. Be bigger on the welcome
• Cohen, be snottier and look down on Anya - just who is...Just who is Anya Rosen? sarcastic
• Anya, more emotion out of Lannon's meeting - frustration and tears, a weakness.
• React to Anya's spitting
• Joe, great job!
• Oct/November is when Lannon's meeting takes place
• Josh, Push with strength during the dance and we need to work on it and your attitude toward women.
• Strike signs are up during Joe and Anya's discussion and during Bridget's monologue.
• Shake off umbrellas.
• More murmuring during Cohen's meeting.
• We need expression in the faces ALL the time.
• Cohen, work on your character. Think about what you are saying. You Do not like the women.
• Cohen, hit REFUSE
• Could not hear Lannon - You're not a part of this union
• Josh, step on Roger's lines - This is ridiculous.
• Men murmur during Anya's speech. We need to see expressions.
• People missed their entrances following Cohen's meeting.
• "Seconds" need to sound differently
• Everyone needs to react and notice the society girls. It is extremely COLD in this scene.
• Molly, great job. Be louder and look more confident.
• Justin, talk out.
• Bridget, watch how your are saying Justice. If you can't, say something else.
• Society girls, wear hats. Just having different clothes isn't enought. Chins up, shoulders back. Have more authority.
• Lenore, you're ill, more concern.
• Factory Owner - No one's business. It was not believable. The weather is on our side - sneer. Needs a jacket.
• Old man Zack, change voice, posture, etc. as old man
• Judge, hit the verbs. Have more authority. Shoulders back, chest out. Really expect, not honestly
• Men, take caps off during hearing scene.
• Roth sounds Texan
• Girls, look at Stolle and hate him. React when you discover he is Roth's witness
• Anya and Judge, look over lines.
• Society girls, react to everything being said. Work on insults so that we can hear them.
• Murmur more during the hearing.
• Judge, when do you get mad?
• Two months - MURMUR
• Blackwell's ISLAND - lose it
• Bailiff, don't push society girls.
• LINES!!!!!!!!!!! WHat happened?
• Anya, say "Clara, I'm sorry..." walking over to Clara
• Anya, don't say the Russian word.
• Bridget, sound more flirty - Mr. Mighty Johansen.
• Roth, don't lean during monologue.
• Bridget and crazy woman, great interaction.
• Violet, dance with fruit.
• In the tomb scene, LOOK at the person talking and REACT
• Stage business in tombs - think about the warden making the women work.
• Remember possibilities, new chances, etc.
• Crazy woman, let's fix rag shoes.
• Anya, going in and out of accent.
• Roger, for more is not in the script.
• Everyone's signs were on the same level except for Molly's. Vary those.
• Ruth, win strike - don't speak to the stage.
• Dream of a new world, Bridget, turn the other direction.
• Keri and Lana, let's choreograph the banging dance.
• Don't anticipate Clara's death.
• Joe, not so much hesitation
• Ruth, cry on the floor toward the audience.
• Tombs, Roth, stand close to the judge.
• In this scene, REACT to whomever is speaking.
• Newsboys, work on acting like newsboys.
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• Justin, straighten your posture.
• Josh, when shaking newspaper, don't have it in front of your mouth.
• Reporter, down left on bench
• Bigger, strike woman, starve in fresh air.
• Rehearse this last scene first Monday night. We need to move slowly or everyone freeze.
• Roth, use both hands to gesture. WHere is the doll? Don't back up.
• Freeze with mouths open - 2324
• More emotion at the end.
• STEP ON LINES
• Girls, we don't love you and Guys, we don't hate you.
• WORK on this. 32 days until contest. 13 rehearsals.