March 23

NOTES

COUCH & GRIFFIS

Everyone	Turn the bench down in the first scene More reaction to mcmurphys description of a pecking party.  You are all guilty Good job with the red Great television scene Don't make curtains or pylons move ever! Heard talking backstage after 2nd fight scene Mcmurphy needs to be more right stage on gurney Look at the deaf line when Mac first enters. Lighting cigs for patients was great! Zap – don’t jump – it’s looking too staged. Start music earlier & louder so they guys can hear it Lights were not coordinated with music on second dance. First fight scene – group must move more CS because there was not enough space to fight. Two of you broke the fourth wall and looked into the audience.  This is an automatic last place. More guttural people noises in fight scene.
Lights and music	Lights and music were not coordinated on second dance
Technical people	With the exception of two glitches. The lights and sound were perfect.
Williams	Good job looking mean, but you can be meaner. Talk to Ratched every chance you can.  Look meaner at the men.   You are the rule follower. We need to work on fight scene. Look mean all the time. Give men dirty looks.
Aides	Keep laughing until you are two feet past curtain line.
Ratched	medication is too mean needs more variance not just yelling. Needs to be a complicated character Blood on Sydney's sleeve We have to have you move more CS with the breaking all the rules lines. Chief does not have space to move. I loved the different way you said lines today – you were scary.  Sweet with the underlying bitter undercurrent.
Ruckly	whack em all must be crazy Several audience people loved the way you moved around left stage.  They said you were the best Ruckly they had seen.  You didn’t try to have the focus on yourself,but were subtly crazy.
Billy	do not touch the pylons and make them shake run around the ramp and 4 x8, u ran through the wall Loved the way your character gradually went over the top – it was a progression.
Music	faster after breaking every single one of them
Men	Meaner to billy in therapy scene Came out too soon for 2nd dance Standing in straight line after candy leaves.  There were no levels At times there was no people noises.  REACT to everything.
Spivey	Great job. It was funny seeing you cowed by the nurse. Don’t try to hug her.  It didn’t work.
Medical personnel	Spivey and Ratched need to converse after meeting in the back.  We need to see her bully him and Spivey wiping forehead, etc. We need to see the alliance between Williams and Ratched.
Martini & Billy	you need to take off red before u don’t vote with mcmurphy
Martini	Great job smiling – you were great at detecting levels and placement on stage.
Chief	more emotion when u say my poppa was bigger Diction The last lines need a little work.  You did exactly what we asked, but it’s not working.  More guttural and louder with next to last line.  More triumphant with last line.  Let’s work on that tomorrow. You brought more emotion to your character.  Thanks.
Chief and Williams	We need to work on your first fight scene.
Scanlon	Loved your craziness.  You were different from the others.  Keep it up! Great job. Say the billy baby like a woman would.
Mac	Great job today.  You were personable, charismatic Sure thing was better. Be flirtier with your first encounter with Ratched.
Cheswick	Good job being crazy – you were consistent. But, find another way to be on the floor – we need to see your face. Loved your chasing Sandra.
Stage lights	Red light on electroshock scene
Mac	frozen in wheelchair on back when they're wheeling u in Look crazier – eyes rolled up, tongue sticking out stop moving sooner when he suffocates you
Warren	Loved the dirty old man you became with Candy in the room.
Martini	start with toilet paper later, too soon
Harding	too staged in party scene, must look spontaneous we need to get the hair out of your face – made you look too young. I loved your looks when Sandra came around you.  Don’t put the potty on your head, though, think what that would do to an ocd person like Harding.
Candy	Good reaction to tramp The audience LOVED your expressions, especially the tramp.   Be as big when you first see the crazy guys in your first entrance.  Do more vocals.
Sandra	Great timing in your entrance.
Easy girls	Put a bottle in the trash before coming in. Loved your entrance – you drew the audience’s attention.
Flinn	Great job!  You didn’t overdo it but seemed compassionate.
To do	Bungee cords need to be painted Dead roses Vodka bottle