Subject: Re: Help!!
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:52:09 -0600 From: "Phyllis Hoover" pjhoov@msn.com To: "Ken Bradbury" dramajok@frontiernet.net
That sounds great! The first song is going to be "You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night" and I was going to have everyone come in in various stages of dress/undress (!) and set their props, etc and then have Don tell everyone "good luck" and then they gasp, etc and start the show. Cheesy, I know, but kinda cute! The other things I had Don doing were "Master of the House" with Linda (by request of the missus, I might add!) and "With a Little Bit of Luck. Linda could really knock him around as the "substitute" Thenardier (sp -- not even close, I know).
I've attached a cast list and a tentative, and I mean tenative show order. I don't mind switching it around, so feel free, if you can find a better flow.
There's also some kind of interesting trivia on some of the shows. For example, I didn't know that Chicago lost 11 times (mostly to A Chorus Line) in 1976 and then turned around and beat out Steel Pier about that many times when it was nominated as a revival in 1997. Surely an "old salt" could remember that! I'll bring you the stuff I found on Sunday and you can use it, or not.
One of the bits that the cast (ie: Greg, Linda & Leigh Ann) came up with was a slam to me, but it's pretty funny. If there's one show I hate, (besides Sound of Music!) it's Cats and I absolutely refuse to do Memory for the millionth time. So, they thought it would be pretty funny if every so often, someone came out and tried to sing Memory and got nailed. I thought it might be funny if even Leona tried it.
Anyway, your idea sounds great. I'll talk to you more on Sunday. Thanks so much.
love, phylh
----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Bradbury Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 6:52 PM To: Phyllis Hoover Subject: Re: Help!!
How does an old Stage Manager sound to you?...Not the modern kid with headphones, but an old-fashioned janitor-type whose job it was to watch the stage door, close the curtains, clean up after the acts, nursemaid the actors...and perhaps even play a small role when someone sprains a hoof or a tonsil? The kind of guy who's seen it all in theatre and is actually a character himself instead of just an omnipresent narrator. Just an idea...Don CAN play old afterall... kb Camelot! Jon Robb would be proud! (and of couse it goes without saying that I am)
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