First off, thanks for a great run everybody. Good work.
Movement Ensemble: Yeah. None of those new headlamp cues happened. We didn't have a chance to run through them so that is to be expected I suppose. We will find a moment before the run today to mark quickly through them. Here is a list of each changed headlamp cue from yesterday:
Woode: He starts offstage in red, don't cover his light. After Hollis calls for him a second time he will be about to say something. Cut him off by turning off his light.
Stimson: Don't go red, only turn off the light. Happens in the same place.
Applegate: Turn his light to red after Hollis: "It. The thing you were waiting for. Something." and Applegate: "Yes… yes!" The second "yes" (he says three) is your cue to turn it red. Then his light goes off in the same place, after his third "burn."
Stone: "Lespere: I remember": go red. "So long:" turn off.
Lespere: "Hollis: Sleep well.": go red. "Lespere: Nothing.": turn off.
NOTES
All Astronauts: Microphones. I am currently unsure about what our microphone situation will be. We need to be careful with these. They are expensive and delicate.
All astronauts: The entrance into the scramble/roll call is lagging. I understand part of that is just getting used to the dark and glow tape that had significantly faded by the time we got started. Nonetheless, that entrance needs to pop.
Houston Voice: The audience's reaction to "hahahahaha" speaks for itself. Furthermore you were killing it on the un-comedic rest of it. That's that robot we're looking for. Keep it up!
All Astronauts, especially Stone: Assuming we will still be using these microphones, you don't need to yell in them when you're lost in space (the cluster after the crash, "Captain!" etc.), it's painful on the ears. Speak urgently and desperately for sure, but take down the volume.
Stone: Small physical adjustment- make sure to keep your chin up throughout the play, especially while you're listening to everyone else talk. When your head sinks down it makes the light look funky.
All Astronauts: When you enter in space, enter with your line, i.e. the moment you pass through the door- you don't have to be in place in your corner to start speaking.
All Astronauts: Also, have your light on back stage so we don't see it clicking on/you turning it on/holding it and so on. Fiona, you of course are the exception and it looked just fine, thank you for endowing that action with, ya know, some acting.
Movmt Ens. and Woode: Don't cover his headlamp as he enters. Woode, remember, you are about to say something (along the lines of "help" or "tell my wife I loved her") and that is the cue for the ensemble to turn off your light. They need that cue.
Stimson: Great fear! Nice energy, vocalization and the panicky movement looked great in the headlamp.
Stimson and Applegate: The whole floating toward killing Stimson sequence and the chilling silence afterward popped really well. That's what we've been looking for.
Applegate: 'I'm on my way to burning right now" was what we've been looking for. In general that cool, or actually stone cold, Applegate was really starting to work yesterday. The lights and sound helped you out but mostly it just had a more alive energy to it. You can still go deeper. Here's a thought, the people that have that cool you're angling at draw power and assert power from that even coolness. When you're not doing that it falls flat.
Applegate: Sexier with your allusions to the affair. Really rub her face in the fact that you got it on with her fiancee, saw all the lace only meant for her, experienced that intimacy. Relish it.
Applegate: "It took it all away" was spot on, you were really asserting yourself and it was clear this was about more than just an affair.
Hollis: During that affair-attack: more broken. Weaken Hollis' defenses. This catches you so by surprise and your anxiety level is already so high, that this is the final straw. And by this point he has already stripped you of your captain's rank and made you look pitiful and weak in front of your whole crew. In act, don't be so sure of anything you're doing after the asteroid hits- be lost and frantic, use the roll-call as a life-saver but know that it's not going to do any good. Right now Hollis is too strong and capable. Don't believe in yourself.
Stone: I already told you this, but "No more of this" was much more what we're looking for good work.
Lespere: Mattie. You are the Queen of taking notes. Thank you.
Lespere: Also, after you've gone through The List once and Applegate isn't impressed and wants more that's a moment that you can slide in a beat of confusion- i.e. you don't need to plow into the next line.
Applegate: Nice vulnerability, when we see his softer side- we need that or no one's going to care that you get your dream death. You can go even further with it. And thank you for taking that note about the "meaner in my middle years" bit before the meteor- that was solid. And nice pain. You've been working on that and trying different things, the way it was last night was great.
Applegate and Jenna: Something was weird with the timing of the meteor swarm speeches and music last night. I think the sound jumped and Churchill was speaking before the bit where Applegate and company listen to him and the others. We'll take a look at that and make sure we're all on the same page. Also Tristan, the music will be at that level but the stuff that was too loud will be brought down, FYI.
Hollis: The summer monologue was much stronger. It found its feet midway through. This is a moment in which you can take a brief beat before going into it to really respond to Lespere's despair and make the decision to give her comfort.
Hollis: Good work on that last monologue. The sound will get that loud but not so fast or early. If you could find a moment to time yourself doing that monologue before this evening and let me know so I can set the time of that fade in that would be rad.
Hollis: You standing alone in the dim dark is great. Do it for just a be a longer.
Daniel and Grace: Wait a bit longer before you enter, wait for Hollis to step off the platform, hopefully you will be able to see that. And of course we did not have a flash last night but make sure that you take your cue to speak off that and point/look at the flash itself.
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