Tech Notes #4 - Wednesday

Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper, 

that's what it's all about! Father! Sister! Brother! 

We need each other to raise us up 

and round us out...

You all have been amazing at doing just that this week...raising each other up! 

"People make bad choices when they're mad or scared or stressed..." Truer words were never spoken especially during tech week! All of these emotions happen to all of us! We're all tired, we're all passionate about what we're doing...but we're all working to make this the absolute best show. 

"Throw a little love their way and you'll bring out their best!" YES! Always. 100%. Never stop encouraging each other over the next three days! We're all Fixer Uppers!

TECH NOTES

• Preshow ---> 1st lighting cue -----> Maypoles ------> Set cast
• Crew cannot be on stage once house is open
• Hallway lights off. Cover back hallway windows to block lights.
• Crew cannot talk when house is open. Make sure walkies are on headset and cannot be heard in house.
• Remind green room that mics should be on before entering for scenes.
• Scene changes must happen in blackouts/fades. Too many happened in lights during Scenes 1-3 tonight. May need to run that tomorrow afternoon.
• Fog/haze must begin much sooner. By the time it hit the stage, it was too late in nearly every scene.
• Fog/haze only seemed to be coming from SR. At one point, it just looked like one side of the platform was on fire.
• Platforms were consistently in dark. Must fix.
• Can Eden have a script with lighting cues/scenes marked? Trouble hearing cues in walkie.
• Fix dark spots - too many on stage.
• Search party should have lanterns in hand before they enter the stage.
• There should be a lighting change in "First Time in Forever (Reprise)" ice strike
• Fog needs to come in earlier when Kristoff say "I call them" before "Fixer Upper"
• Blizzard looked perfect the second run tonight! That's exactly how the fog needs to look nearly every time it's called for.
• Please don't come out and mop after the blizzard - the whole audience saw that. Just let it go...

CAST NOTES

• Cast - great job being patient at top of show! Good job. Wait for your call.
• NEED MORE GUYS SING OUT during opening. Still too weak. 
• THE STEP UP at the end of the opening at the key change. Let the SUN shine on.
• Find your light! If you cannot feel light on your face, you are in the dark. Find light!
• Anna - be careful with your skirt going down side steps before coronation - you flashed the audience!
• Castle Staff - banners were a little off their marks.
• Oaken Family - thanks for fixing your entrance but I couldn't see you because it's behind the cart. Boo. Let's work out something else at 5:45. Meet me in the auditorium.
• LET IT GO!!!!! YAAASSS, QUEEN!!!!
• Search party - You need lanterns for the "There's a castle in the distance" scene with Hans/Weselton
• Kristoff - Move DS "Now this is ice" FIND YOUR LIGHT!
• Hans/Wes - Late entrance. Not sure what happened...the whole Elsa/Hans/Wes/Krist/Sven/Anna returning to Arendelle scene was kind of a mess. Felt slow and awkward. Let's talk through it tomorrow.
• Olaf - Enter with your nose in hand instead of popping it off.
• Remember what we did in rework of Colder By the Minute. The new placements were perfect! That whole scene was exactly what I had pictured!
• Townspeople - Hold hands in choir pose while you sing Colder By the Minute. Your body positions were awkward, so let's hold this pose altogether.
• Elsa - During finale, can you get on Olaf's level when you sing "here we stand" and look at her/him (puppet) and hold his stick hands? I think that would be adorable. :)

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!