Today we worked on Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir scene and The
Contest that follows. We started with planning James’ movement; we didn’t want
him to be static throughout the piece but we didn’t want him to run around too
much as this would make the scene unrealistic. We decided to let James take
full reign for a moment and see what he came up with before adding more to it.
After James performed his opening, we felt that it was a bit
bland and needed more movement. We planned James’ movement to start from either
the stage, entering from the curtains or from beneath the stage (we tried both
to see which works better) and then he would walk around the audience and
interact with them based on his lines (“Rub it in sir”). After trying both
(pictured below) we decided that James appearing from the curtain makes more
sense as Pirelli would enter extravagantly from the curtain too and it also
looked more impressive too.
We then read through and rehearsed The Contest where we had
only one small issue: where we were staging The Contest. We had two options,
have it take place up on the stage or down on the floor in front of the
audience (Both pictured below).
Although, performing it closer to the audience would make them feel more
involved and as if they were actually the townspeople of London, we decided to
perform it on the stage as it would make The Contest more a grand performance
as well as simply being a shave.
Next lesson, as we don’t have Tom or Dan, we will bock and
rehearse “Pretty Women.”
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