"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T.S. Eliot

"You were once wild here, don't let them tame you!" ~Isadora Duncan

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." ~Andre Gide

"Follow your bliss!" ~J. Campbell ... and my folks!

"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting." ~Andy Warhol

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ~Nelson Mandela

"...open and expanding like an unfinished book..." ~Quote from a friend, Travis Judd

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~St. Francis of Assisi

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." ~Nelson Mandela

"The capacity to be puzzled is ... the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science." ~Erich Fromm

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." ~Mae West

"Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it." ~Augusto Boal

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Musical Staging

Staging a musical is a different animal from a straight play, well partly. There are places in musicals where it is just dialogue, so those moments / scenes are exactly the same as a straight play ... but then there are the actual musical numbers, the moments leading up to those numbers, the exits from those numbers ... etc., etc., etc.,

"The Aristocats" has a lot of musical numbers, though many of them are only 30'ish seconds long (no, I'm not joking). And then there are the scenes that go around them. And "Into The Woods" is very similar, though the songs in "Into The Woods" don't seem to lend themselves to dance numbers as the ones in "The Aristocats" do.

My mind is a whirl ... I've got the music now to go with the scripts ... and I'm beginning to "see" bits of the shows in my head, how they should be staged etc...

As for Stone Soup scripts ... I'm still working on them too, but I have to have my blocking plans before rehearsals start with The Admiral Theatre, so I am concentrating on the two musical scripts more ...

Hopefully tomorrow's posting will be more interesting than this one. I'm sort of babbling to myself here aren't I?!?!?!?!!!

I guess that's all for today.

'Night!
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