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I am in the school play this year! It is called Into the Woods. I am in chorus even though there is not supposed to be a chorus.
submitted by Choco , age 13, Here
(February 9, 2012 - 6:41 pm)
(February 9, 2012 - 6:41 pm)
The fist play I was in (a musical) had only about three people for the chorus! There wasn't really supposed to be a chorus; the townspeople were like the chorus, but the chorus members didn't have lines.
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(February 10, 2012 - 1:47 pm)
That's almost exactly how it is for Into the Woods. I told the head people that I was just auditioning for the chorus, becuase I am to busy to have a main role this year because I am preparing for my Bat Mitzvah.
(February 12, 2012 - 5:03 pm)
I love Into the Woods! :D
(but... chorus...? Does not compute...?)
Also, are you doing the junior version without Act II?
And, no, seriously, how is there a chorus, there aren't any crowd songs unless you count the Into the Woods and Midnight sequences which you shouldn't because the entire cast sings those, not a seperate chorus, it would be weird with a seperate chorus and there aren't even any extras to make that chorus out of... It's too compact and character-driven a play to have a chorus!
Oh, and a bit of idle curiosity, too, how is your director/costume designer/technical director handling the Witch's costume change at the end of Act I? (Because it seems like the sort of thing that would be hard to pull off in a school production with a presumably very limited budget... come to think of it, you probably don't actually have a costume designer or a technical director... but the question stands regardless)
(Actually, now I think of it, I've never looked at the orchestrations for the Junior version, which is presumably the one you're doing, and who knows, they might have altered the Into the Woods and Midnight sequences into choral songs, it would make them easier to sing depending on how they did it... I don't know.)
((Er, not that I'm a Sondheimite or anything))
Anyway, yeah. Break a leg and have fun!
(February 13, 2012 - 11:19 pm)
1. They have to have a "chorus" because it is a school play. The chorus does nothing. Literally. We just roam around behind the Baker during his scene with the witch and we sing along to the first song and whatever. Then we are not on for the whole rest of the play until the last song and curtain call! It is so much fun! *being sarcastic* but it's okay with me because I am way to bust this year to have a main role...
2. We are doing the J.R. Version of the play without Act 2 because it is to "inappropriate" for a middle school play. And don't worry, I got the real version off Netflix so I know what happens.
3. The witch (who happens to be one of my best friends) is handling it very well. So is the director, I guess, because he really does nothing. (It was his choice for a school musical, with a chorus, and he choose to do Into the Woods and magically "add" a chorus...) The witch wears this amazing cape that has a hood (she and her mom actually made it!) that covers her whole body. She is also wearing a mask (the art teacher help her make that.) When she drinks the milk (potion?) from the cow she starts coughing and turns around, takes off her mask, hides it under her cape, and throws the cape to thwe floor. Then she turns back around.
4. There are so many parents and students that help out, the run costumes, make-up, lights, backrounds, and tech.
Thanks!
(February 14, 2012 - 7:29 pm)
1. Really? Well that's... a bit lame, actually. Because this isn't the sixties anymore /bad musical theatre history joke that probably no one gets Ah, well, c'est la vie. ((Although I feel like Sondheim would have Unkind Words for your director. But that's neither here nor there.))
2. Grahhhhh the junior version aggravates me. It misses the entire point of the play. It's like that random production of Company where Bobby shot himself at the end, you shouldn't... do stuff like that. And Act II is just so... so wonderful. It has all the best lines and definitely the best song (Last Midnight, natch). Just... aghhhghagh;dja wait til you get to college, things will be better.
3. So pretty much what (I assume) they did in the original production minus the finger prosthetics? Nice (and I mean that non-sarcastically). Go mom, too, for making it; my mother never cared that much, haha. (As for the director, if he wanted to do Sondheim + Chorus, why didn't he do, like, I don't know, Anyone Can Whistle (with an ensemble of cookies and townspeople) or... or actually why is he doing Sondheim with middle schoolers at all? Nothing against the age group, of course, it's just that I know I missed hugely important things when I was watching/listening to/reading Sondheim shows when I was in middle school, and I was a gigantic Sondheimite even then, and even shows like ACW and ItW are, are really not middle-school shows. But I digress.)
4. So what's the set like? Is it pretty? How close are you guys to tech week/will you be having a tech week?
(I realize I am probably being annoying, and I apologize. Just... I love Into the Woods)
(February 14, 2012 - 9:07 pm)
1. Haha! I got that joke! :P
2. The Junior version aggravates me too. I can't wait until High School because they actually do the adult versions!
3. Yep no finger prosthetics! The witch just wears gloves that show her fingers.
4. The set is very well done. There are painted trees that roll onto the stage. On the left we put up a fake wall that has trees painted onto it, and we got Rapunzel's tower all set up.
5. You are not being annoying at all. :)
(February 15, 2012 - 7:41 pm)
Tomorrow is opening night! I am super nervous but I think it will go well. I will eat a banana before the performance. ;)
Eat a banana!
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