Notes - 4/27

Act I

 Soul girls: keep your focus on Judas as you cross from the ladder to him with your Fosse arms.
 Soul girls: you’re starting to lose the fluid quality of dropping low as you cross to Judas, then getting up as you near him. Keep that really smooth.
 Grace G: great facial expressions as you sang “When do we ride into Jerusalem”
 Judas: good “Yes I can understand” timing.
 JC/Ensemble: careful of doing things like rubbing your nose, touching your hair… especially when we’re focusing on you. JC—you did this when Mary was singing to you on Everything’s Alright and it was humorous (in a bad way) 
 Priests: be standing on the Pope-mobile already when Everything’s Alright finishes so that you are already in place when the lights come up on you.
 Ellen: where was your coat?
 Ciaphas: you got off on your rhythm for “tell the rabble to be quiet”
 Ensemble: better on Simon Zealots and on the temple, but we still need more volume and articulation.
 Mary: good job getting back on track during Everything’s Alright
 Judas: several times you’re brushing the hair out of your face. Get a hair clip or something.
 Ciaphas: Keep working on the articulation.
 Ciaphas/Annas: where was the coin pouch?
 Judas: open the coin pouch, hold it up and make a deal out of is as the glitter falls.

Act II

 Apostles: louder on “trials and tribulations”
 Apostles: know your lyrics
 JC: On Gethsemane stay more grounded. You’re always moving and sometimes stillness can be very powerful.
 Soldier: don’t have the road box covering JC when you deliver him to the priests.
 Peter’s Denial soloists: Better tonight but we could still use more.
 Soldiers: take your time spinning JC around as he “travels to Herod”
 Soul girls and Herod: remember the music will be slower on “Hey, aren’t you…”
 Soldiers: you were closer on when to bring JC in for CWTAP. It’s when Peter starts to sing.
 Apostles: I could not hear the “Ah” at the end of CWTAP
 Annas: More than once you seemed late on vocal entrances. Definitely in the scene prior to Judas’s death.
 Judas: really have a moment, open to the audience just as the ladder comes on. Make us wonder: what was the last thing that Judas thought before he killed himself.
 Soul girls: the first few lashes were off in timing and looked frenzied. Keep them in time with the slapstick and try not to look crazed
 Pilate: “tell me” was a little sharp
 Pilate: better gestures, just vary them
 Elaina/Nick: Jesus isn’t dead yet.
 Soul girls: Andi had the right timing on the butt slapping point.
 All: really sell “Superstar”…. Have fun.
 People who set up the cross: it was not centered and looked precarious.
 Load out: get those shapes out as quickly as possible.
 Herod: plan on working with Barnes every night at the 7:00 load in as the pit is warming up.