[music4me3111]

What exactly is it and who's in it? I'm sorry so sound so clueless, but I've tried to find out on Google searches, but haven't found much. I've just been cast as Rosie in the show, and I wanted to know who was involved in it. Thanks!

Any help would be great!

[music4me3111]

Please, I don't mean to nag people, but I would really like to know and I can't find it anywhere.

[Sean]

The 100 ways ballet if i remember correctly is what rosie is thinking and its a dance sequence where she is killing Albert in many different ways. I think thats it.

[pinkstiletto510]

wow I dont think this is in the script that I have........unless my director cut it without notice, but I dont even remember anything like that

[aktor28]

I looked it up in my script I own of this show. This part takes place after Mae, Albert, and Gloria leave the stage when Albert says "Do you use the touch system," and Gloria replies,"Whenever possible. Then Rosie says, "I could kill him. I could just kill him." Here it is:

"The lights begin to fade, there is a dim rattle of drums in the distance and as music comes up and at the backstage office goes off left we gin to How to Kille a Man Ballet. IN the course of the ballet, Rosie dances out her desire to revenger herself on Albert. First she ahs him before a firing squad, the guillotined by an angry French mob, circa A Tale of Two Cities, then alternately poisoned, stabbed, and bombed, finally 'rubbed out' bu a gang of mobsters, and over his visible protests, buriend and sent flying off to heaven. At the end of the ballet, Rosie is sitting alon on stage Albert J. Peterson having been dispatched at last... in her mind at least. She is sitting smiling to herself as Hugo comes on L."

Out of the three times I was in this show, we only performed it once, but it is very funny and a great part of the show.

[pinkstiletto510]

oh it is in my script.....along with a huge 'X" across it haha, guess we cut it

[music4me3111]

Okay, So I'm assuming that we'll cut it if it's a catholic middle school, lol.

Thanks though!

[aktor28]

Yeah, I can see why it wouldn't be done, most productions do cut it out, but glad to help.

[tomblair]

[bandguy]

As a director who is currently doing this show, I have made the decision to cut this. Interestingly enough, if you rent "The Stage Manager's Guide" to this show from Tams-Whitmark (as I have) even THEY recommend cutting this scene.

It's difficult to do, the orchestration is very hard for most musicians and it consumes lots of rehearsal time.

I'll bet, though, that professional companies can pull it off well and it would be fun to see.

[ADistantMoonAgo]

its in my script too

no idea if we're doing it or not

ooh i want to. only i dont want to kill albert. hes a nice guy really.
lolol. that was so un-rosie

[broadwaybound11]

It's being cut in our production too. That's a shame, I would love to see it done...

[tomblair]

We are definitely doing this. It has been very difficult but I'm finally finished the choreography. We are cutting about 30% of the music.

Albert will be shot, guillotined, poisoned, and finally beaten to death - all by a 4-member masked Greek Chorus of women directed by Rosie. They will dance, act, respond, emote all as one chorus.

My director has been very patient - it is consuming a lot of rehearsal time.

The production goes up in May - I will post pictures in a few weeks.

[aktor28]

I'm glad that your doing it. If pulled off right, it can be very funny. When we did it, we had Albert hung, electricuted, and shot. Rosie controlled it all. It was all in pantomime as well. She pulled a pretend rope, and Albert was hung, she pressed an imaginery button, and he electructed )sound effects made the shock noise), and she pretended to shoot him. The audience had a riot, very funny.

[I_heart_theatre]

Our school cut it out and replaced it with a Russian ballet scene like in the movie, just the ballet. Not many people in the audiance understood why there was just randomly this ballet.

[aktor28]

Yech, I never liked how they did that in the movie.

[tomblair]

This was excruciatingly difficult. Finally it resolved itself nicely in my mind. I had Rosie imagine a Greek chorus of 4 female spirits - I called them imprecatrixes. They killed an imaginary Alber in 4 different ways - firing squad, French Revolution guillotine, poison chalice, finally - beaten to death.

All characters were masked - to make them look like a dream. The imprecatrixes were half-masked, Albert was full-masked.

The genre was modern dance - barefooted, simple white costumes all alike.




Above - 4 imprecatrixes with Albert. They are preparing to give the poison chalice to Rosie - who will pour it into Albert's glass.

Lighting gave this a nice, eerie appearance. ..tom

[tomblair]

The imprecatrixes prepare to execture Albert via Guillotine.

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[tomblair]

The imprecatrixes look on gleefully as Rosie is about to pour the poison into Albert's glass.

During performance, dry ice in the cup made it emit lots of steam.




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[aktor28]

Wow, I've never seen it interpreted like that. Looks interesting, must have been fun.

[tomblair]

thanks Actor. It was difficult at first because I couldn't figure out which way to go - nothing seemed right or good - it wasn't funny - it didn't seem to fit into Bye Bye Birdie.

But towards the end it was a lot of fun becuase I knew it was working and I knew it was artisically successful. I still never seemed to fit into BBB but it was fun for the audience to look at - the masks, lighting, and action on stage was very interesting.

[aktor28]

Cool. By the way, it's aktor28, not actor. Just to let you know.

[BroadwayBud]

That number seems strange - I can't find the humor in it either. I hope we don't do it in our show.

[BroadwayBud]

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Scratch that! I convinced our directors NOT to do it! Yes! Being the student director definately has it's perks!

[MsDivaKate]

I actually liked our scene it was quite humerous and the audience got a huge laugh out of it. The whole thing was performed behind a scrim exactly as described in the script.

[Psy4Potato]

we did this scene when I did the show 5 years ago. We didn't dance it, but I got to cut his head with a guillitine......I know I spelled that wrong. I would never cut this piece, it's halarious!

[Salome]

the sequence makes an already long show even longer. its a terrible number. I saw it performed once. and god knows why they decided to keep it.

[jimbothecrab]

I guess it sounds better than it would be. Kinda like the dream sequence in Oklahoma that lasts for forever and makes you kinda confused, but you think it's pretty none the less.