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| MHoward |
B-AttitudesI am directing Godspell this spring. I am in the planning stages now. Does anyone have any ideas for the B-attitudes? I am also having trouble with the Echo parable... Light....light... light... light etc.Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Michael |
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| BroadwayBeast |
Well in our production of Godspell, for the echo scene we had a few strobelights going and all of the Disiples were moving around in odd like ways in slow motion and when she said i cant see, the lights came upand she Said, because i got my eyes shut and Jesus had his hads over her eyes. As for the attitude i have no clue. If there are any other questions let me know. | ||
| DramaRobin2002 |
I don't think there needs to be anything extremely special about the Beatitudes. In my production, we had all just been jumping around and carrying on from "Bless The Lord" when Joanne yelled, "MASTER!" getting the rest of the cast's attention. Everyone else shut up and watched as she said her beatitude then sat down in the middle of the stage forming the tip of an arrow formation. Then the next cast member ran up and said her's and so on until they were all said and everyone was seated. Our Jesus made a big deal out of his last last response ("For their's is the kingdom of heaven."), everyone was cheering and that's when Judas yelled angrily over top the noise, "Blessed are you!" Then there was shocked silence as Judas finished his line, followed by an awkward silence where we all looked questioningly at Jesus with the occasional, "Master? What is he talking about?" type question. That's where the, "I can read feet" line came in, to break the tension.
As for the echo scene...I've never really understood it. It is just so randomly in the middle of "Learn Your Lessons Well" and it seems so out of place in the whole thing. I didn't particularly like the way that we did in our production. The only thing I can tell you is don't make your cast do corney arm and hand gestures because it can look as stupid as it sounds. |
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| Robinflamingo |
...and I loved the way our corny arm and hand gestures looked because I lined the cast up by height, with Jesus at the front (he was tallest, so it worked out great) and literally it looked like a 24 armed thing was behind Jesus. Occasionally, there would be a fan or lean movement, and I personally liked it a lot. It was slick. We rehearsed it a longggg time. As for what it means...here's a great little movie: http://fireonthealtar.com/eye/Movie.html It's a little over the top, but it illustrates the meaning of the passage, and the message I think fits in well with the song. |
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| DramaRobin2002 |
Ha ha, see I can see THAT way working out a lot better. I should have been more specific with what I was talking about. The production I was in had all of us randomly scattered about the stage and our corny hand gestures were supposed to be illustrations of the words (like at lamp, we held up imaginary lamps; at eye, we did a gesture that started at our eyes; sound was like we were listening to a sound with our hand next to our ear). Our choreographer was the one who did it and then didn't spend any time actually getting some sort of count down for us on it, so all of us were going at different times. Plus, she had forgotten her own moves a few times so half the cast learned it one way and the other half learned it with similiar but obviously different moves and no one fixed it. That's actually how most of our dances were and the cast ended up making up our own choreography for quite a few songs. |