Notes & Changes from Last Night's Dress Rehearsal

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your super amazing work last night under conditions that were at times confusing (and dusty!) You were all total pros and we are so pleased with how things are coming together now that we have worked out the kinks in the space.

A big change: we no longer need to worry about "the longest room". The stage manager will sound a gong at the end of each performance to signal the huldras to move to the next room. Once you hear the gong, the forker for each quartet needs to immediately give the pitch and start singing. Think GONG=GO

Other than the top of Act 1 & Act 2 when we are gathering audience members, we will only be singing the "slow motion Be Like the Bird" version as we walk to each room.

Here is the running order of what happens during the show:

• Preshow in the Nest on the 3rd floor
• Christina/Claire will cue start of show/moving to stairs, gong, LunaSea director to give pre-show talk
• Vem kan segla sung on the stairs between the second & third floors
• Be Like the Bird (regular tempo, four part round) - go get your audience members and move to your first room
• Ibsen Bite #1
• Gong
• Slow Motion Bird, move to next room
• Ibsen Bite #2
• Gong
• Slow Motion Bird, move to next room
• Ibsen Bite #3 - once you reach your third room, drop your audience members off and immediately return to the Nest and DO NOT TALK
• Intermission
• Gong sounded 3x to cue the end of intermission
• Move to the stairs (same as Vem kan segla positions)
• Be Like the Bird (regular tempo, four part round) - go get your audience members and move to your fourth room ** note that your audience members will likely be different than in Act 1 and that's ok
• Ibsen Bite #4
• Gong
• Slow Motion Bird, move to next room
• Ibsen Bite #5
• Gong
• Slow Motion Bird, move to next room
• Ibsen Bite #6
• Gong
• Sister Song opening vamp, move to backyard
• Sister Song properly start to finish (cued by head conductor)
• Huldravisa (once loo's start, move forward to allow the actors to fill in behind you. Look at the actors as they appear out of the house to take their bows while you sing the loo's)
• Huldra bow
• Turn to the side for the Actor Bow
• Full company bow
• Disperse ASAP back into the house

A couple of room-specific notes for when you are showing your audience into each room:

• Room D (2nd floor) - do not gesture to the audience to sit down. The actors will seat them.
• Room F (basement library) - audience needs to stay off the couch/carpeted area

Performance notes:

• During Vem kan segla, please look over the bannister down at the audience members below. If there are audience members on the second floor landing (ie right in front of you) make sure to also make eye contact and acknowledge them.
• When retrieving your audience members you should do the Be Like the Bird choreography, but feel free to break out of it in order to touch audience members on the shoulder to get them to move with you. 
• Be Like the Bird will now ONLY be sung in B natural throughout the whole show.
• When singing the Slow Motion Be Like the Bird, NO choreography needed.
• Last night Christina made the change that after Ibsen Bite #6, we will just sing the opening passage of Sister Song (soprano 1 line, mm 1-mm4 beat 1) on a loop. We will not sing the rest of Sister Song until everyone is outside in the backyard (too difficult to stay together while moving through the space). 

Transition notes:

• When you are at room B/E (main floor), you must hold your audience back until the group from downstairs/outside (rooms C & F) have made their way upstairs. Cat the stage manager will be there to remind you and prevent you from going right away, but just an FYI.