Rehearsal Notes from October 30

Reminders & Housekeeping

Wreath orders are to be done online this year - see Alex's pinned post in our Facebook group

Ticket order forms MUST be in on November 13th. Any questions, please send a message to Erin

Music & Blocking

Kayama

See edited score

Call of the Flowers - VIDEO

M 1 - 4 Birds clumped in the Upstage Right corner, Soldier & Princesses make a line on the diagonal from downstage right towards upstage left

M 5 - 9 Birds cascade downstage between the Princesses & Soldier (three lines of birds)

M 5 Group 1 (between Natasha & Georgia) - Jess, Rhian, Jordyn, Karen, Morgan

M 7 Group 2 (between Georgia & Joanna) - Maria, Antoinette, Rowan, Katelyn, Catherine, Gabrielle

M 9 Group 3 (between Joanna & Mackenzie) - Rylee, Kallie, Shila, Leah, Hayley

M 11 - 12 Reconfigure into a trapezoid with Mackenzie and Joanna downstage, Georgia and Natasha upstage, with groups around each character in a small horseshoe. Special group movements from measure 13-16 as follows :

• Group A Rylee, Kallie, Shila, Leah (with Mackenzie) - special group movement on measure 13
• Group B Hayley, Gabrielle, Catherine, Morgan (with Georgia) - special group movement on measure 14
• Group C Maria, Antoinette, Rowan, Katelyn (with Joanna) - special group movement on measure 15
• Group D Karen, Jordyn, Rhian, Jess (with Natasha) - special group movement on measure 16

M 17 - 18 Princesses and Soldier clump in the centre, Birds spread into a large U around them

M 19 - 20 Birds drift toward the centre, maintain the U shape

M 21 - 24 Slowly drift upstage left to reform a clump in the corner. Group 1 should be furthest left, Group 2 in the middle, Group 3 closer to the centre of the stage. Princesses and Solder make a line on the diagonal from upstage right to downstage left

M 25 Group 3 moves in line between Mackenzie & Joanna

M 26 Group 2 moves in line between Joanna & Georgia

M 27 Group 1 moves in line between Georgia & Natasha

M 28 (when the piano starts again) Birds swiftly exit stage right, Leah & Kallie remain on stage until the end of the piece, and then exit stage right with Princesses & Soldier

Clocks - No video this week (it’s really, really simple ;-) )

Enter when piano begins, over the top platform. Sop 2, Alto 1, Alto 2, Sop 1

Sop 1 - Top platform

Sop 2 - Lower platform, close to centre

Alto 1 - Lower platform, close to stairs

Alto 2 - Stairs

M 1 - 96 Birds sitting upstage on platforms and stairs, Soldier sitting downstage centre.

M 97 - 105 - Soldier stands up

M 105 - 112 - Stand up (same order in which you entered at the beginning of the song)

M 113 - 125 Stand up, walk down and create a mixed scattered formation around the Soldier. Sop 2 & Alto 1 Move when you start to sing. Alto 2 move when Alto 1s are out of the way, Sop 1s move when Altos 2s are out of the way.

M 126 - End Sing in these positions.