Dorkazoid strikes again
Jan. 6th, 2005 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Another entry in the "I can't be bothered" department:
I mentioned "Into the Woods" in passing last night (I was joking about how we could reuse the forest backdrop for that show).
Dorkazoid's immediate response: That show is "too big".
Number one, I was joking. Number two, and just from a directing point of view, the kids aren't capable of handling it vocally.
But most importantly, try thinking OUTSIDE the box, you dweeb! I've seen other high school's pull off the tech aspects rather admirably, on smaller stages. Is there anything you would get excited about doing, or is everything an inconvenience??
I mentioned "Into the Woods" in passing last night (I was joking about how we could reuse the forest backdrop for that show).
Dorkazoid's immediate response: That show is "too big".
Number one, I was joking. Number two, and just from a directing point of view, the kids aren't capable of handling it vocally.
But most importantly, try thinking OUTSIDE the box, you dweeb! I've seen other high school's pull off the tech aspects rather admirably, on smaller stages. Is there anything you would get excited about doing, or is everything an inconvenience??
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-06 08:17 pm (UTC)A person in the cherry picker was the giant.
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:30 pm (UTC)on a lighter note, hit 'im with a barrage of places a wooded backdrop would be useful...
Oklahoma (dream sequence)
half or more of Shakespeare's plays- off the top of my head Midsummer, Macbeth, As you Like it, The Tempest, Henry IV & V, 12th Night...
The Hobbit (more schools are going to revisit this 1970s ...um...classic...)
Of Mice and Men
Autumn Elegy
Hansel and Gretel (hee hee)
The Woods (mamet)
Zoo Story (credit this: it's damn small)
uh, yeah. The Crucible would seem darned stupid without at least a cursory nod to the numerously-referenced woods.
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:39 pm (UTC)I guess I can see it.
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:31 pm (UTC)Your predecessor, Mr. Bob Heimerl
...who, as far as I know, usually picked plays based on how little work he had to do to get them and how little work he had to do to put them together...our class had one of the best casts within a three year span and he seemed to waste it with some of the cheesiest plays I've known (Up the Down Staircase, A Flurry of Birds, blech...)
He DID have the great idea of having, during the Spring Quarter, student-directed one act plays...which were sometimes written by the students themselves...they were great fun and good experience (I got to write and direct one myself) and usually the most interesting productions of the year...But in hindsight, he did that ALSO because it meant less work for him...
I'm so glad those kids have you now instead of him...so so glad...
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Date: 2005-01-06 09:43 pm (UTC)That, slack-assed motivation aside, is one hell of a great idea.
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:43 pm (UTC)