Friday, September 30, 2016

1776 Rehearsal Report 9.30

Georgetown Palace Theatre

Rehearsal Report for

1776

Friday, September 30

Director: Cliff Butler

Stage Manager: Faith Castaneda

Call: 7:00p                   Began: 7:10p               Break: staggered cast

Ended: 10:45p

Late:

Missing: Susan (e), Tim (e)

Didn't Sign in:

 

General:

 

Ran Scene 4

Ran Scene 3

 

Ran Act 1 (9:05-10:40p)

 

Cane Drops: 0

 

Pianist: Austin

 

Cast:

 

We appreciate your patience! The show is looking so very good!

Keep reviewing your lines and blocking… some things are getting a bit off kilter.

 

Remember Jessie's "Ramona Rules" J

 

Ramona's Address:

150 Texas Avenue # 205

Round Rock

TX 78664-2545

 

 

 

The Schedule is posted here:

http://www.georgetownpalace.com/schedules/Rehearsals_1776.php

Username: cast

Password: cast123

 

Rehearsal Report blog:

http://palace17762016.blogspot.com/

 

Box info

https://app.box.com/login

 

Login: cast@georgetownpalace.com

Password: castpassword123

 

Crew:

 

Chris H called at 1:00p

All other crew is called at 7:30p

 

Next Rehearsal:

 

Saturday, October 1 // Main Stage // 1:00p  

 

1:00-1:40p // Dance and Vocals // But Mr Adams // Livingston, Adams, Franklin, Sherman, Jefferson

1:40-2:00p // Dance // The Egg // Adams, Franklin, Jefferson

2:00p-2:30p // Vocals // Cool, Cool // Dickinson, Rutledge, Read, Hewes, Hall, Wilson, Livingston, Morris, Hancock, Thomson

2:30-3:00p // Dance // Lees of Old Virginia // Lee, Franklin, Adams

3:00-3:15p // Vocals // Piddle Twiddle/Til Then // Adams, Abigail

3:15-3:30p // Vocals // Violin // Martha, Adams, Franklin

3:30-4:15p // Dance // Violin // Martha, Adams, Franklin

4:15-5:00p // Sit Down John // Full Congress, McNair, Leather Apron

 

Dinner Break

 

6:30-7:00p // Scenework // Scene 5 // Full Congress, McNair, Leather Apron, Courier (no Lee)

7:00-8:00p // FULL SOUND CHECK // Full Cast/Band

8:15p // Cue to Cue – Will run all transitions and songs full out // Full cast and Crew

 

 

Conflicts: Susan, Tim, Jessie

Partial: Dana (missing evening), Lauren (arrive late), Buddy (arrive late)

 

Director:

 

Accidents/Injuries:

 

Facility Maintenance/Production:

 

Costume:

 

Set:

 

·      We'd like the revolves/turntables to be usably safe for this weekend. Even when locked they move in their current state.

·      Thermostat or barometer on the set? Near SR window (also in props)

·      Benches need to be safer? Rubberized bottoms and it seems that they are currently top heavy causing the issue of the fall.

 

PAINT:

All facings and bracings need to also be painted the "eggshell" color.

 

Props:

 

 "sticks" for windows??

Thermostat or barometer on the set? Near SR window (also in set)

 

 

Dance:

 

Vocals:

 

Lighting/FX:

 

Sound:

 

Band:

 

Trivia:

 

Character Highlight: (source Wikapedia.com)

Joseph Hewes (January 23, 1730 – November 10, 1779) was a native of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was born in 1730. Hewes attended Princeton but there is no evidence that he actually graduated.[1] What is known is that he became an apprentice of a merchant and in fact became a very successful merchant. After finishing his apprenticeship he earned himself a good name and a strong reputation, which would serve him well in becoming one of the most famous signers of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina.

 

Hewes was elected to the North Carolina legislature in 1763, only three years after he moved to the colony of Edenton, NC. After being re-elected numerous times in the legislature, Hewes was now focused on a new and more ambitious job as a continental congressman.

 

In later years John Adams, wrote of the struggles that Hewes experienced as he set about serving in the Continental Congress: "For many days the majority depended on Mr. Hewes of North Carolina. While a member one day was speaking and reading documents from all the colonies to prove that public opinion, the general sense of all, was in favor of the measure, when he came to North Carolina and produced letters and public proceedings that the majority in that colony were in favor of it, Mr. Hewes, who had hitherto constantly voted against it, started suddenly upright and lifting both hands to heaven as if he had been in a trance, cried out, "It is done and I will abide by it." I would give more for the perfect painting of the terror and horror upon the face of the old majority at that critical moment than for the best piece of Raphael. The question, however, was eluded by an immediate motion for adjournment"

Though the people of the United States wanted independence, Hewes found it much harder in Congress to convey his opinion without being laughed at or scolded. Even in the year leading up to the revolution, more than two-thirds of the Continental Congress still believed that ties between King George and the colonies could stay intact. Hewes was barely able to speak in Congress because he was usually interrupted by those who disagreed with him. Nevertheless he was actively involved in many committees, most of which favored the revolution.

At the beginning of the year 1776, Hewes was appointed as the new Secretary of the Naval Affairs Committee. John Adams often said that Hewes "laid the foundation, the cornerstone of the American Navy." Alongside General George Washington, Hewes became one of the greatest military achievers in American history. 

 

After Hewes signed the Declaration, he retreated to his home in New Jersey, because of his ailing health. Despite his health problems, Hewes ran for re-election in Congress but failed to win. In 1779 he finally served his last few months as a congressman and on November 10, 1779, Joseph Hewes died just before his fiftieth birthday. All of the Continental Congress came to his funeral the following day and mourned the great loss that the country had suffered.

A 1779 inventory signed by Hewes and a 1780 newspaper account of his estate sale indicate that he owned slaves.

Hewes kept a diary in the last years of his life. Before he died, he wrote that he was a sad and lonely man and had never wanted to remain a bachelor. The girl he loved had died a few days before their wedding and he never married leaving no children to inherit his money and estates.

 

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