Notes

[alt_penelope]

It's finally tech week!

I wanted to let everyone go early enough that you could get back to your common rooms and catch up on homework, but do remember that we've already suspended all the regular evening activities this week for anyone involved in the YPL production so that you can focus on our final rehearsals. (Midnight Astronomy lectures are excepted, of course.)

With that said, please be on time for rehearsal - come right after supper, don't go back to your dormitories as some of you did tonight.

Also, a few individual notes from tonight's practice:

• Marvolo and Finnigan, wait until the music ends to come on, and time your entrances so you both arrive in the Floo at the same time.


• Finnigan, when you play the scene with Gamp, make sure you face the audience, not her.


• Everyone in the Wizengamot can be more vocal with reactions


• Miss Weasley: great job! Keep that same level of energy. It's well funny.


• On the other hand, Clarriker, Longbottom and Lestrange, try not to laugh at what she's doing. It's much funnier if you all treat the scene like it's deadly serious and an emergency.


• Yaxley and Sandoval, we need to work on the end of Act I. it's just not passionate right now. Can you come early tomorrow or stay late? Let me and Moon know.


• Robins, we'll start using the pregnancy illusion tomorrow, but you'll still want the padding for your physical carriage. Remember that you shan't be able to roll away like you did tonight.


• Weasley (Ron, that is): when you die, can you sound a little less pleased about it?


I'm sorry we had to cut things short; we'll start tomorrow with the final scenes where we left off tonight, and then we'll work on Act II as it needs it more than Act I at this point.

Hang in there, everyone! It's really starting to come together.