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| Last Edit: Chromolume 06:50 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:48 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
| In reply to: re: for the playwrights out there - - Guillaume 03:36 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
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| You may or may not realize that it seems a lot of directors are TAUGHT to disregard all stage directions. Personally, I think they are absolutely there to be read, and only then to be considered or not. A good director should understand what the original intent was, even if they choose to go in a different direction. Many years ago I was doing rehearsal and pit piano for a college production of How To Succeed. I remember one night, on a break in rehearsal, I saw the young director whiting out the stage directions in her copy of the script. She had been taught not to even read them. One of the results was that the show never ended. In that final reprise of "Company Way" the cast sings about shedding a mournful tear for "the departed" - and we see Frump outside the building washing the windows. A brillint "comeuppance" joke that also brings us right back to the top of the show. But that didn't happen in this production because the director didn't know it was supposed to happen. She had whited all that out, you see. So not only didn't the show end with the intended sight gag, but the lyric sung by the company made no sense. READ THE STAGE DIRECTIONS. ALL OF THEM. EVERY WORD. |
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