| As I recall it, that's not entirely true about "Ya Got Trouble" being directed totally to the audience. It begins with Harold Hill addressing Dunlop, the stables owner. Then he stops another passerby to deliver the next line of "Trouble," then another, and so on. When the crowd begins he barrels through them, as the con man's faux evangelical fervor builds. When the townspeople buy into it all, only then does he--as well as the crowd--face the audience, or what could be interpreted as unseen members of the crowd in full fervor mode. Harold never makes eye contact with anyone in the audience during the number. In any case, that is how the scene is directed/choreographed, and I found it very effective. |
