Have fun with it.

Linda

I have another question maybe someone could answer.  IN Scene two (Cafeteria) when the stage is "split" with the Pink Ladies on one side and T-birds on the other... the light fades from one to the other depending on when they are talking.... how do I block entrances and exists.  For example, if the Pink Ladies are on stage left.... do they always come in and exit from stage left....   is it possible to have Rizzo, for example, enter from stage right if the T-birds are "frozen" in the dark behind her?

Of course you can. You must be asking the question because you see it that way. I went back and looked at the scene. The boys are supposedly eating lunch outside of the cafeteria while the girls are in the cafeteria. There are two ways to look at this and it depends on how you want to play it. If you want Rizzo to look like she is crossing another part of the school and doesn't see the boys have them freeze and have her cross in front. However if you think of the space in between them as shorter then what it actually is and the halfway point of the stage is like door. Where on one side are the boys outside and the other side is the girls inside, Rizzo could walk by the boys on her way to the cafeteria They wouldn't even have to freeze. They could nudge each other and acknowledge that she was there Once she hits the halfway mark they can go back to what they were doing before. She would then acknowledge the girls. As long as the girls and the boys don't interact with each other from either side of the stage this will work. It actually will set up the connection between the two spaces when later in that scene when the Pink Ladies bring Sandy over to the boys.

 

The only time it would be confusing is if you aren't consistant. If the way over to the girls is across the front of the stage in front of the boys, then the way back to to the boys is across the front of the stage.

 

Linda