Guys and Dolls Dice
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Topic: Guys and Dolls Dice
Posted By: charlz
Subject: Guys and Dolls Dice
Date Posted: 1/11/09 at 6:30pm
Has anyone done Guys and Dolls and throwing real dice in the crapshoot? A friend is playing Sky in a theatre in the round and the audience is very close. So they want to use real dice. I'm wondering how to do this without have the dice fly all over the place. Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 1/11/09 at 10:43pm
I've never done it - but I would think making realistic looking dice out of something much heavier than plastic would keep them from rolling too far.
Also, it would help for the actors to put a "backward spin" on them when they throw them.
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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 1/12/09 at 12:12am
The rules of "Craps" dictate that the dice must bounce off a backboard for the roll to be considered legal.
Depending on your blocking, you may want to consider placing a board to prevent the dice from scattering into the audience.
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"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 1/12/09 at 8:21am
Each Time I have done Guys and Dolls (3 so far and loved every minute of it) the directors have opted for pantomiming the dice. If the audience can suspend their disbelief long enoug to believe a group of gangsters will bust into song in a sewer, I think they will be ok with the invisible dice. I work in a prison with gang members and other assorted criminals and unfortunately so far there has been no spontanious group dance numbers in the facility.
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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse
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Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:07pm
Yup, What Patrick said... Never even heard of anyone actually using dice for that number.
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Marty W
"Till next we trod the boards.."
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Posted By: gaftpres
Date Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:35pm
Ditto on the not using real dice......its theatre....its imagination.
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Old volunteers never die, they just get recycled!
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Posted By: KEB54
Date Posted: 1/13/09 at 2:37pm
We used the "imaginary" dice for the sewer ballet and Luck be A Lady, but there is a small scene between the two where Big Jule and Nathan are playing and for that we used real dice. However, our's wasn't in the round and we used a short backboard.
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KEB
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Posted By: charlz
Date Posted: 1/13/09 at 10:28pm
Thanks everyone. It is much appreciated!
Chuck
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