Curtain call question
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Topic: Curtain call question
Posted By: jayzehr
Subject: Curtain call question
Date Posted: 8/08/09 at 4:35pm
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So I had something weird happen last night. It's Last Night of Ballyhoo, an esnemble cast. I couldn't figure out the logical order to bring people out and they all wind up around a table with candles at the end anyway. So we just go to dark for five seconds or so, start the music, bring up the light and everyone holds hands and takes two bows together, they acknowledge the board operators and take one more bow if everyone is still clapping, then get off the stage.
Last night all that happened, they went back to the dressing room and the audience kept clapping and yelling and after a while started getting louder like at a rock concert. It wasn't a standing ovation but it just kept going on. Finally, I went backstage and told them they needed to come back out but they were already starting to get undressed. I had the one cast member who was still dressed go out--he thanked the audience and explained that we really apprecated it but people had started to change out of costumes already. I don't have the widest experience but I've never seen that before. I'm wondering if I should restructure the bows to bring people forward one, two, three at a time, whatever to let people applaud longer. Or maybe that was just a one night thing. |
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Posted By: Nanette
Date Posted: 8/09/09 at 7:57pm
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WOW! I have never heard of that happening! My group traditionally presents me with something (a tradition I HATE, by the way), and then the audience is invited down for refreshments, with the cast joining us in costume for pictures, etc. ------------- In a world of margarine, be butter! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/09/09 at 11:53pm
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In my thinking, the 'rag calls' are controled by your SM, who gages the need for the amount of 'Rag Calls', after the rehearsed bows. The cast should not evaporate, untill the SM clears them to do so.
You can always stretch it, with walk downs, but the extention is the SM's call or just go to house lights.if prolonged further [what would it matter if the cast have already changed, send them on - I doubt they will be out of costume a second time@ ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 8/10/09 at 2:14pm
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YOu handled it appropriately. Better leave them wanting more than the actors exiting to the sound of crickets. ------------- http://tristanrobin.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/10/09 at 8:23pm
a bit of a gongoozler - ah what!  ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: jayzehr
Date Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:05am
Definitely my philosophy as well. Nothing is worse than still being on stage when the clapping ends. It's been a couple of nights and nothing similar has happened. I'm thinking it had to have been a one shot deal---perhaps a group of friends who kept the applause going after the house lights were up. |