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Rebecca Reisert

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RE: Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 04-09-2024 15:15
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I agree with keeping the Cinderella Actor one person...the humor in that scene is watching the same actor desperately change costumes. When we performed the show, we divided the Narrator part among six different Narrators. They all appeared in the beginning and ending scene to narrate, but the individual ...

RE: Drama for cast of 10

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 04-09-2024 15:05
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Two of our most popular plays are the old standbys Arsenic and Old Lace and And Then There Were None. Frankly, I was stunned by how much our teenage audience liked those shows. ------------------------------ Rebecca [Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville, KY rreisert@saintx.com -------------- ...

Transformations in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 04-09-2024 14:57
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My school would like to perform Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to pull off the transformations of Augustus, Mike, and Violet in an inexpensive, easy-ish, and effective manner? (I apologize if this has been answered in an earlier post, but I don't know how to ...

RE: Ethnic casting?

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 04-03-2023 09:02
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Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your sharing Lin Miranda's response about High Schools. I hate that my students may never have the chance to perform in shows like West Side Story and Little Shop of Horrors because they happen to attend a school that is predominantly white. What I didn't say on ...

Ethnic casting?

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 04-02-2023 12:01
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Generally I have only white students audition for our musicals (the school population is predominantly white). Should I therefore avoid doing shows like Little Shop of Horrors and South Pacific? ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School KYSt. Xavier High School ----- ...

How to crucify Jesus in GODSPELL

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 01-18-2021 14:01
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We will be performing GODSPELL this spring (fingers crossed) while observing all safety precautions including a six-foot distance between actors. Has anyone else performed the crucifixion with this challenge?  If so, I'd love to hear what you did. ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. ...

RE: Best plays for on line performance

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 05-26-2020 10:22
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In my Acting classes, we did Action News from playscripts.com.  This is in a news broadcast format and is flexible in cast size with each actor playing several roles.  I also let each actor create one commercial and one special report.  This worked very well for us. I put it together using iMovie.  We ...

RE: Doing a play or scenes completely online

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 03-21-2020 12:21
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That's a great idea. In fact, one of the four plays my different classes are working on is Action News which involves different new segments--also from playscripts. I may see if we can transfer several of my licenses over to that and try something similar--if our media guy can help me figure out the ...

RE: Doing a play or scenes completely online

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 03-20-2020 19:22
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Doing a play or scenes completely online

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 03-20-2020 15:01
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There's a good chance my schhol might be doing distance learning the rest of the year.  I teach three performance-based Acting classes.  Any suggestions for online distance ensemble work?  Monologues would be easy to do, but I'm wondering if there's a creative way to put on an online play.  Someone suggested ...

RE: Favorite Murder Mystery Play?

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 03-20-2020 14:56
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We did And Then There Were None this year at my all-boys high school, and it turned out to be one of the most popular plays we've ever done.  Samuel French gives you the choice of two endings--the one that's true to the novel and the one used in the original production.  We did the one from the novel--although ...

Newsies' props

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 12-06-2019 13:17
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We're getting ready for our production of Newsies.  Does anyone have a good source for newspapers that will look like 1899 newspapers or inexpensive but sturdy satchels?   ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville KY ------------------------------

RE: And Then There Were None

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-06-2019 09:51
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Thanks for sharing the details of this.  We'll try this out. ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville KY ------------------------------

RE: And Then There Were None

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-06-2019 09:50
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Thanks so much for this details.  We'll give it a try. ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville KY ------------------------------

RE: And Then There Were None

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-06-2019 09:44
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Thank you for sharing this. ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville KY ------------------------------

RE: And Then There Were None

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-06-2019 09:43
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Thank you so much. ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert St. Xavier High School Louisville KY ------------------------------

RE: Modern large cast dramas

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-03-2019 10:40
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We do four shows a year--two that are well-known standard shows, and then two that are no-cut large cast shows.  For our large-cast no-cut shows, we've had great success in getting scripts from playscripts.com.  A lot of these shows have lots of cast flexibility in terms of cast size and gender. I don't ...

And Then There Were None

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 08-03-2019 10:33
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We are performing AND THEN THERE WERE NONE in September.  We'd like to do the ending in which everyone dies.  I don't know how to do the hanging scene.  Has anyone else done the show with this ending?  How did you handle the hanging? ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert Louisville KY ...

RE: gun in WEST SIDE STORY

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 02-20-2019 07:50
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Thanks so much.

gun in WEST SIDE STORY

Posted By Rebecca Reisert 02-18-2019 13:40
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We are performing WEST SIDE STORY next month.  How did you handle Chino's shooting Tony?  What kind of gun did you use? ------------------------------ Rebecca Reisert Louisville KY ------------------------------