Rivals Scene Reviews

Rachel and Mel
Personally, I thought that this scene was fun to watch and Rachel and Mel did a super-duper job! Mel's "high-ho" was ridiculously over-the-top and perfect and established her character very early.  Rachel used her physicality to establish and clearly portray the status of her character which was also very well done. The frantic pace of the entire scene, and the quickening of that pace, brought out the humor in it.  I liked the way they used their voices to convey attitudes/character but I missed just a couple of words near the middle when they were both out of breath. Awesome job!

Ours
The lines in our scene tripped us up a little when we were rehearsing early on but we got it down by today - Kayla had some really tricky, wordy paragraphs in our scene and she memorized them like a boss! I definitely noticed my turtle head thing about 3/4 of the way through so that will be a good thing to work on for next time I do a period scene. I really enjoyed playing with that tension/Lydia trying to get Julia's attention through our blocking and, yep, if we had more time it would have been awesome to make it more pointed and specific. This was a fun scene to perform and Kayla rocked it, despite being sick and busy with Urinetown!

Kalond and JD
Two things I noticed right away in this scene were that both Kalond and JD had fun with their asides and had excellent diction! I loved the moment of JD's creepiness and watching Kalond's face slowly contort to this absolute-ly (haha, get it?) disgusted grimace. The posture was good for both actors and the energy stayed high and focused throughout the scene. Fabulous!