SET Our musician’s station will be set up stage right. Lately we’ve been going for an office look. We’ll set him up behind a desk or small table with a (working) lamp, a phone (doesn’t need to work), a coffee mug, a cup with pencils in it, etc. Typically, we’re able to assemble this sparse set out of odds and ends that already happen to be at the venue. If you can help us locate any of the above-mentioned items (including the desk/table), that would be great. We will also need three (armless) cane-back or folding chairs; they should be durable.
POWER We’ll need a power supply SR to plug our amp and lamp into.
SOUND Pre- and post-show music will be provided by us on CD. All other sound cues will come through our amplifier and be run by our musician.
LIGHTING There will be five light states, which include:
Preset: House lights and some blue down lights that will dimly splash onto two chairs set center stage.
General Wash: The wash lights the whole stage. With a special focused on the musician SR from the side. This is the look we’ll go with for most of the show.
Montage: This will be a darker, dreamier version of the general wash.
General Wash with House Lights: At three points in the show, we address the audience directly and the house lights creep in a little.
Scary Red Special: This light should have a blood-red gel in it and be focused to hit an actor SR from the front. A dimmer version of the wash will be used simultaneously to light the other performers who aren’t in the red.
Cues 1 through 10.
CUE 1 Preset is up, house music plays. Blackout. We enter. The house music begins to fade. The musician clicks on the desk lamp and starts playing some rockin’ guitar overlapping the fading house music, which now comes all the way out. The general wash fades up on a 10 count.
CUE 2 (hippies) Shenoah says, “Hey, look, a gargoyle.” We banter as two hippie women and begin addressing the audience directly. The house lights fade up to about 50% on a 10 count.
CUE 3 We stop addressing the audience and go back to bantering. On the line “It was a hard time. I was in aroma therapy for six months,” the house lights fade back down on a 10 count.
CUE 4 (Shenoah’s “Gross!” monologue) Mark leaves the stage. At this point, Shenoah will start addressing the audience directly and the house lights will fade to about 40% on a 10 count.
CUE 5 At the end of Shenoah’s monologue, Mark will re-enter and the house lights will fade back down on a 10 count.
CUE 6 (Mark’s “Romantic” monologue) Shenoah will leave the stage (like a bat flying in the night). Mark will grab the mandolin from the musician. At this point, the house lights will fade up to about 40% on a 10 count.
CUE 7 (Montage) The characters “Jennifer and Dad” get a room from a surly hotel manager and the musician starts playing sensitive music. We cross fade on a 10 count to the “montage” state, beginning on Dad’s line “Come on Jennifer, we better get some rest. It’s been a long day.”
CUE 8 The montage (wherein we silently revisit many of the characters in the show) ends with the hippie girls saying, “yeah, yeah, yeah.” At this point, we fade back up to the general wash on an eight count.
CUE 9 (Scary Red Gel) This is the end of the show. The final bit of dialogue goes roughly like this:
DAD -- You’re right, Jennifer, Dan has the murder weapon. Wow, Jennifer. I didn’t know you had it in you.
JENNIFER-- Yeah, well, how do you like me now (red light comes up), DAN!!!!!
CUE 9.5 House music comes in at a high volume (track number TBA). Fade to black on a 10 count.
