I'm really enjoying how the lighting design naturally moves the viewer through time with the flash back vignettes between monologues. Question: which actors actually played piano? ...any of them?
None of the actors played the keyboard. A piano coach taught them the fingering necessary to look like they were playing, and I staged them so the audience never actually saw the keyboard. Incidentally, the keyboard was outfitted with a remote controlled speaker system that allowed the music to come directly from the keyboard.
None of the actors actually played the keyboard. There were speakers and a radio controlled receiver built into the keyboard -- all of the music was sent to the keyboard via the computer in the control booth. The actors worked with a piano teacher who taught them the correct fingering necessary for each piece of music. The script is unique, in that I merged three different versions into one. Act Two features Mozart dictating his Requiem to Salieri as he is dying, exactly as it was done in the film version. It was quite difficult to reproduce, but it worked amazingly well on stage.
The long blank screen is there only to fill up the rest of that particular videotape. The Act ends at 1:12 with the audience applause. This production was done in Hibbing, MN at the college where I was director of theatre. I used my students as well as community members in the cast.
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I'm really enjoying how the lighting design naturally moves the viewer through time with the flash back vignettes between monologues. Question: which actors actually played piano? ...any of them?
None of the actors played the keyboard. A piano coach taught them the fingering necessary to look like they were playing, and I staged them so the audience never actually saw the keyboard. Incidentally, the keyboard was outfitted with a remote controlled speaker system that allowed the music to come directly from the keyboard.
None of the actors actually played the keyboard. There were speakers and a radio controlled receiver built into the keyboard -- all of the music was sent to the keyboard via the computer in the control booth. The actors worked with a piano teacher who taught them the correct fingering necessary for each piece of music. The script is unique, in that I merged three different versions into one. Act Two features Mozart dictating his Requiem to Salieri as he is dying, exactly as it was done in the film version. It was quite difficult to reproduce, but it worked amazingly well on stage.
Ha Ha 🤣 Sounds like my dad.
7:08
Starting at 1:12:04, there's a long grey screen until 1:56:12.
WHERE is this production?
The long blank screen is there only to fill up the rest of that particular videotape. The Act ends at 1:12 with the audience applause. This production was done in Hibbing, MN at the college where I was director of theatre. I used my students as well as community members in the cast.
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