[musictlk] dancing in big musical numbers!

[Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen]

Thanks, Jessica,

It is all going extraordinarily well now that we have gotten 
ourselves past their first objections.    I'm sewing a little extra 
pocket into my Person of Oz get-up for my cane ... just in case 
I  need it.  I don't think there's much chance of getting seriously 
turned around with an entire orchestra right there serving as  a 
directional cue, but I do want to be able to catch the off-stage 
steps with a cane rather than with my foot as we scamper off.  My 
current approach is to skip to a point that's about three or four 
steps away from the edge of the stage, then whip out my cane for the 
last bit.  I'm doing a couple entrances on my own and a couple 
touching another dancer:  my plan is to take a guide when we're 
supposed to be snaking around in a line (no way to predict or hear 
where the person in front of me will
go exactly) and either use a cane or just go  for it when I don't 
have to worry about that sort of thing.
My weekend project will be spray painting a telescoping cane 
green.  Don't you'all suppose that blind people of Oz have green 
canes rather than white ones?

Ho ho ho and a ha ha ha,... and a couple of tra la la's,

Sheri





At 01:50 PM 1/25/2010, you wrote:
>I have not done the Wizard of Oz, but I have been in several musicals/shows
>where dancing in a large group has been involved, although not really until
>high school/college.  I had a hard time with it because I did not have
>someone to work with me as much as I needed, but it can definitely be done
>and it can be fun! Have some extra fun for me!
>Jessica
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen" <swellsj at bgsu.edu>
>To: <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:22 PM
>Subject: [musictlk] dancing in big musical numbers!
>
>
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > As happiness would have it, I  have a small part in our local production
> > of the Wizard of Oz.  My actual part is to be the farm hand who happens to
> > be sitting handily nearby on a stump with a guitar when Dorothy needs to
> > sing Over the Rainbow.  I'm very excited about this.  I've played in many
> > situations, but never in a musical and never with a real orchestra.
> >
> > I'm also in the chorus: just one more alto.  Originally, the chorus was
> > not going to dance, but now, it turns out we *are* dancing.  so, my
> > question:
> >
> > Has anyone out there  done this?  I'm not a dancer: I can step and kick
> > and box step and I've done a little square dancing, that sort of thing,
> > but dancing in a mass of folks is a new adventure for me.  I looked up all
> > those terms dancers give their footwork and learned how they go, and I
> > know a person or two in the chorus who will go over things with me.  I've
> > discovered I'm perfectly OK with the big mass number so far (more or less
> > as ok as the other nondancers), but there are smaller groups who
> > apparently are going to zip on and off the stage, and the whole business
> > is, of course, very loud!
> >
> > I have a few thoughts about how to accomplish all this, but I'd love to
> > exchange notes with anyone who has a musical under his or her belt.
> > I'd also like to be able to tell the director: "sure, no worries: I know
> > six other blind people who have done this already."
> >
> > Yours from the Emerald City,
> > Sheri
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
> >
> >
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