joanna dance

Urine Town research.

urinetown is a satirical comedy musical the premierd in 2001,with music by mark hollmann
and a book by Greg kotis. the show also parodies musicals such as the threepenny opera, the cradle will rock and les miserables, and the broadway musical itself as a form. the character os BOBBY Stong and Hope Cladwell were included on New York Theather Monthly's list of "The 100 Greatest Roles in Musical Theater".

Greg Kotis had the idea for Urinetown while traveling in Europe. He was a traveling student on a budget, he encountered a pay-per-use toilet, and began writing shortly thereafter, joining with Mark Hollmann for the journey to Broadway. there was apsolutly no production companie interested in opthioning the musiclal, but finally the Neo- Futurists, an experimental theatre group from chicago. agreed to produce Urinetown for their 1999-2000 season. moreover kotis and his wife was the original cast member. spencer Kayden belonged to the group.Fringe Festival accepted the show into thier festival.

Playwright David Auburn, a friend of Kotis and Hollmann, came to see the show and immediately called production company The Araca Group. The company optioned the musical and it opened Off Broadway at the American Theatre for Actors, transferring to Broadway in September 2001. Originally planned to open on September 13, the show contained several references which, after the September 11 attacks, would prove offensive. Ultimately, only one line was removed from the script, and the show opened September 20, 2001.    {wikipedia}


we are dancing to one of the song in the play, the one called "Snuff That Girl.

here is a video of urinetown in theater:  

Here's a couple video's of us rehearsing:

katie lesson

I've been off for a week, due to the fact that i fracture my small toe. however we have manage as a group to put and amazing piece together, although i felt horrible wet my self because I've missed,  most of the rehearsals. but that haven stop me or my class mates to do their best whilst rehearsing without me, they manage to make to make the scenes lest complicated and hard so it will be easy for me to catch up and place in easily.

play order. Stop And Search.

opening: project (video: of police brutality, arrest that's not legal images of people against stop and search.   playing at the back  ).

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjGfDH4adY


Followed with an introduction by Me,Temwani,Edgar,Yasmine,Raphie and Ezekiel. we will be holding signs and ending up in one line.

meaning of introduction:  introduction/ˌɪntrəˈdʌkʃ(ə)n/  the action of introducing something. "issues arising from the introduction of new technology"

moreover we also look straight to the audience and say a couple of lines such as.

'We interviewed people'-[everyone
'We talked to others'-[yasmine]
'Friends family strangers'-[edgar]
'People who has been stop and search before.'-[everyone]
'And they all said the same thing'-[temwani]
'The same words "STEREOTYPED,JUDGED,WRONG RACE, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME."-[everyone]

we end the scene by ripping the signs.

we then have verbatim pieces: played by Tyrel,Natalia,Dorant and Bianca.

meaning of verbatim: verbatim/vəːˈbeɪtɪm/ in exactly the same words as were used originally."subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim"

it have Dorant playing an old African lady,Natalia playing an black Jamaican guy, Tyrel playing an samrt white guy and Bianca playing an sassy young girl.


video's for that.



before we came up with those verbatim scenes miss Katie showed us a couple of verbatim videos because we didn't know what it was  

 

example videos miss Katie showed us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9scm3NCIH_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezTKA0Pbfs0

verbatim is mostly exaggeration of the lips movements.

it then Leeds into we thought about the stories..... we also have lines about stop and search:

lines: 'we thought about the stories'-[edgar]
         ' behind the stop and search polices'-[everyone]
         ' the families'-[bianca]
         ' the mother's'[tyrel]
         ' the worries'-[everyone]

then it follows with the mother and son scene played but Temwani and Tyrel.
we then look at Tyrel whilst he pushes Ezeikel and Yasmine like they was his room door, he then makes his way to the kitchen....ect. it the goes on to this is trey....

video for that scene:

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we then have a scene with L.E.D lights.

meaning of L.E.D lights:

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits visible light when an electric current passes through it. The light is not particularly bright, but in most LEDs it is monochromatic, occurring at a single wavelength.

 

followed by two device peaces

the first peace is Me,Natalia and Morgan playing the role of police officers who walk up and randomly suspect that Ezekiel and Bianca are carrying illegal drugs, and search them. followed with a second scene with Me and Natalia stopping Tyrell but by his behaviour he convince us that he has nothing on him but he do.