Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Project One - Master Beat Sheet

Project One - Scenes & Beats
-From Matt, James and the writers

Sc. 1 - Welcome to ship.  Captain mistakes Hanna for Cruise Director.  He says: “Handling a cruise with a theme as sensitive as this one.”  Hanna decides to pose as the Cruise Director.  We see Brad & Sarah, Velma & Marge and Philip get on board. Hanna sees Philip and avoids him; tells Captain that Philip is a journalist and her ex; the breakup was amicable. 

Sc. 2 - Hanna leads a conga line aboard the “ship.”  All cast!  Hanna has fun, but is overwhelmed and then ducks below deck.  

Sc. 3 - Hanna and the Mechanic: “The plumbing on this ship is very delicate.”  They have chemistry but no romance yet.

Sc. 4 - Hanna’s welcomes everyone to the dinner.  Philip is present as a journalist covering the cruise; sees her; she avoids looking at him.  Dinner begins.  Brad and Sarah scene.  It’s a mass-break-up dinner.  Velma & Marge dump their husbands (no dialogue for them); extras as needed to reinforce all the breakups happening. 

Sc. 5 - Hanna can’t avoid her ex, Philip, since he saw her. Debrief what was witnessed.  She feels partly responsible.  He says: “I’m getting the hell out of here even if I have to steal a lifeboat.” He has enough for a story. Hanna says she’s going back below deck to hide.

Sc. 6 - Pirates come aboard - pick several pockets. We see who they are: part business men and part wacky movie pirate.   

Sc. 7 - Velma and Marge having a good time and then meet the pirates. All four of them hook up go off to buffet.    

Sc. 8 - Sarah jumps off the ship landing in the life boat and meets Philip. They decide to return to the ship together.

Sc. 9 - Hanna and Mechanic sing longingly but find solace in each other. “What could ruin this moment?” Pipes begin to creak.  They split up as Hanna has to check on the buffet.

Sc. 10 - End of buffet.  Pirates have to use the restroom and they plug the toilets with their willful disregard for rules; they throw paper towels into the toilets at buffet. “That’s our cue to bail out!” and they leave the ladies behind. Velma & Marge: “Men suck.” 

Sc. 11 - Hanna shows up at buffet. Shit hitting fan. Chaos; ship creaking. Captain over the intercom: “Cruise Director report to the bridge.”  Where the hell’s the bridge?  Mechanic comes in and Hanna admits to him she’s an impostor and he leads to the bridge.        

Sc. 12 - Hanna and Mechanic go to Bridge and see Captain who’s half naked and drunk.  They sound the alarm and leave the bridge.  

Sc. 13 - Hanna and Mechanic find Philip and Sarah.  They get on lifeboat.  

Sc. 14 - Finale!  Hanna, Mechanic, Philip and Sarah in a lifeboat.  They sing and are joined by whole ensemble and sing.

Cast:

Hanna/Cruise Director

Captain

Mechanic

Brad (break-up couple)

Sarah (break-up couple)

Velma 

Marge

Philip, Journalist

Dimon Lafitte, pirate

Angelo, pirate


Chorus/Extras

more Queen Mary pics for the stage designers and prop people from Rob

the rich people's deck of rooms

climbing to the lifeboats
safe down on deck c

to the suites

strange storage


elevators

on top of the deck

A view from lower deck --where the shitters work

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Great actress for suicide girl

JENNY MARLOWE
SAG-AFTRA / BRITISH EQUITY

jenny.marlowe@hotmail.com                                                                                                                           Hair: Dark Brown 508-524-5277                                                                                                                                            Eyes: Hazel
www.jenny-marlowe.com                                                                                                                  Height: 4’11”
                                                                                                                                                               Weight: 150


FILM

Guardian Asshole (short)
BOT-E’s Revenge (short)
Nine short films for CSULA
Two short films for NYFA
Maternal Instinct (short)
The Movie
Note to Self
Scratch (short)

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    DAY PLAYER
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Channel 101
48 Hour Film Project
Cal State University Los Angeles
New York Film Academy
Loyola Marymount University
Wild Cub Productions
Tri Destined Studios
Breakthru Films


TELEVISION

The Odd Couple

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Cal State University Los Angeles


STAGE partial list

Enchanted April
     * Italian-language role
     * Best Supporting Actress, Theatre Palisades 2013 Season
Words, Words, Words!
     * Official selection, Glue HQ Scratch Festival              
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo & Juliet
The Wisdom of the Den (World Premiere)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
The Parliament of Fowls
The History of Love in Theme & Variations
The Beginning, As Told by People in the Middle…
Welcome, Destruction!
All’s Well That Ends Well
† Le Dindon
† PellĂ©as et MĂ©lisande
† Tailleur Pour Dames
† Le Malade Imaginaire
    COSTANZA

    
    SOLO PIECE
    
    MALCOLM
    TITANIA / HIPPOLYTA
    ESCALUS
    JENNIFER
    JUANITA
    ENSEMBLE
    ENSEMBLE (Devised)
    ENSEMBLE (Devised)
    ENSEMBLE (Devised)
    LAFEU / THE WIDOW
    CLOTILDE PONTAGNAC
    MÉLISANDE
    MADAME AIGREVILLE
    TOINETTE

Theatre Palisades


Southwark Playhouse / Tour

The Scoop @ More London
The Scoop @ More London
The Scoop @ More London
The Oubliette Leicester Square
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Regents Park
RADA
RADA
RADA
RADA
L’Atelier
L’Atelier
L’Atelier
L’Atelier

     French-language production

TRAINING
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ~ M.A. Text & Performance    /    Certificate, Acting Shakespeare
Princeton University ~ A.B. English    /    Certificate, Theater & Dance
Steppenwolf West ~ Scene Study (Abigail Deser, Shannon Cochran), ongoing
The Groundlings ~ Improvisation, 1 year
Native Voices at the Autry ~ Improvisation for First Nations actors
Academy of Theatrical Combat (Dan Speaker & Jan Bryant) ~ Stage Combat & Historical Weapons, ongoing

SPECIAL SKILLS
* Native American (First Nations) actress – Algonquin tribe.
* Fluent in French. Conversational Spanish. Highly skilled with foreign-language performance, accents & dialects.
* Stunts / Stage combat / Historical Weapons – Cutlass, Broadsword, Quarterstaff, Hand-to-hand, Kick-boxing.
* Improvisation. Singing (Alto). Advanced Mover / Dance. Masks.

Tightened up Beat Sheet from Rob


Scene 1: PROJECTION OF SHIP AT DOCK.



Introduce characters arriving at the ship. Greeted by the CRUISE DIRECTOR, each getting a brief intro moment.  PROJECTION of BOARDING PASSENGERS and b.g. players.  A harried young woman, HANNAH sneaks aboard and the cruise director mistakenly thinks she’s the new entertainment coordinator.  He introduces Hannah to the characters and she plays along. Hanna is told there are some challenging groups aboard this week but that she can handle it.  A flummoxed Hanna goes along and accepts the challenge.  We find out it’s a break up cruise, which is ironic since
She snuck on to find love after being dumped from her fiancé.


2: Introduce ISACC’s character, one of the downstairs’ workers. PROJECTION OF THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP—this contrasts to the glamour of the upstairs section. He opens up about class distinctions, poverty (haves/have-nots), etc.  He could be a moral guide.



3. BREAK UP COUPLE (Chris’s scene) on the deck of the ship. Reveal that she’ll be the SUICIDE GAL, devastated at her breakup since she thought he was going to propose. Hanna comes and instructs them about the big dinner - the break-up is not yet revealed.


4. We meet the TWO FUNNY OLD DAMES who are dumping their husbands of 40 years.  Think Bea Arthur and Ruth Gordan.


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5: CRUISE DIRECTOR starts a rhumba line and they drunkenly dance through the ship. PROJECTION. Introduce UNDERCOVER JOURNALIST, who will fall in love with Hannah or Suicide Gal?

6: WELCOME DINNER.  Hannah is forced to make a toast. Fights ensue with the fighting couples. We see Chris’ break-up scene.  Hanna feels terrible/guilty after the dinner and this prompts her to sneak away.


7: MUSICAL NUMBER?  A 5-minute version of “Saturday Night Fever, the Musical” or  “Cats” or “Rent” with our crew singing. The Suicide Gal gets even more depressed after watching this.

8 Second suicide attempt. (Girl from Chris’ break-up scene is so distraught that she tries to jump overboard/kill herself only to fall into a lifeboat hanging on the ship’s side.)  She lands on the Journalist Despite nearly killing him there is chemistry.


9: The two old women encounter the PIRATES.  The pirates are meth addicted rich kids who want to hijack the ship?  The ladies, unaware that the young pirates are druggies, cougar out on them and take them to the buffet (PROJECTION) and drinks and dancing.

10. Hanna is feeling terrible about the break-up dinner and sings longingly about it only to encounter a poor ship’s worker (Isaac’s character?).  They sing together.  Perhaps it’s revealed that she is from a very wealthy family and she longs for real love. The toilets start to overflow
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11. Suicide gal ends up saving someone’s life and realizes how precious life is. She hooks up with the journalist.


11: When the upper deck (First Class) cabin toilets plug because of their misuse of them the toilets on the lower decks begin to overflow and a mutiny of the lower classes begins as they march up to get the rich.  All of the characters are brought together and hell is about to break loose when Hanna and all chorus sing of the trials as the ship goes down.  The old ladies jump ship with their pirate lovers. Everyone boards the lifeboats. PROJECTION

 
12: Finale!  A HAITIAN BEACH-PROJECTION The chorus sings a la Broadway musical of the highs and lows Ship sinks behind them.  The End.