SPAMALOT SCENIC FLOW 02.24.13 MUNY 2013

ACT ONE

Top of Show: unit set on stage, no boom.

Act One

Scene 1: Medieval SET

Video. ENGLAND 932AD

History Lesson via weather map style.

Scene 2: Finnish Moose Village

“Fisch Schlapping Song”

Scene 3: MEDIEVAL SET Mud Castle

BOOM 2 Towers SR and SL Second-Story Functional

“King Arthur’s Song”

End of Scene, ladders off, TOWERS stay on for the Plague Village.

Scene 4: MEDIEVAL SET Plague Village

“Monk’s Chant”

“He is Not Dead Yet”

“Dead Play Off”

Wagon Prop.

Scene 5: MEDIEVAL SET Mud Mound

Mud mound … 2-D slip wagon. Long push stick … from the wings.

End of number, mound goes off.

Scene 6: The Lady of the Lake Unit

Lady Unit is Botticelli’s Venu Clam Shell Float. Curtain opens. The unit will be pushed around by actors.

Medieval Dry-Ice Unit will be rolled around by actor or IA in costume for fog.

Profile swamp grass

“Come with Me”

“The Laker Girls”

Lancelot’s Entrances …. a la Phantom of the Opera on a FLOATING (Phantom) Boat with two standing actors. Needs to track straight. Maybe a super long push stick with Monk/IA?

Medieval Dry-Ice Unit will be rolled around by actor or IA in costume for fog.

Phantom chandelier (electric) flies down from inside the Lady/ Phantom Unit.

Needs to light up, drop and spark (pyro).

“The Song that Goes like This”

Scene 7: King Arthur and His Knights scene …

BOOM 1 … Denis has not approved this … for discussion.

CAMPFIRE

It would be great if the Campfire could be on the Passerelle so the IA can revolve the Lady/Phantom Unit to the Court of Camelot.

“All for One!”

End of scene Boom opens to reveal

Scene 8: The COURT OF CAMELOT

Electronic Castle Disney/Vegas backing (revolved unit) with light up CL entrance and side towers that open up to reveal big, light-up medieval slot machine that settles on a winning, “grail,” “grail,” “grail,” with a show girl popping out of it slot machines on a slide.

Dancing craps tables

“Knights of the Round Table”

“The Song tat Goes like This”

4 large prams capable of carrying concealed actors.

Scene 9: The Feet of God DROP

Cut Drop of GOD FEET drop 27’ down the front of the DS Torms . Activated by IA from Side Follow Spot positions. Rolls back up.

Strike the Camelot Set.

Scene 10: The Quest for the Grail … MOUNTAIN & GRAIL LIFT UNIT

In the transition, the Mountain/Grail Unit will come onstage a vista. Unit to include front profile of a mountain with steps up and down. Actors climb the mountain unit. On cue Lady of the Lake in HOLY GRAIL CUP is lifted above the mountain. Forklift would drive on with IA covered by mountain, etc.

“Find Your Grail”

End of the number, Fork Lift MOUNTAIN UINT exits with Grail.

Tracy, do we need to lower the cup before it can drive off?

The JOURNEY PANORAMA Cyclorama idea

During the traveling, the CASTLE UNIT comes onstage

Scene 11: The French Castle CASTLE UNIT

We will redress it during intermission for Prince Herbert’s Chamber in Swamp Castle.

Wooden Rabbit Unit … substantial build

Cow Launch …. Life size cow stuffed animal

“Run Away”

BOOM 1 closes

INTERMISSION

ACT TWO

Scene 1: SHOW CURTAIN

BOOM 1

Historian enters through Boom door

Scene 2: FOREST … A Very Expensive Forest

Forest Look.

Dollar signs for Very Expensive is in UV light and paint

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”

Scene 3: FOREST … Sir Robin and His Minstrels

“Brave Sir Robin”

Singin’ in the Rain Knights

Scene 4: FOREST … The Black Knight

Black Knight bit (loss of limbs moment)…how to do this?

… done with some forest profile set unit for actor to sit inside a hide his legs. Trick prop / scenic unit and costume challenge.

One actor on stilts

Scene 5: FOREST … Another Part of the Expensive Forest

“You Won’t Succeed on Broadway”

Piano with tricks

Fiddler on the Spamalot

9 Grail Prop Hats

Star of David LED event. Maybe parting the Unit Trees for better framing LED event.

Scene 6: FOREST … Yet Another Part of the Very Expensive Forest

Scene 7: BOOM 1 On stage at Spamalot

“The Diva’s Lamemt”

ACT II Diva’s Lament will probably be played on the passerelle with spot; maybe a MUNY concession kid in uniform brings her a big drink and tub of popcorn… .

Scene 8: Prince Herbert’s Chamber in Swamp Castle. CASTLE UNIT

Tower /castle profile with large window and curtains, escape out back window for rope down bit.

“Where Are You”

“How Are You!”

BOOM 1 LANCELOT UV BOOM

Disco moment. UV light-up LANCELOT with other Disco effects.

LED footlights on the Passerelle “gay disco aesthetic”

Denis suggested adding our chorus girls in hotpants and rollerskates.Need to transform the boom, apron and passerelle.

“His Name is Lancelot”

Scene 9: Forest Set with a stump for Arthur to sit

“ I’m All Alone”

Fork Lift without the Mountain but with the Lady of the Lake redressed in some way.

“The Song that Goes Like This”

At the end of this number, Lady exits one way and Arthur exits the other.

Knights regroup and continue riding journey to arrive at …

Scene 10: Killer Rabbit Unit

A profile mound ROTATES AROUND. It is a puppet stage for the rabbit. End on cue it needs to explode with smoke and pyro fall over to reveal STONE 3-D Letters “B O N E S”

Terry Gilliam Hand points to the Bones Cutout. I think this can be a large cutout that is connected to the face of Boom 2 in a custom black cove. We can rig off the follow spot bridge with a simple pivot pull up of the pointing hand

LED … To quote Denis, “Tim the Enchanter, rather than trying to do a live feed of an actor's face, which seem complicated, if we had a Terry Gilliam style face, could just the mouth move (in that REALLY primitive, cut out animation style) and just open and close to a live actor speaking? the opening and closing would be controlled by the operator? And maybe the eyeballs could move to stage r when the bunny mound comes in?

“The Grail”

Close BOOM ONE for Audience interaction

Will use step unit into the audience. Preset Las Vegas Unit dressed for the Wedding

Scene 11: COURT OF CAMELOT … The Holy Grail Wedding Chapel!

Las Vegas Unit

“We Are Not Yet Wed”

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”

BOOM 2 close with lyrics of “Always Look ….”