On the show today is faculty member Rory Ledbetter. Rory is Associate Professor of Voice and Acting, and he is the director of Legally Blonde: The Musical, which we will be presenting October 29 through 31 in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. This is a super fun show and we had a super fun conversation, especially towards the end, when Rory and I kinda lost the plot and just started chit-chatting. We had a lot of laughs, and I think you will too, so without further ado, here’s Rory.
On the show today is faculty member Rory Ledbetter. Rory is Associate Professor of Voice and Acting, and he is the director of Legally Blonde: The Musical, which we will be presenting October 29 through 31 in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
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From the Department of Theater & Film at the University of Mississippi, this is Stage & Screen.
Katherine Stewart
Hello everyone, welcome back to Stage & Screen.
Katherine Stewart
I'm your host, Katherine Stewart and my guest.
Katherine Stewart
Today is faculty member, Rory Ledbetter.
Katherine Stewart
Rory is associate professor of voice and acting and he is the director of Legally Blonde the musical which we will be presenting October 29 through 31st in the Gertrude C Ford Center for the Performing.
Katherine Stewart
This is a super fun show and we had a super fun conversation, especially towards the end when Rory and I kind of lost the plot and just started chit chatting.
Katherine Stewart
We had a lot of laughs and I think you will too, so without.
Katherine Stewart
Further, ado here's Rory.
Katherine Stewart
Hi Rory, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me about Legally Blonde today.
Rory Ledbetter
My pleasure, thanks for having me.
Katherine Stewart
Excellent of course.
Katherine Stewart
OK, so for starters, just if there's anyone out there listening who is not familiar with Legally Blonde, could you kind of tell us a little?
Katherine Stewart
Bit about the show.
Rory Ledbetter
Sure, so Legally Blonde.
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Musical is of course, a musical.
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And it's based off of the movie from.
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What I see 2000 and.
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Four or early early odds, I'm pretty sure is when it came.
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Out and that movie.
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Of course starred Reese Witherspoon and it's about her.
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Uhm, following a man her love for a man that has kind of rejected her to Harvard Law School to.
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Try to win him back.
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And along the way, while she's there, she actually kind of embraces her own brilliance and her own style of argumentation in a way kicks that guy to the curb.
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So to speak.
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Like doesn't really want to be with him anyway.
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Warner is his name falls in love in the movie with.
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Kind of a research assistant from the main professor.
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Uh, that she made law professor she has.
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She falls in love with him.
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She is able to defend a sorority sister in a case and wins the case.
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Hopefully that's not too much.
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Of a spoiler.
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But anyway, so this musical is based off of that film.
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There are some.
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In my opinion, the musical is a lot more of a fuller experience than the movie.
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And maybe it's just 'cause I'm partial.
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Ah, because I'm directing it right now.
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But there's a lot more life.
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The sorority sisters have a higher, have a much bigger presence in the musical.
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Where in the movie there is.
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They don't even play really side characters.
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They're just kind of in the background.
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They're not really that supportive.
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One of the things that happens in the movie that doesn't in the musical is in the movie.
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You find out that one of her sorority sisters is now engaged.
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And that's what she wanted.
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And so, in a way, it's.
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It's kind of a bittersweet moment there, but that doesn't exist in the musical, and I think the musical is a lot cleaner because it doesn't have some of those things.
Katherine Stewart
OK, thank you.
Katherine Stewart
So you came into this show in kind of an unusual way you inherited it when the original director moved to another state.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, yeah, so how, if at all has coming into a process that like concept and design wise was sort of already underway changed your thinking about.
Rory Ledbetter
That is, that's a great question.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, so uhm.
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Yeah, especially if if people are listening and they don't quite know the full scope of like what a director does before you know the play takes place is that usually when you have a play in front of you, the director is responsible for the entire conceptual.
Rory Ledbetter
Uhm, they the director will work together with all the designers and theoretically the actors, once they're involved and making sure everything is unified, the scenic designer might have really strong ideas.
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Costume designer might have really strong ideas and the director's job is really to try to kind of rein them all in so that everything.
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Is cohesive, you know.
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I often, when I when I talk to you about directing, I like to use the analogy of a goalie and soccer or a European football.
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And where if the team loses, it's usually because a goal was scored by the other team and the goalie didn't block it, right?
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And so if the team loses, it's very easy to maybe blame the goalie, blame the defense.
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But it's like the goalie is in focus.
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But if the team wins.
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It's very rare that the goalie ever gets credit.
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For all the blocked shots.
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You know, it's usually the person that scored the goal that is remembered and celebrated.
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For that win.
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And so, and so, I think of directing, as if the audience watches a show.
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And it never wants 1.
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The design never really stands out from the others like the costume never really screams out of the scenic design.
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You know the style of the show seems very congruent with the design and all the design pieces, some congruent with one another.
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Then I think the director has done their job.
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You know they're the strikers.
Hey judge.
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Win the game, you know.
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Every all those.
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Actors were amazing, you know, and and everything like that.
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But if at any moment then things don't seem right.
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It seems like the costume doesn't blend with the lights or the sound, or the scenic design or the acting style.
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Then then for me that's the director was the one.
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That is at.
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Fault, they're the goalie that allowed the goal because they had the final say in approval of making sure that everything was unified and.
Really came together.
Katherine Stewart
Wow, that's a great analogy.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah Oh yeah thanks.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah oh thanks.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Rory Ledbetter
OK yeah so.
Rory Ledbetter
OK yeah so.
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We're coming into coming into this so.
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Yeah, usually in in theater you have a concept meeting where the director talks about conceptually where the show where they probably want the show to go.
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The designers also might have conceptual ideas, which might collaboratively influence one another, and then you have a research meeting where the direct the designers all respond.
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From that initial meeting, bring in research.
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This is where I'm thinking about going.
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This is what things I'm thinking about.
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And then you have a first design, which is your first meeting where you actually get a sense of saying, like, oh, this is what the set really might actually look like.
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This is where the costumes might look like.
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Lights might look like.
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Director gives feedback.
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Then you have a second design.
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More feedback is given.
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Things get priced out by the people that are responsible for budgeting.
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And and building things and then you have a final design which ideally at the end of the final design.
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I'm the director signs off on the designs and saying I approve these.
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I approve these.
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Let's move forward, right?
Rory Ledbetter
So when I I jumped into the drafting of this they were coming up on the final design.
Rory Ledbetter
Yep, so so all the decision making of the concept.
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The approach.
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Uhm, so much of it.
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Had already been.
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Done, and so instead of as a director looking at a show and thinking this is how it speaks to me.
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This is how I kind of see this unfolding and the world were in.
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I had to look at all the notes from from Michael Shayne, the previous director.
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Trying to put.
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Try to step inside his shoes and his mindset of what was his concept.
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What did he see?
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How can I run with where he is and just try to kind of allow my own individual spirit to still influence things but to kind of maintain the integrity of what the team had already created?
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, and so so that was challenging and inspiring and invigorating and exciting.
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You know all at the.
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Same time.
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So, so there were some tweaks and some things that I was able to add into the process.
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The designers were very gracious and very open, you know.
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And saying like here's where we are.
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What are your thoughts on this?
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And I was able to kind of help pinpoint like for example in the scenic design there was a balcony and I didn't see any any way that we were that I might stage anything in the balcony like there was a balcony.
Rory Ledbetter
It was like a second tier in the Barbie Doll Dream House idea, which is.
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The design which.
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I'll talk about in a minute too.
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But I didn't see any need to stage anything up there.
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This is such a big show and everything just kind of moves and needs to move seamlessly.
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That the idea of getting somebody up on a balcony meant that they would not be available before that moment and wouldn't be available after that moment directly.
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So I was like, you know what? Let's scrap that. Let's save the money that it would cost to build that. Let's see, you know how we do that elsewhere. So, so Cody's design didn't change.
Rory Ledbetter
He's a scenic designer, Cody Cody Stockstill, uhm, his design is still his design.
Rory Ledbetter
Like the design I came into, it's still the exact same world.
Rory Ledbetter
Right, but there are changes that have been made that I was able to influence, but the core concept never changed.
Rory Ledbetter
It was just more of like logistics of how things got implemented that were able to change.
Katherine Stewart
So yeah, so you talked about keeping keeping this the overall kind of style and theme of the show unified.
Katherine Stewart
What is what is the?
Katherine Stewart
Style of the show and and.
Katherine Stewart
What are some of the themes that you're highlighting?
Katherine Stewart
With that style.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, so so conceptually we are in a Barbie doll dream house.
Rory Ledbetter
Right, and so what's really cool is the set design looks like a Barbie doll Dream house down to the.
Speaker 2
The the.
Rory Ledbetter
The the glaze, that's what it is.
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The glaze that's on the set gives it a little bit of a plastic Sheen, you know, but yet we're celebrating.
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Kind of a.
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3 dimensional approach.
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Right, so it's very easy to have stereotypes with Barbie.
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Think of Barbie and everything associated with Barbie.
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As two dimensional.
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But this show.
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Is all about how things are three dimensional.
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You know this is about to thine own self be true, which is a Shakespeare quote at the end of this film, and it's about L really learning to how to embrace who she is.
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You know this is her spin. This is who she is. She is an intelligent, powerful woman and she can embrace that right. She doesn't have to be somebody's wife. She doesn't have to be.
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You know, no matter what that kind of dream, honeymoon, dream, wedding, all that stuff might look like.
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She can forge your own path.
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She can kind of trust her on the instincts, and it doesn't matter what it how anybody views her or what anybody thinks of her.
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If she believes in herself, she can use her innate tell.
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You know, so to me, that's the driving force of the play.
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It's all about it's about kind of how you embrace yourself and how you find yourself.
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Utilize yourself too so so we're in a Barbie dream world.
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That's kind of our world.
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The costumes also reflect that a little bit.
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The palette has a lot of pinks and turquoises.
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The pink is actually the official Barbie pink oh wow.
Katherine Stewart
Oh wow.
Rory Ledbetter
I didn't even know was.
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A thing.
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Yeah, Cody found that.
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And this research, which was cool.
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And so, to me it is a.
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It is a larger than life show what that Barbie dream world idea kind of how it informs me from a directing perspective is that this is not exactly realism.
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We are in a heightened world.
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We're in a world.
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Where gestures are bigger now in a musical that's usually the way can often be the way anyway.
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But the way I'm approaching this is that.
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It's not a cartoon, but there's a slight exaggeration of reality happening here where gestures might be a little bigger.
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Uh, there might be movements which might not be how somebody naturally responds in a realistic environment where they're trying to save face.
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You know so so.
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In the in the blocking and then.
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Nicole is a choreographer.
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I think really jumped into this.
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Fullsteam and really with her choreography has made this a very lively, exciting, full world.
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And so now my my journey is really just trying to make sure the rest.
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Of the show matches.
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Her choreography.
Speaker 2
I love it.
Rory Ledbetter
Especially 'cause like musicals have these moments of really high big energetic numbers.
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And then these smaller numbers you know, that gives the actors, but also the audience an opportunity to take a bit of a rest to process a little more before they get so excited by another big now.
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Number and so one of the challenges I'm finding from a directing standpoint is even in these smaller numbers.
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How do we make sure the energy stays buoyant, right?
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How do we make sure that we're still in this world where this other choreography exists so the choreography doesn't just come out of nowhere seemingly, but it seems like it's just a natural.
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Progression of where we've been in.
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The other scenes.
Katherine Stewart
And what are some of the ways?
Katherine Stewart
To keep things buoyant.
Rory Ledbetter
That is a great question.
Rory Ledbetter
So so one of the things is is kind of the state of aliveness and liveliness and the actors bodies, right?
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Oftentimes when energy starts getting depleted from an actor, one of two things often is happening with one of three things.
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Is usually happening right?
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One is their mind is not present in the moment two physically.
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They're kind of dropping out of their body, right?
OK.
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And so the energy kind of sinks into the floor or three.
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They're just extremely silent.
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Right, so so the kind of three things are one to be very present on stage.
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Trying to make sure you know the actors are very much giving focus where focus needs to be keeping their their focus engaged.
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Another one is keeping them alive in their bodies so that their bodies are constantly making alive filled up choices.
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So, uhm, it doesn't mean that they're standing straight all the time, but there might be a lunge involved, or.
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There might be.
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A pivot shift into their hips so that everything has has a sense of bigness to it at times.
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And then other times, there's moments where there might be a little too much silence at times in the book scenes, the scenes where there's just dialogue of adding a little actor sound before they have a line to help cover a handing off.
Rory Ledbetter
Of a prop.
Speaker 2
Or something like that, yeah?
Katherine Stewart
So this will be our first time back on stage in a theater since February of 2020.
Katherine Stewart
Also a show that you directed.
Katherine Stewart
That was Boeing, Boeing last year.
Katherine Stewart
Uhm, what's the energy like during rehearsals?
Katherine Stewart
I imagine students are pretty.
Rory Ledbetter
Students are stoked.
Rory Ledbetter
Students are are thrilled and just really excited.
Rory Ledbetter
You know, it's complex.
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At the same time because there is some concern about not wanting to offset missar performance because they might get COVID, especially if they feel they're vaccinated and taking all the.
Rory Ledbetter
We're wearing masks in rehearsal so that between vaccinations and masks that helps curtail a lot.
Rory Ledbetter
A lot of COVID, right?
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We have a really robust understudy system right now, which was intentional so that we want to be prepared to handle any anything that gets thrown out our way.
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In regards to actors falling ill actors needing a break for whatever reason, and so we we have that.
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Place so with that robust understudy system it adds an extra level of excitement in the rehearsal room because we have about 4040 actors between, I think 26.
Rory Ledbetter
I want to say it's like 24 to 26 rolls actors in the show and then the rest of that are understudies that are involved.
Katherine Stewart
So, so you actually just answered my next question.
Katherine Stewart
Which is going to.
Katherine Stewart
Be about how big this production is and how many people are involved and we're doing it in the Ford Center, which is our biggest.
Katherine Stewart
Space and I was going to ask what has it been like with all the.
Katherine Stewart
Safety precautions you have to take.
Katherine Stewart
For COVID, so you've already answered.
Katherine Stewart
Way to go.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah I I will say this kind of inspired from that last question you asked, so it's kind of wild.
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When I think about that.
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I directed a show that was the last live.
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Show we did here.
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And now I'm directing the first live show.
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We're potentially doing back here, uhm?
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What's kind of cool is, I think this is a great show to bring live performance back to this show in a big way.
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As a celebration of life and it is fun.
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I think the audience will definitely get one or two songs stuck in their head.
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You know, even by intermission.
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Definitely by the end of the show, and so to kind of be for the audience members to come back into live performance.
Rory Ledbetter
I think this is going to be a celebration of life and I imagine it's going to be really inspiring for a lot.
Katherine Stewart
Wonderful, yeah, that that was actually my next question.
Katherine Stewart
You are nailing this like psychic or something.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, I was going to ask what do you think audiences will enjoy and what do you hope to take aways?
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, it's you know one of the things that's really fascinating about this script, and it does feel a little dated to me, even though it's only about one. Say it's like 10-11 years.
Rory Ledbetter
Old or maybe 12.
Rory Ledbetter
Uhm, but in the same idea that L is blonde and they kind of play on this idea of oh, blondes are dumb.
Rory Ledbetter
But L is not a dumb blonde, right?
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L is a smart blonde don't.
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Judge a book by its cover.
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But yet throughout the show, different characters in a way are stereotypes, right?
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There is this really great song called Harvard Harvard Variations.
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And it's about 3.
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The students that have been accepted into Harvard and they each have their own solo, and they're kind of stereotypes of what you would think of people that might get into Harvard Law, right?
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And so there are all these stereotypes throughout it, but L is.
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In a way, really, the only one that breaks through that stereotype, so I think they're there as a bit of a foil, but at the same time it reads as a little dated to me.
Rory Ledbetter
At times so.
Rory Ledbetter
Why did I bring all that up?
Rory Ledbetter
I don't know what was the question.
Katherine Stewart
Oh, uh, what what will audiences enjoy?
Katherine Stewart
Which you already answered?
Katherine Stewart
And what do you hope the takeaways are?
Katherine Stewart
So I think it's probably most of.
Rory Ledbetter
Oh OK OK yeah, so so I don't know how much those stereotypes I mentioned.
Katherine Stewart
That yes.
Rory Ledbetter
I don't know how much they'll land to the average audience member.
Rory Ledbetter
Anyways, listen to.
Rory Ledbetter
This podcast we'll probably go in looking for.
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Them now, right?
Rory Ledbetter
Hey listen this podcast before they see it.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, yeah, what?
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I hope the audience takes away.
Rory Ledbetter
We kind of already addressed, but this idea of a celebration of life yeah, like wow to be with others again to be able to enjoy song and dance.
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And storytelling again in the same room, and I'm hoping that because this show really is.
Rory Ledbetter
I mean, I think there might be some some touching emotional moments.
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There might be, I think, certain audience members might respond in different ways, but I think by the end of it, it really is just the sense of joy that I'm hoping the audience.
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Gets out of this.
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And and as a result.
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I I'm thinking the past pandemic, year and a half where things have been through.
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We have tried to connect, you know, we haven't had a whole lot of face to face interactions without masks or without trying to do an electronic medium.
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You know we've spent a lot more time indoors, a lot more time with family and family units, and this idea of coming out more into a collective community.
Rory Ledbetter
I think letting it be a celebration of joy that we're doing it in is, I think, a very I keep saying life affirming, but I think it's going to be a very life affirming.
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Community affirming human affirming
Katherine Stewart
Wonderful, it's what everybody needs right now.
Katherine Stewart
It's what everybody is craving.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, yeah.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, absolutely.
Rory Ledbetter
I know I I still am like I'm in rehearsal but.
Rory Ledbetter
I still craving all that you know, communal camaraderie.
Speaker 2
But camaraderie
Rory Ledbetter
One other thing I was gonna say too is there is a lot of comedy in this.
Rory Ledbetter
Show a whole lot of company.
Rory Ledbetter
There are some sweeter moments, some sadder moments, but there is a ton of comedy and I think I think that's something the audience will appreciate and the audience will get tickled.
Rory Ledbetter
At quite a bit.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, that's what you want, singing and laughing.
Rory Ledbetter
Singing, singing, dancing, laughing everything.
Katherine Stewart
Perfect.
Katherine Stewart
Well, thank you so much, Rory.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, my pleasure.
Katherine Stewart
And yeah, this is fun to talk about.
Rory Ledbetter
Is there a lightning round?
Rory Ledbetter
Is there?
Rory Ledbetter
Did you think of a question?
Rory Ledbetter
For a lightning round.
Katherine Stewart
There's not a lightning round.
Katherine Stewart
I haven't come up with one yet.
Rory Ledbetter
My favorite.
Rory Ledbetter
My favorite word is snickerdoodle.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, what's your favorite non swear word?
Rory Ledbetter
My favorite non swear word.
Rory Ledbetter
It's funny 'cause I keep wanting to say supercalifragilistic expialidocious but I think that's just a habit from from a running joke in middle school.
Rory Ledbetter
Uhm, my favorite non swear word is.
Rory Ledbetter
How delightful, yeah, not a fun word.
Rory Ledbetter
What's yours?
Katherine Stewart
My favorite word is intrinsic.
Rory Ledbetter
Oh, I like that.
Rory Ledbetter
Umm I like that.
Rory Ledbetter
I like the that the intrinsic.
Katherine Stewart
It feels good to say.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, luscious is all has always been another favorite.
Katherine Stewart
And it's a cool word.
Rory Ledbetter
Of mine luscious.
Just the way that is.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah yeah, I like.
Katherine Stewart
In line with that, I like the word lozenge.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, you get this.
Rory Ledbetter
You like disease, you're big fan of disease.
Katherine Stewart
Sucks apparently.
Katherine Stewart
I'm going to have to cut all this out.
Rory Ledbetter
You wanna sign off again and I'll.
Rory Ledbetter
Say thank you yeah.
Rory Ledbetter
You can edit that part back.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, thank you again so much.
Rory Ledbetter
My pleasure, thank you.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, and I'm sure we'll talk more about.
Speaker 2
Got it.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, if there's anything missing, let me know and we'll jump back on here and I'll I'll answer a question that gives you what what you might be missing.
Rory Ledbetter
If there's anything, anything like, oh, I think in this moment we're missing a discussion about.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, we'll schedule a time for that that segment.
Rory Ledbetter
Yeah, that sounds good.
Katherine Stewart
Perfect alright well.
Rory Ledbetter
Alright thanks.
Katherine Stewart
Yeah, thank you Rory.
Katherine Stewart
Have a great rest your day.
Katherine Stewart
Once again, that was Rory Ledbetter discussing our upcoming production of Legally Blonde taking place October 29th through 31st in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, I will put some information about the show and a link to buy tickets in the show notes, so be sure to check there and see how you can join us for this spectacular production up next.
Katherine Stewart
We'll have another interview about this show, so stay tuned and until next time this is Stage & Screen