Merchant of Venice

Directed by sound design~jenifer jaseau

John Cole and Ron Danko composer~mark knippel
sound run~cliff allen

RCC Spring '08

Cue # Kind of Cue Act*Scene Stage Description Sound Description Who says… Cue Line Time in secs
Overture
1 Cliff says GO Linked with next cue 1:16

I.I Top Stage R Drip, hot tub, steam {1}

2 LIGHT Antonio and Crew 25"

Enter House Right Shower door {4} Solanio Now by two-headed Janus Nature hath framed strange fellows in her
3 LINE Bassanio and crew time 9"

I.ii Enter Portia Happy Melody Antonio Where money is; and I no question make To
4 LINE have it of my trust or for my sake 20"

I.iii Shylock is open for business Money, register, NYC sounds Portia whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another
5 VISUAL EXIT *Scene Change* knocks at the door 43"

Enter Antonio House Left Bell {3} Shylock I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you and so
6 LINE following. But I will not eat with you, drink with you nor pray with you 8"

II.I Beach Beach sound-- Antonio Come on, in this there can be no dismay, My
LINE AND 3 seagull cue for Actors towards end of cue ships come home a month before the day (exit)
7 52"
VISUAL EXIT Hit next cue when actors are ready…post lights up
Morocco Enter Dance-Thunder
8 LIGHT Lights then 2 counts then *GO* Thunder 48''

II.ii Exit Morocco Morocco-Thunder again Morocco Good fortune then to make me blest or cursed'st amoung men
9 LINE & VISUAL Enter Gobo Gobo-Rock guitar 31"

II.iii Farwell Jessica Jew/christian melody Gratiano And I must to Lorenzo and the rest,
10 LINE but we will visit you at supper time 30"

fade connected with cue

10.5 built in cue

II.iv Poker Night J/C mel again- (tag end goes into poker crowd) Jessica Oh Lorenzo, if thou keep promise I shall end this strife
11 LINE become a Christian and thy loving wife 28"

LINE AND II.v Shylocks House Shylock faster Lorenzo Come go with me; peruse this as thou goest.
12 Fair Jessica shall be my torch bearer (exit) 20"
VISUAL EXIT
II.vi Party Boys Enter Stage L Party sounds--distant, with crickets {4 and 2} Jessica Farwell, and if my fortune be not crost,
13 LIGHT/LINE I have a father, you a daughter lost 48"

Gratiano and Antonio exit Portia happy melody *Scene Change* Gratiano I desire no more delight than to be under sail and gone tonight
14 LINE 20"

II.vii Morocco Enter Get Off Portia Go draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble
15 LINE Prince. 20"

Casket #1 beep boop Portia There take it Prince; and if my form lie there, then I am yours.
16 VISUAL Morocco .5"

End of Morocco Sad Portia into Happy Portia melody Morocco To take a tedious leave. Thus losers part. *GO*
17 LINE Portia-a gentle ridance draw the curtains go. Let all of his complextion 30"
choose me so
INTERMISSION I

II.viii Bar clink glass, portia melody

18 LIGHT Sound then Light 35"

Scene Change Portia happy melody Lorenzo and quicken his embraced heaviness with some delight or other.
19 LINE linked closely with next cue Solanio (jesse):Do we so 22"

II.ix Enter Aragon Flamenco Noodling Nerissa The Prince of Aragon hath taken his oath and comes to his erection
20 LINE presently 26"

Casket #2 spronge Aragon Give me a key for this, and instantly unlock my fortunes here
21 VISUAL Aragon 2"

LINE AND Exit Aragon Faster flamenco Aragon Sweet adieu. I'll keep my oath, patiently to bear my wroath
22 5"
VISUAL EXIT
 Merchant of Venice
Directed by sound design~jenifer jaseau
John Cole and Ron Danko composer~mark knippel
sound run~cliff allen

RCC Spring '08

Cue # Kind of Cue Act*Scene Stage Description Sound Description Who says… Cue Line Time in secs
LINE AND III.I Café, NYC Ambient city and café sounds *Scene Change* Nerissa Bassanio, Lord Love, if thy will it be!!
23 30"
VISUAL EXIT
III.ii Shylock big speech Shylock transition into--> Portia Shylock Shylock: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
(continuous w next cue) starts at -26.7 Tubal: But Antonio is certaintly undone Shylock:
LINE & FACE built in fade raises level to -8.0 Nay, *GO* that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer;
24 25"
UP bespeak him a fortnight before. I will have the heart of him if he
forfeit.....

Scene Change----> Portia Portia happy melody end sound cue--I pray you tarry; pause a day or two
25 VISUAL falls in love 23"

Bassanio peruses Caskets Rhyming Song Portia Live thou, I live. With much, much more dismay
HUMAN live singer *Windy* I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray

III.iii Preparing for judgement Prison sounds Bassanio No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay. Nor
26 LINE rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. (exit) 42"

III.iv Antonio traveling birds with traveling hint Antonio Well, jailer, on. Pray God Bassanio come to see me pay his debt and then
27 LIGHT/LINE I care not 19"

Portia and Nerissa exit Traveling into Intermission Portia At the park gate; and therefor haste away, for we must travel 20 miles
28 LINE today. 18"

INTERMISSION II

Scene change during Religious SS~Jewish cantor, Gregorian chant, Light cue
Intermission II Muslim "Call to prayer", 1:34 1:08
29 LIGHT caucophony--- cres/crash/boom/blackout big boom

IV.I Trial scene Whispers whispers are layered into cue

built in cue

A/B exit End of Court Scene *Scene Change* Traveling Bassanio And in the morning early will will both fly toward Belmont come Antonio
30 P/N enter Long 9"

IV.ii End of scene -> night outside night sounds owl sounds --> S/S Nerissa Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
31 1:30

V.I Jessica and Lorenzo Sweet and Sour Melody -25.4 Lorenzo Theres not the smallest orb which thou beholdst but in his motion like an
Love Scene angel sings *GO* Still quiring to the young eyed cherubins.
32 3:36

Windy on stage to join with melody exits Come ho, and wake Diana with a hymn
after "by the sweet power of music"

End/cease built in fade out Portia Peace! How the moon sleeps with Endymion, and would not be awaked.

V.1-3 Birds Nerissa There do I give to you and Jessica from the rich Jew, a special deed of gift
33 after his death all he dies possessed of 1:06

V.1-4 Lively Dance -29.0 Portia Its almost morning, and yet………
34 LINE 1:30

text done, Full volume- built in fade up -12 Gratiano Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So
fade up sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring

35 LIGHTS 1:07
VI Curtain Call Curtain Call Music