In this Legally Blonde rehearsal, we worked on Act 2 Scene 1, the interns going to the jail to meet Brooke Wyndham.
We started off discussing what each of our statuses would be in the beginning of the scene when we all walk in together. Because Callahan wasn't in this part of the scene we all decided that Emmet had the most power at the beginning of the scene because he holds the power over all the interns, because he is a licensed attorney and has a higher level of law education than the rest of the interns, he also holds power over Brooke because she is relying on him to get her out of jail.
We then decided that the person with the lowest status in this scene would be Elle because, from what the stage directions imply, she doesn't interact or speak to anybody from the beginning of the scene. She also doesn't know as much about law compared to the rest of the interns and Emmett especially. Brooke has a higher status than Elle because whilst Emmet ]holds the fact she needs him to get lout of prison, if the interns don't get information out of Brooke, they wont do well in Callahan's internship, causing her to have more power than them.
From this, we figured out the order of which everyone would walk on stage to Brooke, with Emmet at the front, Warner and Vivienne following together with Vivienne leading and Enid behind, with Elle being left at the back of everybody having to lean to get a glimpse of Brooke.
We chose to have Brooke seated in the middle and then, as everybody spoke directly to her, have everybody crowd round Brooke in a semi-circle, talking over her.
Moving on to where Elle is talking to Brooke we made sure that they were stood next to each other to make it clear to the audience that they both have the same amount of power in the scene and they both understood what each of them were saying. When we blocked the part where Brooke tells Elle about the liposuction, we wanted to make it comical with Brooke when she whispers then turns to scream, making it comical because it goes from her trying to be quiet to keep the secret to her screaming out and shocking Elle.
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