Play: "All In The Timing" (Help Please.)

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Posted: 9/22/04 at 4:17pm

Can someone please tell me about the show All In The Timing? Thanks! -Penny

Updated On: 9/22/04 at 04:17 PM

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 4:23pm

It's a collection of 14 David Ives short plays. Very funny stuff. Essential reading for anyone who likes a good comedy.

[saddle shoe side kick]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 4:26pm

It's our school play this year and auditions are on Wednesday. I talked to the director and she said we are doing 5 of them and one other short that he wrote.

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Posted: 9/22/04 at 7:52pm

Bump... Really, does nobody know about this show? Please tell me anything you can about it. Thanks.
Thanks touchmeinthemorning.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 9:30pm

Honestly, it's not that easy to describe. It is a collection of short comedic plays, sketches, and even a monologue. They are all very different and there is no common theme. If we knew which ones your school was performing, it would help, but what would help most is if you could get yourself to a bookstore or library and pick up a copy.
All in the Timing

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Posted: 9/22/04 at 9:43pm

Weird. The director said they were connected by a common theme. Hopefully we find out on monday which parts we are doing. There are going to be scripts in the library. I was just really anxious to find out and prepare a little bit and know what they may be looking for. Thanks for the link and the info.

[Kanab69]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 11:23pm

Hey....I know one of the scenes, involves this guy meeting a girl at a coffee house, and hes like hitting on her, and everytime he does soemthign dumbe and blows it, there is a buzzer, and it like goes back in time and we see what happens if he had played it differently!

Out of curiosity what school is performign this show?

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 9/22/04 at 11:26pm

David Ives did the book for Batman the Musical

Also for The Little Mermaid

Don't say he wrote Dance of the Vampires, because that eventual script goes to the credit of Mr.I-can-upstage-Queen-Elizabeth-herself-Crawford. David is wonderful. He has such an ironic sense of humour. I still think, however, Steinman's other collaborator Ray Errol Fox is better

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Posted: 9/27/04 at 4:11pm

All In The Timing
Six One-Act Comedies
By David Ives

"Philip Glass Buys A Loaf of Bread" will be omitted and replaced with "Degas, C'est Moi"

Sure Thing (The one I most want to be cast in!!!)
Words, Words, Words
The Universal Language
Degas, C'est Moi
The Philadelphia
Variations on the Death of Trotsky


I read a little on a few of the characters and would most like to be cast as Betty (Sure Thing), Dawn (The Universal Language), Waitress (The Philadelphia), or Doris (Degas, C'est Moi).

The director is looking to cast 15-20 people and some will be double cast, which I have done before (the show Museum). Can anyone help me out so I can learn more about these scenes and know what they might be looking for when I audiion on Wednesday? Thanks! Updated On: 9/27/04 at 04:11 PM

[Jon]

Posted: 9/27/04 at 4:47pm

I can understand omitting the Phillip Glass playlet. If you are not familiar with Mr. Glass' music, it makes absolutely no sense.

I would have replaced it with either "Mere Mortals" or "Time Flies".

[Kanab69]

Posted: 9/27/04 at 5:02pm

Okay, I think the "Sure Thing" is the one I talked about in my previous post...basically the girl just sits at the table and the guy hits on her a gazillion different ways...Betty's mood changes from not interested, to a lil interested, to willing to talk to him, etc.....The Philadelphia, ahhh sorry I played one of the guys in it too I just can't remember that well, is about these 2 guys, one of which is tellin his friend about "A Philadelphia", and the waitress, who'd u'd be probably playing, is kinda just sassy, doin the normal waitress bit.

Sorry wish I could remember more, but the 4 years since I did it are such a blur....what school is doin this anyway?

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 9/27/04 at 5:24pm

I played Bill this year in SURE THING at my high school.
It is such a fun show!
Good luck.
-d.b.j-

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Posted: 9/27/04 at 5:31pm

Thank you very much NuggetMonkeys :) I have a little pewter angel that a special friend gave me that will be going to the audition with me for good luck.
Kanab69, thanks for the info. Sorry to say though that I don't think I should be giving out my school on the internet It's sad that there are so many creeps out there.

[BrookArtsCenter]

Posted: 9/27/04 at 6:27pm

I directed All in the Timing back in 2000. With the right cast, it's a stitch. If you know who you will audition with, get a copy of the script and run through it a few times with them. As the title suggests, timing is all important.

Sure Thing (The one I most want to be cast in!!!)
Try to memorize the first couple of pages of this before the audition (both your lines and his). Always know when the bells sound in it, to begin the next variation. Always make a clear choice, with each line, whether you want to connect with the guy or not.

Words, Words, Words
Work on physical comedy of being an ape. Have fun with it.

The Universal Language
The guy has the lion's share of the work in this -- teaching this language. The girl needs to pick up the timing and bits of the language, at first slow, then faster.

Degas, C'est Moi
Don't know this one.

The Philadelphia
I always picture the waitress as if she'd rather be anywhere else than waiting tables. Might have a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

Variations on the Death of Trotsky
This is primarily visual, as Trotsky and his wife carry on several variations of a scene while he has a pickaxe buried in his head. Somethings, I don't know why they are funny. They just are.

By the way, you may be able to pick up the script at a Borders or Barnes and Nobles. It's a very popular play.

Break legs.

Updated On: 9/27/04 at 06:27 PM

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Posted: 9/27/04 at 6:34pm

Thanks sooo much BrookArtsCenter.

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Posted: 9/29/04 at 8:09pm

Guess who got a call back