The Aggie Song

[worrell4077]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 9:33pm

I thought I'd share this with all of you. This is a clip from the production of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that I was in at my college. It's basically the Aggie scene from start to the end of the number(it ends before the Aggie reprise and then the Aggies at the Chicken Ranch but there's video of that too).

If you want to see more, on the user's account there three other videos, one is of 20 Fans which I have a small part at the end(I come out in a yellow shirt and am on the right hand side of the screen), Watchdog/Texas Has A Whorehouse In It(you'll see me at the end in the same yellow shirt), and then the end of Act I starting with the Aggie reprise all the way through to The Raid(I show up as a photographer at the Chicken Ranch, I'm the one in the middle).

So here you go:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zrr3UoPDvk

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 11:58pm

What? No shirtless guys? Awww!

And, why is the locker room the Chicken Ranch? I'm sure they could've done something to isolate areas of the stage.

Otherwise, the singing was good!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 1:55am

blaxx-
That show has a problematic set, that no one ever seems to know what to do with. Every production I've seen has done pretty well what MCC did.

Even the original did something similar.


Nice job though! It's nice when a group "gets" the show.

Posted: 6/10/08 at 8:38am

All they really needed to do was roll in a wall of lockers to cover the "chicken ranch" set in the back ground, then roll them off during the dance number. And it's not really the Aggie Song unless you have a few hot guys dancing shirtless.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:07am

A lot of this Aggie staging is the original Tommy Tune choreography. Simplified a bit, but still evokes the original. Somebody in charge knew the show really well.

Nice job!

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:40am

Nobody is shirtless? Then its not worth the look - sorry. My favorite staging was the production I saw where the Aggies got down to jock straps. When they turned around you could feel the entire audience swoon.

Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:42am

Yes- i did think you did a great job simplifying the choreography so that "non-dancers" could look good doing it.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 6/10/08 at 8:37pm

"A lot of this Aggie staging is the original Tommy Tune choreography. Simplified a bit, but still evokes the original. Somebody in charge knew the show really well."

The choreographer, Michael Boyd was apart of the original cast.

"And, why is the locker room the Chicken Ranch? I'm sure they could've done something to isolate areas of the stage."

The way the set was set up is that the stairs would swing and have like set pieces in it. Like, when during Texas Has A Whorehouse In It, the stairs would have TV Cameras, for Doatsey Mae, it would be the stage left stairs and the cafe was all set up for that, and then for Aggies, the stage right stairs were the ones with lockers, and then for Good Old Girl, it was the stage left stairs with the Sheriff's office.

In response to the non shirtless guys, they originally wanted us to do that and I had thought up until the first night of tech that we were going to be shirtless, but the costumer decided that we would be wearing white undershirts under the pads. There were also some who were not willing to go shirtless for the scene.

The 8 guys that you saw were picked by the choreographer and dance captain to be the Aggies, actually 7 of them were the original Aggies, one was the standby incase any of us got injured. The guy who was the janitor(although in the program it lists him as aggie manager), was the one guy that didn't make it and he would not have been in the scene if it wasn't for the fact that he had the solo to which alot of people were not to thrilled that he was the one doing the solo. My friend Mark who was the standby and ultimately went on because one of the guys got into an accident asked me awhile ago how did he get the solo and I said it was because the music director said that he sounded like the recording. I honestly don't think he does.