Project #1 SM Analysis Chart of Big Love

Scene
Characters
Lights
Sounds
Props
Issues

Bathtub scene w/Lydia (scene 1)
Lydia
Guiliano
Lydia walks up the aisle
Guiliano steps on stage
Wedding processional music/ Pachelbel’s Canon
Lydia’s arms thrown back as we listen to the music finish playing
Bathtub
Bouquet
Wine glasses
100 olive trees, and 300 wine glasses half full of red wine.

Shattering Glasses
(scene 2)
Lydia
Bella
Thyona
Olympia
Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary announces the entrance of two more young women in wedding dresses

Women enter without ceremony, dragging in a huge steamer trunk, struggling with it.

Olympia goes to the bathtub

Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary announces

Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary segues into the intro for “You Don’t Own Me”

Olympia’s sings with all her heart
High-heeled shoe
Single shoe
Luggage
Bathtub
Plates
Glasses
Trunk
Steamer Trunker
She hurls the plates and cups and glasses with all her force against the wall

Babushka Woman
(scene 3)
Bella
Lydia
Lights on Bella as she enters with basket of tomatoes
The end of “ you don’t own me”
Basket of Tomatoes
Wooden Chair
Card Table
Bella splats eight tomatoes

Olay Body Wash (scene 4)
Lydia
Piero
Olympia
Thyona
Bella
Guiliano
@ end of scene 4 lights down
Molloy’s Love Old Sweet Song or some champagne music from inside the house.
Wine glass
Pail & rag

Dialect lesson for Siracusa

Women against Men
(scene 5)
Olympia
Thyona
Lydia
Lights up for Olympia as she speak
Lights for helicopter overhead
Sound of a helicopter overhead which grows louder and louder
Loud Speaker says: “STAND BACK. STAND BACK . STAND AWAY FROM THE HELICOPTER”
Stanley’s Trumpet Tune joins the deafening helicopter noise
Helicopter engine turned off
No props
Helicopter overhead (wind)

Three guys in tuxedoes (scene 6)
Nikos
Constantine
Oed
Lydia
Thyona
Lights for Nikos, Constantine and Oed enter
No sound
Helmets
Gum

Constantine chews gum

Favorite Cigar
(scene 7)
Piero
Nikos
Oed
Constantine
Lights on (the uncle has entered)
No sound
No props
No Issues

I don’t need a man
(scene 8)
Thyona
Olympia
Lydia

Lights up for Thyona as she speaks
“Sleepers Awake!” from Cantata No. 140
Chairs & painting material
Thyona (throws herself to the ground 3 times)

Guiliano and wedding gifts (scene 9)
Guiliano
Olympia
Thyona
Lydia
Bella
Lights on as Guiliano enters with a cart & Lights on Bella as well as she enters with him.
Sound of Piano playing
Cart
Wedding Gifts
Piano
The Actor that is playing Giuliano, needs to have some type of piano experience

Lydia and Leo dance
(scene 10)
Eleanor
Leo
Thyona
Olympia
Lydia
Guiliano
Lights up for Eleanor as the enter with wedding gifts
Handel’s Air from Water Music, Suite No.1
Wedding gifts
Lydia and Leo dance needs to Choregraphed

Nikos’ has a crush on Lydia (scene 11)
Nikos
Lydia

Lights Up as Nikos enter
The Heartbreaking music of the Largo
No props
Lydia and Nikos dance need to be Choregraphed

Nikos uses the Lords name in vain (scene 12)
Nikos
Constantine
Lights on Nikos as he starts to speak
Marc-Antonie Charpentier’s Perlude to Te Deum at full volume
The music is drowning out all the speech and finally, it comes to an end
Circular Saw
The Word Godda**** used 4 times
Nikos throws himself to the ground
Oed rips off his shirt and throws it to the floor, picks up circular saw blades
Constantine lands on Nikos with full force on Nikos splayed body
Constantine’s huge monologue
Constantine

Light on Constantine as he speaks his monologue
No sound
No props
No issue

Eleanor and Olympia have a wedding cake (scene 14)
Eleanor
Olympia
Thyona
Piero
Lydia
Lights up as Eleanor and Olympia enter

Huge wedding cake
Glass
Brandy
Huge wedding cake

Killing Time
(scene 15)
Olympia
Lydia
Thyona

Lights up for Olympia
No sound
No props
No issue

Transvestite (scene 16)
Eleanor
Lydia
Olympia
Constantine
Nikos

Eleanor enters Lights up
Sweet music plays
Orchestral Suite No. 3
Wedding music begins at full volume
Wagner’s “Wedding March” from Lohengrin
Music Segues into the exuberant party music of Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon
Widor’s “Toccata “ from Organ Symphony No.5
Note: While the Widor may be the best music for the large cast , a small cast production
Handel’s “ Pena tiranna” from Amadigi
Veils
Garters
Shoes
Powder
Lipstick
Rouge
Knife (Cutting wedding cake)

50 grooms( led by Constantine and Nikos)
47(or several more) sisters, all in wedding dresses
Constantine by picking Thyona up and shoving her into wedding cake head-first
Constantine takes off his jacket as though to start a real fight with her.
Thyona shows her bare butt and does a seductive-hostile butt dance while faces upstage
Constantine takes off his shirt and then pants until he is doing a complete, abandoned striptease
The others throwing themselves to the floor and throwing themselves down on top of one another
Some of the brides or grooms are burning themselves with cigarettes and lighting their hands on fire with their hands burning
Throwing plates and smashing them
Throwing kitchen knives
Taking huge bites of food and having to spit it out at once, vomiting
Bowling balls on his stomach and letting them roll onto the floor
A board filled with nails resting on his naked chest; another groom putting an anvil on the board, and then hammering the anvil with sledgehammer
One groom with his feet locked into moon boots nailed to the ground
One bride slamming her head repeatedly in a door
Eleanor screaming, running, from side to side, and smashing plates and cups.
So that he is naked now, rocking back and forth violently.
When Thyona comes to him with a kitchen knife and stabs him in the heart , so that blood floods over his chest and stomach and onto her white dress
And other brides pull out kitchen knife and stabs him in the heart and murder their husbands, one by one, all of them splashing their white wedding dresses with blood and one of them circling round and round the stage holding his crotch and he, too, bleeds and bleeds.
Lydia and Nikos are off to one side making love
Thyona drags Constantine’s body downstage and throws it into the orchestra pit.

Bella the judge (scene 17)
Piero
Guiliano
Bella
Thyona
Lydia
Lights dealing Flashbulbs
Lights up for Piero and Guiliano as they enter
No sound
Cup of espresso
Hundred flashbulbs
Lydia throws her bouquet into the audience.
Nikos takes her garter and throws that into the audience.
Everyone throws rice
Fireworks