{"id":34,"date":"2014-05-08T20:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T20:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahblogs.com\/vmazet\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:47:24","slug":"2003-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/illustre-stage\/2003-femmes\/","title":{"rendered":"2003 &#8211; Femmes, femmes, femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>2003 &#8211; FEMMES, FEMMES, FEMMES<\/h5>\n\r\n\t<div class=\"slideshow_container slideshow_container_style-dark\" style=\"height: 300px; \" data-slideshow-id=\"736\" data-style-name=\"style-dark\" data-style-version=\"2.3.1\" >\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_loading_icon\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_content\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_view\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_slide slideshow_slide_image\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img 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\/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_description_box slideshow_transparent\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_title\">05Femmes<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slideshow_view\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_slide slideshow_slide_image\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/illustre-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2014\/11\/06Femmes.jpg\" alt=\"06Femmes\" width=\"347\" height=\"600\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_description_box slideshow_transparent\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_title\">06Femmes<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow_controlPanel slideshow_transparent\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"slideshow_togglePlay\" data-play-text=\"Play\" 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It is an original show featuring five female icons of the French culture, real and fictitious. Each scene is preceded by a carefully composed musical slide show that illustrates the theme.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>ACTE 1 &#8211; &#8220;Jeanne D&#8217;Arc: Rebelle et Sainte&#8221; (1412-1431)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWith the music of Mozart:\u00a0<em>Le Requiem<\/em><br \/>\nOur act is loosely based on the 1953 play by Jean Anouilh &#8220;<em>L&#8217;Alouette<\/em>&#8220;, and includes translated pieces of Jeanne&#8217;s actual sorcery trial. You will follow Jeanne&#8217;s short voyage from her village where she first hears the voices of the angels, to Chinon where she meets the embattled and scared\u00a0<em>dauphin<\/em> Charles VII. After a mysterious secret conversation with Jeanne, the future king of France, declares that he will grant her permission to ride into battle against the English, at the head of his army. The whole act is a flashback of Jeanne&#8217;s life and ends in the prison when she is taken away by guards to be burnt at the stakes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>ACTE 2 &#8211; &#8220;Edith Piaf. The show must go on.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWith the songs:\u00a0<em>Mon Dieu, Padam, La vie en rose, Hymne a l&#8217;amour, Je ne regrette rien,<\/em>\u00a0performed by Akasha and Meredith.<br \/>\nI wrote this act specifically for Akasha and Meredith. I had those two extraordinary singers on board and I wanted to highlight their talent by giving them as many songs as possible. One challenge was to create a story that would allow me to pack those songs in a rather short act, while maintaining the natural flow of the story I was going to tell. The other challenge was for the actresses who had to memorize those French songs, music, lyrics, and pronunciation. And I have to say, I was completely impressed by how professionally they rehearsed. Akasha even managed to get some of Piaf&#8217;s scene gestures by working from a videotape. The story I chose is a short moment in the life of Edith Piaf, yet one that had enormous consequences for her: While on tour in America, she lost the love of her life, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, in a plane crash. His death changed her forever. The date was October 27, 1949. This is when the curtain rises on Edith and her coach happily rehearsing&#8230;until a fateful telegram is brought in.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>ACTE 3 &#8211; &#8220;Les Liaisons Dangereuses&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWith the music of Bach:<em>\u00a0Concerto pour 4 clavecins en la mineur.<\/em><br \/>\nThe famous 1782 epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos reveals the wicked mind games between two evil aristocrats in pre-revolutionary France. The novel presents 175 letters, and to underscore the prominence of those, the set was to be Madame de Merteuil&#8217;s writing cabinet. Sitting at her desk, quill in hand, the\u00a0<em>marquise<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;talks&#8221; to Valmont in French. From the shadows, Valmont reads and responds to the missives in English as she writes them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>ACTE 4 &#8211; &#8220;Notre-Dame de Paris&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWith the songs from the musical of the same name:\u00a0<em>Belle, Fatalit\u00e9, Danse mon Esm\u00e9ralda, Le temps des cath\u00e9drales and Boh\u00e9mienne<\/em>\u00a0are performed by Akasha and Kacy.<br \/>\nThe place is Paris, the time is 1482, the age of the cathedrals. Written by Victor Hugo in 1821, the huge novel<em>\u00a0&#8220;Notre-Dame de Paris&#8221; (&#8220;The hunchback of Notre-Dame&#8221;)<\/em>\u00a0tells a tragic tale of love and fate. In the shadow of the cathedral a story of betrayal, desire and death is about to unfold. Quasimodo the deformed bell ringer falls in love with Esm\u00e9ralda the beautiful and wild gypsy girl. Frollo the demonic priest of Notre-Dame watches her too. In the end, rejected by Esm\u00e9ralda Frollo delivers her to the hangman and disbands the gypsies, in spite of their sacred right of asylum. When Quasimodo discovers what has been done, he kills his master Frollo and collapses over Esmeralda&#8217;s body, to die with her.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>ACTE 5 &#8211; &#8220;Coco Chanel: s\u00e9ance d&#8217;essayage&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nFor anyone interested in fashion, Mademoiselle Chanel (1883-1971) stands for French &#8220;chic&#8221;. &#8220;La petite robe noire&#8221; (the little black dress)? That&#8217;s her. Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s &#8220;N\u00b05&#8221;? That&#8217;s her. More than that, she changed the way women dressed and thought of clothes forever. At a time when women were adorned with long, heavy garments, she looked for inspiration in men&#8217;s wardrobe for shapes and textures. Her comfortable and loose-fitting clothes scandalized, then seduced &#8220;Tout-Paris&#8221;. The rest is History.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a black pullover and ten rows of pearls she revolutionized fashion&#8221; (Christian Dior on Chanel)<\/p>\n<h5>CAST<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>Students: <\/strong><\/span>Akasha Banks, Shelley Doggett, Ghida El Hajj Sleiman, Ilana Federman, Meredith Fraser, Christian R. Garner, Paul Mason, Wayo Ramirez, Blake Thomas<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>Faculty: <\/strong><\/span>Lori Belk, Marc Pr\u00e9vost<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ea9629\"><strong>Friends: <\/strong><\/span>Charlette Beillon, Kacy Crowley, Joe Foy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2003 &#8211; FEMMES, FEMMES, FEMMES Femmes, femmes, femmes\u00a0is the second\u00a0illustre-stage\u00a0production. It is an original show featuring five female icons of the French culture, real and fictitious. 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