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3 hours ago, GUARDLING said:

Often a good show doesnt need an explanation ...A good show done great ,often the viewer doesn't care and also needs no explanation

Phantom's "Into the Light" is the perfect example.

You didn't need to have it explained.  You heard the title of the show and were able to interpret what it was about without asking questions. 

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41 minutes ago, Continental said:

Phantom's "Into the Light" is the perfect example.

You didn't need to have it explained.  You heard the title of the show and were able to interpret what it was about without asking questions. 

 doing a heavy themed show it is the designers and performers job to bring it to light BUT there have been many shows over the years that a corps was so good it didn't matter what it was about andthat is quite an accomplishment.

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On 9/1/2020 at 12:28 PM, N.E. Brigand said:

Mostly agree, although it depends on who "your audience" is.

the year i trialed to do GE in TOB, I sat behind Larry Hershman as he sat there and listened to staff breathlessly go on for 3+ minutes explaining their show, with details so minute a judge would have to see the group 10 times to get it all. When they were done, Larry smiled and said " you realize you'll get first reads a lot the next few weeks and you'll have to go through that entire exercise again right? because if you needed all of that time to explain to me, how many other first time viewers will be as bewildered as I was, and they don't get to talk to you in critique. What that says to me is you programmed far too deep for the casual or occasional observer, and probably spend more time focusing on this than you do getting good performance".

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8 hours ago, GUARDLING said:

 doing a heavy themed show it is the designers and performers job to bring it to light BUT there have been many shows over the years that a corps was so good it didn't matter what it was about andthat is quite an accomplishment.

BD 14...Felini. The average fan may know the name, but not the details...but they were so #### good you didn't care

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8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

BD 14...Felini. The average fan may know the name, but not the details...but they were so #### good you didn't care

Which illustrates a point....sometimes the excessive detail isn't for the judges or the audience so much as it's for the performers.   If THEY understand those deep meanings, it influences their performance.

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14 hours ago, 84BDsop said:

Which illustrates a point....sometimes the excessive detail isn't for the judges or the audience so much as it's for the performers.   If THEY understand those deep meanings, it influences their performance.

too often the performers dont know

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2 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

too often the performers dont know

True...but watching BD360 from almost any season, you can see that THEY do...probably because Chandler takes the time to explain it to them.   That's giving the kids the tools they need to bring the staff's ideas to life.

It's really not very different from an actor writing out a back story for the character he's playing.

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10 hours ago, 84BDsop said:

True...but watching BD360 from almost any season, you can see that THEY do...probably because Chandler takes the time to explain it to them.   That's giving the kids the tools they need to bring the staff's ideas to life.

It's really not very different from an actor writing out a back story for the character he's playing.

Can't remember if it was Inside BD360 from 2010 or 2012........but some of the members being interviewed before tour started said they knew the show wouldn't be well received, but it didn't matter to them. It was going out there, performing to the best of their abilities and of course.....dominating.

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