A new light on the guitar
FIFTEEN SHADES OF GUITAR (a tribute to Marcel Marceau)
A fifteen-scene sound & light show without intermission (about 1h 15)
Announcement over the microphone: “Ladies & Gentlemen, please switch your phone off and please refrain from applauding between scenes; if you cannot resist, just snap your fingers in order to keep the balance with the guitar which is not amplified”
Guitar and guitarist are lit according to a sequential light scenario, provided to the organizer,
Example of light effect: (click)
CREW:
1 child
1 stage manager
1 guitar player
EQUIPMENT:
1 stool
15 panels or 1 conference panel with 20 sheets
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Scene 1
(total darkness, except a candle ; child enters the stage, displaying banner #1 lit by a projector
Child blows the candle when leaving the stage
Guitar: A delightful start for a day! – Alborada (click) small, light and playful dawn serenade
[white grazing light, like a dawn]
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Child comes back with scene II:
Guitar: First cigarette for the French lover- variations on French nursery song « J’ai du bon tabac » (click), with side effects clearly depicted – guitarist sneezes and coughs
[smoke is launched under the stool]
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Child comes back with scene III:
Guitar: Is that her? Hurrah, yeees! – Jeux Interdits (click) slow start, fiery ending
[darkness, beam on each hand alternatively]
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Child comes back with scene IV:
Guitar: Joy–you don’t change a French – Brazilian walz (click)
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scenes V & VI:
Guitar: Courtship display — but no means NO! – La douce dame jolie (click) a modest tone poem that does not end to the advantage of the courtier
[display of a medieval castle in the backgroundt]
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Child comes back with scene VII:
Guitar: Fast and Furious – Asturias (click) played with rage
[red lights, psychedelic]
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Child comes back with scene VIII:
Guitar: Too bad, but let’s enjoy life – Serbian dance by M. Tadic (click) lively asymmetrical rhythm
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scene IX:
Guitar: Piano bar lunch – Ragtime (click)
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scene X:
Guitar: Small siesta – À la Satie (click) light piece, slightly soporifical
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scene XI:
Guitar: Wake up! – Humoresque (click) short lively piece
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scenes XII (successively):
Guitar: Hunting with hounds (click) a brilliant symphonic poem depicting the course of the hunt (cavalcades, barking, doe at bay, the mort)
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scene XIII:
Guitar: Darkness falls on the mysterious forest – Legend of the Amazon (click) broken wood, percussion on the guitar
[as suggested in light scenario]
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Child comes back with scene XIV:
Guitar: Back to cabin – Norteña (click)
[rose grazing light, like sunset]
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Scene XV:
No frame displayed this time. Child just lights the candle, stage lights go off
Guitar (in total obscurity) : Strangers in the Night (click)
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Child jumps on the scene right after the last note and displays:
Jean-Pierre leaves the stage blowing the candle, and comes back to greet the public in full obscurity. He is wearing a LED necklace in the shape of a guitar. The audience just sees the necklace bowing.
Note: each stage manager will be free to adapt the scenario according to hers/his stage equipment, and… inspiration.