Today in Moonlight and Magnolias rehearsal we are going to slap each other silly. Literally. There’s a section in Act 1 Scene 2 where Selznick, Fleming, and Hecht contemplate Scarlet’s slapping of Prissy and practice it. Well that’s just the surface, but they also use the opportunity to take out their pent up frustration on each other and a gentle slap rehearsal turns into a Three Stooges like slap-fest with full contact slapping for about two minutes. Two minutes of funny stuff, that over the next two weeks we’ll spend about 12 hours rehearsing to make sure no one gets hurt.
Should be fun. Can’t wait to say, try it again. I’ll resist the “with more feeling” part.
