Sinking Ship scene!!
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Kelsey Wildstone
Apr 3, 2011, 8:13:31 PM4/3/11
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Hey Everyone!
Sunday, April 10th, approximately 1:45pm
a re-staging of selected scenes from the movie Titanic (April 10-14th is the anniversary of the voyage)
at the infamous "Sinking Ship" parking garage at James & Yesler in Pioneer Square
What we need, bare minimum:
12 people:
2 main actors (man/woman to loosely re-enact the Dicaprio/ Winslett roles, ideally two people with strong resemblance/voice)
8 raft-goers (dressed up or not)
2 people discreetly shooting video
props/equipment:
OPTIONAL:
1 old, bearded ship captain in uniform with big ship steering wheel
1 string quartet playing "Nearer My God To Thee"
(these would be set up on top of the parking garage, near the 2nd Ave street entrance)
Obviously, the more rafts and raft-goers there are, the better/cooler/funnier.
The whole scene would last just a few minutes, and would be timed to begin right when the Underground tourists get to their first stop across Yesler Street with the perfect view. From the top, "Jack" shouts "I'm the King of the World" to get everyone's attention (and make the most unmistakable Titanic reference) and then the scene unfolds.... Passengers emerge from two street-level openings on the South side of the "ship" and lower inflated rafts onto the sidewalk and help each other in, "women and children first" and so on, as Jack and Rose do their scene at the top. If there are more people than will fit on rafts, the people who are dressed up (First Class passengers) should be the ones who make it onto the rafts. The others should plead from the ship, fall exaggeratedly overboard, kneel and pray, cling desperately to the railings, cry in despair, or other things that people on a sinking ship might do. Then when the rafts are mostly loaded, someone else who appears to be uninvolved starts telling everyone there's no danger, shouting "It's solid ground...it's just concrete... it's stopped, the ship is not sinking!" (or something like that) and skeptical passengers begin cautiously stepping off the rafts/ship,taking off their vests, etc., until gradually everyone, including the couple at the top, realizes there's no crisis and just walks away, uneventfully, in different directions, blending into the rest of the street activity and going their merry way home.
All of this should happen in a couple minutes and should be done in such a way that parking and foot traffic is minimally obstructed. People with more important roles (i.e. Jack & Rose, people who bring rafts) could actually come early and claim a spot in the parking garage to set up in privacy. (That way we support the garage with some $$, too.)
Why participate? Because it will be fun, and it just might bring some much-needed levity and good mojo to a piece of Seattle architecture that is usually disparaged, if even noticed at all. Plus, who doesn't love Titanic? (Don't answer that.)
Tim
Kelsey Wildstone
Our next event is thought of and being organized by Tim Furstnau- We are going to be taking advantage of the Titanic anniversary coming up next weekend by doing our own titanic at the "sinking ship" parking garage in Pioneer square! We'll be meeting at the top of the sinking ship parking garage around 1:45pm on Saturday, April 10th. The entrance to the top of the parking garage is on 2nd Ave, between James and Yesler.
If you are interested in playing one of the "leading roles", can play a stringed instrument, or have any of the props we need like life vests or life rafts, please shoot me an email back!! The rest of the information and event outline is below, from Tim.
Thanks!!
Kelsey
Sunday, April 10th, approximately 1:45pm
a re-staging of selected scenes from the movie Titanic (April 10-14th is the anniversary of the voyage)
at the infamous "Sinking Ship" parking garage at James & Yesler in Pioneer Square
What we need, bare minimum:
12 people:
2 main actors (man/woman to loosely re-enact the Dicaprio/ Winslett roles, ideally two people with strong resemblance/voice)
8 raft-goers (dressed up or not)
2 people discreetly shooting video
props/equipment:
2 inflatable rafts
a bunch of life vests (preferably unbranded, generic-looking)
2 video cameras
a bunch of life vests (preferably unbranded, generic-looking)
2 video cameras
OPTIONAL:
1 old, bearded ship captain in uniform with big ship steering wheel
1 string quartet playing "Nearer My God To Thee"
(these would be set up on top of the parking garage, near the 2nd Ave street entrance)
Obviously, the more rafts and raft-goers there are, the better/cooler/funnier.
The whole scene would last just a few minutes, and would be timed to begin right when the Underground tourists get to their first stop across Yesler Street with the perfect view. From the top, "Jack" shouts "I'm the King of the World" to get everyone's attention (and make the most unmistakable Titanic reference) and then the scene unfolds.... Passengers emerge from two street-level openings on the South side of the "ship" and lower inflated rafts onto the sidewalk and help each other in, "women and children first" and so on, as Jack and Rose do their scene at the top. If there are more people than will fit on rafts, the people who are dressed up (First Class passengers) should be the ones who make it onto the rafts. The others should plead from the ship, fall exaggeratedly overboard, kneel and pray, cling desperately to the railings, cry in despair, or other things that people on a sinking ship might do. Then when the rafts are mostly loaded, someone else who appears to be uninvolved starts telling everyone there's no danger, shouting "It's solid ground...it's just concrete... it's stopped, the ship is not sinking!" (or something like that) and skeptical passengers begin cautiously stepping off the rafts/ship,taking off their vests, etc., until gradually everyone, including the couple at the top, realizes there's no crisis and just walks away, uneventfully, in different directions, blending into the rest of the street activity and going their merry way home.
All of this should happen in a couple minutes and should be done in such a way that parking and foot traffic is minimally obstructed. People with more important roles (i.e. Jack & Rose, people who bring rafts) could actually come early and claim a spot in the parking garage to set up in privacy. (That way we support the garage with some $$, too.)
Why participate? Because it will be fun, and it just might bring some much-needed levity and good mojo to a piece of Seattle architecture that is usually disparaged, if even noticed at all. Plus, who doesn't love Titanic? (Don't answer that.)
Tim
Kelsey Wildstone
Emerald City Improv
Cell: 206-913-1140
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