Pitch Presentation By: Andrew, Johnny, Shireen , and Ashley

1. The Poor Of New York By Dion Boucicault Pitch Presentation By: Andrew, Johnny, Shireen, and Ashley

2. Presentation Overview Playwright Brief History Revivals Pitch Overview Pitch Bibliography

3. Playwright • Dion Boucicault (born Decembre 26, 1820) • Came from an educated family • Started off as an Actor • Soon after, began to peruse playwriting First play, Legend of the Devil’s Dyke, Brighton (1838) Success with London Assurance, Covent Garden (1841) Career as a playwright continued from there on…

4. History • Les pauvres de Paris by Eugene Nus and Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisbarre • The Poor of New York is Boucicault`s English adaptation • Premiered at the Wallack`s Theatre in New York, 1857 • Popular with 19th much of the 19th century audiences, though ridiculed by critics

5. Revivals • The Poor of Liverpool, Royal Amphitheatre (1864) • The Streets of London, RoyalPrincess’ Theatre (1864) • The Poor of New York, Olympic Theatre (1869) • The Streets of Dublin, SFX City Theatre (1986)

6. Pitch Overview • pitch #1 - roles updatepitch #2 - script adaptationpitch #3 - staging (costume, stage orientation and sound

7. Contemporizing the Roles Bloodgood --> President of a Social Media Network Badger --> His Software Engineer/Sells water heater (the scene he was poor).  Lucy --> Personal Assistant Paul --> Office Admin Captain Fairweather --> An ambitious business Investor Puffy --> Hot Dog Stand Guy

8. Major Changes Badger dies in the fire! The receipt (stock certificate) is destroyed Edward is never seen on stage Contemporary language Ending is changed to a “melodrama of defeat”

9. Script Adaptation Updating the roles Contextual Edward is never seen on stage Contemporary language

10. Stage Orientation Venue  CAN Stage

12. Multi-Media: Rear Projectors

13. Costume Colour Palate approach to costume design

14. Colour Choice Overview Bloodgood – Red/Gold/White/Black/Gray Livingstone – Blue/Black/White/Silver Puffy – Orange/Yellow/Gray Paul – Brown/Black/White/Gray Badger – Purple/Black/Blue/White/Gray Alida – Pink/Red/Gold/White/ Lucy – Light Pink/Red/Gray/Black Mr. Fairweather - Black/Brown/Gray Mrs. Fairweather – Gray/White/Black

15. Costume Cont For Bloodgood

16. Costume Cont. For Livingstone

17. Music & Sound Besides the occasional use of sound effects, music will be used throughout the production to aid in transitions and to establish mood for specific scenes Instrumental music, classical music

18. Music & Sound Cont. Opening scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12vlUlLQpQg Act 4 Scene 2 (Bloodgood & Badger’s Gun fight scene) Please refer to blog Lucy & Mrs. Fairweather Attempt to suicide scene (Please refer to blog)

19. Music & Sound Cont. Opening Scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12vlUlLQpQg Act 2 Scene 3 (Feast with Friends at Puffys) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFytzNhPsoM&feature=related Act 2 (Introduction of Paul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFytzNhPsoM&feature=related

20. Pamphlet + Cases

21. Bibliography • The Calthrop Boucicault Collection: The Streets of London / The Poor of New York, Templeman Library University of Kent: Cantebury, 2005 http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/html/specoll/BOUCSTR3.htm • HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault#cite_ref-1” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault#cite_ref-1 • Zarrilli, B. Phillip, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei. Theatre Histories. New York: Routledge, 2006. p. 263-264 • HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857 • Raphael, J.R. 5 Facebook Schemes that Threaten Your Privacy, Feb. 25. 2009, PC World Communications Inc. 1998-2010 http://www.pcworld.com/article/159738/5_facebook_schemes_that_threaten_your_privacy.html?tk=rel_news