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I am directing freshman in highschool in a play. In one part the prince is supposed to say "i want to see how light you are:" & pick up the princess and hold her for a number of lines. i guess some of the other boys were making fun of the princess while we were discussing this because in relaity the princess may be a little heavier then the prince (she is NOT fat, the prince just happens to be tall & lanky and not as big as her). i then recieved an e-mail from the girls mom that she came home from rehersal visably upset. she said her daughter did not know she was e-mailing me & that she doesn't want me to tlak to the boy individually, but she wants me to monitor the behavior. she said i could call her at any time if i needed to. first off, how should i go about having the prince hold the princess, how should i shut the boys up who are being mean without embassing the princess even more, and do you think it's appropriate that i call the mom (and what should i say to her if i do?) she left me her house phone # but i am afraid that the girl who is my princess would pick up the phone & know it's me from caller ID, & the mom doesn't want me to know she contacted me. what should i do about all this?
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If this boy is "tall and lanky" he shouldn't have a problem holding this girl.
As for the teasing, you're working with freshman. I'm one myself, and I know how much people are made fun of. It's going to happen. People probably would have said this even if she was all skin and bones. The boys are just being their immature selves, and you shouldn't worry about it that much, and neither should this girl. She's cofident enough to be onstage as one of the stars and should be able to take some teasing form her peers without permament emotional damage.
If you want to talk to her mother, call when you know this girl is at school. Maybe as rehearsal is starting, or during a break. Or, if you call and the daughter answers instead of her mother, say that you were calling about asking her mother to volunteer for the play or something.
hope I helped, and best of luck with the production!
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Well, whenever the rehearsal is going on, like the mother said just monitor the behavior and make sure the kids are behaving well. Whenever they start to make fun of her, just tell them,"Alright guys, enough. Back to the script." Or,"_____, start off at scene 1, ok?" And have them continue rehearsing, whatever part you guys left off at, so less focus on her, and more focusing on the part.
Also, there is still always email if you need to contact the mother, so you can always just continue doing that or email her again and ask her if she instead has a cellphone number where you can contact her cause you're afraid her daughter'll recoginize the number.
If you find just going back to a scene and having them rehearse still isn't working, then you should call the mother and let her know and try and talk over a new plan of what you guys can possibly do, because you or her mother may really need to have a talk with the boys, or at least contact their mothers and have them talk to them.
Or maybe even her mother should talk to her daughter about it privately, and maybe even have you come over as well. And just let her know, she is definetely not fat, and boys are just immature and she's better than them and shouldn't listen to a thing they have to say. And also let her know, whenever they start to do this, just think,"It's not ME, it's HIM! He's as skinny as a stick!"
I hope I helped.
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