Akeelah And The Bee is a tour through the hip hop music of the 90s and early 2000s as the audience is pulled into and made a part of the community of 709.
Director: Marci Duncan
Technical Director: Drake Miller
Stage Manager: Kaiya Stricklan
Sound Designer: Two Kearns
Set Designer: Constance R. Smith
Costume Designer: Kendall Dayton
Lighting Designer: Erin Casey
Properties Designer: Tayla Roberts
Cue Name/Description | Cue Line | Page Number | |
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Pre-1 | Preshow | N/A | N/A |
Videos | Videos | N/A | N/A |
1 | Into Akeelah’s Bedroom | Top of Show | 1 |
2 | Gunshot/Sirens | After a Beat | 1 |
30 | At Morning Light | End of Previous Scene | 3 |
31 | Control Cue | Top of Scene | 3 |
40 | Drunk Willie’s Radio | Drunk Willie Turns on Radio; Visual Cue | 4 |
50 | Control Cue | Drunk Willie Adjust Radio; Visual Cue | 5 |
60 | JTs Music Starts Blasting | After Line:Ruth:“join my choir” | 6 |
70 | Control Cue | Visual Cue; 2 Beats After Ruth Holds Bad Up | 7 |
80 | Into Southside School | Beat Before Rachet Rhonda’s Entrance | 8 |
80.5 | Panning Rachet’s Rhonda’s Entrance | On Rachet Rhonda’s Entrance | 8 |
81 | Control Cue | Visual Clue by Rhonda | 8 |
90 | Into Southside School Spelling Bee A | End of Previous Scene | 9 |
92 | Control Cue | On Line:Principal:"…Settle down now" | 9 |
93 | Mic Feedback | On Visual Clue by Chucky | 9 |
140 | Scene transition | end of previous scene | 9 |
141 | Control Cue | top of scene | 14 |
180 | Into Akeelah’s Bedroom | End of Previous Scene | 18 |
181 | Dylan | Top of Scene | 18 |
210 | Intermission | At Point of Tech Note in Script Akeelah Turns Spelling Bee Up Louder | 21 |
211 | Into Dr. Larabee’s | End of Previous Scene | 21 |
212 | Control Cue | Top of Scene | 21 |
220 | Control Cue | On Line: Larabee: “Why isn’t your father still teaching you?” | 22 |
240 | Radio DJ Segment 1 | After Line:Akeelah:“case you didn’t know!” | 24 |
250 | Control Cue | Before Line: “Now you know you have no business still being up?” | 25 |
260 | Into District Spelling Bee | End of Previous Scene | 26 |
261 | Into District Spelling Bee B | Top of Scene | 26 |
270 | Intercon Alert | After Line:Akeelah:“Akeelah Anderson” | 27 |
271 | Baby | After Line:Javier:“like it sounds” | 27 |
272 | Intercon Alert | After Line:Reggie:“some stank-stank on it” | 27 |
273 | Baby | After Line:Judge:“Bee in Washington DC” | 27 |
301 | Time Passing Music | After Line:Pronouncer:“is abseil” | 30 |
302 | Control Cue | On Line:Pronouncer:“Number 1-0-8” | 30 |
300 | Baby | After Line:Akeelah:“me a definition please” | 30 |
310 | The Bell | After Line:Akeelah:“Synecdoche” | 31 |
350 | Later at 709 | End of Previous Scene | 35 |
351 | Control Cue | Top of Scene | 35 |
370 | Javier' Birthday Party | End of Previous Scene | 37 |
380 | Control Cue | top of scene | 38 |
440 | Post Party | End of Previous Scene | 44 |
450 | Control Cue on Post Party | Top of Scene At 709-Much Later | 45 |
451 | Control Cue | Top of Scene-Gangway Akeelah and Georgia | 45 |
480 | Into Larabee’s Gate | End of Previous Scene | 48 |
490 | Control Cue | top of scene | 49 |
500 | Into Larabee’s Study | End of Previous Scene | 50 |
501 | Control Cue | top of scene | 50 |
540 | Beat before Intermission | Visual Cue: Akeelah Pulls out Permisson Form | 54 |
541 | End of Act 1 | 54 | |
550 | Into Larabee’s Study | Beat before top of Act 2 | 55 |
551 | Control Cue | top of scene | 55 |
580 | Dog Bark | On Line:Akeelah:“E-F-uh” | 58 |
620 | Into At 709 Year/Atmosphere (Good) | End of Previous Scene | 62 |
621 | Control Cue | top of scene | 62 |
630 | Drunk Willie’s Radio | Visual Cue: Drunk Willie Turns Radio On | 63 |
631 | Control Cue | Dancing Starts | 63 |
632 | Control Cue | Before Line: You should’ve seen me and your daddy | 63 |
640 | Transition | End of Previous Scene | 64 |
641 | Control Cue | Top of Scene | 64 |
670 | Winter Transition | End of Previous Scene | 67 |
671 | Control Cue | top of scene | 67 |
680 | Radio DJ Segment 2 | After Line:Ruth:“so we can hear” | 68 |
700 | Into State Bee Auditorium | End of Previous scene | 70 |
701 | Start of State Bee | Beat after scene transition but before top of scene | 70 |
710 | The Bell | After Line:Air-Spelller:“Jacquard” | 71 |
711 | The Bell | After Line:Trish:“Pusillanimous!” | 71 |
760 | Into 709 Yard/ | End of Previous Scene | 76 |
761 | Control Cue | top of scene | 76 |
770 | Transition | End of Previous Scene | 77 |
771 | Control Cue | Top of Scene | 77 |
790 | Akeelah and Her Mom | End of Previous Scene | 79 |
791 | Control Cue | top of scene | 79 |
820 | Gunshots | After Line: No Mama…you don’t understand… | 82 |
840 | Into Porch Rail/709 Yard/Atmosphere (Good) | End of Previous Scene | 84 |
841 | Control Cue | top of scene | 84 |
860 | Time Passing Music | Gail turns around | 86 |
870 | Control Cue | Before Line: Georgia:“Teaching done really gone to her head” | 87 |
920 | Dance | On Line:Willie:“Aw, Baby” | 92 |
921 | Control Cue | End Of Scene | 92 |
922 | Control Cue | Top Of Scene | 92 |
930 | Into National Spelling Bee | End of Previous Scene | 93 |
931 | Nation Spelling Bee B | Top of Scene | 93 |
940 | Control Cue | 6 Count After Top of Scene | 94 |
970 | Time Passing Music | Visual Cue: Gail Turns Around | 97 |
971 | control cue | 97 | |
990 | The Bell | After Line:Horse:“Apterygote” | 99 |
991 | The Bell | After Line:Javier:“Mithridatism!” | 99 |
1010 | Intercon Alert | After Line:Akeelah:“Dylan?” | 101 |
1020 | The Bell | After Line:Akeelah:“Xanthosis” | 102 |
1021 | The Bell | After Line:Dylan:“Xanthosis” | 102 |
1030 | Time Passing Music | On Line: “Your word, young lady is “Effleurage”” | 103 |
1040 | Control Cue | After Line: Pronouncer: “That is correct” | 104 |
1060 | Celebration | On Line:" cowinners of the 2015" | 106 |
1061 | Curtain Call/House Exit | End of Show | N/A |
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