congrats to your success in the finals, Ally.
Well, and here you are playing a woman much older already
but you did it really well. You play the Princess actually a bit happier than I imagined her, but this makes all the scenes less gloomy than expected, which is a good thing.
The bitter-sweetness still remains but it's not so sharp and stinging. Lovely portrait.
I did find a few missed lines though, so you are not yet done...here are my PL notes.
Act 1:
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volume is too low (only 81 dB) you could
amplify the whole with +8
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at about 1:56: (p. 12) please insert: [giving a little cry of pleasure] "
Ah --!"
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at about 10:52: (p. 45) please insert: "
Ah ! Blanche dear--!"
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at 11:21: (p. 48) "what do you remember of the
occasion" - I hear "
oration"
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at about 18:20: (p. 68) please insert: "
No, I don't know."
Act 2:
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volume is too low (only 84 dB) you could
amplify the whole with +5
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at about 0:01: (p. 94) please insert: "
Yes."
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at 0:43-0:46: (p. 102) between "perhaps sooner" and "Madame de Trémorel" - you can
cut the lengthy pause here, as it's within the same speech
Act 3:
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at about 14:49: (p. 174) please insert: "
Victor !"
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at 15:31-15:33: (p. 176) between "from your memory altogether" and "farewell" -
pause can be cut, same speech again
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at 16:34: (p. 178) "you have never seen
my nest" - you say "
any nest", which sounds a bit strange in context
Act 4:
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at 8:17: (p. 244) you forgot the final and all-important sentence: "
Love is ever young !"
Another note, for future dramatic readings, but which you do not have to correct this time: please be careful
when stage directions are inside your speeches, also there you have to leave at least 2-3 seconds of silence for our editor to make accurate cuts. You leave enough between your speeches, when other people start talking, but you always forgot the long pauses when there were stage directions inside your own speech.
As I said, no need to go and put in long pauses now, Todd can deal with it for this time, the editor's job is hard enough, it would be helpful to consider it for future recordings.
Thanks
Sonia