Garter Ensemble

The Garter Inn is a multi-purpose facility.  It is the town bar, restaurant, hotel, entertainment hot spot and brothel.  The women that work there have any number of jobs that relate to one or all of the Inn's many functions.  They serve the men and women of Windsor and do so admirably and with good intent.

They will have 2 "dances" in the production.  One that will set up the Garter Inn and what it is, who they are and what the do there.  The second dance will further the plot of the German Duke business.



Costume Notes:

--pantaloons and wide-strap cami top or buttoned loose blouse or scoop peasant top; corsets, boots

--petticoats and wide strap cami top or buttoned loose blouse or scoop peasant top; corsets, boots

--Dance Hall Girl dress, boots

 

Dance Notes:

First Garter Dance--Whiskey and Rye
16 counts--Bring in furniture
16 counts--Fenton enters
16 counts--Bardolph, Pistol and Nym enters
16 counts--Bartender running ragged
16 counts--Hostess enters
16 counts--Girls to her
32 counts--dance
32 counts--dance
16 counts--Girls back to men, bartender in with suitcase
16 counts--Falstaff enters

Second Garter Dance--???
16 counts--Falstaff runs through/bring in furniture
16 counts--Hostess enters and line up
32 counts--dance
16 counts--Dr. Caius enters & repeat dance
16 counts--Sir Hugh Evans enters
32 counts--German Dukes enter--Caius and Evans inspect, pay, and leave
16 counts--Girls dance with German Dukes; Hostess gets Bardolph
16 counts--Bardolph gets orders/Girls show Dukes the horses off stage