Windsor Ensemble

The Windsor Ensemble will be more of he middle class families that the Pages invite to their house for the opening scene party in honor of Falstaff.  They typify the middle class values that both the Pages and Fords honor throughout.

The women are strong, independent and responsible; their servants are trustworthy and loyal; the men work hard and are the leaders of their household.  They are religious but not devout.  They are wise but not educated.  They are trustful but superstitious.  They like to work hard and play hard.  The children will be discussed at length in their own entry.  These folks raise their children to be honest, strong and loyal.  They are not afraid to discipline their children, or have their servants do it.

The women cast will all be mothers; the teen girls will have a choice to be either servants or friends of Anne Page.  Each will have different business.  They will be used in the first scene of the show for the opening prologue "dance".  They may also be in at the end.

Costume Notes:
--Mothers should model themselves after Meg Page and Alice Ford
--Teen girls should model themselves after Anne Page
--Servants should model themselves after Rugby

Prologue Dance Notes:
--32 counts of entry and greeting
--16 counts of kids running through, and disrupting things
--16 counts of chasing kids & bringing them down stage
--32 counts of punishing kids
--16 counts of teen girls entering
--16 counts of Fenton entering
--32 counts of Fenton/Anne/Girls dance
--32 counts of Blind Man's Bluff with Alice--Meg & Men enter at 24
--16 counts of Ford and Alice
--16 counts Page throws Fenton out/girls regroup
--16 counts of Robin showing her knife to the boys/Falstaff flirting/Bardolph drinking/Pistol and Nym thieving
--16 counts of Meg bringing Dr. Caius in
--32 counts of Anne and Dr. Caius "courtship"
--32 counts of exit into the house