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Quote micbarry Replybullet Posted: 8/24/12 at 2:43am
I really need to break that habit, so your note is absolutely welcome - thank you! :)

I agree that I shouldn't try to change anything based on what she said. What I meant was that even if I wanted to, I'm not sure if I could; it didn't really make sense to me as something I could change.

On the other hand, a suggestion like, 'be more conscious of what your hands are doing' is something you can get on with.

A suggestion like, 'try to make sure your body is doing the same thing as what you're saying' isn't really a statement I know what to do with - even if I wanted to. It's not really specific enough.

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Quote jayzehr Replybullet Posted: 8/24/12 at 2:54pm
I talked about this a lot on my last show.

When trying to get control of this as an actor way back when I vividly remember looking down once on stage and seeing my arm moving seemingly independent of any conscious thought.
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Quote Thudster Replybullet Posted: 8/24/12 at 5:41pm
Originally posted by jayzehr


I talked about this a lot on my last show.When trying to get control of this as an actor way back when I vividly remember looking down once on stage and seeing my arm moving seemingly independent of any conscious thought.


I sang a solo last year for the first time (only took 50 years to get to it) and I watched my daughter's video of a rehearsal. The entire time I'm singing, I'm opening and closing my hand like a crab. I don't know if I was keeping time or what, but I was completely unaware of doing it.
"Hey look! That's my dad up there whacking himself with silverware!"
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Quote micbarry Replybullet Posted: 8/25/12 at 11:02am
Just got home - the show has wrapped!!!

We had a matinee and a night show for our closing day. I felt that both performances were very strong - especially the final! There was this feeling of 'this is the very last time I will speak these words with this cast - go for it!' and I wasn't really nervous at all - very excited and buzzed, but not nervous. As a result, things flowed beautifully.

I'm sad that this is over. I'll never forget it - wow!
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Quote Majicwrench Replybullet Posted: 8/27/12 at 5:03pm
There is ALWAYS another show.
 
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Quote Rorgg Replybullet Posted: 8/28/12 at 9:50am
I used to play online role-playing games.  Then I did a show.  And at the end, it was such a downer that within a month, I went on another audition.  Didn't get it.  So, a month later, I did another one.  I got that, so I cancelled my account, explaining to my online friends that I'd be back when I was done with the acting thing.
 
That was four years and twenty-seven shows ago.
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Quote jayzehr Replybullet Posted: 8/28/12 at 3:11pm
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That was four years and twenty-seven shows ago.


Were those all with one theater group?

(And sorry if I've asked you this before. Fuzzy brain :) )
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Quote Rorgg Replybullet Posted: 8/30/12 at 9:46pm
Oh, mercy no.  Just got cast in my 28th show, that's with 17 different companies, the most with any one group is 3 times.  There's a lot of theatre within an hour's drive of home, but really nothing actually IN my hometown, so the difference between a 20 minute (the closest) and a 45 minute drive is pretty minimal, so I cast a wide net and cherry pick the parts and/or plays that I really want to do, and they tend to be spread out.
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Quote micbarry Replybullet Posted: 9/01/12 at 4:32am
28 different shows! That's amazing! :)

Can you tell me: do certain aspects of acting get easier the more experience you gain when you compare what you're like now with your first efforts? If so, which ones?

I went to another play last night and really paid attention to what the actors were doing. It was a non-professional show (ie. cast and crew not paid for their work). It was opening night.

This wasn't easy as there were up to eight actors on stage at once, so it was hard keeping track of them all, but in this 2 hour production with no intermission - and with a newly written script to boot - I didn't detect any hesitation at all in their delivery of dialog. No one tripped over their words or hesitated with their next line at all - or so it seemed to me.

In my show, even the actor with 20+ years experience tripped over his words at least once.

Even in regular conversation I can stutter occasionally - we all do.

But in last night's show, no-one seemed to miss a beat. I don't get it. How can they be that cold in their delivery on opening night? Or maybe if I was following along with the script in my hands in would have been a different story?

I've read plenty about famous actors going up on lines or stumbling even on Broadway. So...what gives?

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Quote jayzehr Replybullet Posted: 9/02/12 at 4:59pm
Originally posted by micbarry


I've read plenty about famous actors going up on lines or stumbling even on Broadway. So...what gives?


It's live performance so of course there are going to be mistakes sometimes.  But there are also no doubt many, many performances on Broadway where no one makes a noticeable mistake at all.

If everyone has done their work and is prepared and you've had enough rehearsal it isn't uncommon for a performance to appear as if no one "missed a beat," even on opening night, even in community theater.. Of course, nothing is ever perfect but it's not always something big enough for the audience to notice. Everyone just has to buckle down and get their lines memorized well enough so that there isn't a lot of "hesitation," "bailing out", and "covering" going on.




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