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Someone Else's Voice
May. 15th, 2006 04:55 pmSo glad to have my normal speaking voice back. If it was going to blow out, I wish it could have happened any time other than during the play's run. It was sheer coincedence that with this particular character I could integrate the husky, deep rasp for a Natasha-type effect. But if that had been Mistress Quickly, Philip Glass' Ex, or basically any other character I've ever played, it would have been catastrophic.
Offstage, I found that with a voice other than my own, a lot of things just weren't worth saying. When you sound like a talking Rottweiler, you measure the value of what you're about to say more carefully. Or at least I did. I don't think I could ever be a woman of few words, but I had to be a woman of least-words-possible for a few days and I didn't like it. Yet it reminded me that economy of words does have a certain value off-paper. Just not a value I'm particularly into.
I miss you guys so damn much. But I have a dinner date at Chez Henri in an hour, so at least I won't be going home to the Monday void where the rehearsals were. See some of you at auditions this week, and for those who won't be there, lurve you anyway!
Offstage, I found that with a voice other than my own, a lot of things just weren't worth saying. When you sound like a talking Rottweiler, you measure the value of what you're about to say more carefully. Or at least I did. I don't think I could ever be a woman of few words, but I had to be a woman of least-words-possible for a few days and I didn't like it. Yet it reminded me that economy of words does have a certain value off-paper. Just not a value I'm particularly into.
I miss you guys so damn much. But I have a dinner date at Chez Henri in an hour, so at least I won't be going home to the Monday void where the rehearsals were. See some of you at auditions this week, and for those who won't be there, lurve you anyway!