Lining Up

[plumtreeblossom]

Rehearsal was big fun last night. *slaps the booties of kalliejenn2 and mangosteen.* Also, beowabbit got to sit in and watch part of it.

I have a very easy role to memorize this time. I have 30 lines, but most of them are like "Hi!" or "What?" The longest is about 7 words. I'll be off-book by my next rehearsal. It's going to be a blast.

Some roles have been doozies to memorize, though I actually managed every time. Of all the Theatre@First mainstage and non-mainstage productions I've been in, the memorization challenges from hardest to easiest were thus:

1) Murder In The Cathedral (can I hear a Chorus of AAAARRRG?)
2) Philip Glass Buys A Loaf of Bread (a difficult word-fuge quartet play, but we nailed it because we rock)
3) Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare...you know how it is)
4) You Can't Take It With You (should have been easier, but I was going through a stage-fright phase)
5) Cabaret 2005 (two solo songs, not too hard)
6) Cabfare For The Common Man (officially easy)
7) Cabaret 2006 (just a non-singing Elphaba and "Seasons of Love")
8) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (no lines, just blocking)


If I counted plays/shows before T@F, I'd need to include all the one-woman shows I did (I can't believe I memorized all that, but then, I wrote it); as well as Othello (Emilia); all the blocking and dancing for musicals like Pippin, Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Godspell etc. The performance art was easy, as you might guess.

I pretty much got off-book on my bus ride this morning. Very excited for this one-act festival, I am. :-)

Comments

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Sheez, everybody's all off-book already, or just about? (NZ's play too, I hear.) Well, there's only two actors in my show. As long as Scripted hasn't left us in the dust I won't panic.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

I heard Scripted is off book in both English and French. And they're already performing the show backwards with their eyes closed.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

well.. well... um...

my actors are the hottest! so there.

[gilana]

Hey! I resent that! Christian is pretty hot!

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

Lack of air conditioning getting to them?

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

i hate you.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha

[gilana]

And in high heels. Good thing my co-star has nice legs.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

hell, i'm not off book, and i have a grand total of maybe 15 lines.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

yeah, but you're smokin' hot too, so that's okay.
the people who've memorized their lines, you see, they're not hot. they're cool. SUPER cool.

...wait...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You have way more than that. You're onstage the whole time!

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

yeah, but i don't talk a whole lot, just move around and do stuff. ok, i lied, i have about 29 lines.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

most are one or two words, though.

"yeah"

"where ya headed?"

etc.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

and i think you're supposed to say whole like "whoooollllllllllle time," and shake your lip while you do it (like dad!)

[desireearmfeldt]

We are hoping to be off-book for our next rehearsal (Monday).

Ours is perhaps the only play that has a built-in test of off-book-ness: since it involves flinging a script around, when we rehearse off-book, they eventually end up off-book by accident. And, I think we've nearly shredded both their scripts at this point... :)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Bah!

Well, it ain't my actors' fault, in any case: I think yesterday's rehearsal was the first time we even went through the second half of the play. I work in bits & pieces in the beginning. :-P