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]

i hate you.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha