7:30 am - Wake Up, Take Shower
8:00 am - Leave House, Drop off cousin at school, Drop off AAA bill, go to school
9:00 am - Arrive at school, Go to Student Center, Eat breakfast
10:00 am - Cup Stack, Play Piano, Sing, Cube
11:20 am - Arrive in TV / Film Acting class, shoot generic monologues
12:40 pm - TV/Film over, Walk to Theatre Acting class
1:00 pm - Pick new monologue, Cold Reading, Perform Physicality of Monologue
3:00 pm - Theatre Acting over, walk to Student Center, Buy / Eat Lunch
3:50 pm - Sing 4 chords with Sierra
4:00 pm - Walk to Theatre History class in Music Hall
5:20 pm - Theatre History over, walk to Theatre, Surf Net in Green Room
6:00 pm - First Costume Fitting for Shrew
6:30 pm - Run "Play-Within-Play" 2x, Run final scene 1x
7:00 pm - Run Act 2 from beginning, Realize have 90% of Act 2 lines memorized
8:30 pm - Dr. John Gives Notes
9:00 pm - Go home with Maria
9:15 pm - Arrive Home, Eat Dinner, Watch latest elimination on American Idol w/ Mom
11:00 pm - Go upstairs to bed (and blog for at least an hour)
Yes, that's four classes in one day. Yes, I'm insane. I'm a theatre major, I have to be insane. Lol.
So needless to say, I had a very busy day, and a lot happened. The original title for this blog post was going to be "Monologues, Costume Fittings, and Memorization" so in that order:
1. Monologues
In Julie James' theatre acting class, we've begun working on monologues; always a good thing. One can never have enough of those under one's belt. The last time I auditioned with a monologue was for Taming of the Shrew, and I used Jane Eyre's rebuttal to Rochester's proposal for my audition. Dr. John's initial reaction to it was that it was, "a very intelligent reading", so needless to say, that pleased me. I'd actually picked that one myself, and prepared it last semester for my TV/Film Acting class. I liked my performance much better on the stage. Anyway, so to contrast with my Jane Eyre piece, which is a Dramatic Classical piece, I asked Julie if she would help me find a Comedic Contemporary to contrast with it.
She actually did look for me, and on Tuesday suggested a rather funny piece by a character called "Zatz" from a play I'm unfamiliar with. It was funny, but it didn't seem quite right, and K.C. is going to use it, so I kept looking. (Not to mention it's really long... like 3 pages long... like 10 minutes long. K.C.'s going to cut a lot of it, she said.) So I kept looking, and found one I really liked, from a play called, "Tomorrow's Wish" by Wade Bradford. [Click here to see the monologue.] I liked it a lot, and actually, I did a cold reading of it on Tuesday and had a pretty good reaction.
But then I found this... [Click here to see the monologue.] To avoid giving away the shock value if you don't want spoilers, I'll just call it the "Jenni" monologue. I read it and got this amazing reaction from the class. They couldn't stop laughing. Actually, even I had a lot of difficulty keeping a straight face, which is necessary for this monologue. I did it later for my mom, and she said she thought it was "cute," which I think is a good comment from her, but I'm not entirely sure because the monologue isn't really supposed to be "cute".
2. Costume Fittings
We had fittings for Shrew today. I play Grumio, so I'm one of I think three girls playing guys in this show. (The others are Talia playing Gremio - have fun not mixing up our names - and Peanut playing Christophero Shrewd in the play-within-a-play bit we've incorporated into Lucentio and Bianca's wedding reception.)
To sum it up, this is what I posted on my facebook when I got online:
3. Memorization
And finally, (YAY!) memorization. I have so much to memorize in the upcoming two weeks: We're running the second half of Act 1 of Shrew on Monday, off book, I have to memorize my part in an extra-credit sitcom I'm participating in for Teresa Widdowson's TV Production class, a scene for Julie's TV/Film Class, my monologue for Theatre Acting class, and Act 2 by what sounded like Wednesday or Thursday next week... EEK!
On the upside, I decided to try Act 2 off-book today when we ran it, and I did pretty well, actually. I only hesitated twice, and when I checked off of Spencer's script to see what my lines were, I found I'd actually been correct in what lines I thought were next. So on the upside, hooray! for 90% memorization of my lines, and it's still a month 'til performances. I'm so excited. =D
So needless to say, I had a very busy day, and a lot happened. The original title for this blog post was going to be "Monologues, Costume Fittings, and Memorization" so in that order:
1. Monologues
In Julie James' theatre acting class, we've begun working on monologues; always a good thing. One can never have enough of those under one's belt. The last time I auditioned with a monologue was for Taming of the Shrew, and I used Jane Eyre's rebuttal to Rochester's proposal for my audition. Dr. John's initial reaction to it was that it was, "a very intelligent reading", so needless to say, that pleased me. I'd actually picked that one myself, and prepared it last semester for my TV/Film Acting class. I liked my performance much better on the stage. Anyway, so to contrast with my Jane Eyre piece, which is a Dramatic Classical piece, I asked Julie if she would help me find a Comedic Contemporary to contrast with it.
She actually did look for me, and on Tuesday suggested a rather funny piece by a character called "Zatz" from a play I'm unfamiliar with. It was funny, but it didn't seem quite right, and K.C. is going to use it, so I kept looking. (Not to mention it's really long... like 3 pages long... like 10 minutes long. K.C.'s going to cut a lot of it, she said.) So I kept looking, and found one I really liked, from a play called, "Tomorrow's Wish" by Wade Bradford. [Click here to see the monologue.] I liked it a lot, and actually, I did a cold reading of it on Tuesday and had a pretty good reaction.
But then I found this... [Click here to see the monologue.] To avoid giving away the shock value if you don't want spoilers, I'll just call it the "Jenni" monologue. I read it and got this amazing reaction from the class. They couldn't stop laughing. Actually, even I had a lot of difficulty keeping a straight face, which is necessary for this monologue. I did it later for my mom, and she said she thought it was "cute," which I think is a good comment from her, but I'm not entirely sure because the monologue isn't really supposed to be "cute".
2. Costume Fittings
We had fittings for Shrew today. I play Grumio, so I'm one of I think three girls playing guys in this show. (The others are Talia playing Gremio - have fun not mixing up our names - and Peanut playing Christophero Shrewd in the play-within-a-play bit we've incorporated into Lucentio and Bianca's wedding reception.)
To sum it up, this is what I posted on my facebook when I got online:
Costume fittings today... Went something along the lines of:It's going to be awesome! =D (Oh, and the "Elphie-boots" referred to are the pair of boots I own that I also used when I sang "The Wizard and I" as Elphaba in the Cabaret.)
1. Walk in, introductions. Get handed a shirt and "hoe-melons" (or something like that... that's what it sounded like Dr. John said, anyway...)
2. Shirt is a wee bit small, shorts (the HMs) are a bit large.
3. Shorts pinned. Try on new shirt, HUMONGOUS...
4. Try on old shirt, short in the arms, very short in the length, shows curves.
5. Try on new shirt, still wee bit big, but sleeves rolled up works.
6. Try on 3 different vests, biggest one sort of fits, curves still showing. Roxy decides doublet will be created for me.
7. Am told will be wearing my "Elphie-boots" and a funny cap w/feather...
RESULTS: Apparently there will be two men in this play wearing tights. One of them is me. xP
3. Memorization
And finally, (YAY!) memorization. I have so much to memorize in the upcoming two weeks: We're running the second half of Act 1 of Shrew on Monday, off book, I have to memorize my part in an extra-credit sitcom I'm participating in for Teresa Widdowson's TV Production class, a scene for Julie's TV/Film Class, my monologue for Theatre Acting class, and Act 2 by what sounded like Wednesday or Thursday next week... EEK!
On the upside, I decided to try Act 2 off-book today when we ran it, and I did pretty well, actually. I only hesitated twice, and when I checked off of Spencer's script to see what my lines were, I found I'd actually been correct in what lines I thought were next. So on the upside, hooray! for 90% memorization of my lines, and it's still a month 'til performances. I'm so excited. =D
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