Tonight, I took, what might be the biggest leap of faith yet. I submitted a video for the Off-Broadway production of RENT auditions.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uniFcO1Rv7Q
Now, I'm going away for a week-so what I need all of you wonderful people to do is go to: www.siteforrent.com and wait for them to post videos of whatever they're going to do, and then go VOTE for me!
If I get enough votes-I get to go to the audition!
Now, you may ask, why can't I just go to the open call and skip all of this voting nonsense? The answer: I'm going to be away while the audition is taking place (unfortunately). So this was the next best thing.
So go, vote for me, help me get this audition :).
My sincere thanks to you all if you go vote, and if I get the audition, you all get a hug! :D
Until next time...
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Connecting with the character
Sorry I haven't been around for a few days-rehearsal and babysitting are eating my time like woah.
Anyway...on with the show!!!
Let's do this slowly because a lot happened this weekend, and I don't want to forget any of it, otherwise one part of the story won't make sense to the other part.
So over the weekend, I was in the city for a friend's birthday party. After the party was over, I cabbed down to where La Cage Aux Folles is currently playing. Harvey Fierstein is in it right now, and if you've been paying attention-he's one of my heros.
I didn't get there in time to SEE the show, so I stagedoored it and waited for him to come outside. Now, he wasn't the only reason I decided to do this. Currently, a friend of mine is in the show as well, and I wanted to see him too.
When they came out, I said hi to Harvey (nothing like hearing my hero's voice live in front of me, talking to me and other people. This made me smile SO huge!), and grabbed my friend. While we walked, he was giving me some theatrical advice (Never, ever turn down advice, wisdom, or otherwise when it comes to the craft!).
Here's basically what he told me:
1) enjoy the journey
2) Own every moment you're in onstage
3)don't take lessons just so you can perform them. Take what you enjoy, and learn what you enjoy.
We said goodbye since he had to go home, but he had defenitly planted those seeds in my head that I took to rehearsal the following day.
Now here's where the story makes sense. I'm sitting with my script in rehearsal, and I can still feel the wall between myself, and my character. Since this is only the third rehearsal, this doesn't scare me as much as it bothers me.
I did my character development for her, to make her more real to me. I delivered the information to the rest of the cast, as we were told to, in the first person, telling the character's autobiography. But yet, I still find myself struggling slightly to connect with her.
While I was in school for theatre, we lived by the way of Stanislavski, and basically his take on it is: if you can't connect to a character for the exact situation that they're in, find a situation that's similiar in your past, and connect to the character in that way.
In my life, the only time I've really had to take on the type of role that my character has, is when I'm cleaning and stuff around the house-but when I do it at home, these are things that just need to get done, not because I'm getting paid for it.
I had this problem when I was in Charlotte's Web, too. It took me a few rehearsals to really get into and connect with the character.
The good thing about Maria, though (the one I'm playing now), is that I was able to make her closer to my age and give her this entire real backstory. Where as with Wilbur, he starts the show as a baby with no backstory whatsoever. So when I did my character development for him, I had to go from mid-show and work my way through the rest of his life.
With this, I'm able to do the character's entire past.
I may actually sit down and re-examine what I did with her, and maybe give her a better backstory to help myself connect more to her. I'll also be rehearsing lines in the next few days before the next rehearsal as well.
Whatever I do, I need to make sure I'm at least somewhat connected to this character by my next rehearsal on Monday, or learning my lines will be a bit difficult.
Until next time....
Anyway...on with the show!!!
Let's do this slowly because a lot happened this weekend, and I don't want to forget any of it, otherwise one part of the story won't make sense to the other part.
So over the weekend, I was in the city for a friend's birthday party. After the party was over, I cabbed down to where La Cage Aux Folles is currently playing. Harvey Fierstein is in it right now, and if you've been paying attention-he's one of my heros.
I didn't get there in time to SEE the show, so I stagedoored it and waited for him to come outside. Now, he wasn't the only reason I decided to do this. Currently, a friend of mine is in the show as well, and I wanted to see him too.
When they came out, I said hi to Harvey (nothing like hearing my hero's voice live in front of me, talking to me and other people. This made me smile SO huge!), and grabbed my friend. While we walked, he was giving me some theatrical advice (Never, ever turn down advice, wisdom, or otherwise when it comes to the craft!).
Here's basically what he told me:
1) enjoy the journey
2) Own every moment you're in onstage
3)don't take lessons just so you can perform them. Take what you enjoy, and learn what you enjoy.
We said goodbye since he had to go home, but he had defenitly planted those seeds in my head that I took to rehearsal the following day.
Now here's where the story makes sense. I'm sitting with my script in rehearsal, and I can still feel the wall between myself, and my character. Since this is only the third rehearsal, this doesn't scare me as much as it bothers me.
I did my character development for her, to make her more real to me. I delivered the information to the rest of the cast, as we were told to, in the first person, telling the character's autobiography. But yet, I still find myself struggling slightly to connect with her.
While I was in school for theatre, we lived by the way of Stanislavski, and basically his take on it is: if you can't connect to a character for the exact situation that they're in, find a situation that's similiar in your past, and connect to the character in that way.
In my life, the only time I've really had to take on the type of role that my character has, is when I'm cleaning and stuff around the house-but when I do it at home, these are things that just need to get done, not because I'm getting paid for it.
I had this problem when I was in Charlotte's Web, too. It took me a few rehearsals to really get into and connect with the character.
The good thing about Maria, though (the one I'm playing now), is that I was able to make her closer to my age and give her this entire real backstory. Where as with Wilbur, he starts the show as a baby with no backstory whatsoever. So when I did my character development for him, I had to go from mid-show and work my way through the rest of his life.
With this, I'm able to do the character's entire past.
I may actually sit down and re-examine what I did with her, and maybe give her a better backstory to help myself connect more to her. I'll also be rehearsing lines in the next few days before the next rehearsal as well.
Whatever I do, I need to make sure I'm at least somewhat connected to this character by my next rehearsal on Monday, or learning my lines will be a bit difficult.
Until next time....
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