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Sep. 1st, 2004 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enteleinRehearsal from the other night was really actually very good. Rah rah speech at the beginning, lots of energy - nearly the whole cast was there. We learned music, we staged a fairly large establishing scene, and I got a bunch of my range back just from singing with lots of support. I haven't really sung since the end of June, see.
Tonight, rehearsal felt clumsy and bad. It was frustrating to hear actors flub lines we've been rehearsing since July - the same 30 pages of material, dead slow and tired-sounding. I tried to enter with purpose, and I put extra vim and vigor into the edges of every intention, but it fell into this weird abyss of actor kludginess. It was a smaller subset of us - the President's cronies and the wives, and instead of efficiency because of a smaller, tighter ensemble, people just seemed to get lazy.
This dialogue is sharp and fast and very very 1930's. A lot of short, decisive statements, a lot of lines that start out, "Say, ..." It's goofy and patter-riffic, and we added clumps of molasses and rocks to it until we couldn't move.
I left feeling annoyed and down. The same 30 pages we've been rehearsing since July. What the hell?
Tonight, rehearsal felt clumsy and bad. It was frustrating to hear actors flub lines we've been rehearsing since July - the same 30 pages of material, dead slow and tired-sounding. I tried to enter with purpose, and I put extra vim and vigor into the edges of every intention, but it fell into this weird abyss of actor kludginess. It was a smaller subset of us - the President's cronies and the wives, and instead of efficiency because of a smaller, tighter ensemble, people just seemed to get lazy.
This dialogue is sharp and fast and very very 1930's. A lot of short, decisive statements, a lot of lines that start out, "Say, ..." It's goofy and patter-riffic, and we added clumps of molasses and rocks to it until we couldn't move.
I left feeling annoyed and down. The same 30 pages we've been rehearsing since July. What the hell?
