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[entelein]

Rehearsal 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?

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[mutantur.livejournal.com]

I felt kind of embarassed that I didn't remember some of my lines, but my life's been so hectic and confusing lately that I just haven't had time to keep up on the script. The lines are so scattered and mostly incidental, anyhow...god, I wish certain people would learn how to adlib and actually react. It wouldn't matter so much if they didn't take those one/two word lines as solemn law. Bah.

Anyhow, enjoying the Brakitude, I hope?

"Throw in the JELLY!"

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I have not listened to the Brak CD yet! I was hoping to today at work, but now I have to cover for my co worker at the front desk, so I am screwed on really being able to listen to anything.

And I don't mean to be contrary, but I hate when people ad lib. Those lines are fine the way they are, and people could memorize by rote and fire them off - they just need to think about what they are [i]doing[/i] from moment-to-moment, you know? That scene needs to go a million times faster, and there were a few actors that I wanted to shake because they wanted to spend their time in the light preening with their 'funny' lines. I think that's the only scene I even have lines in, but I can't see myself spending more time than is absolutely necessary on them.

Gah, sorry, just ranting. It was such a change from the other night, and I think it threw me. I know we're also getting used to having the whole stage now, as opposed to a small conference room in a retirement home.

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