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On The Stage
Mar. 6th, 2008 11:11 pmRehearsal tonight. Final one before our three dress rehearsals. And I finally got my lines to work in the final scene!
I've been having so much trouble with the blasted thing - every other scene was working perfectly, and as soon as we hit the final scene, my dialogue was awkward and stupid and completely out of character.
Then, tonight, I was running through it with Michael (pseudo boyfriend) beforehand, and he suggested, "why don't you put a pause in the middle of that line?"
!!!!!
Perfect!
And in the vast majority of lines I have, I do pause in the middle. It's very Anna-ish. But for some reason it hadn't occurred to me to pause in this last set of lines. And the moment I did, the whole thing just worked! Perfectly! It was like a miracle!
One week to go, now. And as long as I can remember my ridiculously complicated list of women from the newspaper (some lines - don't ask), I'll be fine.
I've been having so much trouble with the blasted thing - every other scene was working perfectly, and as soon as we hit the final scene, my dialogue was awkward and stupid and completely out of character.
Then, tonight, I was running through it with Michael (pseudo boyfriend) beforehand, and he suggested, "why don't you put a pause in the middle of that line?"
!!!!!
Perfect!
And in the vast majority of lines I have, I do pause in the middle. It's very Anna-ish. But for some reason it hadn't occurred to me to pause in this last set of lines. And the moment I did, the whole thing just worked! Perfectly! It was like a miracle!
One week to go, now. And as long as I can remember my ridiculously complicated list of women from the newspaper (some lines - don't ask), I'll be fine.
