Making Up Lines

[deird_lj]

Had rehearsals last night.

The scene I'm in is one long party sequence. And yes, I have many lines, but I have even more time standing around in the background murmuring to people in vague having-a-conversation tones.

After a while, you run out of stuff to say to each other. Some people have been just saying what they're saying ("Pretty dress, pretty dress." "Ooh! Admire, admire, show off my dress." "Admire."), which is hilarious to listen to.
And last night my conversation partner and I got sick of that, and started reciting nursery rhymes to each other. There's something extremely entertaining about saying "Incy-wincy spider climbed up the waterspout" in very serious tones, while fluttering a fan and trying to look beautiful...

Comments

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

It almost sounds like you've become a Sim. *chuckle*

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Haha. I remember dong scenes like that when I was in Fiddler On the Roof. We had this crazy dream sequence that the director wanted to be really out there, so we'd dig through the weird props back stage come out with a different joke every time. We were supposed to be murmuring unintelligibly the whole time, so we'd just tried to come up with weirder and weirder stuff to do.

[riccadonna.livejournal.com]

That reminded me of a nice thing from my past, too long to tell and not so interesting, but thank you because it was sweet for me.
Coincidence: today I was on massive ironing duty, and I watched/listened the last three episodes of S4, which included the image in your icon!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity - is "incy-wincy spider" an Aussie version? I've always been told it's "itsy bitsy spider" in English, and it always seemed wrong to me given the version I learned as a kid... I definitely like yours better.

Which is an odd remark. I've had schnapps beer.

ETA: the whole party scene thing sounds like lots of fun though. On a scale from 1 to 10, what's the temptation to say something really inappropriate in a perfectly normal tone of voice and see how the others react?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

I like hearing about your plays - for some reason, I love the idea of acting, even though I never did it after theatre camp as a kid.

(Although I did sets in high school, so that may be it. I dunno.)

Rhubarb

[1c2k3p4p5c.livejournal.com]

When I was doing drama I was told that crowds always said "rhubarb, rhubarb". Apparently that was thought to give the most realistic rendition of general conversation. BTW there is an Eric Sykes movie with that title, for that reason.

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