On The Stage

[deird_lj]

Rehearsal 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.

Comments

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad you had that "click" moment.

[deird1]

Yay! It's such a relief! Now I can just focus on acting - rather than trying to figure out how to...

[dreamincolor.livejournal.com]

Best of luck! -squish-

[deird1]

Thanks! *squishes back*