Board 8 > An unprofessional message.

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That sounds like a Futurama episode.
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Checking my emails backstage and just realized my grandmother responded to an email I sent over two years ago.
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Also, Bill and I ran lines today...and he kinda just gave up in the middle of them. He was trailing a bit, then started talking about how he hasn't looked up what some of his monologue meant anyway and lost track. I told him to end it on "office" and I'll take it over from there. He said okay and he's gonna look up whatever phrase got him hung up. I haven't seen him since.

Sigh.
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I've been asked to order my food early for our party.

Pretzels and beercheese, final answer.
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HaRRicH posted...

Also, Bill and I ran lines today...and he kinda just gave up in the middle of them. He was trailing a bit, then started talking about how he hasn't looked up what some of his monologue meant anyway and lost track. I told him to end it on "office" and I'll take it over from there. He said okay and he's gonna look up whatever phrase got him hung up. I haven't seen him since.

Sigh.

How in the fuck does he not know what his lines actually mean at this point?

Is this serious??
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Srsly srs.

My scene with Bill went okay! There's a new problem though: it's a stormy scene with rain, thunder, and lightning effects, so I've gotten to play that up more and more. Shivering, rubbing arms, being scared of the flashes and thunder, a sneeze...trying to really own it. In the meanwhile, Bill saunters with no respect toward the weather -- dry as a desert to that guy.

I could tone it down so we don't appear as much in different worlds together, but this was one of last week's notes for us to own the weather more. I also don't think it's an actor's job to tell another actor what to do -- I'm not the director and we received the same note.
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Bill back at it again. Look at this jebroni.
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It always comes back to Bill
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Oh, and we have a dramaturg too that I understood every actor had a one-on-one hour with for understanding lines. The dramaturg's also in the cast so he's available all the time to us. No Fear Shakespeare is free too.

I'm no Laurence Olivier, to be clear, and my own homework for this show has not been as dedicated as others I've done (did I mention I don't like Shakespearean plays?). Understanding a phrase is a readily-solvable problem though.
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There's also Google.
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Did I mention this show has a Led Zepplin-based soundtrack? Gloucester just had his eyes plucked to the instrumental section of Whole Lotta Love.

We call that scene the eye exam.
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Brian's pretty well gotten consistent with me over here. Good job dude.
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Nothing super eventful at the party. Had some super-salty pretzels with beercheese and a nice tart kind of beer I liked. Some good laughs too about timing high fives between three people. It would have been nice to hang out later, but woooooooork.

No show tomorrow!
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HaRRicH posted...

In the meanwhile, Bill saunters with no respect toward the weather -- dry as a desert to that guy.

perhaps his character isn't affected by the rain and thunder whatsoever!
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what kind of interpretation of the play is this anyway? you're clearly using period clothes but the usage of led zeppelin music is... uh... not entirely convential.
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That choice is fair enough if it's intentional, but I get the feeling it's not.....

This production's strangely aimed at being comedic (KING LEAR!) with the costume and lighting influenced by Game of Thrones. I think it's a few "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if _____" ideas cobbled together more than a real cohesive theme, but it turns out good in the end so what-ev.
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Forgot to mention: I got compliments last night for how I handle myself in the rain and thunder! This could have been both of us, Bill!
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HaRRicH posted...

comedic (KING LEAR!)

Wut
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Yeah, it's filtered away from that comedic premise more as we got to the end but the director thought there were a lot of funny parts (Kent telling Oswald off, not cutting any of the Fool's scenes that I remember, etc.) and we were light-hearted in our initial read-through so he urged us to keep that in mind through the rehearsal process.

We scrapped the idea of having Tweet-sized summaries visually appear between scenes when he decided not to be as direct with his political references. That might have been funny, but he went with voice-overs instead. They help, they just also make the show longer...and the way he reads them sounds like you're getting a summary on last week's episode of *INSERT REALITY TV SHOW*. It's funny to me, but not really the audience.

I don't get much room to be comedic, but my Big Fuzzy Hat (tm) occasionally gets a laugh and I did break Blood Princess with a grunt one night. I can also kinda force one from the audience with my reaction to seeing Gloucester's bloody eyeless self for my first time...it's a hacky laugh though, not particularly well earned or beneficial really to the show.
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Oooooff niiiiight!!!!!

Celebrating by staying off my feet and making phone calls I've had to neglect awhile.

Aaaaah.
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And we're back.

And my parents are here.

And I'm full on BBQ, like borderline food-coma.

And the make-up artist is MIA.

Ruh-roh.
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This is mostly why I'm keeping theater in college- I'd most likely be Brian.
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Nearly pulled a muscle by shivering so hard. My body gets tense to fake that with three layers of clothes, especially in my arms and shoulders.

Bill did not nearly pull a muscle.
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Brian said I had my best imagery yet in his scene. That's something.

Emoji-test: ??
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HaRRicH posted...

Nearly pulled a muscle by shivering so hard. My body gets tense to fake that with three layers of clothes, especially in my arms and shoulders.

Bill did not nearly pull a muscle.

Bill, what a pro
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EMOJl FAIL
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HaRRicH posted...

Nearly pulled a muscle by shivering so hard. My body gets tense to fake that with three layers of clothes, especially in my arms and shoulders.

Bill did not nearly pull a muscle.

God DAMN it Bill! Pull your load!
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EJ killed me in our fight again as usual, and this time he pulled me harder than usual...so my head popped his nose through his helmet pretty good. He's taking responsibility, but I still feel guilty since it was my head.

Another helmet-casuality.
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Make-up artist brought me home-made meat pies and gravy.

My heart, it swells.
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An actor chugged his hot cocoa (not really but he's telling these other guys he did and we're rolling with it) and now he has the nickname Pipethroat.

Pipethroat once won a fight just by letting his opponent karate-chop his neck.
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I thought you were going to tell us he let out a chocolaty belch during rehearsal or something.
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If he burps on the stage, much like the actress who farted backstage, I'll be the first to report it.
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Whew, another standing scene down. One more left tomorrow and my feet will heal!
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Bill was pretty normal Bill. He waved the bag he gives me before we went on stage...he was probably just assuring ne, but he seemed a little proud.
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Biggest audience yet, doesn't upset me too much.
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Just had a three-way.

Let me try that again.....

Just had a three-way thumb-wrestling match. I made the first pin but ultimately lost.
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Just saved Brian when he made up a line that was the opposite of what he was supposed to say.

I've received such a gift as well this run so I won't judge too hard.
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Hey I didn't know you did theatre. I'm in Jesus Christ Superstar opening in just two weeks!

I would hate to see a message like that whether it was directed at me or not. Like, I totally understand where the director is coming from, and I've felt that frustration in shows before, but you just don't ever publicly do something like that.

I don't have time to read the full topic right now but out of curiosity which play (I assume it was Shakespeare based on the OP) was it and what role was Brian playing?

Brian's the Duke of Albany in KING LEAR.
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And hey, awesome, always wanted to see JCSS! I'm no singer though, and my dancing skills are stage combat moves.
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Sweet! I would love to do Shakespeare someday but I feel like I would need professional training first. My specialty is musicals.

As you read this topic, you will realize professional training is optional.

It helps though! I have my degree and Shakespeare wasn't trying to trip up his actors, but centuries happened. Language and the rest of the world too has evolved without him. I struggled through this in different ways.
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Director had a surprise get-together...no hoverboard racing this time, but it was nice. We had debates over who had the best hat in the show (me) and the difficulty of self-producing plays in this area. That one sucks since I got scripts man. I'll give it a shot soon though.
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My brother mentioned there's a KING LEAR reference somewhere in BioShock Infinite...he tried to describe it to me and I didn't know what he was talking about. That's enough of a reason to finally play this after having it installed awhile. I began that today.

Heard the reference is pretty small and unimportant...don't care.
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I looked it up. It's extraordinarily minor. Any work of literature would've fit in its place
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Got sodas for tonight's cast party. I'll let other people do the cooking and we'll all be better off for it.
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We have a tarp backstage tonight in case of rain for our final night. The tarp is low enough to touch heads of people sitting under it, and its real estate is tight so we're huddling close.
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So many things to sign backstage for the crews' gifts. Posters, letters, picture frames...hope they like them!
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Dad was right. Two pairs of socks does help with the whole concrete and thin shoes-thing.

Just whispered "2pac lives" to extras on my way off stage. Will hear about it later probably.....
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