dancing

Stretching and lots of it! Instead of copious amounts of dancing, Matt decided to really stretch us out, get up limber, and loosen our tension. I was still sore from the play so that helped a bunch for me. I learned that because of soccer the side of my thighs were super limber and the backs were very strained. Afterwards we danced a bit to dancing through life, my favorite wicked song, it was interesting to learn the various things that people at auditions might make you do.

workshops day something or other

we started working on the actual play today and it was great seeing it all come together. From what i've seen i can tell it will be awesome. I especially enjoyed the integration of the statue exercise into the actual piece. Although i did not get to find out my part, i did make an amazing dead....cordilla.

play

it's late

im tired

here goes

what i did well: characterization - i had my character in mind and i believe i stayed within his limits...not that there were many the guy was a nut.

poorly- i overacted a little, justified by the fact that Urinetown is sort of over the top and there was no energy from most of the cast to begin with but still as an actor i should try to not overact just for the sake of a laugh....unless i do.

the "cantaloupes" line i thought was fun, but a tad over the top...i tried to get the most out of hot blades.

my other characters were just kind of going through the motions trying to do what i was asked all the while keeping the attention where it needed to be

i felt out of place during all of act one, i had no idea where to stand and i just kind of made it up as i went along.

i liked the falling bit during "privilege" it made the audience frightened because it looked so real which i thought was hilarious. fun fact i've fallen purposefully in every musical i have ever been in....also had some sort of wardrobe malfunction.....

i liked the struggle between hope and i during act 1 finale it looked real because it mostly was real =D

i liked how i was able to adapt to changing circumstances as they came along. I did not panic i merely went with it within boundaries of my character. i felt that i did that seamlessly.

there isn't too much acting for me to criticize myself upon. Was it a tony performance? not by any means? did i learn any acting from this? sort of. i learned about changing due to specific circumstance but that is right up my alley with improv

i wish there was more dancing and movement and physicality, and that the poor was given something to do rather then stand around.

that being said it was not a bad performance by any means i thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this production and i thought it went well as a whole.

oh i liked that i was able to create my character more or less from my own head and not just singularly copying someone else's rendition. i thought i put my own spin to harry which i thought was cool

i needed more time to work on my character i worked with what i had but we focused more on vocals then character work, i needed more blocking i guess although i liked the freedom to move wherever i wanted whenever i wanted- which was ok for my but i guess it may have confused my costars a bit because they never knew where i would be more or less.

any thoughts on my performance anyone? questions? comments? admirations?