wow, you guys...

no one showed up but Julia.
Still, come see the show.
As much as we all know it sucks, I'm still in it...

tickets are $7 per person.
Show times:
July 16 10:30 am & 8:00 pm
July 17 8:00 pm

At the Virginia Theater, of course.

At rehearsal today, we worked on my HUGE monologue at the beginning of the first act.
Its uber long. But the assisant director, David, who also plays the basketball coach, made me work through it with feeling and purpose.

You know, it got me thinking about the depth to acting.
It's not as simple as portraying another person.
You ask yourself, "If you were this person, who do you hate? Love? What is your purpose to speak?"
No, seriously, they made me tell David why I was giving the monologue, in which I quote Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

I worked it until it was eccentrically odd and badly acted through.
It's very hard to purposely act badly, but I did it.
I think Ms.Darbus is a bad actor but a good teacher and director. She's very passionate about what she does, so it's easy to let go and be extreme. Actually David wrote 10 page charachter analysises about all the parts, like how they moved, walked, talked, and motivations and things.
We had to write essays like that, but we had to write stuff like favorite foods, hobbies, aspirations, etcetera.
The weird part is that I'm a cast minority. I play an adult, nothing else. Most "adults" play students somewhere else, except for me and David. But he's actually an adult.
Usually, a director gives out orders to the majority. And for the first time, almost no direction applys to me in dances, bloccking, and singing.
So half the time I have to bother them with questions so I know where I am. It's annoying.
Aaaagh, I hate being a supporting role that's alone in its own group.

But the costume designs are amazing. David drew them, and he's really good. He saw me doodling, and said I was good.
*flattered*
Also I get lots of time to work while the rest of the cast has to just watch all bored. Muahahaa.

My younger brother is learning oboe 7 feet away, so I can't concentrate right now. The squaking is giving me a headache. As the charachter Jack Scott would say, "All for now, peeps."
Or m&m's...