And it’s time for blocking which I’m pleased to say meant that 2 out of the 3 rehearsals I had almost all my lines down and considering the amount of lines I have I’m glad that I’m not behind on that or else I’d have A LOT of work ahead of me (still do really).
We blocked the first scene on Tuesday and it’s cool to see it all come together, it gives you a sense of what your character does, where you are situated and you also get to find out who you can converse with OR in my case I’m tallying up the books and working out how much the poor gave us (which means I get to use my real life math skills from work in to my imaginary account haha) and then I sweep & mop. Really it’s not that different from when I was working at a Luggage & Handbag store in Hamilton that was probably my least favourite job I’ve had so far, it also remains unknown which one were under better conditions lol. What I like about this scene is that it’s the first time I meet Hope (played by Chanelle), I was thinking about it and I don’t think my character really comes across that many girls that look & smell clean, instead I have a pregnant girl whose referred to as Little Becky Two-Shoes (a play on words me thinks) but I’m scared to ask how old someone referred to as ‘little’. So that was the thought I had when I first meet her in this scene, she’s clean, shiny and it does help that as far as I’m aware is wearing relatively tighter clothes than the poor girls wear (sorry dirty girls go join Christina Aguilera and add a double R and we might talk :P).
Hmmm ok maybe not
So a little update on my line learning, I have a habit of needing to learn things in sequence which is why I'd most likely never do well in movie, so for the first rehearsals I've been fine but then we skipped ahead to What Is Urinetown which is in Act 2! Let's just say I'm not looking to flash in the number yet so it's given me the kick up the behind I needed to get this lines under my belt. Some of the hard things with line learning is reading it in or out of an accent can change the way things a said, case in point Distributed now we say Dis-tri-bu-ted while American's say Di-strib-beau-ted and cast member's can vouch for me when I say that i've spent quite a bit of time on that one word. Another one that my fellow lead seems to be getting a lot is Legislature I listened to someone say it and I think it sounds like le-gi-sla-churr but it's still not an easy word to pronounce.
Yeah it still confuses me
Sunday's rehearsal was a pretty relaxing one for me, while the others were doing this:
I may have been doing this:
But in my defence I learnt a whole scene while soaking up that beautiful sun and since I was only needed for 1 scene that day I might as well have taken advantage of the weather hehe. In terms of more character development I've been watching the Canadian version of 'Over The Rainbow' where girls compete for the viewers vote and the winner get's to be on the canadian equivalent to Broadway or West End I suppose. Anyway the talent is stellar, like 180% better than the british girls so the judges critiques are a lot better because they're nit picking and there have been a lot of advising given to these girls that I've been able to think about with my own character and it's really helped form more of a bond with my character just through that.
What I love about theatres is that they all have their little stories, whether it be that night someone got so drunk they slept in a bush, the time one of the Von Trapp children spewed up all over the stage or the infamous theatre ghost. These stories are what shape the local theatres and make them what they are to the patrons, it gives them their history. So next week’s blog will include the tale of ‘The Black Baby’, it disappeared before I could take a photo of it but I’ve witnessed it and as I’ve been made aware, it’ll pop up again as it always does.
Ok maybe not THIS scary
So again another great week of rehearsals with only over a month to go until we open eeeeeeeeeek! Remember tickets are now on sale so get buying!
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