Friday, April 17

Voice
Our voice showing went splendidly. We had a decent turnout, which is always nice.

It started with Thrill and I doing the first half of the first scene we did from Cowboy Mouth to demonstrate our work with Sending & Landing. D-Train and Two-Shots-Up did the second half of the scene.

After that, we all spoke chunks of our Wood Demon monologues. This was to demonstrate our work with Standard American Dialect.

My chunk was:
"You're angry with me because you think I married your father for selfish reasons. I give you my word of honor, if that means anything to you, that I married him for love. He attracted me as a scholar and public figure. It wasn't real love, it was quite artificial, but it seemed real enough at the time."

Finally, we did an "IPA-athon". We were divided into two teams, and we had to take words that were written on the chalkboard and race to write the way they would be written using the International Phoenetic Alphabet in a sort of relay.

The second years showed off their work with dialects. I'm so excited to do that next year! I hope we get to do "deep South" like they did. (Dialect work in the 2nd year often has to do with the mainstage shows for your 2nd and 3rd year and what they will require).


Acting
The Board of the theatre stopped by for a bit and watched Thrill and Two-Shots-Up do their Vonnegut scene. They did a great job, despite the added pressure of an audience. I was proud of them.

My scene with O.D. ran differently than usual. I totally seduced him, which makes sense, actually. But I think we lost some of the triviality of the scene, and I think Hildy (my character) ended up being too intelligent. I think the sexuality and manipulative nature were getting better, though. O.D.'s character suddenly really because the solution to all of my problems, and the rest of the scene became like a hunt for me.

I've had a few good days of class, which makes me nervous. I hope that my bad day doesn't strike the same day as our Showing.

(By the way, I changed the time of the Acting Showing in my previous post. It is now 3pm on Friday the 24th.)


Tech
The show ran smoothly, and we had a pretty good house.


Reunion
This weekend is the 50th Anniversary Reunion weekend for the Conservatory. Last night there was a sort of open mic night. I met a bunch of past grads (mostly from the classes of 1978, 1980, and 1981, it seemed). Some people sang (including All-The-Way, 3rd year BB, and 3rd year DM), some did mime, some did story-telling, one played a washboard... It was a lot of fun.