NOT WELL

I MISS YOU GUYS !!!!
if you didnt get my email befor hand here it is now
thefamouskid@gmail.com
email me!

much love to all of you!

reba<3

wow

I'm a little surprised this hasn't shut down yet.
Oh well.



Man, life is real boring without you guys.
I miss you all.

agreed!

yes please, perhaps scan them? and post them? that would be neat

I want to frame it.

pictures

hey so i know a lot of the pictures that were taken were on film cameras, but itd be really cool if we could get some of those pictures

Seeing as we are now approaching the end of stc, i thought i should share some words of wisdom with you from the wise philosophers outkast

Alright, alright, Ok now ladies, (YEAH!)
And we gon' break this thing down in just a few seconds
Now don't have me break this thang down for nothin'
Now I wanna see y'all on y'all baddest behavior
Lend me some suga', I am your neighbor ahh here we go!
Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it (OHH OH)
Shake it, shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it (OHH OH)
Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture, shake it, shake it
Shh you got to, shake it, shh shake it, shake it, got to shake it
(Shake it Suga') shake it like a Poloroid Picture

just think about it. But yeah, the show is turning out to be really good. But why shouldnt it? You guys are all great actors and some pretty cool kids.

Oh my word, how doth the night grow long!

My dears I grow weary as it seems my hours pass so slowly having only arived home at 7!

Tomorrow will be grand indeed I know it I.

Thus with a tender kiss I bid you all goodnight, having done my homework of the blog!

NIGHT NIGHT~!

P.S. Ian will we ever get to see those pictures you took?

perhaps you would to post them on a photobucket account?

One Day More

VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!

MARIUS
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?

VALJEAN
One day more.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!

EPONINE
One more day all on my own.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Will we ever meet again?

okay that's enough. said. one more day. i think the play will go really well.
"I'm pure honey." -Ian
Teehee.
weeeeee... i'm feeling random.
good work today.
I'm gonna go write.
oh yeah, the wet paper towels were funny. and that soap thing has adhesive on the back so i did not break it off from the wall. (well i did, but i could stick it back on.)

1 more day :(

To add to the burn book:
"I am pure honey"
"Start, thou destestable maw"
I think that today was the best run-through we've had. I love all of you, and I think we have a great show!!!! Keep it up, kids!
wet paper towels today (you know who you are)... that was funny
-Ellen

Carma

today was supposed to be my luckiest day but no...it was the worst.
i spilled water on me at Moe's
and i totally mess up on the whole play.
oh well maybe next year...

1 20

still up. whoo 1 20.

man

I should sleep more. I shouldn't blog at 11 40 at night. I shouldn't stay up all night this week reading Harry Potter. But I don't, and I am, and I have. But anyway, everyone should go out and rent the first season of arrested development. It is the funniest show ive ever seen. But more on track, I think Romeo and Juliet is going well. We just have to polish that last part. Why am I still up? Dang yo...

Last Week

Yeah I didn't blog yesterday either so I will make the delayed comment that it is unfortunately our last week. I will also make the delayed comment that the Meisner stuff we did yesterday was awesome. I could really get into something like that.

Anyway the run didn't feel as good today as it did yesterday which is weird because my mind knows that it really was better than yesterday. For some reason it just didn't feel right. Maybe I'm just thinking of my own performance. I don't know. I just didn't feel right today.

Anyway tonight I plan on watching the premiere of the new show Damages. It has Glenn Close in it so it should be really good. She was on my favorite show The Shield for a season so she automatically gets my respect.

Speaking of which, if you really want to see some of the best acting in the business I highly recommend the TV show The Shield. It has some fantastic actors such as CCH Pounder, Forest Whitaker, and my favorite actor of all time, Michael Chiklis. Although I must warn you that it contains some really brutal stuff so if you can't stomach some extremely graphic material then this isn't for you but I promise it is seriously the best acting and writing on TV.

i apoligize for not blogging yesterday. i always forget on mondays. its time to get down to buisness. if you don't know your lines GO RUN THEM.... if you do GO RUN THEM ANYWAY......if you know them to the point where you can't get them wrong, GO RUN YOUR BLOCKING...... also idk if this works for everyone, but the thing ian had me do when we were working monologues (close eyes and visualize certain parts of the speech) it really helped for me so just some advice, try that.

Meisner

One word. Wow. That's some groovy stuff.
I was feeling pretty out of it this afternoon at the run-through, remembering my lines and so forth. I promise I'll do better tomorrow. I must tear myself away from "the-book-that-must-not-be-named" to run lines.
-Ellen
P.S. I was at my uncle's house and I saw this lock that had the brand "locked" on it and I read it to myself as "lock-ed", not "lock'd". What's gotten into me?

LA

Yay. Today was fun. I'm feeling uncreative.
The run thru went okay. It still needs work, but it's nothing we can't do.
It's the last week. Tear.
Well I'm off to bed.
Yes I see it is only 10:35, but if you have a problem with that I can't help you.
V.M.P.

I love you guys

you guys are the best people to work with
really...[:

warning

Hey so Victoria, I'm not reading your post based on the title. Nothing personal. And that is simply because I don't want to know a single thing about the Harry Potter book. If anyone tells me what happens, says how they felt about it, says "Oh man I can't believe they put that twist in there!" or even hints at something happining in the book, I will break you. Thank you

Harry Potter, I'm Harry Potter, Harry Harry Potter

It's a really weird song my friends taught me while we were waiting in line for the book.

I don't get why all the Harry Potter parties seemed to revolve around little children. I mean, after the third book it all just starts to get more mature and stuff. Think about the people who actually grew up with the books and stuff. I dunno. maybe that's just me, but if I were a parent I would want to read the 7th book before my nine year old kid decided to read it. Which I did read it, I finished it on Saturday, at about 9o'clock at night, due to the fact that my mother "banned" me from opening it up until we were finished moving. It didn't work. I would have finished it earlier if that was not the case.



not giving anything away.

nope.

Well, I'm officially moved into my new house. Happy. I get my own room. *sigh of relief* and a double bed, cuz the twin I had was getting a little too small. Now my 27 year old 6' 4ish" brother has it. sucks for him. oh well, he's hardly ever at home anyway.

This will be our last week. *tear*. which sucks terribly because I've really enjoyed this camp. And all you people are awesome (sorry for the cheesy word, I'm feeling rather uncreative today).

I'm off to study lines.

tata.

Vicky

and the world goes on hold for Harry Potter

I thought the audition workshop we did yesterday was very helpful.
I saw Victoria and Matt at the Harry Potter book party!!!! I'm exhausted, though. I was up far too late.
-Ellen

Success!!!!

Yeah!!! Here's to our first full runthrough! It felt really good even though I had to call "line" at least twice every time I went on stage.

Well I guess I'll take this oppurunity to do a little publicizing. That band I'm always going on about, Pivot, is doing a benefit show for that woman and her unborn son who were murdered. They'll be playing at a club called Volume 11 in Raleigh and there will be two other bands playing in addition to Pivot (one called Transient who I have seen before and can promise are quite good as well). It's an all ages show so if you're in town this Saturday you should join me since I will hopefully be going. Check out the Justice 4 Jenna link at www.96rockonline.com for more specifics. I hope to see some of you there.

dinner!

so for dinner since i was off tonight, i ordered pizza, from work.


yes i am a looser.


today was good. good job guys.

Ian I hate that shirt. . . . it frightens me, but i will still give it a chance.

Phew!

I just finished some major packing and moving heavy boxes around.

that= no fun= very tiring

surprisingly I find myself not very hungry, but that my be because of the three bowls of ice cream (they were small) I had when I came home from camp.

This blog thing doesn't automatically capitalize I's and it's killing me!!!!!!!!!! (not literally, that'd just be stupid).

Now I'm off to go practice lines.

By the way, good job with the run thru. I thin our timing was pretty good, compared to some past experiences. With Ligon's musical last year Damn Yankees, we ran like 45 minutes, to like one hour over. I can tell you Mrs. Yalacki was not happy.

*yawn*

*sigh*

Movie I recommend:

V for Vendetta
It's very very very good.

~Veeps (my sis had a dream where everyone called me Veeps. *shrug*)

Project 58

Me and my bruh [brother] go skateboarding after Burning Coal right...and i have been working on the 50-50 stall for about a week in a half and i finally got it down! wow i fell so accomplished! i think i will treat my self to a bakie.

I don't care if you have any idea what this is about or not, this is the funniest line from the greatest show ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1JJLsUwg4&mode=related&search=

also, today was good

home from work at 11:11 pm

WELL! It's past eleven which means i shouldnt bother my line buddy.

So when I got off work I bough crystal a calzone to bribe her into helping me tonight.

I am so happy we finished blocking. NOW FOR THE FUN PART!

I promise to do my best to have fresh breath everyday

New Breathing Stuff

I must admit, I liked this breathing guy better than Ben or whatever his name was. With the guy from last week, I felt like I was constricted to doing things a certain way. Like I'm very used to breathing through my nose. I don't know why but I feel calmer that way. But he kept saying open your mouth!! I dunno. These exercises we did today just made me feel more relaxed than last week (although that could have been the yoga mats and the pillow), and I didn't feel pressured into having to do things a certain way. Although Ben was very helpful with some stuff that are fairly important when it comes to acting. But that's just my opinion.

There are boxes everywhere in my house, and my family is going nuts. I don't like it.



To meG: Bob says hi.

Now, I'm going to go to sleep, and hopefully wake up and maybe eat breakfast this time. I didn't today, and that did not make my tummy very happy.

Oh yeah, the blog shows the time this was posted but it's like 3 hours off. I don't get it. It annoys me.
Right now it's 10:31

~Vicktoria

P.S. That's not really how you spell my name, but I'm feeling special today. Deal with it.

yay

yay, we're done blocking. Now we can polish it and feel like we're good actors. Or bad. Not sure which...yeah.

Still more breathing

Yes! We finished blocking. For me the rest of the rehearsal process always feels downhill even though there is usually still a lot more left to do. I guess it just moves faster once the preliminary creative work is done.

I wasn't sure what to think of our new breathing training. It was definitely less abstract than our original weeklong ordeal. I'm not sure I like it better but I think that I have a better appreciation for the other stuff (I know that there is a name attached to it I just can't remember what it is).

Normally I post around 10:00 but I rented 28 Days Later from Blockbuster and I'm eager to get back to the zombie gore.

Uta

1.
I am know as the fireie, dangerous, good looking, quick tempered, but not really forward thinking and foolish Tybalt
2.
The time is in the dead middle of the boiling hot humid summer in Fair Verona which is placed some where in Europe. But mainly the in between the crossroads of the Montagues and Capulets
3.
I rest in teh household of the capulets but technicaly i am in the middle of a WAR between two family's.
4.
The "family"[capulets] the enimies [montagues] citizens and the government [prince]
5.
?
6.
Family wise my relationship is to the Capulets but in the play i may be placed as the peace breaker/fighter
7.
I think i would want respect a good and a fantastic reputation for both my self and the capulets
but mainly my self
8.
Any one that refuses to back down against me [such as Mercutio] or challages me.
9.
I get it by setting high standards for my self and my loytaly to the Capulets
10.
When every one is feared by me!

Lady Capulet

No more thunderstorms=internet!!!!!
1. I am Lady Capulet, wife of Lord Capulet and mother of Juliet Capulet. My occupation is that I run a household, and a rather large one at that, while raising my daughter Juliet into a young lady that I approve of. I am an alpha-mom. I like order and to have everything organized and predictable, including my daughter's life. My family is prominent in the society of Verona, so I have to be pulled together at all times in order to represent my family well. I believe in strict obedience towards parents and other authority figures, but only when that authority figure is Lord Capulet or myself. I do not think that the prince has any right to try to understand/control what has been going on for decades netweeen my family and those Montagues. As for religion, it should be kept in church. There are things like vengeance and pride that God does not understand. And for love, I love my daughter by giving her the best life I think I can give her- a comfortable, respectabl marriage to a good-looking, wealthy guy. I am a ripe 39 years old. I find that I can gain more contro over my life by organizing it using technology, so I don't go anywhere without my Blackberry.



2. It is summertime in 2007. Sometimes it is party time, wedding time, or funeral time. It is a fairly prosperous time for myself and my family as far as economy goes, but it is a voilent time between the houses. It is an anxious time, and, possibly because of the heat, a "jump down one anothers' throats" time.



3. I am in a government-ruled, industrial, divided town, Verona. Verona is in Italy. Italy is in Europe. Europe is on the Earth, and I'm going to stop there.



4. My family and the Montegues surround me, as well as violence, heat, and tenseness. Industrial building, scaffolding, and Jeff. A large family.

5. The given circumstances are that I am usually slightly fatigued from trying to- single-handedly- keep everything in my house under control.

6. My relationship to the Montagues- I don't think they have a right to be in Verona.
to my daughter- I'm not really around her much... I did hire a nurse to take care of her. Our relationship is very formal, and not the most nurturing of mother-daughter relationships.
If I ever had a friend, I think it would be Nurse. She closest to my age, and we can gossip *sharp intake of breath*. Tybalt is also one of my friends because I've known him for most of my life. I only just tolerate my husband. He is sloppy and lazy, two things I just can't stand. I hate picking up after him. We go out together in public to boost the image of our family, but our relationship is nothing short of strained. I feel it is my duty to put up with it for the betterment of the Capulet family.
relationship to objects: they need to be in the proper place at the proper time, and I feel the same way about people. Chaos ensues when you let something get out of its place, and I fear chaos.
My relationship to the space is that I own it and am possessive of it because the Montagues also think that they own Verona. I am also comfortable in the space, seeing as I have a large house and lots of money.

7. What do I want?
Control

8. What's in my way?
The Montagues
Juliet's free will
the power that the prince has over everyone
not enough time

9. How do I get it?
Marrying Juliet off to Paris
Don't be sympathetic towards Juliet
drive the Montagues out of Verona

10. How will I know when I've gotten it?
Juliet will do what I tell her
I won't need my Blackberry anymore

Sorry that this is excessively long... That's just me-- long-winded.

-Ellen

Uta Hagen

Sry for being late.



I am Mercutio. I am a friend of the Montagues. I am an enemy to the Capulets. I am strong, reckless, and fun loving.



It is a distressful time for my friends, Romeo and Benvolio, and I because of Romeo being Romemo and the alltime threat of the fiery Tybalt to myself and Benvolio.



I am in the lovely city of Verona which is in the fair state of Italy. It is a beautiful place but inside the walls lie a treachorus ordeal.



I am surrounded by my friends, Benvolio and Romeo. Together we face the Capulets, by whom

I am also surrounded by.



My physical circumstances are that I have an ungodly level of testosterone. I use that element for rage and fighting. Many times my recklessness gets me into trouble.



My relationship to my friends is one of trust and love. However my relationship with the Capulets differs entirely. I hate them with a burning passion. This hate is my fuel for fighting them.

I want 3 main things. I want to bring Romeo back from Romemo and make him be happy again. I want to glorify the Montagues and I want to destroy the Capulets.

Rozalyne is in my way of making Romeo come back to his senses and be his old self again. The last two obstacles are intertwined. The Montagues cannot be glorified without destruction of the Capulets, and the Capulets cannot be destroyed without being destroyed by the Montagues. So the Capulets are the obstacle blocking both goals.

To acheive my goals, I need to make Romeo forget about Rozalyn, and as Benvolio says, make him examine other beauties. The last two goals are simple. To accomplish both I need to destroy the Capulets. I have already said this but it is the simple answer to both problems. I will do this by fighting them with all my strength until the end.

I will know when I have acheived my goals because Romeo will start having fun with Benvolio and me, and he will stop being so damned depressed. I will know when I have glorified the Montagues and by doing so destroying the Capulets, when the Capulets have no more heirs or they simply no longer walk the streets of Verona.

Uta Hagen

I'm doing these this morning since i had no internet access last night.

1.) Who am I?- I am Benvolio, Romeo's cousin, a coward. I am 15 years old (or somewhere near that).

2.)What time is it?- It is summer. A time when everyone's tempers seem to rise with the heat.

3. ) Where am I?- I live in Verona, Italy that is ruled over by the Prince.

4.)What surrounds me?- I am surrounded by an ancient grudge between two very powerful families. I'm also surrounded by expectations to support and defend the Montague family.

5.)What are the given circumstances?- The two families, the Capulets and Montagues (I am a part of the Montagues), keep fighting each other due to a civil brawl. I try my best to avoid any fights due to the fact that if I'm seen in a fight I will most likely be put to death.

6.) What is my relationship?- My relationship with Romeo is he is my cousin and I respect him but not so much that I don't annoy him. I tend to tag along with him when he goes places and I don't I never like seeing him depressed, and when he is I try my best to cheer him up. My relationship with Mercutio is he is a very dear friend that I look up to (I'm pretty sure I do). My relationship with Tybalt is he is an enemy but I prefer not to get mixed up with him due to his incredibly violent nature. I am absolutely terrified of the Prince because he has the power to put me to death for getting into a fight with the Capulets (which is the main reason I avoid fighting). My relationship with Montague (Romeo's dad) is he is someone I respect because he's older and he's Romeo's dad.

7.) What do I want?- I want everyone to stop getting in fights with each other so that Verona may be peaceful. The grudge between the Capulets and Montagues causes a lot of problems in Verona.

8.) What is in my way?- No one wants to listen to me because I'm young, and they're too busy fighting each other.

9.) How do I get it?- I have to try and stop as many people as possible from getting into fights.

10.) How will I know when I have gotten it?- I will know when the fighting stops and Verona is at peace.



See you all in like 34ish minutes. Maybe. or less.

ula sing and dance!

I am Juliet Capulet. My name rhymes. I am overlooked in my family because I am a girl. I am 14.

It is summer, a most troublesome time for my family, in which my cousin tybalt’s temper is always shortened by the heat. The traditional feast of Capulet is soon to be held.

I live in Verona Italy. In the eastern side of the city, I do lay my head. Many of the people here look alike, so much so that I seldom take note of them.

I am surrounded by people who wish to grasp the reigns of my life, and others who seek only to further their reputations in battle, and others still that make for a scholarly approach.

My family is very proud. We are very well known and respected. (save the respect on my part)

My relationship with those around me is pretty much the same on all parts. I feel no pity or even a spark of love from either parent. I have no respect save from servants with whom I rarely speak. My nurse is tedious, although kind and most wonderful she is at times very cruel. Yet in this cloud of existence secretly resides a Romeo. Romeo my love, Romeo my lord, Romeo, he that makes the heavens sing ere he smiles. Romeo I do love thee. He gives me equality, which is a gem that is so rarely given from man to woman.

I want respect and understanding. I want to be heard and taken seriously.

My femininity stands in my way, although I joy in the lightness of womanhood, I shall never feast on the power and respect given to that of man. My father, steals away my humanity and makes me his property as though I were a mule.

Romeo gives me that which I crave! His eyes meet mine when we speak, his smile is never patronizing, he drinks my every word and never scoffs. I find my understanding in he that shares my heart.

I will know that I have it when I can stand beside my lord and call him friend as well as lover.






*special note* no I did not steal any of these bits of words from shakespear or anyone else! This is text of my own design! It's 12:31 in the morning I'm feeling CREATIVE.











REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

hagen daz

ok here goes
1. I am Romeo Montague. I am smart, creative, passionate, and actually a pretty normal guy. I am 16 years old.

2. It is the summer of 2007. It is a difficult and violent time what with my family fighting with the Capulets. It is towards the end of my life spent at home seeing as I will be going off to college soon. So its a time of maturing and growing for me.

3.I am in Verona Italy. I am in an urban city with lots of culture and a diverse range of people. I live in a city ruled by royalty.

4. I am surrounded by my family who is constantly fighting. But despite this, I am surrounded by people who care about me.

5. I have just ended a long term relationship with the fair Rosaline. She hath forsworn to love and so she can not love me. I have lived most of my life fairly sheltered by my family.

6. My relationship with my father is that we love each other as most fathers and sons do. Although I respect him, I am willing to go against his will if ever i need to. My mother and I don't talk much but its mostly because we don't have much in common and I don't see her as much as I see my father. My relationship with Mercutio is that he has been my friend since I was little and he has always looked up to me (or at least I think he does). We tease each other a lot but only because we are good friends. Benvolio is my little cousin who always tags along with me but never understands what I'm going through. But I still care about her (him?). And Juliet. I love Juliet. She is the one person who really understands me. We have that connection that is so rare and she just makes me happy. I am comfortable around her and happiest.

7. I want to find love. I have built up love as the ultimate happiness in life and so it is my goal in life to have. If I can fall in love, I'll be happy. Its as simple as that

8. At the time being, my parents are in the way of having love. I love Juliet and would be with her if it were not for my parents and their war with the capulets. I don't really care about the fight, its just what I was taught when I was raised.

9. The only way I can have love and a relationship with Juliet is if we are in love in secret or if we run away together.

10. I'll know I have it when I am happy. When we can have an open relationship without sneaking around.

I need to go to sleep earlier

Uta Hagen

I sure hope I spelled that right. Oh well. Here are my character answers:

1) I am Lord Capulet, age 50. I am the patriarch of the Capulet house. I have a great deal of power in the family which means I am somewhat controlling and selfish. I am very used to getting what I want and I am also very good at it.

2) It is early summer when the story takes place. It is some time after the turn of the century. It is a time of unrest since two of the most renowned families in Verona are at war.

3) I am in the city of Verona, Italy. It is a dark, industrial city where street violence has grown so bad that those who disturb the peace could face execution. It is a city that is somewhat lacking in law and order.

4) I am surrounded by hatred. The lives of the Montagues and the Capulets are driven by their enmity for each other. But I am also surrounded by a certain level of comfort. The violence is not so bad that I cannot still hold parties and conduct my affairs within the family normally.

5) My family and I are part of the upper class. The Capulets are renowned throughout Verona and are also well-respected. There is a great deal of family loyalty from each of the family members as well as from the servants.

6) I am married to Lady Capulet although the love seems to have somewhat gone out of our relationship. Juliet is my daughter. I believe that I have her best interests at heart but we occasionally disagree on what they are. She frustrates me to the point that I can be very cruel to her. Paris is my good friend and I have a great deal of respect for him. I want him to marry Juliet because I think he will be a good influence on her. Lord Montague is my sworn enemy. I don't know why. It has simply been that way for as long as I can remember. No one really remembers how the feud got started. I respect the Prince as a governmental authority figure but I think he tends to get in the way of my business, namely settling our disputes.

7) I ultimately want to get rid of Juliet. I intend to do this by marrying her off to a man who I consider to be respectable.

8) Juliet's disobedience is preventing me from marrying her to Paris. She is constantly defying me by doing everything from ignoring Paris to simply refusing to be married.

9) I get Juliet to agree to marry Paris by threatening her. I tell her that I will disown her and throw her out of the house if she doesn't obey me.

10) I will know when I have gotten what I want when I can get an honest response from Juliet. I believe that eventually she will either see reason or be scared into compliance, either one is fine with me.

Sorry i didn't blog yesterday but i always forget on mondays. anyway i was going to answer those questions however i left them at the theatre so if somebody could email them to me by today that would be very helpful.

my email is
gandalf_thehotpink@yahoo.com

up next is cookies.

blue dog's name again?

Thanks for the brownies, Meg!!! Don't have a untensil to cut them with? A rosary will suffice. I really liked learning about the plays in Shakespeare's time, although I do not completely envy the 5,000 unbathed people in such close proximity to one another. Ceasura... my new favorite word, if I ever figure out how to pronounce it. And neutral scenes are bound to be interesting.
I bet it was helpful in Elizabethan England for the uneducated who went to see Shakespeare's shows that vowels convey emotion. Between that and the swordfights (ugh, trying not to think about the pig thing), they'd have some sense of what was going on.
It felt to me that we got a lot done today. Maybe bringing in stuffed animals and/or frighteningly large crowbars (I'm still debating with myself whether that thing can be called a crowbar) makes everyone more productive. Hmmmm.
-Ellen

Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

I didn't blog yesterday and right now I'm doing nothing but watching a Saturday Night Live rerun so here goes.

So no more breathing. Man that's gonna feel weird. As frustrating as it was for most if not all of us I'm pretty sure that it was the only time we'll be falling asleep while working.

It's really fascinating to hear what text you all decided to bring in. I think it's really cool that we get to use something personal like that. In addition to its use as an acting exercise, it's kind of a way to learn something about each other that we may not have found out otherwise.

So I was on my computer last night and I found the words to a song that could have just as easily been my text for the day. It's basically a comedy routine done to music and it gives a really good insight into all the stuff that's wrong with the world. It really is hilarious and it's called "Underwear Inside the Pants." Check it out.

Speaking of the text that I did end up using, it's by a really great local band called Pivot. I'm always trying to gain support for them by publicizing them to my friends. You can hear some of their insanely good music at myspace.com/pivot and there is a music video for the song I used on YouTube. Just type in "pivot erase it" and you'll have it (they have changed singers since the video was made but to my knowledge they still play the song at their live shows). You may not get the same emotional rise out of it that I do but still, take a look.

just got off work

Also Ellen, its called Eloisa to Abelard. Its a lot longer than the thing I brought in but its a beautiful poem. And its by Alexander Pope.

yeaaaaaaaah.

So I now realise I'm bad at blogging. Today was good. Yeah. Memorizing lines would be good. I should do that. I just got back from seeing the new Harry Potter movie. Also, good. I'm horrible at this. I'm getting some sleep. Yes thats right, it is 10:30 and I'm going to bed. Fight me.
-Will

Ooooooooooooo

Well, we all made it through Friday the 13th without major incident from "Jeff". And we did our first stumble-through of the first half. Yay! Maybe today wasn't so unlucky after all. I am gracefully going to move on from the having to "jiggle my belly while saying oooooooo" for a good 5, 10 minutes thing. Wasn't my fondest memory.
-Will, what was the title of the poem you brought in? I really liked it and I wanted to read it again.
-Victoria, I'm sorry that lady was so snobbish to you and your friend at the ADF. But your ADF shirt was pretty.
Stuffed animals-wise I have a turtle named "happy the turtle", though somewhat deformed, that I knitted this year when I was stressed and/or sad. Maybe happy the turtle can help Ian not be stressed.

Ellen

Forgot Something

Right, my screen name is
InAReverie35 for AIM

感謝閣下!

Thank the lord!

No more spending two hours of my day lying on my back breathing in and out. Okay, it wasn't that bad, but never the less, I did not enjoy it 4 straight days in a row.

Last night I went to the American Dance Festival and got to see the Paul Taylor Company and it was fabulous. One of their dances was a premiere, so I was one of the first people to get to see it. During the second intermission my friend and I went to go say hi to Paul Taylor who was sitting relatively close to us, but there was this lady who like took up the whole last five minutes. And when the lights dimmed we all started walking along, and the lady who was taking to Paul Taylor sort of lightly pushed us along and said "Sorry, it's not gonna happen sweetheart." I resisted a strong urge to trip her because she was wearing very very high red heels that were super ugly. But later when we were leaving I got to shake his hand since he was coming out from backstage. And even though his "bodyguard" was like "Mr. Taylor is on a very tight schedule." I still felt reasonably pleased. But honestly do these people think that we are going to badger him to no end about complete nonsense????? It's ridiculous. So as we were walking back to the car, my friend and I did a Z snap to the rude red high heeled lady who was not in the vicinity unfortunately. I really would have gone up to her and said something if she'd been around. I don't like grown ups like that.

One week down, two more to go. One half of the play left to block. And I'm gonna be spending this weekend with my script and cleaning tools, while we prepare our new house so we can move into it. I hate moving. It's a real pain in the arse.

Movies I recommend:
Benny and June
Ghost World
Pride and Prejudiced
Wonder Boys
Romeo and Juliet(the Leonardo DiCaprio version)
Chocolate (has Johnny Depp in it. But if you see it, but chocolate before you watch it.)

romemo

Today again, was good. Yeah. The morning stuff is becoming fairly comfortable now and not as crazy as the first days but im kinda half asleep so i just like the whole lieing down and breathing stuff. It's like a nap. I love naps. Anyway, the afternoon rehearsal was a lot of fun and getting on my feet more really helped with getting into character more but I was a little frustrated that it still doesn't feel right yet. But its only the second rehearsal so its all good. So yeah, I'm looking forward to the character work next week.
-Will Sarratt

Looking at my script today, i noticed that after mercutio dies, i have a large break. in that large break i promise to bake all of you pecan pies and flans. I must now type my monologue from memory without looking.

O then i see queen mab hath been with you. she is the fairies' midwife and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forfinger of an alderman. drawn with a team of little atomies, athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. her chariot is an empty hazelnut, the wagon spokes made of long spider's legs, the cover of the wings of grasshoppers. and in this state she gallops night by night through lover's brains who dream of love, o'er courtiers knees who dream of courtsies straight, o'er lawyers fingers who straight dream of fees, o'er ladies lips who straight on kisses dream which oft the angry mab with blisters plague for their breaths of sweetmeats tainted are. sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, of breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades, of healths, five-fathom deep. this is she--

Spider Pig

Yeah, for some reason I found our breathing/vocal exercises somewhat more enjoyable today. It most likely has something to do with the fact that I couldn't get the whole Spider-Pig concept out of my head. Seriously, every relief thought had something to do with Homer singing "Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does!" Heh heh, that movie can't come soon enough.

So really not much to say about the rehearsal portion of our day. My comment from yesterday still stands.

Everyone remember to be wary. We've already seen what the platform we have not so affectionately dubbed Jeff is capable of. Tomorrow being Friday the 13th we'd better be extra careful. We may be forced to turn it into scrap metal.

All I want is a proper cup of coffee.

I discovered a lot of new things about punctuation doing the punctuation "awareness"-we'll call it- exercises we did today. I found that whole part very interesting. In the Linklater thingy, visualizing things for a "sigh of relief" doesn't really click with me. It's more disctracting for me than anything else, but different things work for different people. What works better for me is concentrating on creating a clear black pure vibration. I am going to a preview of "The Nerd" tonight. I'll tell you all how it is!
Until tomorrow,
Ellen

i propose . . .

so you'll be an austrian nomad.

Return of the band T-shirts

Yeah sorry about not blogging yesterday. Anyway I've managed to pull myself away from the video games long enough to keep carpal tunnel from setting in so I'd figure I'd make up for lost time.

So the breathing exercises aren't quite as painful now that the puppet master seems to be deseased (or did I just jinx it?).

Eggggggggghhhhhh. I hate blocking. Seriously blocking and the first tech run are my least favorite parts of the rehearsal process. The scaffold is a definite incentive to get my lines memorized as fast as possible. I'm very interested/terrified to find out what the whole dance sequence is going to be like. Seriously this could bring back painful memories. I've done some stuff I'm not proud of in that setting. I'll just leave it at that.

I think I may have dissappointed some people by not wearing a band shirt today. Since there seems to be such a high demand I'll be sure to wear one tomorrow.

Matt

P.S. I think the next person to use the name of "the Scottish play" should be beaten without mercy.

word

Today...good.
-Will Sarratt.

Actually today was a lot of fun and its always exciting to see a show get on its feet and I think this is gonna turn out really well. The leading excersise was very interesting and (go figure) helped alot. So to sum up, today...good,exciting,helpful.
I should go learn lines

How now brown cow? I apoligize for my lack of blog yesterday. I was busy killing a tape measure-stealing goblin. TODAY IF NOT TOMORROW IS THE DAY THAT WE MUST FORGET YESTERDAY EVER HAPPENED, UNLESS OUR OWN PERSONAL TOMORROW IS THE YESTERDAY AND THE TODAY OF TODAY HOWEVER IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN TODAY NEVER HAPPENED, AND TOMORROW NEVER WILL. ALL THAT IS LEFT IS YESTERDAY BUT BECAUSE TOMORROW AND TODAY IS YESTERDAY THEN NOTHING EXISTS AND WE ARE ALL DOOMED TO THE SAME DAY FOR ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you follow me, I will give you a cupcake. Right then, I would like to say to Ian that I particulary enjoyed the character walk activity. It was (to say the least) hilarious. "Got another dead cow and i'm telling you now i'm makin a vow by the sweat of my brow to find out who and what and how and whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" (ask me to sing this to you tomorrow). I'm making a vow of my own by the vodka in Victoria's "water" bottle to memorize that monologue and preform the mess out of it by next week. Until 10:00 tomorrow I bid you adieu.

P.S.- I'm eating a flan right now. Not just any flan mind you, this, ladies and gentlemen, is a German flan.

Okay, this may be contrary to what other people think, but I really don't find the breathing exercises useful for me. I understand that it all is extremely important for being able to breathe onstage, but I feel that it is being approached in a slightly beat-around-the-bush way. However this may just be because this is my fourth year in STC and I already know how to breathe fairly well. So it's probably extremely useful for everyone else. Anyway, just my opinion on that.

Kudos to us for finishing the table read, and early too! I loved the game with the actor balls, though with too many it got a bit confusing. It evolved into something even greater when we changed to words instead of sounds. Angelina Jolie?? The which and what game is always pretty difficult, though I think it went farther and was better than any time we've played in STC so far, good job!

Really looking forward to tongue twisters today!!!

Today was fun. Although, that will probably apply to every day for the next couple of weeks, but whatever! I felt like saying it anyway.

I'm insanely happy that we finished the read through, because, even though it's sort of important to do a read through so that you can work out some kinks and crap like that, it's really boring. Of course you all could be totally different and say, yeah the read through totally rocks my world.

The breathing exercise was pretty good. Although in the middle since I'd been laying there really still for so long, I found myself wanting to just get up and start jumping around like a happy bunny. It's really hard for me to sit still for long periods of time, unless I focus real hard on it which I started doing after a bit.

The games were rather enjoyable. Not to insult my previous drama teacher who was really cool, but all the games that she had us play were all the same thing, over and over and over and over again.
Real people have real balls. Actors have acting* balls.


*I don't remember if he said acting or actor. But acting works.

*Shrug*

-Victoria

Mats for lying down on are underappreciated. Seriously.
anecdote (It relates, I promise): My friend and her family recently adopted an awesome girl from Estonia and are working on teaching her English. I was over and we were sitting on rockers on the porch and her mom asked her if she was comfortable. She didn't know what the English word comfortable meant, so her mom translated it as "happy bum". Comfortable=happy bum.

I liked today's whole "take your mind out of your breathing" concept. It just makes sense. We have instincts and I can make sure I don't die of asphyxiation without thinking about it. The really nice thing was that sometimes when I got confused about what I was supposed to be doing, we would conveniently stop for a stretch break, talk about it some more, and then get another chance to try again. The timing!
I sold sour celery from my cellar... to Sally. Alliteration gone too far? you decide.
oh, and games=fun
high fives to everyone for finishing the read-through!
-Ellen

Wie eine Obsttorte in einem Schrank

fishy! ~Meg

I despise the evil puppeteer!!! Grrrr...

So yeah. Good job on the table read, I think we've got a really good group this year! Looking forward to working with all of you!

Yay for STC! :)

Yay, I did it right!

Yeah

Okay, so... yeah. I guess this is what you're supposed to do, I'm not really sure. Hopefully this goes up. To sum it all up I don't know what I'm doing so this is just a random experiment. But, if this does get posted on the thingy-ma-bob, i just want to say that you all are a bunch of very cool people, and I'm very glad to have met you. Soo.. yup. This should be fun.

Victoria

dang, now i have officially blogged. I guess this is what the kids are talking about these days. So yeah, STC. I like this voice guy, he really seems to know what he's doing and seems to love doing it so I think he will be a good teacher. Other than that the whole thing seems like its gonna be fun. Plus there are still the awkward sexual references which are always a delight.
-Will Sarratt

These things, the first day, are always look-around-the-room-to-confirm-that-you-have-not-floated-away-into-the-World-of-Freaks-ish. I did that many times today.

Introductions... Since I missed the majority of the introductions this morning, could everyone do me (and probably each other a favor) and blog your NAME, AGE, SCHOOL, ROLE, and any other info you'd like.
Thus, I begin. Brad Guidry, 18, rising college freshman, Friar Laurence/Abraham, i'm moving to France in two months to study fashion design. I am a returning STC'er from last year's Comedy of Errors production. I played Luciana.

You all seem pretty interesting to which you can bring an aspect to this piece. Ian was right, we do have a great ensemble.

Today's Exercise... Not as weird as I am sure they are to come. Straight-forward mind-body-soul collaboration/imagination thing. It was difficult for me to stay focused-- I had to imagine myself as a teeny-tiny me, crawling up my spine. It was a good thing that I aced AP Bio and have seen the Bodies Exhibit. I do not sleep very well, which affects my posture throughout the day. As we were sitting, all the fidgety noise that you heard came from my chair and I. I had a difficult time mastering engaging my muscles to sit up straight but simultaneously relaxing my muscles so that my skeleton held me up. I may have been doing it correctly and only thought otherwise because of a weak back. I dunno.

Today's Pedagogue... He breathes funnily. Maybe that is the correct way to breathe, but it sounds funny. Now for a positive note: He did have a point about the commonplace switching of pronouns. "You" for "I" Here is a trick.. use "one" for generality. "One does this.." "One feels that.." "When one loves so-and-so.." I wonder what he would say to that.

To whom it may concern (all, duh) and to whom are not aware... The Italian Run of a production is the completely comical, on-crack, fast-forwarded version of the actual production normally held the day or so before Opening Night, to help with fluidity of lines and to dispell nervousness. We run through the entire play with the EXACT same lines, but can choose ANY action, ANY costume, ANY prop, ANY mood, ANY objective, and ANY innuendo to which you conjure <-- my favorite.


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Movies... The Fountain. Fantastic. Outstanding. Mesmorizing.

shwaaaa!

Day 1

I think I speak for most, if not all of the group, when I say that the "puppeteer" is a sadistic jerkwad. That aside I think I learned a lot from all of those exercises, chief among them that whoever said that "pain is the cleanser" was a moron. But seriously I'm willing to drop my normally pessimistic attitde because I'm sure that it will be much cooler in the coming days.

It was cool to meet all of you. I think we've got a real cool group. Let's put on a show!

ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt

P.S. It's always great to meet a fellow Tool fan. There just aren't enough of us. Also, you haven't seen the last of the rock band t-shirts. Fair warning.

i'm eating

well today was interesting wasn't it. tablework is a great big party in my pants (ligon inside joke haha to you people who don't go to ligon cause its so awesome and i would like to say that YOU LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!). On a more serious note, i would like to send out a prayer (i'm actually an atheist) to those poor people who have recently been killed on account of too thourough stip searches at the JFK airport. On a more cheerful (and perhaps serious) note i would like to thank Ian for all he is putting into this wonderful three weeks (hey Ian? I was wondering.....what's an italian run). it was great meeting you all today and i hope only to get to no you better.
Best of luck and may all of your endeavors be a roaring sucess
-Jackson Bloom

I am going to make a post about TODAY! It won't let me make a title right now, sooo...
Title: Ellen- July 9, 2007
creative, huh?
I'm really glad that I got to meet you all today (well, I had already met Matt).
I now find myself catching myself when I'm slouching, as I am prone to do (slouch, that is). Being 5'2", I liked how I felt so much taller after this morning, like a group of people had just finished playing tug-of-war with me and then propped me back up on my feet.
But if I hear the words "body mind's eye" one more time...
I wonder what it would be like to do that exercise if we didn't all have some basic knowledge of the skeletal system? If we didn't already know what bones looked like, how would we imagine them from the descriptions given in the exercise, and would we respond differently? Maybe if we didn't know what bones were like, we would have to concentrate even more on aligning them.
just something I was wondering about
-Ellen

Welcome!

Hi, all, and welcome to the 2007 Summer Theatre Conservatory. Have we got a summer for you! Besides the renown Ian Finley, who will be leading STC again this year, we have Benjamin Smith, a company member and voice teacher at the nationally respected Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA, along with a host of wonderful teachers coming in to work with you. And, you will be able to do that work in the beautiful Young People's Theatre at Ravenscroft School. Can hardly wait to meet you all and see your work develop. Have a great summer - I know you will.
-Jerome Davis/Artistic Director
Burning Coal Theatre Company

Welcome!

Welcome to STC's Actor Forum. So... what the heck is this?

Well, as much as I hate to admit it, the only way we can really cement what we learn is by reflecting on it (my brother is a psychologist and has told me this, so I know it's true). This forum provides a place to basically "journal" about what you encounter each day in class or rehearsal, to write about discoveries and ask questions. It needn't be all positive either. Expressing trouble with a concept or dislike of an exercise is just as valuable.

The other use of the forum is so that we can communicate about what we're doing in Life Outside. Are you doing another show you'd like us to come see? Post it here. Is there a movie out that you think we should all watch? Post it here. It's an easy way to let everyone know what's going on, so read and post regularly.

And eat your vegetables.

Ian