Be careful what you wish for...
Our play is tonight, which is both exciting and terrifying.
One of our actors, who plays "the visitor", is a commuter, and since he's only in one scene he was excused from a lot of rehearsals. "The visitor" is arguable the best character in the play. He's the most important one, so he gets four monologues which the actor could play straight or make funny. I'm usually left understudying for him, so I would yell out his lines from the director's table and not think much of it.
For our dress rehearsals/tec night I had to fill in for him because he is apparently incredibly sick. I was in full garb, on stage, with the lights burning down on me, in front of an honest-to-goodness audience who hadn't seen the play before. So I just went for it. I only knew two of his four monologues, so I ad-libbed half of it, and, apparently, I was awesome.
I made Allison fall out of her chair and onto the floor. That very well may be my crowning achievement of theater, and it was during a rehearsal.
People kept coming up to me after the show like "oh my god I thought you were just a techie, that was amazing, blah blah blah." The other members of my cast were begging the director to cut the normal actor and let me do it. It was a huge ego trip and I was walking around like the queen of fucking theater.
I just got a text message. The actor wasn't in class today, indicating that he's still sick. Either he's trying to rest up, or I have to go on tonight. Part of me is pumped for this. A lot of my friends - both La Salle and non-La Salle - are coming to see this, I got rave reviews, a good chunk of my brain is ready.
The rest of me is like "YOU ONLY KNOW TWO MONOLOGUES!" "YOU'RE NOT AN ACTOR!" "LUKE!?! LUKE'S NOT A JEDI! I LEAVE FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND EVERYONE GETS THESE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR!"
So...we'll see what happens. As long as what happens isn't that he shows up but is too sick to do the part justice and the last scene kinda fizzles out, I'll be fine. This show (and now this role) is my baby. I want it to rock people's faces off.
On a related note:
Come to Reducio Ad Abursdum tonight at the Dan Rodden Theater at 9 p.m.!
One of our actors, who plays "the visitor", is a commuter, and since he's only in one scene he was excused from a lot of rehearsals. "The visitor" is arguable the best character in the play. He's the most important one, so he gets four monologues which the actor could play straight or make funny. I'm usually left understudying for him, so I would yell out his lines from the director's table and not think much of it.
For our dress rehearsals/tec night I had to fill in for him because he is apparently incredibly sick. I was in full garb, on stage, with the lights burning down on me, in front of an honest-to-goodness audience who hadn't seen the play before. So I just went for it. I only knew two of his four monologues, so I ad-libbed half of it, and, apparently, I was awesome.
I made Allison fall out of her chair and onto the floor. That very well may be my crowning achievement of theater, and it was during a rehearsal.
People kept coming up to me after the show like "oh my god I thought you were just a techie, that was amazing, blah blah blah." The other members of my cast were begging the director to cut the normal actor and let me do it. It was a huge ego trip and I was walking around like the queen of fucking theater.
I just got a text message. The actor wasn't in class today, indicating that he's still sick. Either he's trying to rest up, or I have to go on tonight. Part of me is pumped for this. A lot of my friends - both La Salle and non-La Salle - are coming to see this, I got rave reviews, a good chunk of my brain is ready.
The rest of me is like "YOU ONLY KNOW TWO MONOLOGUES!" "YOU'RE NOT AN ACTOR!" "LUKE!?! LUKE'S NOT A JEDI! I LEAVE FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND EVERYONE GETS THESE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR!"
So...we'll see what happens. As long as what happens isn't that he shows up but is too sick to do the part justice and the last scene kinda fizzles out, I'll be fine. This show (and now this role) is my baby. I want it to rock people's faces off.
On a related note:
Come to Reducio Ad Abursdum tonight at the Dan Rodden Theater at 9 p.m.!