Comments | deird1: Making Up Lines

deird1

Making Up Lines

Feb 16, 2010 09:25

Had rehearsals last night.

The scene I'm in is one long party sequence. And yes, I have many lines, but I have even more time standing around in the background murmuring to people in vague having-a-conversation tones.

After a while, you run out of stuff to say to each other. Some people have been just saying what they're saying ("Pretty dress, ( Read more... )

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mabus101 February 15 2010, 22:34:26 UTC

It almost sounds like you've become a Sim. *chuckle*

deird1 February 15 2010, 23:00:51 UTC

It really does... :)

aisalynn February 15 2010, 23:10:53 UTC

Haha. I remember dong scenes like that when I was in Fiddler On the Roof. We had this crazy dream sequence that the director wanted to be really out there, so we'd dig through the weird props back stage come out with a different joke every time. We were supposed to be murmuring unintelligibly the whole time, so we'd just tried to come up with weirder and weirder stuff to do.

riccadonna February 15 2010, 23:14:40 UTC

That reminded me of a nice thing from my past, too long to tell and not so interesting, but thank you because it was sweet for me.
Coincidence: today I was on massive ironing duty, and I watched/listened the last three episodes of S4, which included the image in your icon!

beer_good_foamy February 15 2010, 23:48:26 UTC

Just out of curiosity - is "incy-wincy spider" an Aussie version? I've always been told it's "itsy bitsy spider" in English, and it always seemed wrong to me given the version I learned as a kid... I definitely like yours better.

Which is an odd remark. I've had schnapps beer.

ETA: the whole party scene thing sounds like lots of fun though. On a scale from 1 to 10, what's the temptation to say something really inappropriate in a perfectly normal tone of voice and see how the others react?

lavastar February 16 2010, 00:50:06 UTC

Just out of curiosity - is "incy-wincy spider" an Aussie version? I've always been told it's "itsy bitsy spider" in English, and it always seemed wrong to me given the version I learned as a kid

Seconded.

the whole party scene thing sounds like lots of fun though. On a scale from 1 to 10, what's the temptation to say something really inappropriate in a perfectly normal tone of voice and see how the others react?

Oh, majorly seconded! I'm getting some crazy ideas right now.

deird1 February 16 2010, 00:54:48 UTC

Wait - seconded as in you know it as "itsy bitsy spider"? Really?

lavastar February 16 2010, 01:30:25 UTC

Ummmmm duh? That's the way it goes.

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lavastar February 16 2010, 00:51:10 UTC

I like hearing about your plays - for some reason, I love the idea of acting, even though I never did it after theatre camp as a kid.

(Although I did sets in high school, so that may be it. I dunno.)

stormwreath February 16 2010, 01:58:26 UTC

This one time, at theatre camp?...

;-)

lavastar February 16 2010, 02:16:35 UTC

Ewwwwww, I was like 7!! You're gross. *iz grossed*

...funny how I've never seen any of those movies but have stalked Aly interviews enough to get the reference. o.O

stormwreath February 16 2010, 02:24:21 UTC

If you've not seen the films you might not know that
Aly (Michelle) tells all sorts of mundane, non-rude, nerdy, pretty-boring-actually anecdotes about her time at band camp that would be perfectly suitable for a 7-year old to do.

It's only the one right at the end of the film - pretty much its punchline, in fact, - that involved a flute being used for a non-musical purpose. :-)

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