tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62986691864701948122023-11-15T05:48:42.200-08:00I'll Do Anything Stupid Twice.StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-45570060256722556052016-04-18T06:36:00.001-07:002016-04-18T06:38:04.798-07:00... and the Close.<p dir="ltr">So it's the closing of another show. It's something that always has to remind me that theater is a temporary medium, it has to change or go away, otherwise (at least for me) it's not worth it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">You know this going in, but it doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to another cast, another show, another moment of our lives. But I don't think I could ask for anything else. </p>
<p dir="ltr">That's what makes theater so special. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Onto the next one.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's a transient feel, a transient career.<br>
Samantha Watson</p>
StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-42376455160735773022016-02-04T03:59:00.001-08:002016-02-24T04:41:08.218-08:00Blurry Days<p dir="ltr">I'm at the point where my life starts running together. Class during the day, rehearsal at night, and traveling auditions on the weekend. Days are the same days but different days, in different places, and my schedule is too packed for this to be enjoyable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Which is kind of, nice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes, fatigue is is a thing, but so is stamina. My insomnia doesn't kick in, I fall face down on a soft surface and sleep.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then I wake up, and do it again.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Complaining about working, even extends to actors.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><i>It seems magical, but that's what's beautiful about it, is that it's not. It's deliberate, it's a choice.</i><br>
<b>Jeremy Bobb</b></p>
StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-61185875931855239122016-01-20T07:38:00.001-08:002016-02-24T04:42:14.746-08:00Rehearsals Are the Best<p dir="ltr">Rehearsal is one of my favorite times due to the fact that is where all the memories come from. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tongue slips, finding out things that are funny, that's what rehearsal is for. One of my personal favorites from myself: the line is "you're a lesbian", what did I say, "I'm a lesbian" right in the middle of this emotionally poignant scene. The entire cast grinded to a stop for about 5 minutes because nobody could stop laughing. </p>
<p dir="ltr">It was the most productive use of time I've ever seen.</p>
<p dir="ltr">These are the moments most people don't get to see what is y one of the reasons why I keep coming back it's the shared memories.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><i>The thing that brings people back to this work is the undeniable beauty of a group of people choosing to make something happen together, to make one thing happen. And it's beautiful</i><i><b>.</b></i><br>
<b>Jeremy Bobb</b><br>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-30112983756640129732016-01-02T21:38:00.003-08:002016-02-24T04:43:18.673-08:00Actors and New Years Resolutions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">
A lot of actors have goals for the next year, get on a TV series, or star in a regional production. However, things like that are not things I make goals for. In my world, goals have to be things that you can achieve by yourself (or with a little help from your friends). </div>
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Things like getting a role or being the star are partially out of your control, so you can work your ass off and still not achieve it. </div>
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I have one goal for 2016: To live a more honest life (at least on stage).</div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-51560262860530603772015-12-28T11:42:00.001-08:002016-04-18T06:35:57.516-07:00The Open...<p dir="ltr">Those moments in life when the world pauses for that moment. I find the really poignant and big points of reflection. I think of them as mini catharsis, points of clarity in a cloudy world that we called life.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I always break my show warm-up into 4 parts: the body, the voice, the show, and the spirit. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Body.<br>
I work on stretching out and relaxing my physical body. Just getting ready for whatever the show requires. I usually do this without sound or music, to focus on the task at hand. Even though meditation is more along the spirit lines, I usually try to stick 5-10 mins. on the stage itself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Voice.<br>
In a <u>musical</u>, I'll use the piano on my phone to dial into some notes, then glance at my music and last run's notes. For a play, I do 5-10 mins. of articulation tricks. The big part of this section is not to overwork yourself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Show.<br>
This is the time when I connect myself back to my character. A lot of the times of the characters that has traits that are not like mine, and just embracing those quirks. This is also when I hand with others.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Spirit.<br>
I spent the last 25 minutes, before 5, listening to a very specific playlist they just relaxes me. I would like to say my pre-show jitters usually hits (if they do hit) right when the house opens so the music helps. During this time I just focus on delivering the greatest show, no matter how big, small, or non-existence the audience is.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There's a reason why I'm always the first one in the theatre. I need the time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Acting is very much this element of escape. This need to break away. <br>
Jack Ellis</p>
StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-18221838995896302015-12-28T11:25:00.001-08:002015-12-28T11:25:01.821-08:00Tech Week (Throwback Unpublished post)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Note: I forget to published this so long ago (June 2015), so here it is as a throwback post.</b><br />
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Most of the time, tech week is referred to as hell week; a time where all the parts of the production are put together and blended in a blender for beautiful production by opening night. This time its been promising, no we're not done with the run so I don't know how well its going to be but this is the smoothest I ever had it. The first weekend finished on a high point with a cast "party". The second weekend ended with a two-hour strike, (or clearing the theatre of our production) and the stage being completely clean and empty.</div>
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Another wonderful production closed. Another opportunity in the works.</div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-42316996768710137022015-12-28T11:15:00.003-08:002015-12-28T11:16:19.139-08:00Let's Be Honest <div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part and parcel of being an actor is to be nomadic, to miss the odd wedding, </span>birthday<span style="font-family: inherit;">, to say to your partner, I do miss you. I love you, but I have to be a </span>thousand<span style="font-family: inherit;"> miles away, </span>cause<span style="font-family: inherit;"> this is what I love, this is what I do. </span></i></div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-74417239494180027722015-07-12T11:35:00.001-07:002016-01-02T21:39:11.605-08:00Musings On Not Acting Currently<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">
Sometimes I enjoy working backstage (not as an actor), expecially when I get to see the process from first read to final performance (and everything else in between) more like an outsider. Watching the changes the actors go through, the process. The puzzle pieces getting found and put together to form a completed pictures. <br />
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Maybe it keeps me humble. I know I'm not the greatest actor in the world (yet!); I also know that, for me, part of learning is seeing an example and/or a fantastic, in-depth description. Watching other actor act (and other performers doing other things) is (according to my professors) <i><i><b>essential</b></i> to be a better actor (or performer). Thats why so many "theatre experts" tell you to see more theatre; I think they're right.</i></div>
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Sometimes a break (at least from acting is good). However I have a hard time taking a break from theatre in general.</div>
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Any day in a theatre is a good day for me.</div>
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<i>I am amazed all over again by how magnified this project's importance has become, far beyond its being a play.</i></div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-27025991119056913532015-06-21T15:14:00.002-07:002015-06-21T15:15:45.327-07:00Happiness<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You know that moment, all the sudden it just hits you, you're generally happy because you're doing something that you love. It makes you happy and being happy makes you happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Damnit! I shouldn't be this happy for sitting in a chair for 3 hours and writing but I am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm driving home and I keep smiling because I'm fucking ecstatic at this point. There's no rhyme or reason to it, I'm just simply happy. If this is all that takes for me to be happy, how much does that make me a simple soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not very often that I actually get to be happy for no apparent reason. This is nice.</span></div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-24838420013147943912015-06-12T15:15:00.000-07:002015-06-21T15:16:41.929-07:00Workin'<div dir="ltr">
Being a working actor is one of my favorite feelings in the world.</div>
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Nothing makes me more excited than getting a phone call from someone that wants you to work on a project or that you got the role.</div>
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It doesn't mention the work ahead, there's plenty, but it's just your joy, the ecstasy of having something to do that makes you happy. Yes, rehearsals can be hard, memorization (at least for me) is hard. </div>
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But you know what, nothing in this world worth having is easy. It makes me so euphoric, like I'm in a musical and I'm going to sing about love.</div>
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There are some advantages to this crazy world we call show business.</div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-62907217611767353362015-06-09T10:05:00.001-07:002015-07-12T11:38:03.142-07:00Musings On Not Liking Certain People <div dir="ltr">
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Realizing the fact that just because you don't like someone, does not make you a horrible person. It simply means you have an opinion, which isn't always necessarily a bad thing. </div>
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Sometimes there are just "wrong" people for your life. Don't let anyone manipulate you into thinking that you have to like someone; yes you should in fact know how to work with people you don't like, but that's a different skill set. </div>
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At the end of the day all you can do is keep doing you! (And keep the body count low [JK])</div>
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<i>When</i><i> dealing with</i> <i>people</i><i>, </i>rem<i>ember you are not dealing </i>with<i> </i><i>creatures </i><i>of</i><i> logic, but</i>, cr<i>eatures of </i><i>emotion.</i></div>
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StageSerenityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809310385066576586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298669186470194812.post-68962942094103994002015-06-01T12:56:00.001-07:002015-06-12T09:00:17.321-07:00What On Earth Is This Blog About?<div dir="ltr">
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Well this blog is the place where I can collect my thoughts, idea, and concepts on Theatre in general.<br />
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I'm writing this so I can talk about people and things. (That some people know exactly who/what I'm talking about.) I'm not going to names names, but I am going to talk about my frustrations in a logical-ish manner and maybe, possibly, even address some solutions or other ways to go about them.<br />
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If you're smart enough to figure out who I am, (I'm not trying too particularly hard to<i> not </i>say who I am), if you could not tell everyone who I am, that would be great.<br />
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<i>I want to make a name for myself. I’ll make it out of a pseudonym.</i></div>
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