Monday, July 19, 2010
"....baby remember my name?"
A line from the musical FAME. I decided to challenge myself this summer. Everyone kept telling me "You need an outlet" (I have been spending the last year at home with my mom) "Do something for YOU." sooooo I decided to audition for our local theater company's summer production of FAME. I have never acted before. I am a trained singer but singing in church has been the majority of my experience. I was scared, but I auditioned. I got a part! Partly thrilled and mostly SCARED TO DEATH, I embarked on this adventure. We have been rehearsing since the first week on June. 2-4 nights per week. Learning my songs wasn't too bad, after all, singing is my 'thing,' but the acting part! Holy Cow. It's hard. I think I have my lines memorized, but then I am told I am emphasizing the wrong word in the sentence/phrase. So then I work on this. Long story short. I am struggling. I am disappointed in myself. I am embarrassed. Thankfully, I realize that in eternity, no one will ask how I performed in FAME. Thankfully, God will only care if I remembered HIS name and if I shared it with those around me.
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I'm sure you will be FABULOUS! We can't wait to see it. Sandy, Julian, Todd and I are coming Wednesday night. If I can give you any acting tips let me know, but I don't want to interfere with what your director is telling me. My only advice is that when I act, I never even think about what word to emphasize, I just 'feel', I become the character, and then its just 'natural' and the right words are emphasized. You have to put 'leni' away, and think about your character, who she is, what she has gone through in her life, what she is feeling at the moment, and then, just speak.
ReplyDeleteI meant 'what your director is telling YOU, not 'me'.
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