Vocabulary
ACTORBATICS: Making big strong choices in order to show off that you are making big strong choices. Happens when you are so proud of yourself for a line reading that you push it. We want fat-free, efficient acting. Not actorbatics. – Greg M.
Good Tip
from Jill A’s Clinic Rehearsal Report on 10/20/10:
“ . . . my husband helped me memorize by doing frozen readings in the car. I have never memorized something so easily. Such a great new tip! I forgot we were only doing scene 2 so I memorized both. Not bad!”
What’s Your Thought on ‘Titty?’
Dear Les,
Here are notes from tonight. Great class . . . so much fun working on material where we can just commit and go balls to the walls. Lesly, you were missed. I don’t think I’m alone in saying the only thing that could have made this night more entertaining would have been hearing you yell, “What’s your THOUGHT?!?!” On the line, “Eat the TITTY!!!!” – Caity Engler
Thoughts From Todd Stashwick on Auditioning
- An audition is just an opportunity to act. You don’t need to add a bunch of stress and anxiety to it.
- Your reaction to them saying “Good job” is more important than if they mean it or not.
- All you have control over is your acting, so make sure that doesn’t suck.
- You can’t spell ‘Flake’ without L.A.
- Your career is not based on one audition or one job. You can’t be worried about the one you didn’t get, you need to be worrying about the one you’re gonna get.
- An audition is like throwing a Frisbee out a window, you never know where it’s going to land.
- If you can fulfill the artist within you elsewhere, you can walk into any audition warm and just be able to have fun.
- You are your own barometer for if you did well or not. Did you have fun? Did you do what you needed to do? Were you present in the moment? The only barometer for what they really thought of you is if you booked the job or not. So don’t bother trying to read it yourself when you walk out of the room.
- Rather than turning auditions into job opportunities, why not turn them into acting opportunities? That’s what you like doing more anyway.
- You have to find a way to make auditioning enjoyable to you. They can smell it if it’s not.
- Desperation makes a dick go soft faster than anything else.
- If you don’t dig it, don’t do it.
New Vocabulary
ac·tor·ba·tion [ak-ter-bey-shuhn] –noun
1. the process of performing a scene from a stage play, motion picture or television broadcast by oneself.
2. the public performance of a scene with the total disregard of another actor or actors.
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Origin:
2010 – Daved Wilkin’s head
Who Knew Acting Could Be Fun?
“. . . Once we started rehearsing the scene, we ONLY DID THE FIRST PAGE, which I think was the best decision we’ve made in any rehearsal so far. When you do the whole scene it’s easy to fall back into old mistakes and not make progress. However, when you take one small bit and focus on it, it’s much easier to focus and really work on your thoughts and you can really see the progress. . . . I REALLY had fun….who knew acting could be fun……?” – Andrew
Miscellaneous Quotes from Tuesday Nights
Lesly: “Sense memory is just a rehearsal tool. It tells you how you might be, how your heart, breath or voice behaves in that emotion.”
Lesly: “Some actors want to protect their voice so much that they ignore what the writing is asking for. They see everyone else as the enemy.”
Vikki K: “When you put yourself down, you give everyone else a platform to judge themselves.”
Lesly’s Tuesday Night Class: “Pavarotti used to get up every morning and sing a note, because he would awake in a panic thinking he had lost his voice.”
“How many actors does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to do it and 19 others to say how much better they would have done it.”
“Self-degradation: Don’t try to beat someone else to the punch by being mean to yourself. Nobody is throwing punches.”
Vikki K: “Every baby is born with light and genius; life, especially Hollywood, challenges you to keep it alive.”
Kathryn G: “Why am I an actor if I have problems with emotional access? Ah yes. ‘Cuz I’m a really good memorizer.”
Todd was worrying about money, but once he decided to undergo the “experiment” of ignoring the problem, it stopped being a problem.
Fly
From Lesly’s Tuesday Night Class Minutes on 2.16.10 (probably from Tiffany E):
Question: Should you enter the room thinking “keep my pace up?” Or should you enter like one of these guys: http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing/videos/flying-high-in-aerials-and-moguls_116224g127420-Su.html.
I’m Confused…
From Lesly’s Thursday Ongoing:
MALLORY: I keep getting in car accidents. I have problems with depth perception.
JAY: You should get whiskers.
LESLY: Huh?
JAY: You know. Like a cat.
Play the Colors
From Tiffany E‘s notes from Lesly’s Tuesday Ongoing Starring Jay Lacopo on May 25, 2010:
“As actors, we can be honest through the whole scene. As special actors, we can be dynamic. If we’re watching a a scene, and we see what one person is playing, we give our attention to the other actor. We need to have a thousand different colors, so that each time the audience tries to look away, they can’t.”
