Highlighting Lines
Highlighting Lines
#0Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:02pm
Do you or don't you
i do not
Sorry if this is on the wrong board but I couldn't decide.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#2re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:07pmThere is nothing wrong with highlighting lines (or not highlighting them)
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#3re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:09pmI don't, usually because I have to give the script back at the end of the production.
aspiringguy715
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/04
#4re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:11pm
I highlight, and specifically ask for a photo copy or my own copy of the script. I take extensive notes as to emphasis, character development, physical motion, etc.
I'm a nerd like that though. 
#6re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:14pm
"I take extensive notes as to emphasis, character development, physical motion, etc."
I'll do this too but I don't highlight.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#8re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:31pm
depending on where the script is from
MTI- no
Tams-whitmark- no
(cause they charge if you do)
Sam French-yes cause you or the theatre keeps the scripts
Dramatic Publiching-yes
like i said it depends where its from
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chauvelin128
Understudy Joined: 5/11/04
#9re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:34pmI always do...it helps me when I still have book in hand to find my line quickly and get my face back in the air so I can stay aware of what's going on around me.
#10re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:35pmEvery time I get a script that I can keep, I get highlighter happy. I usually color code my script. All my songs are one color, then all the lines alternate colors.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#11re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:40pmMe too, Diva. I just had to do one yesterday - lines pink, songs blue, stage direction yellow. :)
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Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#12re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 5:52pm
I do. And then I count the number of lines I have versus my co-stars, write it in the margin and tell them that I've got a bigger (and therefore more important) part and for them to kiss my ass all the way to my new private dressing room.
(Yellow highlighting goes great with green with jealousy, no?)
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#13re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 6:52pm
If I'm keeping the script, I go highlighter happy IMMEDIATELY. I love highlighting lines. Lines in blue, stage directions in green.
Am I the only one who TOTALLY FREAKS OUT when I highlight someone else's line by accident? It makes me want to buy a new script and start over. :P
Must...be...organized...
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#14re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 7:20pmActually it is annoying when you highlight someone else's line. And I only highlight if it's a script I can keep, obviously.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#15re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:05pmi highlight my lines in one color and my understudy lines in another (this was a trainwreck in annie since it was every single male line)
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#16re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:09pmI highlight my name at the beginning of each line as long as it's a phtocopy. I don't highlight each and every word. That's a little much.
lyfeisacabaret
Understudy Joined: 8/18/04
#17re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:25pmI highlight my lines no matter what... then i claim that I lost it at the end of the show and pay the fee for the lost script... much easier than photocopying. lol.
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#18re: Highlighting Lines
Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:36pmtams-witmark scripts are horrendous! They only give the actor his lines and the cue lines. I am a cameo in "applause" but I wanna see the whole script, the scene before mine, etc.
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