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What Is The Worst Acting Advice You've Ever Gotten?
#25re: What Is The Worst Acting Advice You've Ever Gotten?
Posted: 1/10/07 at 5:59pm
I remember another one. At the end of my very first semester of college my acting teacher, who was a fabulous woman from london, told me I needed a good F---.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#26re: What Is The Worst Acting Advice You've Ever Gotten?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 2:04am
This isn't so much advice, as it is terrible stage direction:
"Well, the singing was good. But the walking on was horrible!" - my HS musical director, while rehearsing Hello, Dolly!
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#27re: What Is The Worst Acting Advice You've Ever Gotten?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 5:07am
We were in a production of Alice in Wonderland called Wonderland!. And so in the script there's a lot of physical comedy where we actually had to grab Alice and kinda shove her little. The director was going through some crap that I still don't know much about so she left the assistant director in charge. Every time we would get near Alice in the show..."DON'T TOUCH ALICE!"....what? Why not? It says in the script that we are supposed to dosen't it? Let's go back and read it....YES! Yes it does.
KINDA OFF-TOPIC:
We also have a famous director who comes here and changes things constantly. He changes a whole dance number right before opening night. He hates kids and he is constantly playing Oliver Warbucks in Annie...??? He had his own one man show with an ensemble about two years ago and it had a gigantic kids chorus. And every time it was time for one of thier songs he would say "Okay, put your ear plugs in it's time for the kids again.". haha. I just felt like sharing that. :)
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#28re: What Is The Worst Acting Advice You've Ever Gotten?
Posted: 1/11/07 at 1:54pm
Another one for an student thing we were doing in college, and one scene had me climbing over a fence. The director said "Straddle that fence like you mean it." Ummm. OK.
SM2 - Ha - good one! I wish my director was Kristin Chenoweth! Instead it was this tarty, old community theatre diva. Think Corky St. Clair with a hoo-haa.
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