Your small talk on stage and backstage- Page 2

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 4:29pm

justagirl- that is really funny.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 4:30pm

Justagirl-mine too. I don't know how many times I've seen it now, probably aroundd 20, but I still laugh just as hard as I did the first. Everyone in the business should see this.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 4:32pm

Before anyone does community theatre, it should be required that they watch Waiting for Guffman. My mom sat me down and practically forced me to watch it, and since then I've stolen it from her collection and watch it ALL the time. Actually, I might watch it tonight...

[singingwendy]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:38pm

When I did Music Man, I was a 'Pick a Little Lady" and so, we started the second act and then were in the background "practicing" through a lot of dialogue. We started by practicing movements but were told we were too distracting, so we changed to just discussing. Each night someone was assigned a topic...it was usually dirty AND connected to the show....such as "What instrument does Harold Hill REALLY play?" or "what do you think the title of Professor Hill's instruction manuals are?" I swear, if the audience knew what we were talking about, they'd have taken the first train out of River City!

[roquat]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 8:06pm

How about when you have to read something onstage and someone substitutes something obscene? I worked on a production of "Something's Afoot" where one character had to find an incriminating note and read it to another character. The prop person put worse and worse notes on the prop table as the run went on...things like "Why is my chest rapidly descending? Is it so long since we played 'knight storming the castle' and did it in the rose garden (ouch!) When am I going to see your bald wonder worm again?" And so on.