Besides dress rehearsals, what do actors do to warm up before a perfomance?- Page 3

[Mistress_Spouzic]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 1:29am

i usually pace... psych myself up since I dont love performing in front of live audiences.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 1:44am

Gosh just thinking of getting ready for a show again is enough to make me sweat! I'd eat a bagel like 4 hours before the show and not eat again till after it, then make sure I have everything, get there, if it is a play, 2 hours beforehand and sit on the stage. I like being surrounded by the set to get me into the element and then run a scene that I am less confident with just to make sure that I got it.

Then I get dressed 30 minutes before and make sure everything is perfect by 15 minutes and then just calm down and keep going over what I have to do onstage!

For a musical, I'd get there an hour before and warm up and walk around and see everyone to keep cool. Fun times! I miss them.

[wickedfreak]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 1:55am

I try to remail as calm as possible and stay focused on the show at all times while at the theater. I mentally go through the show in my head and map out what I do and drink tons of Fiji Water.

[arykahmarye]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 2:53am

In previous shows i did, it was very common for someone to hold a prayer circle about 20 minutes before the show. Most of the cast would join in. Except us Catholics. We'd sit in a corner and talk about how we didn't need to pray for this kind of thing.


One show, i didn't go on until after 8 PM, so a couple of the girls and i would watch Jeopardy to keep our nerves down. During Footloose, i brought in CDs of '80s music for the cast to sing along and dance to.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 3:47am

AFTER 8:00 PM?!?!


OMG, That's CRAZY?!?





How did you ever stay up that late?

[2373]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 10:04am

Question:

Are most of you doing school shows and the like with short runs?? I do really long contracts (8 shows a week) and by the time I am 4 months in, warming up has gone out the window.

I just get to the theatre at half hour, put on my face, mic and costume and have about 5 minutes to laugh with the other girls in my show and off we go.

Is that bad?

[ccpdramaking]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 10:19am

You really should continue to warm up, even though it seems pointless in long running shows, when your voice is used to the parts. Warming up will make your voice sound so much clearer and crisper. But if you don't have time to warm up, just hum a note like a foghorn and then oscillate the pitch while you're in the shower in the morning, before you've talked very much.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 10:23am

I usually get there about and hour and a half before the show. I stretch/warm up, get dressed, and do my make up. Then I go over my lines really quickly (It makes me feel better). I also try to say hi to everyone else before the show. Then I just sit quietly and listen to music.

[2373]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 10:38am

I have danced in 2 shows in Las Vegas and both those shows had mandatory warmups and I always hated that. We are all different and my Dance Captains always focused on warming up parts of the body that I didn’t need to warm up and ignored other parts that I needed to warm up desperately.
My warm up but not work for you and yours might not work for me.

I think I told you guys that the Narrator on my tour of “Joseph” (nameless) told one of our chorus girls to stop warming up because it was pointless. “You girls don’t even do anything in this show.”

WTF?? I swear I almost knocked her out…

I know I should always warm up; but after a while, my body knows exactly what to do and I feel like I don’t need to. I am sure it will catch up with me later down the line, though.

[HearMeWhispering]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 2:12am

Wow thats just amazing...like it really is.

[Fiyero2]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 8:46am

-I get there really early and as I'm doing hair/make-up I really really think about becoming the charachter. I warm-up mentally and phsically. There's always showtunes blasting in the dressing room (Last show i did it was SA). I think it's really important to get into character and relax. And like a few others i always go to the bathroom and pray at "places"!