Posted: 11/13/18 at 9:26am
I have a recurring stress dream where I'll be in a play (in last night's case, David Ive's The Liar) and I won't know any of the lines and I'll be on stage, trying to do my best. Has anyone ever had any theatre-related dreams like that?
Posted: 11/13/18 at 10:39am
this is so embarrassing but i have been having a reoccurring dream where i got cast as cady heron in the national tour of mean girls. it’s probably related to the fact that i’m stressed cause it’s mid-terms and my subconscious just wants me to retreat to a safer place lmao
Posted: 11/13/18 at 10:49am
Calling Sondheimite: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1111998#5088270
My fave thread this year.
Posted: 11/13/18 at 10:56am
raddersons said: "Calling Sondheimite:https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1111998#5088270
My fave thread this year."
that is my favorite thing i’ve seen all week, hands down
Posted: 11/15/18 at 5:44pm
Posted: 11/16/18 at 5:51am
Alex Kulak2 said: "I have a recurring stress dream where I'll be in a play (in last night's case,David Ive'sThe Liar) and I won't know any of the lines and I'll be on stage, trying to do my best. Has anyone ever had any theatre-related dreams like that?"
It's a classic happening to actors, referred to AS the actor's nightmare. There's an excellent one act play about it.
The Actor's Nightmare is a short comic play by Christopher Durang. It involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he doesn't know any of the lines. (And the play keeps switching)
Posted: 11/16/18 at 12:09pm
I never have theatre related dreams which is odd, since my life is made up of theatre. But when I do it’s always the same one. It’s dancing through life at wicked, and whoever plays fieyro breaks his stomach (yes I know weird lmao) right before the song starts, and they call on a random auidence member and It’s always me, and It’s so stressful lol
Updated On: 11/16/18 at 12:09 PM
Posted: 11/18/18 at 3:51pm
A few weeks ago I dreamt I was in Come From Away. I was sitting in the "airplane" and thinking hmmm, I don't know any of my lines or songs. Oddly, I wasn't at all stressed. I just thought, well they wouldn't have hired me if I didn't know what I was doing, so I must know my lines - I'll just go with it. Then the dream morphed and it was a tech rehearsal or something (maybe for the touring company?) and I wasn't an actor anymore - I was a production assistant or maybe a stage manager and I was standing in for an actor who couldn't be there, they just needed someone to do the blocking for the lights or whatever. All the others were the real actors, and when it came time for my character to sing his song, my scene partner sang my part and I tried to lip-synch as well as I could. I woke up laughing.
