Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

#1

Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:39am

Singing...dancing...or the acting around these two?

I feel is the singing, because you need more control for this effort, since, sometimes, it's incorporated within the dancing and acting (which can leave an actor panting, if they lose control of their breathing and timing).

#2

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:40am

Soon enough, we'll have to add "rapping" or "beatboxing" to that list.

I'll go with dancing.

#3

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:40am

Writing for musical theatre performance (seriously)

#4

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:41am

Can we add "posting on BWW"?

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#5

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:43am

They are all hard...
Dancing the same thing on hours to get it down pat, then sometimes you don't pick it back up until tech performances.
Singing because in a musical, sometimes it's all you do.. You have to keep your voice fit for months
Acting because sometimes it's hard to act through lyrics, and you're sometimes physically drained from the dancing.

Personally, dancing.

#6

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:43am

Dancing. I have absolutely no skill with it. Which is why I typically stick to dramaturgy rather than embarass myself on stage when my theatre puts on (to no one's surprise) a dance heavy show.

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#7

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 2:15am

Rapping isn't too hard. At least rapping other people's words isn't very hard. I have no idea how the real hardcore hip hop guys make it up on the fly in those rap battles. That's like... crazy awesome and totally hard to do, but just learning someone else's rap, not too hard.

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#8

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 2:19am

For me, dancing. I can get it down eventually, but it takes a while for me to get it.

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#9

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 2:27am

Singing, if you want to do it properly.

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#10

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 2:30am

Acting. Especially in the round. It takes so much more energy.

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#11

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 3:04am

I'm gonna have to go with dancing... it was never for me, i have major issues with choreography...

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#12

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:04am

Dancing. I have two left feet. I nearly didn't get in to 'Pirates Of Penzance' because of my lack of dancing, but my singing made up for it, and the director decided to have non-dancing governesses, so I was saved!

I was still a better dancer than most of the men though...

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#13

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 7:45am

Oh my God, Dancing. Choreographed dancing is...arrrrrgh.

#14

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 8:07am

I would have to say dancing is the hardest because if you try out for a new Broadway show you never know what type of dancing they're going to have in it so you have to be prepared with almost every style.

#15

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 12:29pm

Dancing- for me personally, as i find the other two come a lot more natrually. And I'm dyspraxic, which just makes it even harder.

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#16

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 12:35pm

The hardest discipline is the bad side of my daddy's favorite rawhide whippin' belt.

#17

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 12:43pm

Yeah that's pretty hard too. Almost as hard as dancing.

#18

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 12:45pm

definitely dancing

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#19

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 12:58pm

They all come easy to me... I truly feel sorry for you people who have to struggle. I wish you could experience perfection like I do, it is sublime.

#20

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:04pm

Personally, dancing. But doing all three flawlessly is beyond difficult and somewhat impossible for every performer.

#21

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:09pm

It's not hard exactly, it's just not.. I don't know, it's the only thing that gives me a challenge.

#22

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:12pm

Singing-Only because I'm awful. LOL! I can dance and have acted in plays before, but never a musical for that reason alone.

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#23

re: Which musical theater discipline do you find the hardest?

Posted: 6/15/08 at 1:18pm

For me, it's singing. But none of them are easy.

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