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Production Week: Run #4 and Sitzprobe

6 April, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fr1zz It’s 11 days till opening and 10am on Sunday morning. Other people are out there having the requisite leisurely brunch and reading the papers at any one of the many coffee shops in the city. We’re in the rehearsal studio warming up bodies to Kylie Minogue dance music. It’s then over to

Acting Notes, Cabaret, music director, orchestra, sitzprobe, warmup

Week 10: Production Week Begins

5 April, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Gird the loins for production week. Here we go. Day 1 for the acting company in the rehearsal studio, and it’s another run. This is what I want and need right now. I’ve written before here about losing momentum in an extended rehearsal period, and we’ve arrived at the time to get the arc of

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

Week 9: Tightening the Wheel Nuts

30 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: mag3737 Saturday: Goodness! Talk about feeling dazed and confused. This weekend was the first back after an Easter break, and 10 days away from the rehearsal room floor. To make matters worse, three of our company were absent; one on tour, and the others MIA. It was a difficult call given yesterday’s schedule

Acting Notes, Cabaret

Getting up close and personal

17 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

There comes a time in rehearsals when the director wants to go in close to a piece of text and refine things with the actors. Sometimes it’s because moments or a whole scene are not working as well as they might. Characters may have become becalmed and need a fresh injection of energy. Tonight was

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

That Triple-Threat Thing

14 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Image by Dramagirl via Flickr Sing, dance, and act … if you can do these equally well, you’re a triple threat according to show biz jargon. Well I’ve long known I’m an actor first and foremost. I love music and singing and always have. We’ll pass over the dance part. So here I am in

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret, jingju, triple-threat

Whoa! The first run-through? Already?

4 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: Jeremy Brooks Now time goes fast when you are enjoying yourself. We all know this. But to get an schedule standby for a first run-through makes you realise how fast time is really running. In the world of the theatre this call tends to bring on gentle hyper-ventilation and semi-moist palms. Yes, our

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

Week 2: Into the Tough Stuff

17 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

The end of another week of rehearsals. We continue working through the play, scene by scene, beat by beat developing character and relationships, exploring blocking, action and reaction. All this is familiar territory for a dramatic actor. But of course, this is a musical … enter choreography and singing calls, and it becomes tough stuff

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

13 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

The title of this post may mean something to readers (or drinkers) of a certain age. Once upon a time, there was a non-alcoholic mixer beverage called Clayton’s. To avoid having to go down a diversionary rathole to explain, you can read all about it here on Wikipedia if you like. Suffice it to say

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret, rehearsal

Rehearsals begin: workshops, complicité, and creativity

10 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Saturday was a bonding day, a day when the acting company came together to work for the first time on the stage. The Director’s approach to this production has consistently been to point us towards the notion of the reality of the historical events surrounding this play, and the impact those events had upon the

Acting Notes, Actors and Acting, Cabaret, rehearsal, theatre

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” or trying to sound like it.

8 February, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

I had my first accent coaching session with a German colleague yesterday. She’s a native of Berlin, teaches German language at university here in Australia, but has been immersed in an English-sounding world for around 10 years or so. As a result of this, I had to ask her to work at strengthening her German

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

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Production Week: Run #4 and Sitzprobe

Week 10: Production Week Begins

Week 9: Tightening the Wheel Nuts

Getting up close and personal

That Triple-Threat Thing

Whoa! The first run-through? Already?

Week 2: Into the Tough Stuff

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

Rehearsals begin: workshops, complicité, and creativity

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” or trying to sound like it.