Marginalia – Page 114

The Voice Warmup

19 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

This is the most popular post on the blog. I continue to add to it with hotlinks and further comment on one of the more important skills for the actor. Scribbles to Myself (April 2008) So the voice is on my mind right now, not only because of my own recent scare in the run

Acting Notes, Asides, training, voice warmup, voice workout

Second night blues? Nope.

19 April, 2008
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Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Tonight clicked. There’s an old theatre furphy about second night being less good than opening night … or at least they can leave the actor feeling a bit ‘off’ and thus the performance is less good. I’m here to tell you that our second night was better than the first. The acting ensemble are firing,

Asides, audiences, Cabaret

Opening Night

18 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Is there anything more glamorous in theatre jargon that the phrase ‘opening night.’ Heck Broadway show tunes (Another Opening Another Show: Kiss Me Kate) and even whole shows (42nd Street; A Chorus Line; maybe even The Producers) have been written about this particularly thrilling time in the life of a stage actor. Tonight was ours.

A Chorus Line, Asides, Cabaret