I have not been writing for quite some time now…first of all because I think a blog about how I went to Disneyland in my break has nothing to do with the topic and second….well because the first week back was kind of like the last week before Xmas. Kind of nothing really exiting.
I am saying this now, knowing that tons of exciting stuff happened but I am not writing this to document all the cool things that happened. I am writing this as my first ever show log, so I can look back if I want to and see what actually happened, what I did n this or that situation and all that. Oh and then I am getting marked on it but well…
So we are obviously on the real stage now with the real set and let me tell you it’s fantastic. The set is even more glorious than I imagined. The stage is huge, bigger than I remembered it and sometimes it can be a bit intimidating, but then again, its just a stage, right?
I still have trouble with the one Chino / Maria scene, the important one. It seems like some things that I feel work for me do not work for the audience, but then when something seems to work well for the director I feel like its total crap. It is really hard to get so worked up over something with so little time on stage and almost no dialogue at all. It makes this role very challenging, but I am up for this challenge and I am doing the best I can. I am currently trying different things to have the right mindset when I get into the scene, but the break between the two acts does not do me any good either. It is somehow impossible to keep up the tension after the rumble over the 20 min break and into the next half. One of the things that work pretty well is trying to physically exhaust me to a level where I have to breathe heavily and then go into the scene like I just ran half a marathon. It makes the speaking a lot harder, but that’s what chino is struggling within the scene so its kind of faking the circumstances right. I am not a big fan of pretending to be out of breath. It does not really give me satisfying results, so I try to get the real deal.
I think I will post more in this next week, but let me end on a funny thing that happened today. One of the performers did a backflip today and his very big and impressive wig got loose and flew all across the stage. Like a real pro her carried on, but the creative team and all the people working backstage eventually brought the house down with their laughter.