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Radio Drama Performance
Dec. 2nd, 2004 10:27 amThese last few days have been a flurry of activity. Now it's over and I'm a little sad. It was sure hot in that room! I was glad I was wearing short sleeves. Monday night at tech rehearsal which we also ended up dressing for, our director Frank was making last minute costume changes for a few people who blended in with the set. Johnnie, who works in the VoiceTrax office and is also the person I went to Beach Blanket Babylon auditions with a couple of months ago, sang two Christmas songs after intermission and had a lovely bronze flowing outfit that Frank decided didn't work. She came out in a second outfit that wasn't as elegant but was plum colored. He liked that. She didn't have a hat to go with it. I was already a little uncomfortable with my purple sequin hat with the feathers because everyone else in the cast had something a little more cloth and less sparkly. I told her to try my hat with her outfit and it worked! Someone else said they had a beret the right color for my outfit so we decided to go with that. You'll see how much better it worked in the pictures. My hat really was more for a night club singer.
Dress rehearsal night we had eight people show up as our test audience. The main character in the crime drama had his wife and two little kids show up. Awww, they were cute! Kids are wonderful test audiences. If we are engaging them, we're doing our job. They were very attentive to that whole play. Strangely enough we lost them a bit during the Santa Claus story. That was a good thing to experience. Last night we dialed up the energy we put into it.
Performance last night was interesting. We hadn't thought the crime drama was funny, but the audience of 120 people kept laughing. I guess by today's standards, the show was kind of funny. I got laughs with my ambulance nurse character. I had four lines and a bunch of grunts. To get the right sound, I had to physically do the things I was doing in the story. The audience thought that was funny. Most people put new nuances into their parts that really made the whole thing good. There were a few mistakes. You could tell the actors with stage fright because they messed up a bit. Two of them sat down before their last line in a scene and dashed up in time to put them in. LOL A few words were goofed up. Part of a live show is to roll with mistakes and make them work. We did.
Miracle on 34th Street went better than the dress rehearsal. The one obvious mistake I heard made the courtroom scene work better! The prosecutor was supposed to interrupt Kris Kringle talking about the meaning of Christmas and be shushed by the courtroom (those of us in our seats) and she jumped her cue. A few of us shushed her, including me. Then when she interrupted again a couple of lines later EVERYONE shushed her and it was great because the intensity built up! I didn't slip out of my high pitched little girl voice once. Some nuances (feelings) I'd written into my script were stronger for some reason, just like everyone else's. Something about a live audience does that. I didn't flub one word! WHEW!
The long Carnation Evaporated Milk commercial I did at the end flowed, too. I was supposed to "puke" it at high speed with a HUGE smile just the way commercials were done back then. It was a really fun way to do a commercial! So different from the way commercials are done now.
Samantha came up after and told me I was the best one up there. I bet she told everyone that. LOL
Before we went in, Sam came into the green room and told us that there were a couple of agents in the audience, a couple of radio stations sent people and KQED, our local PBS station had someone there. We weren't filmed, but gosh wouldn't that be COOL? We all want to do it again. It's SO much fun!
Eric took a few pictures. He had a hard time getting good ones. Most are too blurry to use. He also tends to put people's heads right in the middle of the picture so you never see their feet. Oh well. After looking at them, I have to say I'm glad I didn't know how much my chin disappears into my fat when I hold the script the way we were instructed. I might have been distracted by that.
( a few pictures )
Dress rehearsal night we had eight people show up as our test audience. The main character in the crime drama had his wife and two little kids show up. Awww, they were cute! Kids are wonderful test audiences. If we are engaging them, we're doing our job. They were very attentive to that whole play. Strangely enough we lost them a bit during the Santa Claus story. That was a good thing to experience. Last night we dialed up the energy we put into it.
Performance last night was interesting. We hadn't thought the crime drama was funny, but the audience of 120 people kept laughing. I guess by today's standards, the show was kind of funny. I got laughs with my ambulance nurse character. I had four lines and a bunch of grunts. To get the right sound, I had to physically do the things I was doing in the story. The audience thought that was funny. Most people put new nuances into their parts that really made the whole thing good. There were a few mistakes. You could tell the actors with stage fright because they messed up a bit. Two of them sat down before their last line in a scene and dashed up in time to put them in. LOL A few words were goofed up. Part of a live show is to roll with mistakes and make them work. We did.
Miracle on 34th Street went better than the dress rehearsal. The one obvious mistake I heard made the courtroom scene work better! The prosecutor was supposed to interrupt Kris Kringle talking about the meaning of Christmas and be shushed by the courtroom (those of us in our seats) and she jumped her cue. A few of us shushed her, including me. Then when she interrupted again a couple of lines later EVERYONE shushed her and it was great because the intensity built up! I didn't slip out of my high pitched little girl voice once. Some nuances (feelings) I'd written into my script were stronger for some reason, just like everyone else's. Something about a live audience does that. I didn't flub one word! WHEW!
The long Carnation Evaporated Milk commercial I did at the end flowed, too. I was supposed to "puke" it at high speed with a HUGE smile just the way commercials were done back then. It was a really fun way to do a commercial! So different from the way commercials are done now.
Samantha came up after and told me I was the best one up there. I bet she told everyone that. LOL
Before we went in, Sam came into the green room and told us that there were a couple of agents in the audience, a couple of radio stations sent people and KQED, our local PBS station had someone there. We weren't filmed, but gosh wouldn't that be COOL? We all want to do it again. It's SO much fun!
Eric took a few pictures. He had a hard time getting good ones. Most are too blurry to use. He also tends to put people's heads right in the middle of the picture so you never see their feet. Oh well. After looking at them, I have to say I'm glad I didn't know how much my chin disappears into my fat when I hold the script the way we were instructed. I might have been distracted by that.
( a few pictures )
