Wednesday, March 2, 2011

#17 The Lost One...Lost In The Process

Not a blog with the flow and caliber in which I have presented previously but a series of facts instead follows--based on my place right now:

Tomorrow, we hit the stage free of our prosthetic extension called the script.  That is Blanchy terminology for being OFF BOOK.  We are working through Act 2 and Act 3.  I do not know all my lines.  I do know what is going on with my character, but I do not know my words right now...for everything...this is very frustrating....

24 days left until Opening Night.

I googled Blanche Dubois.  Sure there are a ton of impersonators, but there are also some lovely sites that will give any actor (or anyone) an in depth summary of a character...such as, spark notes.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/canalysis.html  ...this will be helpful if you really want to get a good idea of what I am embarking upon.

There is a wine from DuBois that I saw in the wine shop the other day.  I must get my hands upon this soon.

I have been blonde for a month now & already need to get more "work" done on the color.   I do not miss the constant maintenance a person who has fake hair color must endure.  Yet, I feel pretty good about the color...most seem to love it...and I have pretty honest friends.  I may have even received a double take or two that I used to get years ago...now that I am blonde.  So, this is entertaining.

I am a parent & have had the youth home basically for two weeks straight with sickness which does not bode well for an actress who wants to rehearse her character aloud.  I have been very, very busy playing a variety of roles and not enough Blanche lately.

Again, tomorrow, I have to have 50 pages of dialogue within which several monologues are embedded.  I wanted to write something on here to let you know what is going on because I do get a lot of status requests from you folks.  I am really putting myself into getting these lines just right because it simply will not flow if even a word is off.  It is an amazing challenge.

I am worried, stressed, as well as understanding more and more about Blanche and how she should be played as the play progresses.  And I am hopeful that I can be where I need to be tomorrow.  Off book on act two and three. 

Thanks for reading!  I am so close to being off book that we will soon begin the new chapter of onstage discoveries during rehearsal...I CANNOT WAIT...Send me memory luck.



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