What is your greatest challenge as a performer?_____________ Kris MTA Admin
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bassetluver589
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/06 23:11Definitely having to balance school work with rehearsals and the like. I just can't concentrate on my homework while other people are rehearsing! It's just so. . .interesting. Peace! Sarah
- Currently taking a richly-deserved Summer break while working Concessions and Front-of-House at Music Circus.
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/06 23:21My greatest challenge as a performer has to be juggling activities and keeping up grades. I've gotten better at planning and being one step ahead but it doesn't work out all the time. Right now, I'm doing great and planning to keep it that way.Name: Devyn
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broadwaybaby09
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 11:01My greatest challenge as a performer, besides the whole homework thing, is overcoming stereotypes. One of the groups I work with seems to have each memeber stereotyped. There's the dancers (who never get a chance to do anything else), the chorus members (who may never advance), the singers who can't act, the actors who can't sing, the romantic leads, the comedy relief.... You get the picture. I am blessed with an ability to do comedy that you don't find in many high school girls. Unfortunately, as soon as a director finds out I'm funny, I'm automatically shoved into the comedy relief column in their brain. And even once they know I can do more than just comedy, they still typecast me simply because they can't find anyone who is funny. It takes sometimes years for me to break out of the funny girl stereotype and play a more dramatic character. I've yet to play an ingenue simply because I can do more than that. But sometimes I just want to play a normal girl.-Georgia
Current Show: West Side Story - Clarice Recent Shows: Carousel - Principal Dancer, Ensemble, A Christmas Carol - Lily, Charwoman, Charitable Gentleman, Principal Dancer, Ensemble; Rootabaga Stories-multiple roles; Joseph... Dreamcoat -Wives Chorus
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musicalsguru
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 11:25That's a hard question! I would say that my biggest challange is doing accents and general improv. I just don't have enough confidence to experiment as much as I would like to. I'm getting better, but I still need to loosen up even more. There's also the fact that I have a husband and toddler who don't like to see me just on weekends, so I have to limit the number of shows I do as well.Anissa
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 12:32I, too, find improv to be quite the challenge. It comes from years of being shy and quiet and afraid to open my mouth for fear of something stupid coming out. I'm so much more confident now, but that still sticks. Also, the fact that I'm a costumer... when a director finds out, they want to use my skills, and ever helpful that I am, I'll help out. I think this might be screwing me over for leads, though, as the director wants to avoid the stigma of casting production team in lead parts.Kathleen Sera Current Shows: Aloha Pinafore - Volga Upcoming Auditions: Crazy For You - Irene Roth
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 13:27Well, I agree with a few other people on the improv thing. Also, I get really shy during auditions and rehearsals and don't perform at my best, which always used to annoy my director because he knew I could do better.
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 16:20Memorization. I start early and do it just a little at a time, because when we start blocking, I'm likely to blow my lines. It's easiest if I know my lines by the time we start blocking, then the blocking helps me polish the memorization.
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 17:04I find it hard to do improv, unless I have a few minutes to talk with my group and decide what to do, which isn't really improv, is it? I come up with funny comebacks, and I can go with other people's ideas or be a character in a situation but can't advance the story.-Ali
Currently: -Sheila; Boys Next Door (postshow depression mode) -acceptance to acting ensemble -Bye Bye Birdie (audition- didn't get a callback)
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/07 23:15Improv and Nerves right when i'jm auditioning. never before just durring the acual audition. Same here with the improv, I used to be really shy(and still kinda am) so opening the mouth and just letting stuff come out is way scarry!Melissa
Currently: None, waiting till college christmas show starts up again
Recently: Miss Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods Aunt Eller in OKLAHOMA! Narrator in Joseph
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/08 16:55My accent! As much as I try to get rid of it, it's still there! I don't want it to change the choices of the judges at the auditions, and then change my character itself (if she's not supposed to have an accent). It's a pretty stressful thing I've got there, but most of the times it's allright!
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/08 17:57learning to deal with criticism. my mom still has to help me, after 5 years, to remember that people are only criticizing you to make you better. For instance, if you get a bad note from a director, use it to make yourself a better performer, not to get down on yourself for not doing it correctly. we can't all be perfect. And we always use this analogy: We were watching a cake contest on food network and there was a woman with the most beautiful cake in the world. she had put icing on in dots to look like pearls. We thought she was done, but she began smoothing every individual dot, because even if it was beautiful to everyone else, she wanted to do her best and wanted to make the smallest things perfect. So, whenever a director gives me a real specific note, my mom helps me to realize, that i'm already doing amazing, the director is just "smoothing my dots."<3 shelby (aka the musical theatre genius and sondheim lover)
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kristine415
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/08 20:04My biggest challenge is getting through auditions. Especially singing auditions. Auditions are the only thing that make me nervous when it comes to performing. Actual performances with a real audience don't bother me. I don't know if it's because i already have the part to i don't fee as much pressure, or what. In auditions I always get that churning feeling in my stomach and i start to shake a little as well. I can usually cover it up when it's just a cold read or monologue audition, but it's so much harder to do when I sing.
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/08 20:52My greatest challenge as a performer really truly is remembering that I'm only 15 and that I still have my entire life ahead of me to be the leads in everything. I mean, getting lead at 15 is rare but it has a fabulous feeling that comes with it. I have to remember that I need to remember that I was picked for a reason without becoming cocky and acting like a senior. I joke to myself that my sophomore year is my senior year because I am topping everything with senior like privallages and all, but I always try to be as humble and lovely as possible.Catherine currently: Babette/silly girl #1 BATB next: audition for Chicago!
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Re:WWYDGFC Contest: Challenge #5 - 2008/01/08 23:28When I got to college, I realized that hey, I'm not the only talented person around and hey, other people are better than me. Pretty much a big fish, little pond/ little fish, big pond thing. But my acting and singing teachers would criticize me and I would take it very personally, breaking down crying in class and whatnot. But now I realize that they don't have a personal agenda against me, it's their job to make me the best I am and to make me tough. So getting over my own attitude and taking criticism is still something I'm working on. Also, I found out that it is possible to try TOO hard. So when I ease up a little and stay focused, but relaxed, the work is better.~*~ Kris ~*~
Currently In: Rehearsals for Nine The Musical
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