Find a cork.. (preferably one from your favorite wine bottle) put it in your mouth, and read your lines. This will help you exaggerate your vowels..
How's your director?? If you feel comfortable with him/her at your next rehearsal go and ask what they meant by that note. Most directors will be happy to elaborate.;)
HEY there beautiful and thanks for the idea (though no, I've never tried it before) and I was thinking of dropping the director an email to see if he had an example. . . .
Thanks again for the assistance. . .now I'm off to down a bottle of wine, that should help me be more 'bubbly' hehehehehehe
That's a vocal exercise, not a character, WTF? Sprechstimme? What characters sound like that? Well, every character sounds like that for about 16 bars every now and again in Alban Berg operas. Wozzeck, Lulu. But all the time? Who is this nozzle? You're doing Midsummer, right? Which character? One of the rude mechanicals? Maybe he's looking for you to do Sir Henry Irving / Del Sarte method? Light opera meets silent movies?
LOL, I'm trying to catch up and will be playing Theseus on the Duke in two weeks plan . . . lots of fun, but twice now, he's asked me to emphasize my vowels, and the last time he added go almost to a sing song . . . As an actor he's flipping my mind around as he'll tell Lysander that he needs to beg becauce my character can have him killed but I'm supposed to sound like a buffoon? He tells the same thing to Hermia?? And so when she gets defensive and in a huff, I respond and my comment is not to be so rough on her, lol . . . so I'm confused, as much by trying to learn all of these lines, because as of right now (9am Monday) I've had my lines a week, and I still have the last part of the finale to learn. GACK
A character that sounds like that?bathcandyJuly 9 2007, 12:27:05 UTC
How about that Toilet tissue guy from our childhood...I am thinking that his name is Mr. Whipple or something like that. (He also did character work on some episodes of I love Lucy and the Lucille Ball show) I cannot think of his name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Whipple <
Re: A character that sounds like that?szalmanJuly 9 2007, 14:52:52 UTC
I seem to remember Mr. Whipple and yes I really remember the commercials, as having that one siren like Yesssssssss, but not much more . . . left to my own devices, I'm thinking more along the lines of the character actor who I can think of that might fit is Ed Wynn, who I remember from 'Babes in Toyland'. I hope I'm wrong, because I'm not sure I can do that . . .
OK, I've been trying for a couple of days and now whenever I think I'm getting close to singsong, and thrown in Shakespearean word patterns all I hear is Yoda . . .
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Find a cork.. (preferably one from your favorite wine bottle) put it in your mouth, and read your lines. This will help you exaggerate your vowels..
How's your director?? If you feel comfortable with him/her at your next rehearsal go and ask what they meant by that note. Most directors will be happy to elaborate.;)
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Thanks again for the assistance. . .now I'm off to down a bottle of wine, that should help me be more 'bubbly' hehehehehehe
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(He also did character work on some episodes of I love Lucy and the Lucille Ball show) I cannot think of his name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Whipple <
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I'm gonna be a FREAKING MUPPET
fie ont oh fie
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Singsong...
KERMIE!
No, really. Sit back, close your eyes, and listen to your favorite green frog introduce himself.
"Hey ho. Kermit the Frog, here."
Maybe El Jefe means something like that?
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