Spring Musical(405)

            Well it is spring time now my little chicks and roosters. And you know what that means, yes brighter colors, Easter, flowers, yada yada. It is also time for the spring musical for most high schools! This is a very exciting time for many amateur actors, such as myself.

            Let us start with try outs. One of the most nerve wracking times in high school is when you have to try out for something. The best thing any person can do is be prepare. There are a lot of different ways to prepare for a musical audition. Since you have to sing and act you have to look at music and at lines to read dramatically. I suggest asking a friend, or a parent, or a sibling to run lines with you during their free time. Going over lines a few time will help you be more characterized when you actually present it to the director. Also going over music over and over again, and listening to the Broadway, or the official version always helps me. It could help you too.

            You look at the list and there your name is! Perfect you are now in a play…cool? Well now it is time for practice, and more practice, and even more practice! At my school we start with learning the music in a large group. It is the leads responsibility to get their own lines memorized. To help me with this I also listen to the Broadway version, of all the songs I am in. after we learn the words and music to all the song a choreographer comes in and teaches the dances to the musical numbers. A problem we are having this year, and that I am sure many directors have had in the past, is that no one is staying in character or acting, or trying to be dramatic. It is not a bad thing. They are trying to learn the moves and get them right, I am sure acting was somewhere in the back of their minds. But when you get nervous in a performance you will fall back on what you know, and what you know will be how you have been practicing. It would be beneficial to practice in character. After all the technical aspects, lights, sound, staging, are put in and all the band gets thrown in you have a whole cast ready to put on an amazing show.