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How to Prepare for a Stage Performance
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Tags: Stage Performance, Performance, Prepare for Preformace, Acting
Opening night can be one filled with tummy butterflies and stage fright. To avoid this here are some tips to preparing for your next stage performance. Break a leg!
| 1. | Learn your lines. Practice makes perfect, so think of learning your lines as studying for a test that if you fail everyone knows and you can not take it again. Use a highlighter to make your lines jump off the page. When studying, say the words out loud. Have a friend run your lines with you when you're not in rehearsal. |
| 2. | Singing memorization is just as important as dialogue. Lyrics can be tricky. Study and go over them as much as possible. Sing in the mirror so you can see what you look like while singing, this helps correct any mistakes you may or may not have made. |
| 3. | Dancing is hard. You must have the patience and time to work at it everyday. Take your time and learn the steps the right way first so you do not have to go back and slow everyone else down. |
| 4. | Decide how you want to affect the person you are talking to (or singing to) with your lines. Do you want to charm them, offend them, destroy them, etc.? This is called an objective and may change as you go through the rehearsal process and discover new things about the piece. |
| 5. | Always make a strong choice about your character. In other words, I "kinda" love the other person is a weak choice. I'm crazy about the other person is a strong choice. Ambiguity does not work on stage. |
| 6. | Next is blocking. This means learning where you are and where you have to go during a scene. In any play you've got to know what's going on around you so you can hear your cue to give a line or move in the scene. |
| 7. | On the night of the performance everyone is always nervous - it's a sign of sanity! Besides, being too relaxed can hurt your performance. Drink a lot of fluids and (most importantly) have fun! |
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