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re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored?

Posted by: Chromolume 08:18 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored? - MikeR 08:03 pm EDT 03/17/14

Thank you, Mike. I *knew* she must have some human tendencies after all. ;-)


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re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored?

Posted by: enoch10 10:24 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored? - Chromolume 08:18 pm EDT 03/17/14

i'm not going to go digging for quotes but somewhere (i'm pretty sure it's in the book) she talks about training and (i think) relying on sense memory and, as someone just said, knowing when to leave in relation to how to keep performances fresh. i don't remember all of what she said well enough to paraphrase it without mangling it and as i said, i'm not going to go look it up.


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re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored?

Posted by: Chromolume 12:27 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: At what point does a Bway actor get completely bored? - enoch10 10:24 pm EDT 03/17/14

But I still think that's a very different thing than "never getting bored." I think the point is, training like that can help if you use them once you DO get bored, but that's conceding to the fact that yes, even the Great God Lupone has indeed found herself in need of that help.

So yes, certainly actors can use all sorts of tools/tricks to keep their performance honest - but first of all (getting back to your original post), just because you have that training doesn't guarantee you're going to use it -- and second of all, somehow you seem to be twisting Lupone's philosophies around to make it seem like she never gets bored with a role or never has off-days where she might want to be doing something other than the show. I personally can't imagine any performer who hasn't struggled with those impulses. The trick is to find ways to recover from that. I think that's all she was trying to say.


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