"You should see me Hamlet."

So, yeah, we filmed the character interviews tonight. I missed seeing Lloyd's, Brooke's, and Selsdon's, but the ones that I did see were hilarious! Seriously, as soon as the interview was done for each person, we all burst out laughing. As soon as I know where you can watch them, I'll let you know.

Act 3 is a beast. We decided to try and take Act 3 at whatever pace necessary in order to get all the movements/props/doors/etc. done correctly. It was still hard. Act 3 has just become the priority for learning lines. There is simply no way to do all of it correctly at a good pace with a script in your hand. Of course, I say it's a priority until we start Act 2. What I'm hoping, though, is that Act 2 is mostly the same lines as Act 1 so the real learning business will be blocking, props, and entrances. Act 3 starts out using the lines from Act 1, but it quickly deviates into "struggled grasping at straws".

I tripped on the stairs twice tonight. No, I mean, I unintentionally tripped on the stairs twice tonight. I intentionally did it twice, as well. I guess I am kind of doing something right, though, because the intentional didn't hurt at all, whereas the unintentional did. I'm sure my relationship with the stairs will be similar throughout the remainder of the show.

No more to say. It's Wednesday so time for Glee.

Staged Chaos?

Act 3. What can I say about Act 3? Well, Act 3 is supposed to be the performance of Nothing On in which almost everything goes wrong. In a sense, the audience gets to enjoy a bunch of actors stumble their way through the act while they make complete fools of themselves. When we ran through Act 3 with blocking tonight, we were a bunch of actors stumbling our way through the act making fools of ourselves. I guess you could kind of call that method acting, maybe? At the very least, we got a taste for what it should look like, but not necessarily feel like. Really not much to say about it except that it will take some work to make it all happen as written in the script.

I also kinda stumbled my way through THE fall in Act 3. I'm sure it looked like garbage, but I got a sense of what it might feel like. I might try to come in a bit earlier on Thursday to see if I can stumble through it a few times. The good thing is that it doesn't really intimidate me. I'm kind of fearless when it comes to stuff like that, but that fact may end up causing me more pain than if I were a bit more cautious.

So, tomorrow, we are supposed to be filming an interview as our characters in rehearsal for Nothing On. We've got the questions, so now I just need to flesh out some answers as Garry. These interviews may end up on the web or some local TV ads or something. I'm not really sure.

Friday, we have the photo shoot. This will probably be the first time most (or all) of us get to see our costumes. Not that they will be grandiose or ornate or anything, but cool nonetheless.

Oh, one last quick PSA/note-to-self: one should not fall down a flight of stairs intentionally with a pencil in your pocket. I only felt the tip a little, but it could have been a lot worse.

Things are starting to click.

Well, one week ago we were sitting around a table reading the script. It's pretty amazing how far we have come knowing that. Tonight felt pretty good. It was VERY nice having the entire cast there. It made a world of difference.

I don't have much to say about tonight's rehearsal. Things went well. We all had good laughs. Britt was finally able to join in the shenanigans. We were able to start working out the first physical bit I'm involved in. I'm not going to go into much detail, but essentially she steps on my hand...in heels. All in all though, I am not too worried if she does end up stepping on my hand because it may not be my most painful moment in the show if anything else goes wrong. Time will tell.

We were originally going to do Act 3 tonight. (Well, originally-originally we were probably doing something else entirely, but we're all pretty much going with the flow now.) We ended up running through Act 1 twice. I still wish I could put my script down more, but it is nice knowing that everything that I'm learning in Act 1 will be recycled in Act 2 and 3. Hopefully, that makes learning it all a bit easier, too.

It has been mentioned that, rather than hear from boring old me every post, other cast and crew could post occasionally with their perspectives. I think this is a fantastic idea. I believe I know how to set this up so don't be surprised to see that in the future. Heck, the way I figure the more people that want to blog about this the better.

One last thing that can't go without mentioning. I may have written earlier about someone filming at the callbacks that I had no clue about. Well, that mystery is solved. The Tennessean is (was?) doing a bit about the economic downtown and how it's affecting 20-somethings. The piece is called Life on Hold. Well, Britt is one of the featured 20-somethings. Link here. If you click on her photo, a video will come up of that night at callbacks. Coincidentally, she is reading with Joe, our Freddie.

There was also a little teaser video put together on the Circle Players website here. No video of us, just a teaser.

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