Encore

My coach added a few more pages to my scene. My scence begins with me entering the the bar and I say, "Arthur Kellogg, nee Kellerman. Brilliant mind." Remember the playwriter is Jamie Pachino.

I read and re-read that the first few sentences hoping the magic of the word "nee" would come to me. "Nee" is a typo, right? No it's not. It means formerly known as. Go figure.

I don't know much about the English language (I went to public school in California), and maybe this is a useless blog entry, but why am I using fancy pants, ten dollars words when later on in the dialogue I ask, "[c]an I sit down?" Hello? I blame the French.

It's Tuesday and I still haven't memorized my the extra pages. It's a very quick and lively dialogue. We interrupt each other and I finish a lot of Arthur's sentences. He is brilliant for writing that book. And it is too bad that people don't get him.

I created an "as if" for myself. Talking to my "as if," picking his brain, talking about his craft, and addressing his magnificient contribution to the whole world.

In my voice lesson yesterday my voice coach pointed out that when I sing that I focus on each word, pitch, and note individually. She recommended that I think of singing the song thought or sentence by sentence. I place to much emphasis on each individual word and lose sight of the big picture -- the flow of the next words.

If only my coach could hear me in my car.