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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Observations of the pedestrain palHow bad does it look when an actor fails to turn up at the very first reading of a musical, and when called and demanded where she is, she says she wasn't aware that rehearsals start on that day, but was under the impression that they start two days later. So she proceeds to say that she can get there in 40minutes, but they say forget it, just come to the second one. When she apologises there is a fraughtful silence, and one hear the reluctance to accept the apology and the annoyance and frustration through the radiation waves. She then remembers that she'll be late to the second rehearsal because she has something on and she did tell the director at the production meeting, but she's not sure if the director had taken note of that or passed on the imformation. It really doesn't help when it's a chinese musical, and the actor is probably the least proficient in chinese amongst all the other actors and also happens to be the lead, so there's doubly more work at hand. And here she is, skipping the first two rehearsals. Not to sound terribly mean, but the reason why she's the lead is probably because all the other actors simply have no clue, and are typical gu-niangs who treat everything as a joke and a social event, who stop after the first 2 lines of the improv during the audition to ask the director how to say a certain chinese word in english. Now the producers probably get the impression that the lead actress is a snob and a diva who thinks she's all that simply because she's a theatre student. Which, suffice to say, is hardly the truth. Because deep down, although she is excited at the prospect of this personal cliff to climb, she's afraid that she'll tumble down while she's at it, simply because she's inadequately prepared for this trying task. She can't even speak chinese properly, much less memorise it, act it, and sing it. Could she be taking on too much?? Why wasn't she able to attend the first two rehearsals, I hear you ask. Well, because she was at another audition she arranged because she wasn't aware of the first rehearsal, and she's got another callback which clashes with the second rehearsal. Do you think she's possibly doing the typical rookie mistake by taking on too much and ending up on her bum because she can't handle and juggle it all? I'm having an inkling of suspicion. But she's keeping her hopes up, that this is only a one-off, well, two-off really, and that it'll come to pass and it won't happen again and that all will go peachy and time will work itself out for her. Which, as we all know, is hardly the case. But she's holding out in there, anxiously working at the non-simplified chinese characters (through the dodgy printing) and waiting til wednesday(when she arrives late to rehearsal, or thursday, if she can't make it to the wednesday rehearsal at all).Oh did I forget to all in that there's all that uni work too? Yeah, I think that's a given yeah?Well, she hopes she's done the right thing and that everything will fit in nicely and unfold smoothly for her. Meanwhile she's bearing hopes that she gets the role in the callbacks for the play this wednesday, and that she'll get the role in the major play to be held at the end of semester. Some people never learn do they? Either that, or they're just plain greedy. Or maybe both. Yeah, it's both I reckon.
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