alphastreet said:

onlyforaminute said:

alphastreet said:

I always wanted to be in a play or do a one person monologue, but never went that route. Anyone else in acting or wanted to act?

I take it you don't have theater groups where you live? I have a strange stage fright. As a kid I could participate in plays and do very well with no complaining but I preferred not and got off stage asap. Yet I had my kids in theatre group thru their entire childhood til they graduated hs but neither pursued it further. Though a couple in their group got some commercials, one got signed for a couple of Disney movies, eventually we lost contact with her. Haven't seen her in a long while. But I remember her mom had to be on set with her everyday like a fulltime job. Luckily they had a lot of family support. If you want to do this then you ought to.l at any available opportunity possible. Time moves awfully swiftly for something that doesn't exist.

As many shows as I've done, I still have terrible stage fright. I have a preshow music playlist that I listen to without fail and I always run lines for the top of the show (or my first entrance) with other actors in the green room, which helps a little. But until I make my entrance and get that first line out, I'm a mess. After that, I'm totally fine.

onlyforaminute said:

alphastreet said:

I always wanted to be in a play or do a one person monologue, but never went that route. Anyone else in acting or wanted to act?

I take it you don't have theater groups where you live? I have a strange stage fright. As a kid I could participate in plays and do very well with no complaining but I preferred not and got off stage asap. Yet I had my kids in theatre group thru their entire childhood til they graduated hs but neither pursued it further. Though a couple in their group got some commercials, one got signed for a couple of Disney movies, eventually we lost contact with her. Haven't seen her in a long while. But I remember her mom had to be on set with her everyday like a fulltime job. Luckily they had a lot of family support. If you want to do this then you ought to.l at any available opportunity possible. Time moves awfully swiftly for something that doesn't exist.

As many shows as I've done, I still have terrible stage fright. I have a preshow music playlist that I listen to without fail and I always run lines for the top of the show (or my first entrance) with other actors in the green room, which helps a little. But until I make my entrance and get that first line out, I'm a mess. After that, I'm totally fine.

onlyforaminute said:

psychodelicide said:

Never been an actor, but I always thought it looked like fun. Not sure if I could do it without getting too nervous. I once had to sing in front of a crowd of people. My knees were shaking, I just wanted to get it over with - lol.

The last musical I did was over 10 years ago. I don't enjoy doing them (mostly because they require three times as much rehearsal as a straight play). But I did that one purely because singing was something that would take me WAY out of my comfort zone.

Also ... who could resist the change to play Mrs. Beaver in Narnia.

psychodelicide said:

Never been an actor, but I always thought it looked like fun. Not sure if I could do it without getting too nervous. I once had to sing in front of a crowd of people. My knees were shaking, I just wanted to get it over with - lol.

The last musical I did was over 10 years ago. I don't enjoy doing them (mostly because they require three times as much rehearsal as a straight play). But I did that one purely because singing was something that would take me WAY out of my comfort zone.

Also ... who could resist the change to play Mrs. Beaver in Narnia.

RJOrion said:

alphastreet said:

jjhunsecker said:

My son has been studying acting since he was a little kid He’s now in one of the premier colleges for that study

That’s exciting! A part of me wonders if I should have studied acting in university instead and where that would have taken me, but I was more into music then

I was one of the first students accepted for an acting specialist program at the university I attended. (I auditioned at the end of my freshman year.) My dad told me that if I majored in theatre, he wouldn't pay my tuition anymore. So I knuckled under and majored in what he wanted.

Years later (like … 20 years), he came to see a show I was in. Afterward he said, "You know … you're really good. You should keep at that." Gee ... thanks Dad.