   Performing in 1 Week
  I play Nostradamus in the Hunchback of Nostradamus which goes on show in a week. Unfortunately the show isn''t quite polished yet. Any advice from any fellow thespians? 
  Nostradamus was in the Hunchback of Notre Dame? Oh you mean you priest. Just be as evil as you possibly can. That guy was a fucking asshole. ;  No. This is a parody involving the Inquisition and Nostradamus set in the world of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.I''m not an asshole. Nostra is by no means the nicest person in the world. He''s a bit sexist and arrogant, but not so much as for you to hate him. In fact he''s a perfectly likeable character as you can relate to him. He''s the bad side of most males. But not the really bad side. ;Smoke some ~10 cigs before you begin. Cools ya nerves.-bas;  1. I don't smoke2. Wouldn't be allowed to smoke3. Smoking - bad for lungs and throat4. Acting/singing requires good lungs and throat5. Foamy rocks   [edited by - Cypher Ae on August 2, 2003 9:16:04 AM];quote:Original post by Cypher Ae  1. I don''t smoke2. Wouldn''t be allowed to smoke3. Smoking - bad for lungs and throat4. Acting/singing requires good lungs and throat5. Foamy rocks   But, it calms the nerves. "But why did you burn the rum!?" - Pirates of the Carribean ;  Uhm, let's see.Encourage your cast to do a group warmup. Example: Have one person (usually the director) read random lines from the script, and then the person who 'owns' that line must say it in the way they say it on stage. Then, everyone else must say it in that way.Don't drink any alchohol. We had a guy do this in our production of Cabaret; he drank a little before the performance, which was not terribly noticable, but he then proceeded to go and get slaughtered in the dressing rooms over the interval. And he had to be back on stage in the second act. That was just fucking stupid; not only did he make himself look like a fool (swaying crazily on stage), but he also pissed off everyone else who had worked so hard to make the production so great.Do your best to seem confident about what you're doing. Unless you're doing a particularly well-known piece (and it sounds like you're not) then the audience will only know that you've made a mistake if you give them a signal saying 'oh, shit, I've made a mistake.' Prepare a few ab-libs (yes, I know that's an oxymoron). I recently played a character with the catch phrase "There are some people who never forget a face. And others who never forget [something]. I am in the latter category." If I forgot my lines, I was all prepared to say "There are some people who never forget a face; and others who never forget their lines. I am in the former category." (Fortunately, I didn't have to use it.  ).That's all I can think of for now.   Superpig- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he's not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.Enginuity1 | Enginuity2 | Enginuity3 [edited by - Superpig on August 2, 2003 11:50:31 AM];  Thanx superpig, thats some good ideas. ;quote:Original post by Rob Loach  quote:Original post by Cypher Ae   1. I don''t smoke2. Wouldn''t be allowed to smoke3. Smoking - bad for lungs and throat4. Acting/singing requires good lungs and throat5. Foamy rocks   But, it calms the nerves. "But why did you burn the rum!?" - Pirates of the Carribean  1. I won''t smoke2. Wouldn''t be allowed to smoke3. Smoking - bad for lungs and throat4. Acting/singing requires good lungs and throat5. Foamy rocks This could go on for a while ;  Btw, one of my lines is: "You obviously have travelling colitis."But what is travelling colitis? 