Polar Lights Casey4/19/2021
And after that piece of company propaganda I here present the first annual Naughty and Nice List for Rorschach Theatre.Now most actors are quite good at speaking, but even those of us with voices like the Late Great Barry White and diction like a Later Day Henry Higgins, sometimes come across words for which we need to look up a pronunciation.
The problem faced when pronouncing names and locations in a language like Japanese can be even more daunting. Most of the cast, being native English speakers, find it difficult to pronounce many of these words. Fortunately the proper nouns have been transposed into English in the script so we just need to actually pronounce the vowels the way they are pronounced in Japanese. I have attached a copy of a set of simple syllables provided to the cast by our lighting designer JT who happens to have studied Japanese for several years. If you ever have a problem pronouncing a word in English I recommend the following resource, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. They have thoughtfully recorded nearly every word in the their print edition and have the accepted pronunications for nearly all of them online. Just type in the word and it will take you to the definition and click on the tiny red speaker and up pops a window and it will say the word as many times as you need so you arent saying zee-a-lot. Have fun. You can even make it say the dirty words we all love. Its just like looking up the dirty words in 3rd grade and then you can giggle. What challenges will we face tonight as Al, Scott, Paul, Cesar and John Michael all face off in the dreaded putting Yoshitsugu to death scene Dramatic tension will amp up as the play takes its dark turn towards execution. But its kind of hot right I dig chicks with swords and Yasmin has got it going on in this here out take from the post card photo shoot. I got a sweater. We will hopefully have a look at the post card image in the next couple of days. And from the news of Fair Ladies rehearsals will recommence on Wednesday Night. After watching A Christmas Story this weekend I remembered the joys of not just B-B Guns but also the joys of writing holiday related essays and being graded for them. If you had a particularly good Christmas this weekend or the Holiday which will make you give up on your family all together we want to read about it. Please send one or two paragraphs to the Blogger and well publish it here. I may have mentioned during The Beard of Avon that the design run is the first chance for the director and designers to see the show from beginning to end. Each scene has been blocked to one degree or another and now the actors begin to string scene to scene like a string of round pale white precious beads that will give the character those magic words of arc and journey. And for the most part the show held together well enough for a first run-through. That being said there is always a lot of work to do and there is never enough time to do it all during rehearsal. I have said that there is a there there before and I think that we are very near the neighborhood of there right now. We have the cast we have the design and we have the direction to create a Japanese samurai play of not just poetic beauty but also to be damn funny.
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