Tonight was William's first blocking rehearsal. For the past week, we've been through hip hop classes, "rap"-preciation or rap classes. Last night we had a music rehearsal. (Quick note: I strained my vocal cords. I was stretching my breath to reach many syllables and after I felt the tiredness in my throat. Not good. I need to support, support, support.)
But tonight was fun. I do have bad habits I carried over to tonight's rehearsal. First, I kept reading negative vibes into Chang Maribel. I was "mind-reading" her and feeling that she's thinking she made a mistake in getting me for this play, that she thinks I'm an idiot, that she'll just try to be patient because it'd be hard to pull in another actor and all that. This kind of infected me, and so during the blocking I let Norbs, my alternate, take first hand. It's kind of a disadvantage when you just "follow" someone else's blocking instead of finding your natural impulse. But still I let myself do it.
But during the blocking when it was my turn I had fun a bit. I kind of did my own thing. Chang gave us an assignment: make a narrative timeline of our characters. When Norbs was rehearsing, I already began to hear Tj's (my character) story in my head, so I immediately took to my notebook and jotted it down. I didn't finish, but at least I have some track rails laid down. When I finish it (our deadline is Saturday), I'll post it here.
We were given re-written scenes 1 to 4. I think the new rewrites are more fun to work with than the previous drafts. It's less contrived. I began to see how Chang plays around and lets her imagination free rein during the directing. I also see the other actors staking and trying. I should learn to do the same.
Well, I'll need to study the script and my character. Tj is athletic. I'm not. Going home I saw two boys playing basketball. I need to learn those moves. I will.
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