i have a small part in our high school's fall musical, guys & dolls. at practice last week, we spent an entire hour going over the first three minutes or so of the musical. the director, mrs. grimius, gave each cast member a role to play (ex. shady character, salesman, couple from texas), and we were to walk/run/sneak around the stage portraying that character, in order to make the scene seem more like a busy city street than a dark, vacant alley. seems easy, doesn't it? it wasn't. see, the catch was that there would be no talking or noise-making other than the occasional shuffling of feet.
portraying a tourist in a small tour group would have been simple if we could have talked to make our character more convincing. but silence made it so much harder, and at the same time, a lot more fun. we ran back and forth along the stage, snapping photos with our make-believe cameras, jumping up and down in order to see whatever the tour guide happened to be pointing at, being pick-pocketed by the "shady characters", interrupting a very intense poker game in the middle of the street, and getting lost among "the people of new york city."
i went home that evening with sweat and a smile on my face.
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