Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for April 18, 2013

SPLORT!

Director: Method actors. I hate those guys!

My ten year old granddaughter is going to be toto in wizard of oz. She wears a headband with ears on it. Wanted to wear a dog nose with it to the mall. Her mother drew the line at the nose!!

I had a role in a 3rd Grade play — I was a rock. It was a good role. The rocks got to sit and hug their knees; the trees had to stand with their arms stretched out.

Lollipops are made of sugar.That’s motivation for any child…: D

You can have a history with a lollipop? With me it was three licks and then crunch and it was gone. Oh lolly, I hardly knew ye!

don’t over act Pheebs and no ad-libbing Directors just want you to read your lines.

Sometimes Method is good, sometimes it’s bad. I was once cast as Gonzalo in “The Tempest”, and it was all vocal shtick and gestures; then I was promoted to Alonso and it was all digging for the pain. Horses for courses.

Woody Allen once decribed being cast as God in a play called Gideon. He tried to make it a method performance, living the part off-stage..

“A guy backed into my fender and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply’ — but not in those words.”

Let’s go with that Phoebe.

(SIGH) Method actors!

It’s, like, so lame when somebody on a project isn’t into backstory/lore… like do a different play, “ms. dramateacher”^ — if that is your real name…

^finger quotes