Author Archive for elrandolph

Blocking rehearsals

We had our first blocking rehearsal last night, and are now in the middle of our second one. It’s really nice to get the play up on it’s feet; it helps me figure out what my lines mean. Just out of these two rehearsals, I’ve learned a lot about just how awkward my character is. [...]

cabin fever and line memorization

We haven’t had any rehearsals since the first readthrough on thursday night. I’m kind of getting tired of my apartment walls. The readthrough went well though, it was clear that a lot of people had put some thought into their lines already, and that they were really committed to the show. However, it’s hard for [...]

Long, catch-up post

Okay, a lot has happened in the last couple weeks, and I’ve been super swamped so I haven’t posted in a while. So, I’m going to play a little catch up.
So far, I’ve had another costume fitting, 2 vocal rehearsals, and the first ‘official’ rehearsal where we were introduced to the design and directorial concepts [...]

Costume Fitting

I just came from my first costume fitting. While they didn’t have anything that I will actually be wearing onstage, they did have mockups of the vest and pants, and i got to see the rendering of what my completed costume will be like.  The vest is pretty self explanatory, but the pants are these [...]

First Day of the Semester

There was a problem with my posting this earlier, but I got it worked out, and luckily I had the text saved.
So this is the very first blog post recording my progress on my character Benvolio, my senior project. I’ve read the script about 5 different times now, and marked out the scansion of my [...]





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