This week, I'm supposed to be blogging everyday starting this past Sunday. Clearly, I'm behind. So I'll spend the next couple of days blogging twice a day just to catch up. That being said, I have a good excuse for not having had time to blog on Sunday night. This was because I spent the evening watching my friend Richard perform in a show in North Hollywood called Miscast. The idea behind the show is that performers would sing songs from Broadway musicals in roles they would never be cast in. Boys sang girl songs, girls sang boy songs, character actors played the parts of ingenues, etc.
While some performances were more successful than others, it seemed to me that the ones that worked best were where the artist really had to create a new character to inhabit the song and still make it work, oftentimes to comedic ends. This got me thinking that this could be a great exercise for my friends who teach in the theater arts. Oftentimes even student performers get stuck in their "type" and don't think beyond those roles. It would be great to see a high school production of this kind of show where students had to really seek out roles that do not match who they are and then work to make themselves "work" in the role.
If you are in the LA area and interested in seeing this show, it goes up every couple of months. You can find more info here.
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