Stage vs. Film

[mkassoy]

Hi Cari!

Cari's blog is all about stress and anxiety in college students, which is SUPER RELEVANT TO MY LIFE RIGHT NOW.

Okay, so here are three facts about her topic and how it relates to me. (I think it's pretty obvious how it relates to me, because I'm really behind on these Tumblr posts because of MAJOR STRESS YO.) 

1. Anxiety can be either situational or a chemical imbalance.

Recently, my anxiety has been situational, but in the past it has been chemical. Because I have been dealing with anxiety for my whole life (it runs in my family), I have found ways to help manage it like going to the gym on a regular basis and calling my mom. 

2. Based on the graph of patients being treated for anxiety and other related conditions, it appears that about 5.5% of females ages 15-24 and 2.8% of males ages 15-24 are being treated for anxiety

I was in that 5.5% until this year! I started going to the gym more regularly because I live right next door to it here at school, and that helped my anxiety SIGNIFICANTLY. I even notice a change when I don't have time to go to the gym that my anxiety skyrockets, and I can barely get anything done. 

3. Those with significant amounts of perfectionism may be more prone to anxiety.

When I was younger, I was a severe perfectionist. I would beat myself up about not getting a perfect grade, and hang onto that frustration until I drove myself crazy. I think that was, in part, due to the fact that I went to a private school that put A LOT of pressure on students to do well. In addition, I was always considered a "smart" person, so everyone hadvery high expectations for me. It was a difficult process, but I learned that I don't need to be perfect in everything. 

[mkassoy]

So since our class didn't do social issues for this project, I'm going to use this post as a form of shameless self-promotion.

Here are 3 showcases I am in before the end of the semester!

Directing II Showcase: I play Woman in "The American Century" by Murphy Guyer, directed by Kari Collins

Wednesay, April 30 @ 7 pm in The Curtain Theater

Theater 140 Showcase: I play Lydia in a scene from "Spike Heels" by Theresa Rebeck

Friday, May 2 @ 7 pm in the Upper Rand Lobby

Theater 190EH Showcase: I play Callie in a scene from "Stop Kiss" by Diana Son

Tuesday, May 6 @ 5 pm in FAC 204 

[mkassoy]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Ronald_Reagan_in_Cowboy_From_Brooklyn_trailer.jpg

This was easy for me! Ronald Reagan was a president. Ronald Reagan was an actor. There it is!

I'm not very familiar with Ronald Reagan, but I do know that politics involves A LOT of acting. I mean, seriously. The president puts on his president costume everyday and goes about his life acting like a president. That's a big role. 

[so-hockey-eh]

Martin Brodeur: 21 years as a Devil

[mkassoy]

Okay, so I'm not posting this because I necessarily think that sports are the opposite of theatre; I'm posting this because theatre is something I'm so, so passionate about, and sports are just not something I care about. 

My dad always wanted me to like sports as much as he did. I played soccer and basketball for a good part of my young life, but I never loved it as much as I loved being on stage. It was especially hard living in Columbus, Ohio, because Ohio State and the Buckeyes are such an integral part of the culture. (Honestly, we had a houseguest from California, and she was so shocked and confused at how much Ohio State influenced the day-to-day life in Columbus.) 

So that's that. 

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2. Wario

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WARIO.

This has little to nothing to do with my topic, but my friend Arthur and I were talking about classic Mario games recently. 

Note: I have always been a little frightened by Wario's nose. WHY IS IT THAT COLOR?

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The essential thing to know is that life is in front of you. Go toward it. You may have been corrupted into thinking that you are important. If so you are a lost creature waiting for the world to come to you. An actress’s whole life can be ruined if she expects life to come to her. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it’s not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you’re going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death.

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Actors many times talk about "getting discovered." I guess I thought that's just the way it worked, but reading this, I realize that that is a very passive route to take. This is a very good quotation about living life with purpose, especially in acting.

All kinds of actors are in a weird liminal space between participating in life and observing it. It's a hard place to get to, but it is necessary in order to gain experience but also document the experience in order to recreate it on stage. 

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When someone else touches my prop

[mkassoy]

Props are set and have to stay where they are. If they are not, first of all, something in the show will probably go awry. Second of all, the props master and/or actor who the prop belongs to WILL get you. 

[mkassoy]

First image: http://columbus.broadway.com/venues/theaters/ohio-theatre/

Second image: http://scottmoreauontour.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-oh-why-oh-why-oh.html

These two beautiful places are the Ohio Theatre and the Palace Theatre. They are the places where my love of the performing arts first began. Ever since I can remember, I have seen The Nutcracker performed at the Ohio Theatre by BalletMet (a dance company in Columbus). Every year, from when I was very, very small until this past winter, I have been entranced. I used to watch my sister and brother dance in the shows, but they've since grown up. 

This is something unique to theater. While most movie theaters have become franchises, these are historic buildings--the Palace Theatre has been around since 1926 and the Ohio since 1928--which have housed countless performances. When you go in one of these theaters, you are immediately entering the stories and lives of and every character that has ever actually physically been there, as opposed to just watching them on a screen. The energy and history associated with this is palpable, unique, and remarkable. 

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[mkassoy]

I have been listening to the music from The Last Five Years NON-STOP for a week thanks to one of my best friends, Gwen. Thanks, Gwen. 

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For our Unit I essay, we had to write a paragraph of our essay in a "show don't tell" way as a generative writing assignment. In this video, I have read that paragraph to you, my dear audience.

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Have you ever wondered how a persons body can send electrical signals? Well if you have, this is the post for you. In the human body there are four main types of tissue epithelial, muscle, connective and nervous. Neurons are the individual cells in nervous tissue. They are capable of sending a...

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Ah ha! Conor, I bet you didn't think I'd be reblogging you. But here I am! 

One of my dear theater professors likes to say "your body is your instrument." This is true for all actors, theater and film alike. I'm not going to lie...I did not really understand the scientific things that were mentioned in this post. HOWEVER, what really resonated with me was the last sentence "This process takes place for every action you take it all happens faster than you can think about it that is the amazing thing about biochemistry it happens all the time and people don’t even stop and consider what is happening in their bodies."

THAT IS INCREDIBLE. So, actors and non-actors, take some time to say "thanks" to your body and all of the marvelous things it does for you everyday. 

(This doesn't have to do with my topic, but the post also makes me think of the Regina Spektor song "Folding Chairs." My favorite line is "I've got a perfect body, though sometimes I forget/I've got a perfect body cause my eyelashes catch my sweat.") 

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[mkassoy]

Matilda is a recent example of a film to musical transition. (It was actually a book first, and I'm not sure how each of the stories vary, but that's a different conversation.) I haven't seen the musical, but I've heard great things about it! 

This makes me think about the differences between "film magic" and  "theater magic." Film magic happens, and it's wonderful. There's a thrill in seeing some amazing film editing, etc., However, theater magic happens RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. I remember reading the original Peter Pan over winter break, and when Liza comes into the nursery to show Nana that the children are asleep (the children are hiding at this point), J.M. Barrie writes that this is where some theater magic occurs. He is, of course, referring to the actors being hooked up to wires that would then make them fly across the stage. 

That is something that will never stop being exhilarating about live theater. 

[mkassoy]

Quick update

I’m being followed by someone WHO’S NOT IN OUR COLLEGE WRITING CLASS.

You’re makin’ moves, Mal.

*gives myself pat on back*

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[mkassoy]

Thank you for this!

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This is a movie that I saw for the first time over spring break. It is my friend's favorite movie, and he was dying to show it to us (pun intended...you'd get it if you saw the movie). A few days later he snapchatted me a picture of him watching the movie again. A few days later he snapchatted me a picture of him watching the movie again...again. That's the thing about movies: they never change. It is always the same thing every time you see it. This is not to say that you as a viewer can't see new things every time, but it's always going to be the same. 

[nicolem333]

Man sneezes into his trombone during concert.

A trombone player for The London Central Fellowship Band has an unfortunately timed sneeze when he’s about to start playing, and the result is quite unexpected. The sound produced from sneezing and playing at the same time is not unlike an elephant.

So, I know that this isn’t completely on track with my project but it’s hard to find things about beta blockers and professional musicians. So this is what I came up with. This is something aural, a sound (and VIDEO) clip of a person sneezing into a trombone. It relates vaguely to my topic because of uncontrollable bodily reactions within performance. If you need to sneeze, you sneeze. If you’re shaky, you can’t really do much to help that anxiety. That’s where claritin and beta blockers come in. FIXING!

[mkassoy]

What Nicole said has nothing to do with my topic, but the fact that this is a live performance certainly does. A huge difference between theater and film is the fact that theater takes place right in front of you. This is also what makes the art so human. Theater is prone to mistakes and mishaps (like sneezing in your trombone), but it also acts (ha) as a lesson in perseverance: THE SHOW MUST GO ON! 

[stressie]

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A Whole New World, Aladdin the Musical (March 5, 2014)

[mkassoy]

A brand new Broadway musical! I would love to see this because Aladdin is my favorite movie, so this is magical. 

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Another remix!

I took the SAR generative writing exercise from Unit III and plugged it into Google Translate a bunch of times! 

English -> Spanish -> Arabic -> Norwegian -> Maltese -> French -> Indonesian -> Yiddish -> English 

It is one of the key points that do not actually own the first time I think the performance difference between film and theater actor is not considered. I know , of course, have to take a big step and exaggerated on stage because I was on stage. After that, it was a camera, but I do not think accuracy, which is a film actor. I think the term " larger than life " offers the performance of a negative connotation , it may still be present in your life, but things need to be adjusted so that people can understand. Well, I do not think the author really touched on how the public aware of the types of measures and how it affects both the actors and the audience to connect and relate.