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I'm new to the whole theatre world so I'm going to ask an embarrassing (?) question: what is off-book? I see it a lot on this blog.

Off book means you don't need the book (script). Basically you've memorized your lines and blocking

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but NOW HE’S PLAYING PIPPIN

I just got the part of Pugsley in the Addams Family Musical, and that includes a lot of screaming onstage, and I was wondering how to scream at an appropriate volume while also not straining my voice????

OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOU ASKED THIS OMG. Ok so I had to do the exact same thing. Literally 7 or 8 screams a night for a week. So 2 of them were offstage, so I just hit a rally high note and made it kinda shaky (but you probably won't be able to do that with that part. Honestly, I just screamed. What's important is drinking a lot of water before and after it. Also I had so many cups of tea that week with honey and lemon. My voice was a little tired each night but overall it was fine. I had singing auditions like 2 weeks after and I had no problems!

Any advice ya can give on how to calm nevers before an audition?

Prepare as much as you can. Know that you can only prepare so much and it's as good as it's gonna get, try to relax. I always listen to music before (not your song) and just try not to focus on it too much!

kill the idea that all sopranos have to be the ingenues and altos have to be everything else. i want more alto princesses who are girly as hell and badass villains who can slay the high notes while killing a man

#thoughts