Back to school
Tonight we started our fourth acting class at the Denver Performing Arts Center (DPAC). For those of you that don’t know, two years ago we started taking acting classes. For us, it was a way to escape the mundane financial world and do something creative. At first, we were apprehensive about the whole process because we thought the classes would be lame or the people would all be crazy. But we were wrong!
The first class that we ever attended was Beginning Acting. We were nervous as hell, but we guess that’s the point when you do something outside your comfort zone. Our teacher was phenomenal. She had just returned from San Francisco where she had a small cameo in the movie, Milk, starring Sean Penn. She pushed our class to understand what it takes to act and to do it well. And we are here to tell you that this class kicked our butt!
From memorizing lines to understanding body movement to voice control, it was like learning another language. We felt so overwhelmed. We spent the majority of the class perfecting scenes from a Broadway play, Four Dogs and a Bone, written by John Patrick Shanley. You might recognize his name from one of his plays that went to film, Doubt, starring Meryl Streep.
Anyways, the character we played was named Brenda, who was a huge ignoramus that wanted to be a movie star (great character to play by the way). We had had five weeks to rehearse a scene from the play with a partner and then act that scene out in front of the whole class. It seriously took us forever to memorize the lines!
We ended up rocking our scene. Our teacher was impressed and told us that we were a natural. Duh, of course we are a natural at playing crazy! After the class was over, we were hooked. We signed up for two more classes: Intermediate and Advanced Acting. More on that later.
When we went to sign up for another class, we wanted to do something different this time. So we decided to try Beginning Commercial Voice Over. In this class we are supposed to learn the “how to’s” of radio and television commercial voice over. We are so flipping excited! We hope we get to do lot’s of impersonations. JAZZ HANDS.
Tonight we didn’t do a whole lot. Just met the teacher and the class, and were introduced to our new BFF for the next 8 weeks…
Hello mic!
Can’t wait for next week. We are supposed to start recording commercials!
