Formal and Not-So-Formal Nights of Acting!

'Shakespeare in the Park'
These are the words that titled what basically could be called our school play, but we didn't perform a play really, we performed a series of scenes from different Shakespeare plays, and the one that I was able to perform was part of Act II Scene I of 'The Taming of the Shrew', where I played, guess who? Katerina.

My partner was Johannes Exeler who played Petruchio






One thing that I love about acting is getting to be a different person, I don't normally get to be so sarcastic in real life as I was when I was playing Katerina.

And yes, I did love my dress.

Another fun opportunity that was gained from this experience was that I was able to sing all of the songs that had lyrics that we used as interludes between the different scenes, and I even was able to sing during one scene.

I sang 'Come Away Death' which the lyrics are found in Shakespeare's '12th Night'


As a musical interlude I sang 'Better Find Your Love' and as the finale I sang 'Come what may'
 Those that know me know that I love being able to combine my love of singing and acting in musical theatre, so I was very glad that even though we did not have a musical in my school, I was able to not only act, but sing as well.


This is my friend Annie, we had quite a bit of fun playing with the props ;)

'Youth Comedy Night'
For a youth activity, the young men and young women in the Jerusalem Branch decided that we wanted to put on a comedy night for the whole branch to come see.

The first act was a fashion show, where each youth found the most outrageous clothing items they could, and they strutted down the catwalk, and ended with an awesome model pose :)



Then, the Young men put on a skit called 'Boys will be Girls' which was pretty funny, it is guys having a conversation, but using girl-like mannerisms ;)


When the girls heard that the boys were putting on this skit though, we knew that we needed to strike back with our own 'Girls will be Boys' skit.  The only problem was, we didn't know what guys talked about.  So after conducting some 'research' with the boy students at the university, Hannah Harper was able to put a script together talking about, boys, food, sports, and many awkward pauses ;)



The guys then followed by performing a skit done by a BYU performing group called 'Divine Comedy', the skit was titled 'Shoulder Angel'



 Here's a video link: 


Jared Lance, Josh Ludlow, and I also did an improvisation skit, where we went out of earshot, while the audience shouted out one-liners to write on scraps of paper.  We then used the scraps of paper during an improvised scene when we started to run out of ideas.

But first the audience had to give us a scene and a relationship between the characters, so it was decided that we were waiting by a cab, and two people were a couple, and the other was a third wheel.

I honestly don't remember why we were so interested in Jared's pants...


I mentioned the part about Josh and I playing a couple right?  Well, my dad freaked out a little when Josh got into his role ;)
 We also did a 'Mormon Rap'



Here's a video link

My friend Brea Wiederhold taught me the song 'I like Mormon Boys and I Cannot Lie' and I have put that song to good use.  I have taught all of the Young women it.  The lyrics are hilarious, I love it. ;)


Here's a video link

For our final number, we did a parody of 'Mother Knows Best' from Tangled, we changed it to 'Professors know Best'


And thus ended our comedy night.  But hey, I've gotten a lot of acting out of this year :)

Comments

  1. JOSH LUDLOW! That is amazing. You both are too suave.

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  2. That night looks HILARIOUS! I'm mad I missed it. You can believe I will be watching those links once I leave work.... Love and miss you! See you NEXT MONTH!!! I'm taking you to ice cream, k? Just let me know when you get back.

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