Acting for singers: creating believable singing characters
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| adam_text | ACTINGFORSINGERS
CREATING BEL IEVABLE S I NG I NG CHARACTERS
DAVIDFOSTWALD
OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONTENTS
Introduction 3
Part I Believability: The Territory and the Tools
1 The Divine Marriage: Combining Believable Acting
with Expressive Singing u
Being Believable as Your Character IActing Actions /Acting Feelings I
Acting Technically; Acting Intutively I Grounding Your Acting in Hardwired
Human Behavior I Singing and Acting Together—Believably / Jumping Your
Internal Hurdles I Summary / Exercises
2 To Become or Not to Become: Using Yourself
to Create a Believable Character 28
Entering Your Character s Reality—The Magical If I Describing Your Character s
Reality I Making Your Character s Given Circumstances Your Own I Using the
Magical If to Explore Carmen as Gypsy I Using the Magical If to Explore Tony as
Leader of a Street Gang / Sharing Your Character s World / Putting It Together I
Summary I Exercises
3 Playing in the Moment: Using Improvisation to Be Believable 42
How Improvising Helps You to Act Believably I Setting Up Successful
Improvisational Situations I Setting Up Successful Singing Improvisations /
Beginning an Improvisation / Helpful Tips / Discussing the Improvisation /
Handling Possible Fears about Improvising I Summary I Exercises / Ideas for
Improvisations
4 Judgments and Trust: Improving Your Concentration 59
Introduction /Improving Your Concentration by Increasing Your Ability to Trust/
Improving Your Concentration by Putting Judgments in Perspective / Improving Your
Concentration by Intensifying Your Engagement I Maintaining Your Concentration
in Demanding Vocal Passages I Recovering Your Concentration /Summary/ Exercises
x Contents
Part II Creating Your Character
5 Neither Right nor Wrong: Making Effective Interpretive Choices 73
Freeing Yourself to Make Interpretive Choices IRecognizing When
Your Character Choices Will Work Well I Interpreting the Music
to Help Make Effective Character Choices I Summary I Exercises
6 Your Character s Universe: Analyzing
the Dramatic Structure of Music-Theater Pieces 82
The Music-Theater Master Plan I The Four Dramatic Building Blocks I
Developing the Action in the Stock Dramatic Structure/Developing
the Action in a Typical Plot I The Music as an Emotional and Dramatic
Voice /Summary/ Exercises
7 Your Character s World: Fashioning a Theme Statement 91
Defining the Theme I Defining the Qualities of the Most Useful Theme
Statements I Fashioning a Theme Statement I Fashioning a Theme
Statement Using Research I Troubleshooting I Summary I Exercises
8 Your Character s Heart s Desire: Fashioning Super-objectives 104
Defining a Super-objective I The Qualities of the Most Useful
Super-objectives I Fashioning a Super-objective I Why a
Single Super-objective is the Most Helpful I Troubleshooting I
Summary I Exercises
9 Motivating Your Character s Actions:
Fashioning Objectives and Acting Beats m
Defining Objectives and Acting Beats I Defining the Qualities of the Most Useful
Objectives I Fashioning Objectives for Operas and Musicals I Fashioning Objectives
for Songs, Art Songs, and Lieder I Using Objectives to Strengthen a Role or Scene I
Fashioning Acting Beats I Using Acting Beats to Motivate Repeated Text I
Summary I Exercises
10 Your Character s Inner Voice: Fashioning Subtext
and an Internal Dialogue 128
Defining Subtext I Considering the Score as a Source of Subtext I Fashioning
Subtext I Fashioning Internal Thoughts for Music Without Words I Integrating an
Internal Dialogue into Your Dramatic Analysis of Operas and Musicals I Integrating
an Internal Dialogue into Your Dramatic Analysis of Art Songs, Lieder, and Songs I
Troubleshooting I Summary / Exercises
Contents xi
Part III Preparing for Performances
11 Being Believable in Any Role on Any Stage: Heightening 143
Defining Heightening I Heightening Your Feelings and Gestures by Energizing
Your Body and Breath / Heightening Your Gestures for Period Pieces I
Heightening Your Gestures for Melodramas and Farces / Using Heightening
to Support Hyper-melodramatic and Hyper-farcical Roles / Troubleshooting /
Summary/ Exercises
12 Getting the Part: Auditioning 161
Introduction I Preparing to Audition / Doing Auditions I Solving Auditioning
Problems / How to Improve IA Final Note / Summary / Exercises
13 Getting Good: Rehearsing 176
Introduction /Preparing to Rehearse / The Rehearsal Process / Troubleshooting/
Summary IA Rehearsal Checklist / Exercises
14 Delivering a Believable Character: Performing 198
Preparing to Perform I Preparing to Enter / Entering / Performing Operas
and Musicals / Performing Art Songs, Lieder, and Songs / Troubleshooting I
Summary / Exercises
Appendices
1 Ten Maxims of Believable Singing Acting 215
2 How to Analyze and Prepare Vocal Material from
a Dramatic Viewpoint: An Overview 217
3 A Short Glossary of Stage Terms 220
4 How to Research Period Practices in Movement,
Manners, and Gesture 223
5 Notes on the Exercises for Teachers and Directors 226
Index 239
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