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Private Parts (1997)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.
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Directors: Thomas Betty
Actors: Stern Howard,Norris Fred,Giamatti Paul,Dell’Abate Gary,Martling Jackie,Portnow Richard,Goodman Henry,Hadary Jonathan,Hecht Paul,Murphy Michael,Biography,Comedy,Drama,
drama exam in 2 weeks, some of my cast aren't practicing. what should i do?
Sorry if this is a bit long. Please bear with me, this will boil down to three simple questions.
We are in junior year university (communication major), so this is a final exam to take grades for this semester. For this exam I am directing and acting in a 30 minute all female adaptation of Spring Awakening to be performed by 5 girls (Wendla, Martha, Anna, Ilse, and Frau Bergmann). This performance is part of a Mini Broadway Marathon event hosted by our major, which will feature other diminutive adaptations of broadway plays by other teams of 5.
Normally we are on a semester break now till early March, but since this is a mini production exam, it is set on 23 February right in the middle of our holiday. Our Martha is home in another state across the country for Chinese New Year (it’s usually the only time of the year she gets to visit her parents). I’m not too worried about her because she’s a dilligent actor who studies her script and performs well on stage.
Our Ilse has IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and often misses practice without notice because of her upset stomach. She also works odd hours as a private ballet teacher, and it gets rather annoying when she makes everybody schedule practices around her schedule because her job is the least flexible out of everybody else’s. To make things worse, she is our weakest actor. But we need her because she will be dancing the crucial scenes of "The Dark I Know Well" (when Ilse and Martha tell about how their fathers abuse them) and Moritz’s funeral.
This play consists of 7 scenes. Wendla (my character) appears in scene 1-6. Martha and Anna appear in scene 1, 3, 5, and 7. Ilse appears in scene 3, 5, and 7. Frau Bergmann only appears in scene 6 and is co-directing with me).
So we have less than 15 days to practice. Martha is unavailable until D-day minus two and yet we have a general rehearsal with the rest of our class 8 days from now. We’re finding Ilse rather uncooperative but her excuse seems like something we can’t do anything about as it concerns her health and her source of income. So that means that we have only Wendla, Anna and Frau Bergmann practicing full time, and every now and then a struggling Ilse who reads her lines more like a newscaster rather than a bohemian runaway.
If kicking Ilse out of the team would be impossible (due to the scarcity of strong dancers in our campus… otherwise, to do without would require us changing the entire script), then what must we do to make her cooperate? Normally I’d be very strict in implementing rewards and punishments, but I can’t think of any effective ones right now. Besides, the five of us are always together in class projects, and Ilse sacrifices a lot to make sure that our academic assignments are in place and in five star condition; so I’m reluctant about hammering her down on performance subjects.
How should we deal with Martha on a long distance basis to make sure that she catches up with the team once she comes back? Her overall acting is so far so good, but her final scene needs a lot of redefinition and polishing.
And lastly, how do we even progress with half of our team missing?
I know your feeling…. I passed through this experience and I was so annoyed
Ok see what can you do :
-You can train each person alone on his role and then make a day that all of them are prepared and make a good try outs.
OR
-tell them the causes of their negligence and exaggerate alit bit!
I am happy that I could help!!
Princess Polo | Feb 07, 2010
Wow - I don’t envy you one little bit!!
It can be really tough working with friends on productions, especially when you have to see them everyday in class etc, but I can safely say that if they acted the way they are now out in the real world they would be sacked!
At the end of the day this should be their priority - you’ve only got 15 days and that’s not long at all.
If I were you I’d sit everyone down to have a meeting and stress how important it is that you all get some decent rehearsal time together. Tell them you know they all have other commitments, which is fine, but this will all be over in two weeks, so they’ll all just have to put in a little extra effort, maybe even re-arrange stuff. It
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