Connors Acting Journey

Wednesday 13th Cast 1 was on the first day and we had a different type of audience with it being a relaxed performance. The day before the show we had a talk about to what to expect from the audience and we were given the chance to put our name forward if we wanted to meet the audience before they came to sit in.I asked George if I would be allowed to put my name due to my experiences and so it was nice to meet and greet them in and see how excited they all were for Peter Pan. I was a lost boy in this cast so I was in my lost boy costume ready for our part. I  first com on sage to help with the flying, I made sure to not look at the audience but instead look at the floor so I didn't trip over something when lifting someone. After the flying it was then scene change for lost boys. I made sure to skip onto stage as character with Alan and then we both grabbed the front bed and moved it to the back, I also had to move the door frames at the back that we used for the windows since some

 In Peter Pan the part I had been given was the role of John Darling. I was also a given the choice if I wanted to be a pirate or lost boy as part of ensemble I chose to take on the role of a lost boy for ensemble. John Darling For John this was an added challenge from last year as Tinman because it was less of a mature character. I have played more mature characters than child like characters that are very expressive, and bouncy. To show this I just made sure I was always smiling and always showing that my character was having fun when it was needed by doing big facial expressions. It was also an added challenge due to the singing aspect I never thought I would have to sing when joining this course. So when I heard that we were doing a musical I was little excited on top of being very nervous as singing on stage was something that scared me but I took the challenge head on.  Movement was something I struggled with last year but with John this character was more free and loose and had

So we had got the cast for Peter Pan on Monday 13th November, I ended up getting cast as John and a lost boy, since Kelly wants to see me play less mature roles and wants to see more physicality from me.  Tuesday 14th November Today was the first rehearsal day and we started off with voice warm-ups as were going to go through all the songs in our groups. So Tom would go in order of songs and have us come up with our other classmates who would be playing for example the other John or the rest of the darling family. The songs I need to learn for John and the lost boys are:  The Darlings Come Away, Come Away (Reprise) Wendy's Song We Believe in Fairies / Believe  We're going home The Darlings (reprise) I also went through my script and started going through and highlighting my lines so that I can be prepared with my cast.  Wednesday 15th November We worked on lost boys and pirates stuff today. A group of us would go with Abbey and she would teach us movement to a song that song wa

Friday 1st December We had been giving the script for "#YOLO" and the audition pieces for each character. My first decision was Johnno but I felt like I had already played a sort of best friend character. That's chilled back and calm but can also have an outburst about him if things go wrong. So I decided instead to go for Jack as I felt like I haven't really played a real emotional character that can pull at heart strings and feels more real compared to the sort of over the top cartoony character's I have played before.  We got the audition schedule on the day before and I was paired up with Sophia as Jack and Josie. I felt great about this as I have some chemistry with Sophia and we can bounce well off each other and we have also filmed together from when we did "Red Herring". We had a bit of time to run through it together to understand the scene and understand how long certain beats need to be and about eye contact and everything else like blocking a