#rehearsal

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#audience #change #dictates #fabulous #fall

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#author #better #dead #dramatic #only

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#audience #because #between #chemistry #often

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great. ↗

— Ike Turner

#came #fast #first #got #great

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#arrive #challenge #change #developed #development

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out. ↗

— Rider Strong

#cabin #day #fever #finish #going

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#because #begin #begins #blocks #building

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#between #cameraman #close #costume #course

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#funny #hard #hard work #lots #rehearsals