4/18

I met with Alex at 2 o'clock on the second floor of PBK right before acting class to rehearse.  We just went through the lines first and then the second time we went through it with the actions.  We have become SO much more comfortable rehearsing.  It seems to flow a lot more and has become a lot more fluid.  I think it's because we both know all of our lines really well now which makes figuring out our actions a little more easy.  We went straight to class afterwards and rehearsed our part in front of the professor.  We made it through the entire scene!  I was so excited!  Some of the things we needed to work on though were the first scene where we are having sex, the professor said it needed to be longer.  Honestly we haven't worked much on that part considering how weird it is but we're definitely going to practice that and figure out what we want to do for it exactly.  We also still need more secondary actions.  Our scene has a lot of just sitting on the bed or walking into the bathroom.  The professor suggested I do something like pluck my armpit hairs but that wouldn't be something that I (Frankie) would be doing in front of Johnny.  I still need to think of something better to do that will be entertaining to the audience.  Alex also came up with the idea of playing cat and mouse when it came to him trying to get to me and me pushing him away.  There is a part where I walk into the bathroom and I'm brushing my hair and Alex suggested that he walk in the bathroom as I'm walking out, and then walking back into the bathroom when he comes to get me, that way he's constantly trying to get to me but I keep trying to get away.  All in all I think our scene and both Alex and I have come a long way individually and together and I'm hoping that we'll be able to prove that in the actual play next week!