Larry's 02/02/2012 "True Acting Tip Of The Day"...

"Thursday BECKY SHAW report. Tonight we have our first audience, and we are just about sold out. We consider this performance a "preview/rehearsal" and I have the freedom to stop the play at any moment and continue to work with the actors. Last night was our first full dress rehearsal and I saw a few moments in the play that I look forward to helping the actors make more specific tonight.

Of course, it will be the addition of our first audience tonight that will take our five actors to a new and deeper understanding of what their journeys are all about. We have been working privately and in seclusion with our little story and we are ready now to include the rest of the family, the audience. Without the audience, not only does the theatrical event not exist, it is their presence, their "witnessing" the life onstage, that truly launches the actors into unchartered territories of the character's soul.

I compare this relationship between the actor and the audience, to an electric circuit. A circuit is an unbroken loop of conductive material that allows electrons to flow through continuously without beginning or end. If a circuit is "broken," that means its conductive elements no longer form a complete path, and continuous electron flow cannot occur in it. The location of a break in a circuit is irrelevant to its inability to sustain continuous electron flow. Any break, anywhere in a circuit prevents electron flow throughout the circuit.

You see? The audience completes the circuit! Without them, the circuit is broken and the life does not fully flow."

Natalie and Christina as Becky and Suzanna