1. YAWN...that's right, draw in as much air as you can and force yourself to YAWN. FORCE YOUR MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND INHALE DEEPLY...
   
   Exhale FULLY...empty the lungs completely...then YAWN AGAIN...and exhale again fully...
   
   2. Hummmm.....MMMMMMMMMMMM and make sure your
   nose vibrates....start at a low pitch, as deeply and basso as you can (I love it when women do this) and then gradually go to as high a pitch as you can comfortably do...THEN DO IT AS A SIREN....LOW TO HIGH AND LOW AGAIN...DO IT LOUD, then do it softly....MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...the neighbors must be talking by now.
   
   3. Take the word: RIGHT and repeat it 50 times...NEVER SAY IT THE SAME WAY TWICE...Right?, Right!...Right...?...have fun and do it EVERY WAY POSSIBLE...And in every mood possible...there, that's better, right!
   
   4. Sensory A: Connect with a FOOD that you think is WONDERFUL... Think about it, taste it, feel it on your tongue and lips...now swallow...MMMMMMMMMMMM.
   
   5. Sensory B: Think of drinking vinegar.
   
   6. Sensory C: Imagine looking at your MOTHER and thinking of what you'd like to say to her TODAY...then take a few words and SAY IT.
   
   7. Sensory D: Imagine looking at a TRAFFIC COP WHO JUST STOPPED YOU FOR GOING 50 in a 35 mile ZONE...YOU ARE GUILTY. WHAT WILL YOU SAY TO HIM? HOW DO YOU FEEL?
   
   8. PRACTICE MONOLOGUE:
   ANY AGE, ANY TYPE... SEE GIDEON AND TALK TO HIM...he could be 15, he could be 50...make him real and repeat it until you feel you have it sounding natural and conversational...
   
   You have a modest humor, Gideon. I appreciate that. So many men today are filled with their own self-importance. They wear their success and intellect for the world to see. But they are merely shields. A true man is not afraid to show himself... his inner self. He relies on who he is, rather than what he is. I have always thought that one should move through life accumulating silent victories. I believe that you are such a man, Gideon. One who walks the quiet road.

2. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Sing this as low (BASSO) as you can...."THE LIPS---THE NOSE---THE TIP OF THE TONGUE", now sing it a little higher MID ... THE LIPS, THE NOSE, THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now HIGHER...SQUEEKY...THE LIPS THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now breath in deeply...exhale deeply and say naturally: THE LIPS THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...
   
   2. REPEAT THIS TEN TIMES...AS NATURALLY AND QUICKLY AS YOU CAN...THROW IT AWAY QUICKLY...
   FREDDY FROG FLEW FROM FLORIDA FIREFLIES...
   FREDDY FROG FLEW FROM FLORIDA FIREFLIES...
   
   3. ACT THIS OUT...imagine peeling a lemon and eating it...EEEEWWWWWW.
   
   4. Now imagine peeling a GRAPE and eating it...YUM...
   
   5. Imagine your favorite teacher's face...see them and react. Now what would you say to them if you went back to their classroom today? SAY IT...THen SAY IT ANOTHER WAY...Imagine them standing over your grave...what would you try to tell them about your life? What would you try to communicate to them from beyond the grave? What did you try to do with your life?....tell them, let them know how hard you have tried to succeed...they will be proud.
   
   6. Repeat the line "YOU MUST BE A COP" 30 times, 30 different ways. Faster, slower, higher, lower, louder, softer....use the full instrument.
   
   7. MONOLOGUE...READ THIS SEVERAL TIMES OUT LOUD...Practice cold reading...look down, get a line, look up, say the line...it may seem difficult at first, but practice makes perfect and perfect practice is DONE EVERY DAY....until you feel connected and secure in your cold reading practice:
   
   Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
   That thou consumest thyself in single life?
   Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die.
   The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
   The world will be thy widow and still weep
   That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
   When every private widow well may keep
   By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind.
   Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend
   Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
   But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
   And kept unused, the user so destroys it.
   No love toward others in that bosom sits
   That on himself such murderous shame commits
   
   8. Now...Laugh out loud...MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE...LAUGH AND FEEL FUNNY...GIGGLE....LAUGH...WOW....

3. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. BUZZ your lips....BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... do it low and make your nose vibrate, do it high and make the nose vibrate....breathe deeply, buzz the lips....BRRRRRRRRRR. Make them sound like a buzz saw...loww and deep, all the way to high and squeeky...now make it sound like a siren...breathe deeply and let ALL of the air out while you BRRRRRRRRRRRR.....Make the lips TINGLE...
   
   2. You are auditioning for the part of a NERD AT A DANCE...DO YOUR NERD DANCE....there you go, now get into it even more...and more....and even more....GET WITH IT NERD!!!! GOOFY, GOOFY, GOOFY.....OK, YOU HAVE THE PART...NOW QUIT....I SAID QUIT!!!!(Sometimes that NERD DANCE takes over so just relax for just a second and take a deep breathe)
   
   3. Repeat this phrase 10 times fast and MEANINGFUL...
   Toothless Tom Thumb Sat Stupidly Thinking Thrifty Thoughts ....AGAIN, WITH FEELING....AGAIN.....FUN, HUH?
   
   4. Imagine you are cleaning a VERY DIRTY TOILET...EWWWWWWW!!!! Clean that mother....ewwwwwww, somebody had the runs....ewwwwwwww...clean it up good....get the really dirty spots....there you go...UH OH, there's a hole in your gloves....EWWWWWWWWWWWW!
   
   5. Imagine you are swimming in a the blue waters of the GULF OF MEXICO...Clean, clear water....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!....quite a jump, huh?
   
   6. Say this line 30 times: "It's a government conspiracy"... be sure to say it 30 different ways...throw it away, find humor, higher, lower, louder, softer, faster, slower, more paranoia, less paranoia....you know the drilll...WORK IT, WORK IT GOOD!...."It's a government conspiracy"....
   
   7. The famous monologue...
   
   This monologue is a letter...Men should read it as if they had just recieved it, women should read it as if they are sending it...
   
   "Dearest Scottie. And so you found me. This is the moment that I dreaded and hoped for, wondering what I would say and do if I ever saw you again. I wanted so to see you again just once. Now I'll go, and you can give up your search. I want you to have peace of mind. You've nothing to blame yourself for. You were the victim. I was the tool and you the victim of Gavin Elster's plan to murder his wife. He chose me to play the part because I looked like her. He dressed me up like her. He was quite safe because she lived in the country and rarely came to town. He chose you to be the witness to a suicide. The Carlotta story was part real, part invented...to make you testify that Madeleine wanted to kill herself. He knew of your illness. He knew you'd never get the stairs to the tower. He planned it so well. He made no mistakes. I made the mistake. I fell in love. That wasn't part of the plan. I'm still in love with you, and I want you so to love me. If I had the nerve, I'd stay and lie...hoping that I could make you love me again...as I am, for myself, and so forget the other and forget the past. But...I don't know whether I have the nerve to try."
   
   Make it real and natural...don't force it...remember, you have to react to it as you read it....and COLD READ IT...look down get a few words, look up and say the words....KEEP PRACTICING UNTIL IT SOUNDS NATURAL...
   
   8. SING A CHORUS OF YOUR FAVORITE SONG...NOW SING IT AGAIN....FEEL GOOD..."WE BE KICKING BUTT!"

4. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Stretch your full length...reach for the sky. Now YAWN big and let in LOTS OF AIR. Now exhale and let it ALL out. Again.
   
   2. Sing a children's song: "the ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah..." or such. Sing it over and over until you feel good. 4 or 5 times. Have fun and do each verse a little different.
   
   3. Imagine yourself on a busy street and you feel you are being followed...go with it. Get paranoid, get jumpy, let yourself get into it...
   
   4. Now imagine yourself in front of a huge crowd accepting an award....thank you, thank you, thank you.......I'd like to thank.......finish it.
   5. Repeat this line 20 times: "If I don't start now, when?" Make each time different.
   
   6. Repeat this line 10 times:
   Toy boat oil leaks trinket Topsoil....
   
   7. The daily Monologue:
   
   "Intervention Specialist"
   
   Look at you! You're all drunks. ALL of you!
   
   You drink all night, sleep all day and you probably puke
   more than Fiona Apple and Gweneth Paltrow put together
   after they have a steak dinner.
   
   You're drunks, dammit. You're like a bunch of unsupervised
   teenagers drinking wine and taking the pot all day. Wearing
   clothes that don't even fit and listening to Marilyn Reznor
   and Rod Zombie records. You all need to get off your keisters
   and MAKE something of yourselves!
   
   Back in my day we did work. And it helped us build charactor.
   That's where true charactor comes from. Not from sticking a
   silver hoop in your eye or stretching your earlobes like a
   damn Amazon villager.
   
   You folks need to listen up and show some respect!
   
   So in summary...you're drunk, you vomit, you listen to bad
   music and need to get off your keisters.
   
   That's all. –

5. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Turn OFF all TV, Radio, Etc...and go into a quiet room, such as a bathroom.
It's OK to stand in front of the mirror to do these exercises. In fact,
it might even be preferred.

BE SURE TO BREATHE FROM YOUR DIAPHRAGM....Breathe deeply and it will
help you to learn to breathe in times of stress if you have these
warm-ups EVERY DAY to make sure you REMEMBER how to breathe...

At a stressfull situation, such as an audition, your system may
not allow you to breathe normally...PRACTICE THESE WARM-UPS FAITHFULLY...
So you are ON TOP of the breathe issue...

1. YAWN...that's right, draw in as much air as you can and force yourself
to YAWN. FORCE YOUR MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND INHALE DEEPLY...
Exhale FULLY...empty the lungs completely...then YAWN AGAIN...
and exhale again fully...

2. Hummmm.....MMMMMMMMMMMM and make sure your
nose vibrates....start at a low pitch, as deeply and basso as
you can (I love it when women do this) and then gradually go to
as high a pitch as you can comfortably do...THEN DO IT AS A SIREN....
LOW TO HIGH AND LOW AGAIN...DO IT LOUD, then do it softly....
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...the neighbors must be talking by now.

3. Sing this as low (BASSO) as you can...."THE LIPS---THE NOSE---THE
TIP OF THE TONGUE", now sing it a little higher MID ... THE LIPS,
THE NOSE, THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now HIGHER...SQUEEKY...THE LIPS
THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now breath in deeply...exhale
deeply and say naturally: THE LIPS THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...

4.BUZZ your lips....BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... do it low and make your
nose vibrate, do it high and make the nose vibrate....breathe deeply,
buzz the lips....BRRRRRRRRRR. Make them sound like a buzz saw...loww
and deep, all the way to high and squeeky...now make it sound like a
siren...breathe deeply and let ALL of the air out while you BRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
Make the lips TINGLE...

5. REPETITION ONE: The purpose of repetition is to challenge yourself to
have as many DIFFERENT ways to say the same word...AND DIFFERENT ATTITUDES...
For instance, saying firmly as if a command, then throwing it away, then saying
as a question, etc...WORK it, WORK IT GOOD!....Your word is: HELLO...That's right...
SAY IT 50 TIMES WITH 50 different meanings....YOU CAN DO IT!!!...

6. REPETITION TWO: The purpose of this is to say a LINE several times to explore
the possible meanings. You can do change the rythms of the line and, of course,
you can change the emotional values and backstory involved in saying the line.
This is an excellent exercise to start the day, so you don't get locked into
BORING language....Your line is: "It's a dog eat dog world"...now work it
That's it, say it again, and again,...now differently...GOOD!

7: Monologue. The purpose of this is to look down, get the words, look
up and say the words...be you and be natural (someone asked how they could
be natural if they are in character---if we can tell you are "acting" you
are NOT in character---you are "acting"...SO QUIT IT!...the character would
be natural for them...so if you aren't natural...YOU NEED TO LEARN TO BE NATURAL)
How would the character drink a drink? How would the character swallow food?
How would the character belch? If you can't do natural functions in
character, then work on it...BE NATURAL...

This monologue is to WORK ON LANGUAGE SKILLS----SAY IT OVER 5 times or more
to work on your language skills:...Say it like you mean it...and make sure
you breathe and pronounce the words properly...

"I'm the key figure in an on-going government
charade, the plot to conceal the truth about
the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global
conspiracy, actually, with key players in the
highest levels of power, that reaches down
into the lives of every man, woman,
and child on this planet. So, of course,
no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my
superiors, a joke to my peers. They call
me Spooky. Spooky, whose sister was abducted
by aliens when just a kid and who now chases
after little green men with a badge and a gun,
shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will
listen that the fix is in, that the sky
is falling and when it hits it's gonna be
the shit-storm of all time."

Adapted from X-files....

NOW GO WORK ON SCENES AND GO TO AUDITIONS AND DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO TODAY WITH A
GREAT ATTITUDE!!!

6. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=

First...Print this out and....
Turn OFF all TV, Radio, Etc...and go into a quiet room, such as a bathroom.
It's OK to stand in front of the mirror to do these exercises. In fact,
it might even be preferred.

BE SURE TO BREATHE FROM YOUR DIAPHRAGM....Breathe deeply and it will
help you to learn to breathe in times of stress if you have these
warm-ups EVERY DAY to make sure you REMEMBER how to breathe...

At a stressfull situation, such as an audition, your system may
not allow you to breathe normally...PRACTICE THESE WARM-UPS FAITHFULLY...
So you are ON TOP of the breathe issue...

1. YAWN...that's right, draw in as much air as you can and force yourself
to YAWN. FORCE YOUR MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND INHALE DEEPLY...
Exhale FULLY...empty the lungs completely...then YAWN AGAIN...
and exhale again fully...

2. Hummmm.....MMMMMMMMMMMM and make sure your
nose vibrates....start at a low pitch, as deeply and basso as
you can (I love it when women do this) and then gradually go to
as high a pitch as you can comfortably do...THEN DO IT AS A SIREN....
LOW TO HIGH AND LOW AGAIN...DO IT LOUD, then do it softly....
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...the neighbors must be talking by now.

3. Sing this as low (BASSO) as you can...."THE LIPS---THE NOSE---THE
TIP OF THE TONGUE", now sing it a little higher MID ... THE LIPS,
THE NOSE, THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now HIGHER...SQUEEKY...THE LIPS
THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...now breath in deeply...exhale
deeply and say naturally: THE LIPS THE NOSE THE TIP OF THE TONGUE...

4.BUZZ your lips....BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... do it low and make your
nose vibrate, do it high and make the nose vibrate....breathe deeply,
buzz the lips....BRRRRRRRRRR. Make them sound like a buzz saw...loww
and deep, all the way to high and squeeky...now make it sound like a
siren...breathe deeply and let ALL of the air out while you BRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
Make the lips TINGLE...

5. REPETITION ONE: The purpose of repetition is to challenge yourself to
have as many DIFFERENT ways to say the same word...AND DIFFERENT ATTITUDES...
For instance, saying firmly as if a command, then throwing it away, then saying
as a question, etc...WORK it, WORK IT GOOD!....Your word is: WHASSUP...That's right...
SAY IT 50 TIMES WITH 50 different meanings....YOU CAN DO IT!!!... "WHASSUP"

6. REPETITION TWO: The purpose of this is to say a LINE several times to explore
the possible meanings. You can do change the rythms of the line and, of course,
you can change the emotional values and backstory involved in saying the line.
This is an excellent exercise to start the day, so you don't get locked into
BORING language....Your line is:

"Life is cruel sometimes"

...now work it
That's it, say it again, and again, 20 times or MORE...now differently...GOOD!

7: Monologue. The purpose of this is to look down, get the words, look
up and say the words...be you and be natural (someone asked how they could
be natural if they are in character---if we can tell you are "acting" you
are NOT in character---you are "acting"...SO QUIT IT!...the character would
be natural for them...so if you aren't natural...YOU NEED TO LEARN TO BE NATURAL)
How would the character drink a drink? How would the character swallow food?
How would the character belch? If you can't do natural functions in
character, then work on it...BE NATURAL...

This monologue is to WORK ON LANGUAGE SKILLS----SAY IT OVER 5 times or more
to work on your language skills:...Say it like you mean it...and make sure
you breathe and pronounce the words properly...

Women, do this one as if it was e-mailed to you and you are telling a girlfriend
about it...determine the who
what where when why...men, do it as if you are telling a buddy. Have Fun...

"My girlfriend and I broke up. It was terrible.
We were in the chatroom talking like we usually
do about school and work and what she was wearing
when she lowered the bomb "I just started cyberdating BigBoss2000."
I was devastated. I mean, I'm a man who never cries but
I was crushed. I mean how could CinnimonLipz69 do this to
me? We'd been a couple for up to 2 weeks at that point.
I really felt that we were meant to be.
I'm going to the 'Bar and Grill' chatroom
and have myself a drink.
Life is cruel sometimes."

(FOUND ON THE NET)



NOW GO WORK ON SCENES AND GO TO AUDITIONS AND DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO TODAY WITH A
GREAT ATTITUDE!!!
7. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

. Warm Up:
Say the ALPHABET backwards...that's right, backwards...say it
loudly and speak clearly and say it quickly...this is a VOICE
exercise and a TONGUE exercise...be sure to say it loudly and
clearly and breathe deeply and make every letter clear and
precise...DO IT AGAIN!

2, Say the word "WORD" 50 times, everytime differently...WORD!

3. Trill your tongue and hum with a LOW PITCH so it sounds like
a motorboat...now higher and higher... LOW AGAIN..That's it...

4. Imagine you are on stage and audience is applauding...Thank you,
Thank you, thank you (They Love You)

5. Imagine you are getting ready to DIVE off a diving board...what are
your feelings...fear, excitement, joy, exhilaration...dread?...
confidence???? Go through the action in your mind...A PERFECT DIVE!

6. SING A FEW BARS OF YOUR FAVORITE SONG!...LOUDLY...

7. Now whisper (loudly).... "Give me all your money!" DO IT AGAIN...

8. Say 10 times:
sherman showed sherry ships, showers, sheep, and sails...

9. From WS...This is a monologue that makes sense if
you work it and the WORDS WILL TELL YOU HOW TO SAY IT!
If it's HARD, then maybe it's what you need----A Challenge!

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'

8. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. YAWN...that's right, draw in as much air as you can and force yourself to YAWN. FORCE YOUR MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND INHALE DEEPLY...
   
   Exhale FULLY...empty the lungs completely...then YAWN AGAIN...and exhale again fully...
   
   2. Hummmm.....MMMMMMMMMMMM and make sure your
   nose vibrates....start at a low pitch, as deeply and basso as you can (I love it when women do this) and then gradually go to as high a pitch as you can comfortably do...THEN DO IT AS A SIREN....LOW TO HIGH AND LOW AGAIN...DO IT LOUD, then do it softly....MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...the neighbors must be talking by now.
   
   3. Take the word: Food and repeat it 50 times...NEVER SAY IT THE SAME WAY TWICE...Food?, Food!...Food...?...have fun and do it EVERY WAY POSSIBLE...And in every mood possible...there, that's better, right!
   
   4. Sensory A: Connect with a FOOD that you think is WONDERFUL... Think about it, taste it, feel it on your tongue and lips...now swallow...MMMMMMMMMMMM.
   
   5. Sensory B: Think of drinking straight HOT SAUCE.
   
   6. Sensory C: Imagine looking at your MOTHER---Imagine her patting you on the back and saying "GO FOR IT, I'M PROUD OF YOU!"
   
   7. Stomp your feet like a bull...get really agitated...really agitated, now calm down...
   
   8. PRACTICE MONOLOGUE: YES, IT'S HARD...THAT'S WHY WE DO IT---TO LOOSEN THE TONGUE AND
   MAKE PROGRESS...If it was easy...ANYBODY COULD DO IT...
   
   Who will believe my verse in time to come,
   If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
   Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
   Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
   If I could write the beauty of your eyes
   And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
   The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
   Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
   So should my papers yellow'd with their age
   Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
   And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
   And stretched metre of an antique song:
   But were some child of yours alive that time,
   You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.
   
    9. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Again, print this out and be sure you are standing in a quiet place...

1. Sing this as low (BASSO) as you can...."Hear Me, I'm Strong, And I'm Talented, And I have a secret weapon." Sing it a little higher MID .."Hear Me, I'm Strong, And I'm Talented, And I have a secret weapon."..now HIGHER...SQUEEKY.."Hear Me, I'm Strong, And I'm Talented, And I have a secret weapon."..now breath in deeply...exhale deeply and say naturally: "Hear Me, I'm Strong, And I'm Talented, And I have a secret weapon."...

2. REPEAT THIS TEN TIMES...AS NATURALLY AND QUICKLY AS YOU CAN...THROW IT AWAY QUICKLY...
Christopher Cross Criss-Crossed Crops ...AND AGAIN!

3. ACT THIS OUT...You are picking your nose and eating it...enjoying it!!! MMMMMMM.

4. Act this out: You walk into a room and EVERYBODY LOVES YOU...acknowledge them...nod and say hello...they all LOVE YOU!

5. Remember when you were 6 years old? WHo was your best friend...tell them what your life is like now...explain it to them, tell them your passions...bring them up to date on what your life has been like...TELL THEM AND FEEL EVERYTHING YOU SAY...

6. Repeat the line "I don't exactly know what you mean" 30 times, 30 different ways. Faster, slower, higher, lower, louder, softer....use the full instrument.

7. MONOLOGUE...READ THIS SEVERAL TIMES OUT LOUD...Practice cold reading...look down, get a line, look up, say the line...it may seem difficult at first, but practice makes perfect and perfect practice is DONE EVERY DAY....until you feel connected and secure in your cold reading practice:

"If I were to find an eyelash on my cheek, and if I were to place it on my finger, make a wish, and blow it away, I know where my wish would take me. I would be standing at the very top of the eighty-eight’s, just before dark. Sam would be running circles around me, wanting to get on home. But I’d tell him to be still.

"I’m waiting for someone," I’d say. And then I’d sit and pull Sam close to me, and the two of us would look down to the bottom of the eighty-eight’s to where all of Manuet stretched before our eyes.

"Look, Sam," I’d say. "There’s Miss Buxton closing up the bakeshop. And there’s Miss Finnegan running to catch the last trolley. Just like always."

Way across town we’d see the harbor and maybe we’d get to see an old tugboat chug on by. And then we’d look clear across the harbor to Boston, where one by one the lights would begin to come on. We’d watch until the sky above the harbor was dotted with little patches of light."


8. Now...Laugh out loud...MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE...LAUGH AND FEEL FUNNY...GIGGLE....LAUGH...WOW....

9. Go on with your day...maybe go to the GYM for a physical work out.

 10. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Stretch your full length...reach for the sky. Now YAWN big and let in LOTS OF AIR. Now exhale and let it ALL out. Again.
   
   2. Sing a children's song: "boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy...." or such. Sing it over and over until you feel good. 4 or 5 times. Have fun and do each verse a little different.
   
   3. Imagine your now 80 years old and looking back on your life. Give yourself some advice...remember you never regret the things you DID try...only those that you DIDN'T...
   
   4. Imagine you are talking to your parents. Tell them about your passion for acting...tell them your joys, your sorrows...
   
   5. Repeat this line 20 times: "What I do today, added with what I did yesterday, and what I plan to do tomorrow, makes me me!" Make each time different.
   
   6. Repeat this line 10 times:
   Freindly Fools folly finds fumbling frisbie freak frogs
   
   7. The daily Monologue:
   
   ...after the party, i stopped at a convenience store, where my hero milo (singer of the descendents) was handing out free tshirts for some reason. he also gave me a book with blood in it. then some guy started harrassing me, chased me into the store, and beat the shit out of me. i was on the ground and looked up and was like "oh, hi, joey". apparently brunetta showed up at the convenience store and i wasnt surprised at first. that's ok tho, because he later became a girl named joey. i have no clue why....
   
   
   Now get to the gym and work out!!!

11. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stretch and reach for the sky. Breathe deep and let out a big long groan....now count out loud from 10 to zero...and as you count, think of the positive energy that you are brining into your life...and as you count, bring all of that energy into your HERE AND NOW and as you reach zero, you should have an ENERGY BLAST OFF...you can yell if you want or just breathe heavily and enjoy the energy...

Now take your hands and grip them tightly and then release, then again, and again...and breathe in and out as you do that...grip the hands until they go numb, now let them hang by your side and they will float up...

Take a simple sentence and say it over and over DIFFERENTLY EACH TIME..Try this sentence:
I thought you would help, you told me you would---you promised!...

Now practice this monologue until is rolls off the tongue...you may have to OVER ENUNCIATE at first, but it will become much more natural as you practice it: From BILLY S:


The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

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WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY....

Who are you...establish the who by walking around the room as a character...whatever the character...MAKE SURE YOU MAKE THE CHARACTER A
CHARISMATIC CHARACTER, NOT BORING...

Do simple tasks as the character...in this case you are a scientist who is trying to save the world and you must keep your mind focused on explaining your goals to save the world...

Make this a complete character and do your normal morning duties as this character...make it powerful...how can life go on when the end of the world is at hand? How can you brush your teeth and shower, etc., when it looks like there is a genetic demon that will destroy the world...

Establish yourself in the character and then try to explain this to the world leaders:

A similar model applies to genes. A gene corresponds to a string of DNA codons, which respond to the presence of certain activating proteins, or the absence of certain inhibiting proteins---condition---- by manufacturing new proteins---action. This may in turn activate further genes, depending on the present of specific chemicals in the cell, and so on. This leads to complex networks of "if... then" productions.

It's this process that has produced the aberrations that threaten our existence.

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Establish the who in everything you do...make it charismatic and interesting and fully formed...and practice the short monologue as many times as it takes for it to become real and natural and at the same time bring all of the immediacy and urgency that must be communicated when giving the technical data...

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Start this warm up by fluttering your tongue like a motor. Then hum low, then higher, so you sound like a motor boat that's accelerating.

do it up and down and around....drive that boat around the lake...hum low, hum high (you are going fast now)...and make a few complete runs around the lake.

Now enunciate very exaggerated....

Slapshot, Flipflop, Poppycock, Slipknot

Repeat 10 times loudly and exaggeratedly...

Now extablish the WHERE in your mind. It's a big room, like an airport waiting room...look around it, feel it, enjoy the atmosphere...how would you enter the room. How do you feel? It's a big room...get the feeling in your mind...

Now establish the WHERE in an elevator...a crowded elevator. How does it feel? What's going on? How do you feel in tight places?

Now do this monologue to someone in each of these places. In the BIG ROOM, you might be projecting or trying to talk over the din...in the small room, you might be whispering...try different ways and enjoy:

From William S.

Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,
But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes.

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Warm Up:

Start by breathing in for a count of 4
hold for the count of 7
Exhale for the count of 8

Repeat

Now HUM...MMMMMMMMMMMM
Now Hum with a HIGHER PITCH...
Now a LOWER PITCH...
Now modulated like a siren....UP AND DOWN, UP AND DOWN...

Now go from the Hum to EEEEEEEE and make like a siren
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

Repeat FAST "PUT, PUT, PUT, PUT, PUT"
FASTER....

FASTER

Now just flutter the lips PPPPPPPPPPP

Now repeat 10 times fast:
pick pocket pat prefers purple papers

Now repeat with a high pitch...3 times

Now with a low pitch...3 times....

Here's a poem to COLD read...THEN REPEAT...
Remember to use all of the MUSICALITY of
your voice: HIGHER-LOWER, FASTER-SLOWER,
LOUDER-SOFTER...and any combination of
these elements...Plus add the elements
of a whisper, and a yell... Use all of
the instrument to work this peice for
10 times... It's fun!!!

So come, good friends who toil and tire,
Who smoke and sip the kindly cup,
Ring round about the tavern fire
Ere yet you drink your liquor up;
And hear my simple songs of earth,
Of youth and truth and living things;
Of poverty and proper mirth,
Of rags and rich imaginings;
Of cock-a-hoop, blue-heavened days,
Of hearts elate and eager breath,
Of wonder, worship, pity, praise,
Of sorrow, sacrifice and death;
Of lusting laughter, passion, pain,
Of lights that lure and dreams that thrall...
And if a golden word I gain,
Oh, kindly folks, God save you all!
And if you shake your heads in blame...
Good friends, God love you all the same.

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Start making an EEEEE sound...
now make it like a siren up and down...
Now add a MMMM to it so it's MMMMEEEEEEEE
Now change it to NNNNeeeeee
Now repeat...Mememememememe...nenenenenene...
lelelelelelelele....gegegegegegegegegegegeege

Now think of the when you were 5 years old and
it's your birthday and what did you get for a present...

Your with your friends and it's SOOOO FUNNY and you are
5 years old. Do you remember their names and faces?

Do you remember your family when you were five...brothers,
sisters, Mom, Dad...enjoy the moment, enjoy the memory...

Now repeat...

I'm healthy, I'm talented, I'm loved, and I'm having a
fabulous time!

Repeat again. Repeat 7 times....

Now repeat 10 times fast:
Gigwhip, gigwhip...etc...

Now look down and get the words, then look up and
say the words in the next piece. Let the words flow
easily and simply...enjoy the piece...

Now repeat 5 more times...be sure to use all of your
vocal instrument...higher, lower, faster, slower, louder,
softer...any combination of the above...create the where with
your performance...

"Have you ever stood in an Arctic hut in the shadow of the Pole,
With a little coffin six by three and a grief you can't control?
Have you ever sat by a frozen corpse that looks at you with a grin,
And that seems to say: "You may try all day, but you'll never jam me in"?
I'm not a man of the quitting kind, but I never felt so blue
As I sat there gazing at that stiff and studying what I'd do.
Then I rose and I kicked off the husky dogs that were nosing round about,
And I lit a roaring fire in the stove, and I started to thaw Bill out.

Well, I thawed and thawed for thirteen days, but it didn't seem no good;
His arms and legs stuck out like pegs, as if they was made of wood.
Till at last I said: "It ain't no use -- he's froze too hard to thaw;
He's obstinate, and he won't lie straight, so I guess I got to -- saw."
So I sawed off poor Bill's arms and legs, and I laid him snug and straight
In the little coffin he picked hisself, with the dinky silver plate;
And I came nigh near to shedding a tear as I nailed him safely down;
Then I stowed him away in my Yukon sleigh, and I started back to town.

So I buried him as the contract was in a narrow grave and deep,
And there he's waiting the Great Clean-up,
when the Judgment sluice-heads sweep;
And I smoke my pipe and I meditate in the light of the Midnight Sun,
And sometimes I wonder if they was, the awful things I done.
And as I sit and the parson talks, expounding of the Law,
I often think of poor old Bill -- and how hard he was to saw."

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