I just got the lead in our school musical Crazy For You and i need a good way to

Question:I have a lot of lines, songs, and dances to remember

Please Help!!

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Please Help!!

Follow the advice that everyone else has left on this page, it seems really helpful! Another thing that I like to try is to make flashcards with your cues on one side, and your lines on the other. It sounds kind weird, but it's helped me a lot! Or write them down in a notebook or something. Sometimes writing stuff down helps you to memorize it, so making the flashcards will help long before you even actually use them. Plus, the fact that you've been reading them over and over in rehearsal will help when you actually have to memorize them. You might already have half of them memorized without even realizing it. It helps to really know the emotional reason the line is being said, or the feeling behind it because then you don't have to struggle to remember it. It's more like you're actually responding to what the other person in the scene said, if that makes any sense. And that way if you forget a line during the show (which you won't!) it'll be easy to cover because you'll know where the line was coming from emotionally, and what the character was actually trying to say. You can say the same thing the real line said but in different words.
Does that make sense?

Anyway, break a leg! You'll be great.

when reading your lines look at them read over them then close your eyes and read them again

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On this page link of my site for new and aspiring actors, you will find a method that I use and that works for me: http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/memor...

Good luck!

Tony

Actually, you need to memorize lines in chunks.

Highlight in red or yellow your character and its lines.

Ditto for the dances..

Well, you need to know the routines in chunks, practicing the dances several times for part 1, part 2, and part 3, and the end of the dance. Be sure that you know stage direction.....know stage right, stage left, stage top center, etc....you will need to know them. Also make a rough diagram on where you are in the dance routines....this is important for blocking with your choreographer/stage director.

To reinforce your learning, you need to take out some videos from the Broadway musical and see them all the way through. Some may not feature the exact lines from the playwrights or lyricists of the musical, but most try to be exact.

For the songs, you will also need to remember the words and music in chunks.

Therefore, you will have to practice about 4 hours a day on your lines, your dancing, and your singing. This is the only way that you can stay in your theatrical production with confidence.

Hope all of this helps.

Practice, practice, practice! For lines - read over them, saying them out loud, although running lines with a partner helped me out a lot. If they're in the production, it's easier to get them to do it with you several times reading over scenes. Songs...I just did a musical - we listened to the cd during the early stages, sang along, but the leads found accompanyists/friends to play the piano parts for them so they could go over the songs before and after practice. Dances, again, get your partner and review your choreography. It comes with practice, and it will get easier, but you have to be committed for it to work! Good luck!

Practice is pretty much the best thing to do, but it depends on if you're a "visual learner" or not. If you learn easier from reading information, just practice by reading your lines, but if you learn information better by listening to it, try recording yourself saying the lines and just listening to it and memorizing it. Again, it all depends. :)