How do i memiorize lines?

Question:im playing the scarecrow in the wiz of oz and i need to memorize linze HELP

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Here's what helped me when i had to memorize a whole part in 3 days because the original person quit.

1. practice,practice,practice. be working on them every single opportunity you get.

2. write down the lines and the sentence said before that line on a piece of paper. ex.:

cue: Are you doing that on purpose, or can't you make up your mind?

Line: That's Just the thing, I can't make up my mind. I haven't got a brain, only straw (at least i think that's the line. anyway, u get the idea.)

3. Record yourself saying the lines. listen to them over and over again.

Good luck!

you read it over and over intill you get it.
and you practice with someone

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE until u have them down in your head

according to facts, if you read the lines before you go to bed, you will memorize them.

good luck!

I just read over and over and repeat it out loud, or I study with another person, like my mom, dad, sister, or brother, or just another friend.

you should memorize one line a day
say the first line more than 200 times to your self and tommorrow do the same thing but the second line

write them over and over again or say them out loud over and overv

record them all day over&over on a "player" then listen to them when sleeping and they will stick in your brain

Have someone else read the script with you. Go through it as you actually do it in the play. You need to go through it several times, over and over, and you will get to a point that you will remember them. Eventually you will start saying your lines without looking at the script. Break a leg!

i dont act but my friend alissa does, she highlights her lines so that when she trys it with out her script she can picture it in her head

what i do is say them over and over
just read through them, get the easy ones over first, then look into the harder lines

practice out loud with people, i got my sister to play the people around me and just said the lines

if you read them enough you should get them down, but thats what i do. it doesn't work for some people

When i was a kid i asked someone to read me two or three lines and i repeated them. then i put them all together. Real easy

For me to do my grade 8 5 minute speech....I recorded myself saying it about 20 times over and then listened to it before bed. u practically say it in ur sleep! just listen to it before bed...fall asleep to it. it helps! :)

Winston Churchill, one of the greatest orators in the last five centuries, used spacial memorization. Basically, he would stand in his back yard and imagine the theater. The hedges were the mezzanine doors and thus the introduction. The huge sprawling tree that served as the orchestra? Oh, that was the first point of the speech. That fountain over there was the mid level of the theater and was the reiteration of the second main point. Try it. It works.

well here's what i usually do:

-read 1 line first then try to memorize them
-then i go to the next line but this time you'll need to memorize them from the top.
-then another line untill you get to the last part of your piece.

Jsut don't forget to always go back to the frst line so you'll be able to memorize the whole thing...

i hope i've helped you, GOOD LUCK

understand and practice your lines with feeling and emotions..

Record yourself saying the lines, read them and say them slowly, with pauses so that you can repeat the lines in the pauses when you listen to yourself.

Do this over and over till you know the lines.

Record again at normal speed with no pauses, and keep listening until you are saying them with yourself.

If you have your blocking, say your lines as you move around.

It's a good idea too to record your cues, then as you listen, say your lines in the pauses between the cues.

Break a leg!

run your lines a lot with a friend or fellow cast members. also, writing down all of your lines over and over can help them to stick.

I'm an actor and I've done this kind of stuff.
I've played in too many plays to count.
What I do is read over and over and over the line you need to learn and divide it into little parts, like say the line is:
"Five.We can't part with them all,we must leave one for ourselves." You would break it up like this:"Five./ We can't part with them all./We must leave one for ourselves."
See what I mean?That way is easier than memorizing a WHOLE HUGE paragraph at once,isn't it?
And practice the lines you learned everyday till the night of the play.
Practice makes perfect and it will defintely please your Drama instructor.