Q&A for How to Prepare For a Stage Performance

To combat breathlessness from nerves, begin by consciously relaxing your body and adopting a comfortable, loose posture. Next, focus on diaphragmatic breathing: inhale slowly through your nose and exhale smoothly through your mouth. Additionally, develop an awareness of how your voice resonates throughout your body, distinguishing between your head and chest voices. Finally, during your performance, select a neutral focal point in the room instead of focusing on individual audience members.

Get everything ready and prepare yourself for an amazing night. Go to bed early and sleep well if possible and just try to stay calm.

If you generally recall the line's intent, find a way to paraphrase or weave in the basic idea. If a fellow cast member's line is due soon after yours, prompt them to say it to keep the scene moving. Prolonged silence will alert the audience to a missed line, so act quickly to resume the performance and maintain the illusion.

When you say your own lines, say them slowly, so that they get the hint to slow down too. Make the most of dramatic pauses too, to slow things down. You could also give your fellow actos a pep-talk right before you go on stage.

You can build excitement for your role by focusing on positive future events, such as upcoming celebrations or your plans immediately after the performance. Tapping into these feelings can help you embody a vibrant energy.

Try realizing you have the awesome privilege to actually be onstage and others aren't even close to doing that. If you mess up, oh, well, you just created a funny memory to keep for when you are older.

Gargling mouthwash might help, and it may help to take cough medicine too. Lozenges made for sore throats can be used but some can only be taken at two to four hourly intervals; read the instructions first.

Ignore them and avoid eye contact. Stay focused on your performance.

Ensure you have memorized your lines, and practice a few times backstage. Alternatively, consider bringing a script to read if needed.

It often helps to have a page with only your lines and cue lines, which can assist you in getting them right before or during the show.

Don't think of him as your ex boyfriend. Think of him as just another boy. If he tries to strike up a conversation, make small talk. Whatever happened in the past is over, just put it out of your mind.

Don't panic and try to find a remedy backstage, like a safety pin. Most malfunctions will not be visible to the audience.

It is often a good thing to rehearse before a performance so that you are accustomed to saying the lines. They will sound more natural if you are well-practiced. If you tend to forget lines, you, of course, wouldn't want to ad-lib, so you'd need to know them by heart since you won't have a script to read from in a performance. It can also make you feel more confident in your performance if you're having problems with motivation. I hope this helped answer your question.

Go backstage (in a place you can sing with the audience not hearing) and do singing warm-ups. Go up and down the scale a few times.

Just go with the flow. The audience won't notice if you play it off casually.

Visit your local theatre's website and apply to host a performance, or rent a park for a more casual feel.

Some of these things may include: 1. Anxiety and fear of performing. 2. Fear of forgetting the dance. 3. Wonder of whether you look okay or not. 4. Fear of not being as good as the other dancers. 5. (If a solo dance) Fear of being on stage alone. 6. (If group dance) Fear of letting the group down.

That shouldn't be on the list of things you're worried about. Just pay attention to what you are supposed to be doing and don't even think about the audience being there. If you focus on your performance, you will succeed, and everyone will be proud.

Just continue to practice, practice and practice. But if you're already going to play a different role, then you'll have to stick with that.

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Figure out possible motives behind the character's words and actions in a scene - focus on what your character wants and how that clashes with the motives of others in the scene. Make acting choices that show what's going on under the surface with your character.

Just focus on your lines and pretend the audience doesn't exist. Just focus on the person you're delivering your lines to.

Just continue on as though nothing had happened.

If you are feeling at all uncertain about your dance, ask the other people in the dance and see if they can help you out.

The director will help everyone choose costumes.