For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.
I was always really into the music rather than the scene.
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.
I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.