Our narration will be broadcast in a theater while a troupe of dancers run thru the choreography. It was a nice little diversion for a couple hours, our voices bouncing off each other. Everything else kind of fell away. That's a good sign when you sink into a creative project.
Not exactly type-casting. There were some nice lines, a bit of Rumi-style poetry, and some beautiful lines of description of our crazy-making Universe. We did our best. First time thru it was sort of a straight, cold reading of lines.
Then we tried to amp up the "acting" a bit. We got a bit hammy. We were drawing on all those years of putting on a show. So, it all got a bit funnier. And fun. We laughed at the results. Mis-cast? Maybe. Hopefully a little post-production work will make it all more palatable. Thinking a bit of deepening, a little reverb and echo will help.
Then we will send the recording off to the Director. Wonder how that will go over? God only knows.
