I had my last show this week. The last one went well, and I was happy that I managed to get through all 6 shows with no major mistakes. It was also cool because at the end of the latter shows, Miki had me coming up on stage to introduce myself and give a quick kicking demo at the end roll.
In one respect, it's a relief to be done, but after living, breathing, eating and sleeping this play for the past two months, I still have a hard time taking in the fact that it's simply done. (And of course, being a musical, I can't help but continually sing all the songs in the back of my head).
Overall, I had a great time of it, and was really impressed with what a different feeling it is from working in front of the camera (but yet still so familiar ;)
I think the biggest difference is that when you are playing a character on-screen, and you 'grow into' character throughout the filming, you can't redo the scenes that you already took. As such, you may be happy with your performance of a character near the end, but still not necessarily with the earlier scenes.
With a play however, you do the whole thing, start to finish multiple times. As such, as your character develops you have the chance to really hone all the scenes you are doing. Although what I was doing was relatively simple, it was interesting to see all the different ways I could experiment, and/or improve on how I do things. It was also interesting to watch how Miki (the main actress- who had to play a character that is diametrically opposed to who she actually is) continually grew more relaxed and comfortable with playing her character Lena.
Overall, great experience.
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