The sample of a "good" promptbook is ridiculous: notes scribbled everywhere & no sense of order to it.
For the actors among us, the book presents the proper way to sit in a chair, the variety of ways one can pose with certain furniture. We've also got the correct & wrong ways to embrace, foot positions & how the first step should be.
One of my favorites is this graph of how a laugh on stage works.
and if you're looking for advice on aging makeup they have that too.
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I've got this one somewhere. Check the publication date. Is it 1960s or 70s? I think it's fair to say we've come a loooong way since then.
It's '56. I know because I just bought a copy on Amazon for $1.99, SO awesome!
Thanks for the heads up, can't wait for the laughs.
~Simon
Knock off one more dollar, and I'd buy a copy!
Pose #17 is immediately going into my regular repertoire.
An acting teacher I had in college had been a B-Movie actress and was probably in her 70s when she taught us ... she taught us how to take that first step and sit in a chair ... how to rise from the chair after sitting. How to do a stage kiss (and she always pulled the best looking guy in the class to demonstrate with her). She was a hoot.
What a great book!
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