"The Silence After The Symphony Of Mozart Belongs To Mozart"

Barbara and Christine presented a scene at the start of class between a mother and daughter from A Flea In Her Ear. It was really low energy, quiet, and boring. No risks. No fun. Philippe worked with Barbara a lot, getting her to be simple and beautiful. "If in the scene you have this beauty...this dignity...it's possible. If it's just blablabla it's impossible."

Philippe also worked with Christine, getting her to imitate a witch from a ghost train ride.

He got her to leave a small amount of silence after Barbara's text before she spoke.

He mentioned a famous quote that goes something like "The silence after the symphony of Mozart belongs to Mozart", and said likewise, "The little silence after the actors line belongs to the actor who said it...so don't shit on it."

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Mia and Vicky and Lee presented a scene from Le Dindon, all in French, which ended up being hilarious for the wrong reasons...Lee had only a few lines in French which he (understandably) stuffed up. And Vicky was stuffing up her lines too. So here's Mia whispering lines to each of the actors, and Lee saying one of the lines he could remember - "Bravo!" - several times, all at the wrong time!

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Akron also presented the beginning moment of a show he's working on, in which he comes out dressed in a business suit, but quickly undresses into the outfit of a superhero. Ak-man! It was a good opening actually, but Philippe said it wasn't enough. We need more. Which is true. And he compared the performance to a shitty cleaning product commercial. 

But I was really proud of Akron. He never commits at this school like he does in his street shows, and today he did, so I thought that was a great step for him.