jackissensational
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SEYMOURI'm having a hard time making my Seymour seem dorky, yet desirable. I tried making his diction really good- but it just didn't work with the lyrics. My biggest thing is gonna be posture. So I'm gonna' check out how the losers are walking around when I'm roaming the halls at my high school. Just kidding.  Any suggestions would be appriciated.
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Celeste_SM
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Are you more Seymour than dentist? Just askin', because I think the dentist is the more fun role, especially if you get to do all the act II parts as written.
I think playing Seymour with a flat affect works well.
I'll be working auditions for this show this weekend, so perhaps I will come away with some insights that will be useful.
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jackissensational
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| Celeste_SM wrote: | Are you more Seymour than dentist? Just askin', because I think the dentist is the more fun role, especially if you get to do all the act II parts as written.
I think playing Seymour with a flat affect works well.
I'll be working auditions for this show this weekend, so perhaps I will come away with some insights that will be useful. |
More Seymour...
Flat affect???
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PappyCat
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I don't really think Seymour needs to seem "desirable" in the traditional sense. I think that Audrey falls for him because he's this sweet little unassuming guy. Totally different than any other guy she's been around. Portraying this is all in body language, the meek little "trod upon" stance, but he opens up a little physically when Audrey is around.
Maybe watch some episodes of Frasier that are centered around Niles? Not the pompousness, by any means, but he plays very dorky but incredibly sweet very well. The way he acts around Daphne.
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jackissensational
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Oh! Niles! Gotcha. Good idea. And it was also one of my thoughts as well that she falls for him because he's not desirable. (Along those lines any way.)
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Celeste_SM
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Flat Affect: Lack of expressed emotion or a fixed emotional state with no range of variability or emotion. Thus, a person appears to have no reaction to obvious humor, or to hearing good news or bad news.
He really can't give away too much or else it isn't plausible to believe what he's doing.
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Timmy_Wishes he was Quast
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| Quote: | | Flat Affect: Lack of expressed emotion or a fixed emotional state with no range of variability or emotion. Thus, a person appears to have no reaction to obvious humor, or to hearing good news or bad news. |
Well this is quite frankly rubbish! Seymour basically goes insane. He commits a murder for a woman he loves. to me that says HIGH emotion. AND what about his songs, in fact most of his songs show emotional change, particualry as they are mainly "decision songs". I mean take "Grow For Me" he starts of dejected that he can't get Audrey II to grow, but by the end he's excited (and possibly nervous) that he's getting it to grow! So how on earth can you describe that as "flat effect". If anything he has the greatest emotional journey of all. Audrey could be played in flat effect, but not Seymour, the musical hinges on his emotional journey. So don't go with this "flat effect" it's rubbish IMO.
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Vice
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| Timmy_Wishes he was Quast wrote: | | Well this is quite frankly rubbish! Seymour basically goes insane. |
I never thought of it like that... I always thought that he did eventually go insane. (It just seems to be at a different place in the movie than the stage show. Movie-Cutting up Orin, Stage Show- When audrey dies.)
I've always liked him seeming numb after Audrey's gone. A sort of numb shock.
And he technically didn't kill Orin, he just sorta let things happen.
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Celeste_SM
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Oh gosh, I totally disagree! But that's part of the joy of theater, right? Finding new elements to the characters and discovering what works for different people. I find Seymour to be, above all, a passive character in the story. He doesn't take action, he just lets things happen. He's not talented, just lucky. Or not, as the case may be. I also find flat affect one of the most profound symptoms of insanity. Or at least of medicated mental illness.
Anyway, I do think I missed something. Above all things, Seymour must be sincere. He needs to be lovable and genuine, in particularly in contrat to Orin.
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