YAGMCB video clips

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Yesterday, the DVD videos of our production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown arrived in the mail! You can check out some clips here.

I can’t believe it was only a month ago that I was donning a blonde wig and running around like a five-year-old. All that’s happened with school since then makes it feel like it was ages ago. I was super-excited to watch the DVD.

I used to hate seeing pictures of myself, so watching videos was even more painfully embarrassing. Now that I’m less self-conscious, I don’t mind so much. Watching myself in YAGMCB, I made the following observations:

• Although I don’t think my eyes are particularly almond-shaped, I definitely look like an Asian girl with a blonde wig. That’s an improvement over my initial impression when I first tried on the costume — I thought I looked like a man in a wig.
• I move around like I have ADHD.
• I seem to pout an awful lot. That’s probably partly because I have an underbite; my lower jaw sticks out further than it should. The false pouting comes up sometimes when people think I look upset, but I’m really just thinking and my facial structure happens to lend itself to looking grumpy and pissed off. My mom once asked me if I wanted surgery, but I saw the procedure on Discovery Health and decided uh uh, no way.
• What I’m thinking in my head often doesn’t come out clearly to the audience. Those are spots where I have to work on my acting.

I’m glad that I’m now at a point where I can comfortably watch myself on tape and learn from what I see. One day, perhaps I will be able to take the stage again and apply what I’ve learned

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