{"id":3427,"date":"2005-08-02T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:18:37","slug":"rosalind-russell-7-id-be-thinking-why-cant-he-get-a-laugh-on-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Russell 7:  &#8220;I&#8217;d be thinking, Why can&#8217;t he get a laugh on that?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394421345&#038;asins=0394421345&#038;linkId=6ILODLMKLQZFRVJ7&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nRosalind Russell on craft, and how she studied the craft of the actor as a young woman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Talent is wonderful, but I&#8217;ve played with actors who have more talent than I, and you can&#8217;t hear them in the fourth row, they just don&#8217;t have the energy, nothing in the belly, nothing in the guts that brings it all out and sells it across the orchestra pit and into the twenty-third row.<\/p>\n<p>In Boston with Clivey&#8217;s troupe &#8212; I couldn&#8217;t do it at Saranac, I didn&#8217;t have the time &#8212; I used to sit on the stage apron and watch every rehearsal I wasn&#8217;t involved in.  I&#8217;d be thinking, Why can&#8217;t he get a laugh on that?  It&#8217;s a funny line &#8212; and taking the thing apart in my head to see why it wasn&#8217;t working.  Half the pleasure of doing comedy in the theatre is that even before you hear a laugh, you sense where the laugh should be.  Something happens in the audience, you feel it, you go to work on it.  Until one day, all of a sudden, you&#8217;re rewarded with a titter.  You keep working on the line and finally you get a real belly laugh.  After that you generally push too hard and lose it, and you have to pull away and inch your way back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosalind Russell on craft, and how she studied the craft of the actor as a young woman: Talent is wonderful, but I&#8217;ve played with actors who have more talent than I, and you can&#8217;t hear them in the fourth row, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102337,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/102337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}