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My 10yo daughter won the lead in the play Charlotte's Web.


Posted: Mar 23, 2011

It's being put on by the local community theater and she won the part of Charlotte.  This is the first time she has tried out for a play and her first role.  She was so excited for the first couple of weeks and now she is becoming more and more stressed about learning her lines.  It is a two act play and she has almost all of act I down.  The first performance is April 15th.  I keep telling her she is doing great and we will just keeping working on it together.  The direct keeps telling her she is doing a great job.  Today, when we were running lines, she got so frustrated because she kept stumbling over lines that she broke down and started crying saying she was never going to learn all her lines and that she was "stressed out and shouldn't have even auditioned."  I've tried to put her mind ease by telling her that she doesn't have to get the lines perfect as long as she gets the meaning across and I've told her that if she is on stage and forgets a line, there will be someone off stage to whisper her line to her.  I told her she cannot quit because she made a committment and it is important to do what we promise to do.

Does anyone have any suggestions or strategies to make it easier and more fun for her to learn her lines?  I hate to see her so upset.  This is supposed to be fun.  I'm hoping that maybe today she is just tired and a little cranky and emotional.

 

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I would tell her - cindy

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that she did audition and that you will be there for her to help her through but you are correct, she made a committment and that there a lot of people who are working hard to do their part and are counting on her to do her part. Tell her that if she does not like the experience when it is over that she does not need to ever do it again, but she needs to follow through with it this time and give it a fair chance, that once she does that first performance, she may actually love it and want to do it again. New things are always scary but it is a new experience in her life and she might learn more about herself by finishing it.

I had to have this talk with my son when he played baseball for his first season. He played for five minutes, had trouble hitting the ball and catching and just wanted to quit and play on the monkey bars with his younger brother, but I told him he had to give it a fair chance and play the season. He ended up at the end of the season getting the 'award' for the most improved. He did decide to play for two more seasons. I know a play is very different than a baseball season, but the same idea.

Good luck to you and her, break a leg!

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