In college I used to read Shakespeare aloud for fun, just to enjoy rolling my voice over the languages. The problem, of course, is when you choose, say, your Cookie Monster voice for a minor character who unexpectedly has a five-hundred word monologue which strips your voice...
What... that's never happened to you?
And I used to Madeline every night before she went to bed when she was younger and before I worked second shift. That was a lot of fun. I remember reading her The Hobbit and The Princess and the Goblins and The Story of Doctor Doolittle.
For a while our church had lay readers doing the scripture readings, which I enjoyed; but the pastor dropped it, partially because of a dearth of volunteers but mostly, I think, because some cranky parishioners didn't like it. I didn't do the Cookie Monster, but I had fun trying to differentiate the voice between the prophetic declamations of the Old Testament readings and the conversational tone of of Paul's epistles. (Well, I do Paul as chatty and conversational, anyway).
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Date: 2009-02-21 05:09 pm (UTC)What... that's never happened to you?
And I used to Madeline every night before she went to bed when she was younger and before I worked second shift. That was a lot of fun. I remember reading her The Hobbit and The Princess and the Goblins and The Story of Doctor Doolittle.
For a while our church had lay readers doing the scripture readings, which I enjoyed; but the pastor dropped it, partially because of a dearth of volunteers but mostly, I think, because some cranky parishioners didn't like it. I didn't do the Cookie Monster, but I had fun trying to differentiate the voice between the prophetic declamations of the Old Testament readings and the conversational tone of of Paul's epistles. (Well, I do Paul as chatty and conversational, anyway).