i NEED to lose my voice within the next ten hours?

Question

but as of right now its 1:58 am. and i cant go screaming inot the damp night.
tomorrow if i dont lose my voice im going to end up at a broadway show ive performed too many times and a cast party filled wiht pervs and people who i feel embarrased with.
my voice is already slightly strained from singing for 9 hours a day five days a week for five weeks. but i need something to top it all off. im drinking lemonade (allot of it now) im gonna dry my throat up with salt, and im going to try caoughing all night.
im an ex smoker and ex bulemic/ednos/anorexic so please dont give me those types of answers.
if i can skip out on tomorrow i will love life.
please help me oout.
ty

PS
tomorrow is the last show.
theres two casts and im a minor charector in tomorrows cast. i wont be missed and ill be easily replaced

lol.
im sorry i havent quite explained the whole thing.
i do feel horrible about missing the last show. although in this cast im just an extra.
but theres no way i can make itto the show without going to the cast party. i do not have acar yet (-.-) and although i explained the situation to them (how uncomfortable i feel with some of these people) they still want me to go. its more of their dream than mine.

Answer 1

I have turned this around for you:

because of

"a broadway show ive performed too many times and a cast party filled wiht pervs and people who i feel embarrased with."


I now want to hurt my body.

how does that sound??

The answer to your question is simple: just don't go, and be honest to everyone as to why you don't want to go.

Answer 2

If you have been lucky enough to have been cast in a Broadway show, even if it is as an extra, bailing out of the last show is an insult to everyone who aspires to any role on Broadway. There are many people who would gladly take your spot and not complain. No one can force you to attend a cast party, though they are normally quite fun. You have worked with these people for five weeks and yet still are embarrassed by them and call them pervs. No matter how talented you are if you don't like theater people then get out of the big leagues you will never be comfortable because you'll always be embarassed around the people you work with. Your other option is to grow up and appreciate the eccentricities of your cast and crew mates, you may find that they are some of the nicest people you've ever met.

Answer 3

If you wish to, you may lie.. anybody can fake losing their voice, but the next suggestion I make is that you get out of theatre altogether.
If you only want to perform when you feel like it, and you think that the cast party will be "filled wiht pervs and people who i feel embarrased with," Then you really don't want to be in theatre in the first place. I've been in theatre for years, and the unusal folks are what give theatre its character.

The expression is: "the show must go on." please find another venue for this particular dysfunction. The theatre doesn't need it. OR you might tell those "pervs" that they embarrass you and see what they say.
It IS interesting that you would list all the emotional problems YOU have and then call the others those names. Have you looked in a mirror lately?

Answer 4

I understand that you don't want to go to the cast party. You don't have to lose your voice. You just need to go to the drug store and get some "ipecac". During the last show and before it, tell a few cast members that you are feeling nauseus and after the show, go to the john and drink the recommended dosage of the ipecac. You will be barfing like crazy. It's for people who have been poisoned, to get rid of the poison. Don't mess up your throat. You could do permanent damage to your vocal chords. Don't blow off the show, it is unethical and no matter how replaceable you think you are you will stress somebody out by not being there and I do want to mention that alot of people in theatre are quirky and there are many many gays (if that's what you mean by pervs). Maybe conventional theatre isn't for you. Perhaps Christian theatre would be more your stlye.

Answer 5

You've gotten some good advice from two people whom I've already given thumbs up to. You made a commitment to do the show and you want to bail in the 11th hour? Come on now. Fulfill your commitment and be done with it. There's nothing anywhere that says you have to go to the party. Do your best to bring your character to life one last time. Take your bow. Then leave.

Break a leg.

Answer 6

If tomorrow is the last show just go ahead go through with the show but when you get there say you dont feel good and then you can skip out on the after party. Wish there was more I could do to help. Good luck!

Answer 7

Surely you should just fake-it. Talk in a very low painful sounding, almost silent whisper. It's unlikely that anyone will accuse you of faking it. Better than actually trying to damage yourself. Or, better still, have someone else phone in to report you've lost your voice then you won't even have to put on a pretend lost voice. Good luck.

Answer 8

Dustin Hoffmann tells about working with Sir Laurence Olivier on the movie Marathon Man. For a scene where he had to be exhausted and out of breath, Hoffmann ran for miles, then ran to the set and delivered his lines. Later, he asked Olivier how he handles challenges like that. Olivier said "Why, my dear boy...I ACT!"

I suggest you take his advice.

Answer 9

I've been in that drawing also
me lad and usually i get out there
and hope for the best anyways just before your performance
run to the restroom come back out 10 minutes later
and say your ill and slide out the door.hopefully it works!!!!!!!

Answer 10

take a shower and stick your head out the window while your hair is still wet so you get a cold and then cough a ton so you will not only lose your voice, yu will have a cold.