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Tony nominee Jennifer Ehle explains to the other Broadway actresses how she uses cheat sheets to get through her scenes for 'Oslo'.
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00:00Jennifer, we should note or re-note that when you're performing on a stage, not unlike what Sally's dealing with, where there's basically not much there and what is there is on you guys to move around and deal with.
00:16And I just wonder, does that impact the rest of what you have to do when you're up there? Is that a good thing? Is it enjoyable?
00:22Well, when we were doing it last summer in the off-Broadway and this time, I certainly had cheat sheets in my pockets.
00:32I would have to have one for every act that would say what furniture I had to move in that next scene, where I entered from.
00:37Because basically, if I'm ever offstage, except for a couple of pee breaks, I do have strategically placed, thank goodness.
00:44I wish I did.
00:45Oh, I bet you do. Yes. But I'm literally, if I'm ever offstage, I'm running to get to the next place.
00:54And then, so I had the cheat sheets and just where I go next and what furniture I'm going to have to move.
00:59And then when we moved up to the Beaumont, I wrote my cheat sheet and I had it in my pocket and we're doing our dress rehearsal.
01:06And in the interim, in the six months, I really need reading glasses now.
01:09So I didn't think of that. So I get out, I come offstage and I get out my cheat sheet.
01:15And I'm going to lights from this and I'm looking at it. I'm like, it says, run.
01:20What? Oh no, where am I supposed to be running? I don't know where I'm supposed to go.
01:24So yeah, so now I, then I had to write them really big.
01:27Right.
01:28And, but now I'm, I'm flying solo without the, without the cheat sheets.
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