i got into my high school play! yaaay!
any advice on how to be a better actress?
and anti-stress/anti-freakout tips???
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Pretend that it doesn’t matter.
Imagine the audience in their underwear?
Go gyrl!!
No advice, just a humble request to remember us 
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As a veteran of highschool drama (acting and directing), my advice would be to learn your lines and actions as soon as possible. The more comfortable you are with what you’ve got to do, the better.
Best of luck. Don’t trust any director who calls people ‘darling’.
Congratulations. I’d suggest simply not worrying about it… in my experience on a high school stage the lights on you are so bright that you can’t see three audience members anyway.
You’re screwed, most likely you’ll forget to wear any clothes and find yourself in front of hundreds of people in only your underwear.
I recommend you leave now, change your name and find an island somewhere in French Polynesia.
SIATD is right and also remember the key words play and entertainment.
Have fun relax and pretend you have been acting for years. All humans are actors anyway. Incorporate the character into yourself. It will make it easier to remember your lines if you empathize with them.
That’s your answer for everything. 
Trees, the most important thing is to keep calm, don’t worry about it too much. Memorize blocking and and all of your lines as soon as you can. Also, when it comes to the performance, be ready for your cue. Don’t sit around backstage messing around when you’re about to go on, be ready about 5 or 10 minutes in advance before you go on.
And most importantly, have fun! If you’re having fun, the stress melts away.
But seriously…Kris and gecota have given good advice.
I’m going to take a guess and say that you are an innovative, thinking, extrovert. You’ll make a perfect actor, just don’t slack on memorizing your lines.
If you’re worried about being nervous than pretend you’re only talking to the people you’ve been practicing with, don’t let the crowd get to you.
This is a high-school play and they probably aren’t expecting much anyway, so blow them away.
If you happen to slip on one of your lines, then come up with something clever and improvise.
Break a leg
aww thanks guys! and i most definately will NOT break a leg…
and yeah, the lights are too bright and i get major ADDesque b/c im on stage the whole time…cries
im so excited!
Good luck.
What play is it?
aww! james ! i miss you!
oh, and yeah, the play is a play about poetry with poetry readings in it and stff. were going to preform it in other schools as an educational experience type thing. im not too fond of it…i hope the spring play will be better/more exciting…i hope i get in that one too…
A play of poety, quite interesting, let me know how that turns out.
How to be a good actor is to know how to express oneself radiantly, I do not mean by putting on a lot of rocks or make up, I mean to act out the most outgong part inside yourself. The mot effective ways would include, to subtly expressive over your genuine desires to achieve the touche effect, and to get hysterical in commiting your most significant follies to achieve the humor effect. The births of tragedy and commedy. Of course, make up should be made assistive of your action. Should you want to amuse, to inspire schadenfeude, you might want to look sad instead of gay. To affect, you might want to look jaunty and spruce so that when you have that knife stuck in your king’s chest, people would wipe their eyes in the memory of the your former heroic glory. Try to sustain a mild passion through the play, instead of getting bombastic over a certain high scences. Do this by acting with every movement you make, whether you are blinking or walking, in a romance you want to appear a some girl who has been endowed by love the moment she was born. To shape and give style to the character, by matching her with what you have most confidently got, is to radiate yourself. The more comprehensive, subtle, flowing, elegant, natural the style you give her, the more radiant you appear on stage.
You mut be observant of how people react around you, that is partly to know who you are, because your existence is only detectable with relation to others. Then, you are artistically imagise who you are, thus styling your character of play.
You can practise here on ILP. I give a practise session. Seduce James No2 in two weeks time.
Well, if you want to be/look sad, think of something really sad – you can literally will yourself to cry if you’re good enough at it. I’ve done it, and I’ve seen others do it.
To get a good reading of a poem, read the poem outloud consequetivly 5+ times (and you’ll notice the variations of the stresses in your voice when you do so). Generally, the more the better. (And I want to know which poems you all are doing).
A good way to overcome stage fright, is this called the “I-don’t-care-swing.” It’s from a book on Charisma, written by a psychologist/concert-pianest/x-soap-opera-actress (she even coached Tom Cruise 1-on-1). Stand in your living-room, or wherever, and swing your arms left and right, nice rotation of your waste chanting I-Don’t-Care I-Don’t-Care the whole time. Give yourself permission to be silly. Sing it. Chant it. Go Opera even. Vary your voice – just do whatever, until you actually don’t care, until you actually are completly comfortable being silly. And if you find yourself saying “But I do care”, or not feeling it, just keep doing it. I promise, at one point, really just won’t give a fuck. And then, babe, you’re a freakin star. Break a leg!