Janet Bookspan once said in a masterclass that "if the character cries, you can sing right through it, but if YOU cry, you will always get choked up." It does come to a point of practice, though. You have to allow yourself to do it first (to sob) in order to find out how to steer those emotions into the character. I can't really explain it, but I've done it and I know how it feels.
I was in a production of Yeston's "Phantom" and I had to sing my last lines as though I was weeping. It is a strange transformation you go through, but when you are completely "in character" the emotions are somehow outside of you. I never willingly "faked" my sobs, but they somehow came out naturally, and when the scene was over, I was totally myself again. When I wasn't completely concentrated, the emotions hung on for a long time afterward.
Does this make any sense?
Lisa-Marie
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