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| ASU Student juggles acting, school |
Stephanie Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Jacque Lenz | The
Appalachian
Sophomore Scott J. Hoppmann
plays Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
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Acting is to play the part of,
as if in a play, or to represent or perform by action especially
on the stage, according to Webster’s Dictionary.
Acting may seem simple to a member of the audience, but it is a
process of hard work and many hours of practice and dedication.
“Acting is living truthfully in an imaginary circumstance;
if you get lost you can always come back to that, and if you can
do that then you can act,” sophomore Scott J. Hoppmann said
Friday.
Hoppmann has been acting the role of Big Daddy in the current play
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” but has had a long road of small
parts before obtaining this main role.
Hoppmann, a theatre major with a performance concentration, was
born in Charlotte and attended high school in Raleigh at the private
school Cardinal Gibbons.
His first feel for acting came in his second year of acting classes
and from the push and force of his friends.
“My friends got me into acting; they dragged me to an audition
for the play ‘JB,’ and I got a small part in it,”
Hoppmann said. |
Hoppmann’s other
roles included Horatio in “Hamlet,” Peck Johnson in “Rimers
of Eldritch,” Oberon in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,”
and parts in one-act plays, Hoppmann said.
After Hoppmann graduates, he said he hopes to act in either off-Broadway
or off-off-Broadway shows.
“All that I have read about Broadway by very respected actors
and actresses is it’s very corrupt, and I personally would
rather, instead of being in the limelight, be in a small theatre
doing real work on stage and be happy,” Hoppmann said.
Dealing with four classes and acting, Hoppmann said, is probably
one of the hardest things he could imagine doing right now.
“I think it would be easier to be a professional actor because
with being in a play you want to put everything you possibly can
into it, and with being a student you have to take care of that
first, which does not leave you with nearly as much time as you
would like for the play,” Hoppmann said.
Acting involves work, but not all of it is done in rehearsal. Many
times an actor or actress has to do outside work, sometimes twice
as much as one would have to do in rehearsal, Hoppmann said.
“This outside work is very time consuming, so basically you
have to learn to turn your fun time into theatre time,” Hoppmann
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