Physical and Vocal

Warm-ups

Physical Warm-ups
Keeps your muscles from
getting pulled or strained
Keeps you from getting cramps
Keeps you from messing up
with blocking or action
Helps to keep you warm and
energized!!

Vocal Warm-ups
Keeps the voice from getting hurt
or you from losing your voice
You will sound better
Will project your voice better
Less likely to stumble over lines
and the audience will be able to
understand what you are saying
and doing

Examples of Physical Warmups

Rolling Head
Rolling Shoulders
Roll Body Down
Stretch up as High as You Can
Stretch Legs and Arms
Standing on Toes (balance)
BOING! (energy)

Examples of Vocal
Warm-ups
BIG FACE and small face
Rolling your Tongue IN your Mouth
Stretching Tongue OUTSIDE your
Mouth
Open Mouth W I D E and Closing it
Projection Exercises
Tongue TwistersTo be said slowly
and clearly. They are meant to
help you speak better

Starting Warm-ups
Begin in a circle, everyone facing
inward
Breath in 3 timesdeep breathes
Dominos
First with just NOISE
Then with MOVEMENT and NOISE
Finally with just MOVEMENT

Counting with ENERGY and

EMOTION
(counting in the circle)

Consonants
Pronounce the sounds of the
hard consonants clearly as a
group

D, L, K, C, P, N

Round the Rough

Round the rough and rugged
rock the ragged rascal ran.
(Repeat several times, possibly in
different tones, volumes and
accents)

Toy Boat
TOY BOAT
(Repeat several times, possibly in
different tones, volumes and
accents)

To Sit
To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark
dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long
lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp
shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a
big black block.

Whether the Weather

Whether the weather be cold,
Whether the weather be hot,
Well be together, whatever the
weather
Whether we like it or not!

Red Leather
Red Leather, Yellow Leather
(Repeat 10 times and then switch)
Yellow Leather, Red Leather
(Repeat 10 times)

Rubber Baby

Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

(Repeat several times)

Quarter till Two

At a quarter till two at two today, a quarter till two
at two,
A thing distinctly hard to say, yet harder still to do.
With a beat a tat-too at a minute till two,
And a rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-too.
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
at a quarter till two, at two today,
At a quarter till two, till two.

Unique New York

Unique New York, Unique New
York.
You know you need Unique New
York.
(Repeat several times)

Russian Wrist Watch

Russian Wrist Watch
(Repeat several times. Make sure
you pronounce all sounds
clearly. Use different tones.)

Kinky Cookie
Kinky Cookie
(Repeat several times. Make sure
you pronounce all sounds
clearly. Use different tones.)

The Vowels (aka AEIOU!)

(Loudly and Actively)

A E I O U
(Quietly and Calmly making the Y with your
arms)

And Sometimes Y!
(This is both a physical and vocal warm-up)

YES/NO
Approach a person in the circle and say YES to them
that is all you may say. You are making a statement to
them. Make sure you put character into your statement.
The person will then respond NO in character with
emotion. The s/he will move on to another person with
a YES.
Yess and Nos should be different. Establish ca
connection and get a response. Use emotion in what
you say.
Once you have approached someone, you will sit in their
spot on the floor.

BOING!
In lines
IN CHARACTER
Jump 8 times to each side.
Jump 4 times to each side.
Jump 2 times to each side.
Jump 1 time to each side.
When you get back to the front, jump up
and shout BOING!

Shake Out!
In the circle, facing counter-clockwise
IN CHARACTER
Shake each limb (right arm/hand, left arm/hand, right
leg/foot, left arm/food) FIVE TIMES.
Then FOUR times.
THREE times.
TWO time.
ONE time.
The jump and say BOING!!

Controlled Breathing
Physical and Vocal Warmup
For speaking long lines
Physical Activities
Relaxation!