You are in an expensive boutique in New York City, 1980. The designer and director have made this creative decision, hence why you have so many fancy retro clothes in the rehearsal room. As you have been playing with these clothes all week you have realised their potential in being more than just clothes and accessories. A shoe for example could be a phone, you just need to make the director believe that it is. Use your best creative visualisation skills. Realise that the real challenge of the play is to make the audience realise where they are, as a lot of the time you are slipping into Charlene's fantasy world and then back into the real world of the play. Think to yourself: 'but even in the real world of the play we are in a heightened theatrical state, as men are played by women and within the boutique we must create the 14 locations that are in the play. ' Do not freak out. The director and choreographer will guide you and help you find the rules. Focus on your creative visualisation, begin to see things differently. You can be an other woman. 
You have been practising your improvisation skills for a week now and you have become rather good and coming up with ideas on the spot. When the director asks you to improvise the opening scene you see a dance routine between Charlene and the shop assistant. Direct your fellow actors. Ask the stage manager to play some Cyndi Lauper, you begin to explore the possibilities of the text. One scene down, 43 left. Throughout this process remember to ask yourself in each scene what each character wants, this will help your improvisations. The director calls these wants intentions. Do not get your intention confused with your action. It is not what you are doing, it is the reason that you are doing it you must discover. This helps to keep everyone's creative visualisation for the scenes make sense, there is a tendency to get carried away, girls just wanna have fun, intentions will help you be truthful whilst doing so.
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