Welcome to Gaia! :: For a beginner like me

1. My best suggestion would be to search up some community theatres perhaps, and see
if they have those kind of classes, I know homeschoolers type class would begin after
a regular school perhaps, maybe you could look into that :3

2. The common misconception on crying on cue is this,
If at the moment your focused on crying on cue, you just broke the number one rule in acting.
Never break character when your trying to cry on cue and your thinking on crying
on that cue, you just broke character. Stay in the moment , say your loved one just gotten killed
right before your very eyes, you were engaged to be married tomarrow, and his life was taken away from you. You shouldn't be focused on the cue to listen for to cry. LIVE and Breath in that moment.
and never leave it. understand your character, not just the lines written in the script.
think of the other things, what was his parents like, how well did he grow up, what did he
want to be when he grew up, that will help your motivation for anything.

I hope this helps :3

Make a back story to that character in the monologue, showing their motivation to cry.
and in that back story relate the character to yourself( Times you get really emotional)
and that should make things easier :3

Hey. Can't help you with studio things, but as for crying on cue...

It's highly overrated.

I'm quite serious. It's certainly a useful skill, but if you can't cry on cue, you are not a failure. In fact, it's often more dramatic for a character to not quite cry, but be right there on the brink. Tension breeds drama breeds interest, or something to that effect. Rather than shelling it all out, it keeps the audience on edge, because they feel like it's coming, whether or not it is, and that anticipation draws them in.

So, be upset. Simulate that you are indeed very upset. Practice in the mirror to make it look as if you might cry. And once you get to that moment onstage, who knows, by bringing yourself to that point and then trying not to cry you might end up crying after all, like xjudicatorx was saying. But if you don't, it's perfectly okay. smile

Good luck, and I definitely encourage you to expand beyond your school's drama program. Getting out into the drama circle of your area is the best way to go if you really want to get into performing arts. Try out for your school's things too, but don't get stuck there.