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Originally Posted by POS Industries
Secondly, it's all about repetition. You should be running on-book for probably a couple weeks during rehearsal, which is to get you used to hearing your castmates' lines and associating the sound of your own with theirs and be able to recall everything reflexively, and once you go off-book they'll be sure to feed you lines as necessary until you get the hang of it.
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Came in to say pretty much this only, being me, probably in a much more roundabout way. Most likely somewhere along the line there'll simply be a point where you realize you're not even looking at the text anymore.
It's funny how much I hear about other high school drama clubs holding official castings. Ours never had anything of the sort because most of the time there weren't enough people in the club to hold a casting. Usually we'd go over the scripts and pick people half by experience with certain types of roles ("this guy undresses in act 2; Daniel, your part again"), half by necessity. Then we'd go through the classrooms and recruit friends ("hey, we need a guy to prance around in a dress in front of everyone. Come by tomorrow afternoon. Or else.").