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It’s HERE – REHEARSAL 2! We’ve been listening to what you want, and taking copious notes, and we’ve been working very hard to improve a product that has been a game changer for actors. With over a dozen new features and updates that you’ve asked for, including:
- iPad 2, iPhone 4S and iOS 5 compatibility – completely compatible with all prior OS and device versions as well
- drag rewinding and fast forwarding through recorded scenes
- opening scripts directly from emails
- more robust PDF displays (no more 45 degree angle scripts!)
- and a new pricing structure that will make Rehearsal absolutely irresistible!
Rehearsal 2 is available NOW for instant download. Current users will be notified in-app, and annual subscribers will get the new Rehearsal 2 absolutely free.
Welcome to the home of a brand new iPhone and iPad application for actors and other production professionals called Rehearsal 2.
What is Rehearsal 2? A fantastic and effective new way to learn your lines, explore your character’s nuances, prepare for your shoot or stage performance, record continuity notes or plan shots, and submit VO auditions and more – and carry all of that work around with you on the devices you love, your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
Watch this video: a step by step walk through of how Rehearsal 2 is used in a typical scene rehearsal scenario.
Learn more about Rehearsal 2 by exploring the links to the left and the comments below:
I love your app! It’s a no brainer for me as I can literally testify to using it on every episode so far on the show. I highlight, blackout and record the scenes. I learn them in no time at all. Just fantastic. A must for any actor with an I pad or I phone! Many congrats on this great product. I’m spreading the word around town.
— Ioan Gruffudd [Ringer (The CW), The Fantastic Four, Horrible Bosses]
Your Rehearsal App is helping me so much…..I got the lead in a Lowes Industrial and have to memorize so many lines in just a few days…thanks again for this great acting tool.
— Gary Moore
I had just moved house and was living out of boxes, and had no broadband as it was yet to be connected. So of course that is when I get a phone call from a commercial radio producer asking if I would do a quick voice test for a series of radio ads for a UK national travel agent. I recorded some sample reads on my home studio (after unpacking it – I had literally just moved) and then put the file on a memory stick and trooped off with my netbook to a nearby cafe to use their wifi – but technology conspired against me in so many ways that two hours later the producer still did not have my audition in his in-box. And then I remembered the Rehearsal app on my iphone. So I emailed the script to the app, and read it into the iPhone and sent it off – and 20 mins later he rang up to say that the client had approved my voice. This gave me enough time to get my iPhone approved as a tethering connection so that the following day I could record the ads in my studio and email them off, but without the Rehearsal app I would not have got the gig in the first place. And after all the kerfuffle and stress of trying to do things the “normal” way – it was so easy to just speak and email!
Having used it successfully for a voice audition I now have absolute confidence that if I am asked for a voice test again, then that is how I will do it, wherever I am at the time.
— Louise Gummer, London UK
Loving the app. I have had a succession of big auditions and lots of text to learn in a short period of time. The app helped me tremendously! It also helps me focus in the waiting room – just drilling the scenes over and over. As a result I felt confident and fully prepared – booked both my gigs. In Plain Sight and the new ABC series Scoundrels. Going to use it to prepare for both shoots as well.
— Kathryn Smith McGlynn
I am very pleased with the results of using ‘Rehearsal’ so far. It is a powerful tool in preparing for auditions, or for days of work, especially when I am pressed for time. It is easy to use and I have no doubt that as it evolves, it will be a part of my work process for a long time.
— John Carroll Lynch [Shutter Island, Fargo, The Drew Carey Show]
Just so you know, I used Rehearsal for a short workshop scene that I had to do on Saturday. I was teching a show all week and barely had any time to rehearse the script aside from listening to it in the Rehearsal app and looking at the words on my iPhone in between tech stuff. Well, you’re program is pretty cool, because I learned my lines very easily and even though I felt like I’d barely done anything to prepare for the workshop the CD commented, “That was lovely and wonderful! I don’t need to re-direct you.” I guess all the “little bits of time” added up and Rehearsal helped me keep the script handy for all those “little bits of time.”
— Amy Schloerb
By using this app I was able to study my lines before I got on stage to perfom. I was driving to Birmingham, AL and on the way to my show I was able to study while driving by playing back the sene. This app so worth having and I am glad I have it. I am a upcoming actor and the rehearsal app is the way to go for even the new actors that are just starting.
— Nic Rabun
I love my Rehearsal app! I’m a Recording artist and voice over talent. I record on a daily basis and the reazon why I wanted Rehearsal in my I PAD is because I don’t need to use paper! And I love to be green. I figure that I can save a lot of trees and a lot of ink!! When I’m singing or Dubbing I take it with me and I love it for all it can do for me! I will recomend all the studios where I go to get the I pads with this application for everyone that work in that field like me 
so WE all can help to save the planet! Thank you so much for making my life A LOT easier!!
— Alondra Voz
David Lawrence…you’ve done it again! Proven that you are one of the smartest dudes on the block. An application that you can apply! Wow, what a concept. Congratulations to you and all of the people that helped put this one together David. What a great tool for any professional, or aspiring professional actor or voice over artist.
I will use it and and use it!
Best wishes to all and lots of broken legs.
Bill Smitrovich
Awfully nice of you, sir! Enjoy!
hey! please help.
i swithced computers, and i didnt get all my apps form itunes, rehearsal is one of them, so im downloading all again, but i cant seem to find it, only rehearsal 2, is it the same? or am i going to get charged again?
please help!!!
Yes, the new version of the app is called Rehearsal 2, with lots of new features, and a new low price of $20 – one time (no subscriptions any more!).
Just purchased the new Rehearsal 2 app for my iPhone and have tried sending PDF scripts to the email provided. However, when I click on “Add New Scripts” it tells me I don’t have any new scripts and to email them to the provided email. I have double checked the email address and everything is correct and I am sending them from the email registered on my account. Anyone else experiencing this?
Hey David,
It would be great to get this on the Droid X as well. Any chance that is coming anytime soon?
Thanks and great idea.
I’m trying to use rehearsal on two different devices and I’m getting an encryption error when I try to load the script on my second device. I’m using an iPad for most of my practice but use an iPhone when I’m on the go.
Otherwise, I LOVE the app!
Glad you love the app!
Can you send me the exact wording of the encryption error you’re getting to davidlawrence@gmail.com? I’ll have our dev team take a look at it and try and figure it out. They may have some device-specific questions for you.
Looks like a great app – pity I can’t use it! I’ve tried to register several times but never receive an activation email. Activate or refund, please!
We agree that it’s a pity.
So sorry that you’re having an issue. We usually find that registration emails are caught in spam traps (either false positives located in spam folders, or overly aggressive filters of many sorts being used by our customers), or the email addresses themselves are misspelled in the registration process. While these are rare, they do occur. Please check both of these possibilities, as our registration server is operating normally.
Is Rehearsal 2 available for Android devices? I don’t have an iPhone or iPad. I just got an HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon and its an Android device. I would very much like to get this App, but it seems as though it is only offered on Apple products. Please let me know if its available, where to get it or when & if it will be available. Thank you!
Unfortunately, it is not available for Android. We are looking at all Android and others as possible development platforms.
Hi, David, your app is excellent, and since getting an iPad 2, it’s become my default way of looking at my script. Is there a way of transferring scripts from my iPhone, complete with all the highlighting and annotations? It’s a bit of a pain having to do it all again! I have PhoneView, if that helps. Thanks, Paul.
We are working on a metafile format that would allow us to share between devices, yes. Watch for it in an upcoming version.
Thank you for the response about Android platforms. I know Android’s Market is growing super fast. Froyo & Gingerbread are the phone OS’s to look into & Honeycomb for the tablets. Android Market is the second largest app market behind Apple’s App Store. I really hope you get Rehearsal 2 on Android soon. How can I find out & be notified when it is available?
We would send it out to our list, and we certainly would talk about it here. Thanks for asking.
Hi all,
Im loving the app but when I try to send email mp3′s its all coming out sped up. Now for the CHIPMUNKS sequel auditions that would be awesome but here its a problem. Is there a fix or a setting I need to change for this to play at normal speeds when I send mp3′s? Please let me know thanks!
Joe
I like that Dropbox lets me open any .pdf in Rehearsal 2, and can add scripts that way without having to mail them!
I like that in landscape mode (iPad) the page uses the full screen width.
But being somewhat obsessive-compulsive, I too often get distracted with the freehand look of my highlights, losing valuable time reworking them into straight lines. Another distraction is that very short, accidental highlights can’t be erased.
I was surprised to find the blackout mode hides all colors, expecting rather to still see highlighted cues. It would be nice if blacking were more selective.
Also, the layering of the colors is unpredictable. When they overlap, erasing the desired one is a challenge.
Lastly, a feature that seems missing but easy to implement: White-out.
I participate in a monthly Scriptreading roundtable. One unexpected thing I’ve really come to appreciate about Rehearsal is that I can carry a stack of features (highlighted for my part/s) and never have to print a page. It’s less expensive than the paper, easier to port, and saves trees.
In fact, it was demonstrating the trial Rehearsal.app at one of those readings that persuaded me to make the investment. I’m glad I did.
App looks good, but scripts I email to script+username@emailrehearsal.com aren’t showing up on the server. Will try Dropbox, I guess, since I already use that intensively. Is the server down or something?
Not joking about this (as another user actually did this this week and complained to me about it): you DID replace “username” in that email address with your actual username, correct? I’m not sure how you’d use Dropbox – can you explain? The other way to get scripts into your app is to open them directly from an email message on your device. Tapping the action button when viewing the PDF attachment will bring up an “Open in…” option.
Yes, David, I did replace the name, lol. I just didn’t want to put my username out in the public domain (not that it matters much, in retrospect).
Dropbox does work, however – first you open the PDF file. If you have Rehearsal, you can click on Forward, and Rehearsal is one of the recipient options. This initiates an import into Rehearsal.
However, this appears not to work for Word docs…I guess because Rehearsal isn’t on the internal iOS list of programs that handle the .doc filetype.
It doesn’t work for Word docs because we don’t handle Word docs in the app – we convert them to PDFs when you forward them. We’re working on another solution to the direct importing of Word docs.
Terrific app, otherwise. Thank you. Loved your work on “Heroes,” btw.
FYI – a workaround for Word docs in the meantime (works on Mac, not sure about Windows) is to use File–>Print, and select (at the lower left of the screen) “Save to PDF.” This also works for HTML scripts.
Sorry for the chatter, just an epilogue – the problem I had is resolved. It turns out I was mailing the scripts via a different e-mail address from the one I registered with. I use them interchangeably because one is forwarded to the other.
All I had to do was authorize the second address in the app’s profile screen. Sorry for the trouble.
The vast majority of people using the app aren’t making their own scripts in Word, but rather are receiving them as PDF files from casting or production entities. If they are writing their own scripts, they are predominately using Final Draft or an equivalent (celtx, etc).
how can i transfer recorded scenes from my ipad to my iphone?
just re-read earlier posts and see that you are working on the issue.
Just bought this app last night. I loaded my script and highlighted 88 pages worth of my lines. Now, when I open up the app it just freezes on the “my scripts” page. I have my first read through in a couple hours and this is the only script I have with me… can’t make it home in time to get the hard copy. This thing better start working soon!
Right now I feel like I got swindled our of $20!
Eric
I’m sorry the app isn’t meeting your expectations – I can assure you that Rehearsal handles full scripts with ease. Have you tried rebooting your device?
Great App! I love it. Pause is one great feature to add. Please make it happen.
Hi There,
i bought the rehearsal app on the 13th April, 2011
Just recently I updated my iphone for the first time and it erased rehearsal from my phone!
I am devisated as I used it all the time! It a WONDERFUL invention for which I LOVE and am truly grateful for… I was wondering what I have to do to reinstall it to my iphone???
My username is ZaliJ.
Can you please help?
Best wishes,
Zalia
As with all apps, simply head over to the App Store and search for it – then re-download it and install it. You won’t be charged again. I’m afraid that any work you may have had in progress on the phone will be lost, but any scripts will still be on the server so you can re-add them.
I am concerned that a simple update would have deleted any app – did you wipe the phone to do the update? Did you have to? The updates happen pretty smoothly in iTunes without harming any of the apps you have already installed.
And thank you for all your kind words!
David
Hi David!
I’m a portuguese actress and Rehearsal has been a great tool To work at Home.
Anyway take a view on Iannotate Pdf app because it’s much easear to take notes and write on the text.
It has also bookmarks and searching words tool that permit to find our scenes in one second. Great for television.
Anyway your app has been a sensation in my theatre rehearsals, my colegues are amazed with THIS technology that i showed them. Congratulations.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Unfortunately, searching for text only works if your PDF is text-based – most of the scripts and sids that are sent out are graphic-based as a security measure, and are not searchable. I will look at iAnnotate for the note taking capability.
When are you making this for Android? Lots of us out here are asking. Thanks!
We’re putting it out for bid as we speak!
David
Hi from France,
Your app is quite simply AWESOME !
One thing would make it literally perfect : the ability to export anotated scripts (btw, the mp3 export option is great !)
In case it’s of any use to you, a quick article I submitted to http://www.vipad.fr has just been published, in which Rehearsal 2 is mentioned (http://www.vipad.fr/post/utilisation-ipad-professionelle-cinema).
Speaking of which, do get in touch if you stop by Paris !
All the best
Pierre
As you can see by many of the other comments here, we’re working on that!
And thanks for your kind words and review!
Hi I sent a document and recieved it on my app but it looks very blurry, does it have to do with .doc instead of pdf?
thx
It could be – try “printing” the document to PDF in word, and sending that over. Should work just fine.
Hello-
What is the best way to load sides from my iPad email? I tried the command “open in Rehearsal 2″ and it just goes straight to my desktop screen. Then I tried emailing attachment to my personal rehearsal email address and I got a message from rehearsal saying that there was no attachment.
Thanks!
Corbett
I’d look at those sides – if you can’t open them either way, the document is usually the culprit – either not Word (if forwarding), not a PDF, damaged in some way, a non-standard filename or some other issue. If you send the sides to me at davidlawrence@gmail.com, I’ll be happy to examine them and let you know if that’s the case.
David,
Are you open to suggestions from actors for the Rehearsal App? I mean I can only imagine that you must get lots of requests, but I thought I would ask before just sending you an e-mail or posting something on here. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a brilliant and progressive application for actors; it’s the only thing I want to use for my scripts.
Thanks,
KA
I love it when suggestions are made – please feel free, either here or via my email – davidlawrence@gmail.com. Glad you love the app!
David
Love the app….
One recommendation…. The ability to have a print option. Its nice to have it stored in the app but it be nice to be able to print out a script from te app.
First off I LOVE this app. Thank you so much! I have found a bug in the latest version though: when playing a recorded audio scene the screen can’t be put to sleep at all on my iPhone 4 or my iPad 2, so it kills my batteries really fast. Also, it should allow me to switch apps while listening to the audio scenes, like the Music and Pandora apps do, but it doesn’t. It just kills the audio when I leave the app. ICloud support (auto-syncing of scripts / recorded scenes/ comments ) between devices, and Siri support (having Siri read scenes with me) would make this the best app ever made in my opinion. Seriously. Kudos!
I’m not sure how to reproduce the non-sleep issue, as it works just the opposite for me on all my devices. The app is designed, and operates for me as designed, to gracefully fade the playback down and out when you sleep, switch apps, get a call or a modal dialog box, or any number of other interruptions, and then gracefully fade back in when that interruption ends. I’m wondering if there is some setting that us causing this that is outside of Rehearsal.
If you look through the myriad comments here, you’ll see that sharing marked up scripts via iCloud is under development. But Siri doesn’t have the capability you want, nor can Siri give emotion, inflection or timIng to scene work the way we as actors can. I WANT the users of the app to read their scenes with skilled acting, not with the distractions that the inherent stiltedness and constant mispronunciations Siri would inflict. I do appreciate your thoughts and LOVE that you love the app.
As hordes of folks have already said, this is a great app. and has helped me immeasurably over the last year. first had it on my iphone and now that i have an ipad, ive been using on there too.
A question: Is it possible to record a scene in on my ipad and then use it either on the ipad OR on the iphone version?
I had recorded two scenes on the ipad and then went to the gym with my iphone to rehearse during a pre-audition workout. i clicked on “My Scenes” hoping to find them, but they were not there.
Is there a way to connect them so that I don’t have to record the scenes again, for my second idevice?
thanks!
Although you currently can’t do that (the typical audio size of a recorded scene is usually too large to share), we are planning on that for the next rev of the app, using iCloud.
I appreciate your kind words, and hope you continue to rock your auditions and work with Rehearsal!
David
Hi Rehearsal Team,
It would be great if we could choose which color highlight to hide with the Blind button – instead of it hiding all the highlights. Erase tool a little sticky too. Otherwise, like it so far. Mahalo for creating this App!
That feature is on the slate for the next version – thanks for the kind words!
David
Hey there…any chance of it coming out for android tablets, to be used on kindle fire? I have an iphone but am concerned about it being on such a small screen….
Such a great idea for an app I want to be able to use it!
Android development is not currently on the slate until after we come out with version 3, but don’t worry about the iPhone being too small – it works just fine. I use it more often on my iPhone than on my iPad – and I can easily work with it in more situations (car, audition lobby) than I can with the iPad.
Think your app is amazing however would it be possiable to intoduce a blue background as I have dyslixa this would help me
Many thanks lee
The background color is the color of the PDF file you’re working with – change that before you bring the script in and you’ll be good to go. We can’t alter the script in any way, unfortunately.
Thanks for a very useful app. Will wifi sharing of documents be ready anytime soon? Support for other formats such as doc/docx etc and the possibility of editing these would be fantastic. And also text-to-speech so you wouldn’t have to read the whole script out loud
App is frozen on my iPad 2. I tried to open a video recording of a scene and get a blank black screen and cannot return to app. Frozen black screen. Help!
Try rebooting your iPad.
David
We are working on sharing. Doc and Docx are already supported via forwarding your script. We will not be adding editing the script – this is an app for actors, not writers. You don’t have to read the whole script out loud – just your scenes. We encourage that so you can put whatever intention you want behind your scene partner’s (and your) lines.
Thanks for asking!