As Purple Rose actors prepare to perform before each show, warming up is a critical step in the process! Below are some house-favorite tongue twisters we use at the Purple Rose. Give them a try!
On your own:
![funny-bear](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/funny-bear.gif)
The big black bug
Bit the big black bear
And made the big black bear bleed blue blood
![DyN0V](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DyN0V.gif)
Unique New York
Unique New York
You know you need unique New York
![mouse](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mouse.gif)
*Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock
*Say this series with your tongue sticking out, as clearly as you can!
Call & Response:
With one person leading, line by line, the group repeats each line back!
![brigadiers](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/brigadiers.gif)
The brisk brave brigadiers
Brandished broad bright blades
Blunderbusses and bludgeons
![jasmine](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/jasmine.gif)
She stood on the balcony
Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping
While amicably welcoming him in
One-liners:
Repeat with increasing speed!
![stroller](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/stroller.gif)
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
![sheep](https://www.purplerosetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sheep.gif)
The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick