Line?

Ah, the joys of memorizing lines. It's really an odd thing, when you think about it: retaining a specific sequence of words in your mind for a definite period of time - or sometimes indefinite (I, for one, can still remember all the prepositions, a list I memorized when I was in 7th grade). But, odd or not, it's hard to put on a play without memorizing your lines.

Different actors use different methods to memorize lines. Some learn by reading them over and over, some by hearing them. When I was in high school, I'd gather my castmates around my karaoke machine (yes, I had a karaoke machine in the 1990s - you're jealous) to make a recording (on a cassette tape, of course), then listen to the recording over and over and over.

Sadly, I don't have that karaoke machine anymore, and thus cannot use my old method. Anyone got any great suggestions on surefire methods for memorizing lines? Seriously...we'd love to hear them!