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Author:  Queenie-C [ Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:18 am ]
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The Experimental Film wrote:
Ah, I've been listening to Into the Woods for a while, though I never actually saw it. Good play.

Oh, and a couple of people at my school started discussing a middle school doing The Vagina Monologues when our Spanish teacher told us she couldn't let us watch a PG-13 movie.


Stephen Sondheim is sheer, unadultered gorgeousity. My voice teacher, Teri Ralston, was lucky enough to be in BOTH his original Broadway productions of Company and A Little Night Music, and the thought of all that STILL makes me salivate. I got to see Sondheim's The Frogs -- with Nathan "Broadway Mack" Lane -- while in NYC this summer, so that was pretty cool too ... definitely not AS cool, but close. Maybe.

Heh. The Vagina Monologues may not be exactly the right show for junior high. High school, maybe. But legality-wise, it just wouldn't fly for the underaged. (Teachers aren't actually allowed to show anything over G in public elementary school, which my Mum teaches. She thinks that's pretty lame, but what can you do? Revolt? Been there, done that.) Not that there's anything WRONG with TVM: it's a great show that ain't afraid to tackle a lot of important issues. But if you're putting it on in a forum where most of the audience will still titter at the mere mention of biological anatomy, no dice.
Author:  ThatGoblin [ Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:31 am ]
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I can't act... I'd get stage fright.

I'm shy....

:O
Author:  Clever Danielle [ Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:15 pm ]
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I'm not sure if this is the same as acting, but I'm giong to brag about it anyways: I'm doing a bit for the West 40 speech competition. Yeah. It's so fun; i got to memorize this kid's book ("The true story of the three little pigs") and now my brother makes me "read" it to him all the time. We're doing this big preview performance next week, then it's off to the judges the week afterward. I'm so not ready. I am so ready.[/i]
Author:  Beyond the Grave [ Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:07 pm ]
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i was in two high school productions.

my junior year I was one of the brothers in Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat.

and last year i was a russian in Fiddler on the Roof
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:34 pm ]
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ikipapa1 wrote:
The Experimental Film wrote:
Oh, and I'm not allowed to audition for Jack and the Beanstalk. Summer camp issues.


Oh, that really sucks...don't you hate it when there is something you love, but something you are really looking forward to gets in the way?


Most definitely. That's exactly how I feel.
Author:  the_stolker [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:06 pm ]
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Sorry to bring back such and old (and dead) topic but I preformed HONK! last Friday and Thursday and both nights we got a standing ovation and several people commented on how i Stole the show Including the lead charicters (real) mother.
Author:  madefromthebeststuf [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:56 pm ]
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the stolker wrote:
Sorry to bring back such and old (and dead) topic but I preformed HONK! last Friday and Thursday and both nights we got a standing ovation and several people commented on how i Stole the show Including the lead charicters (real) mother.


That's awesome!

I'm a huge actor over here. Our Open Book Players theatre group goes on tour during the summer, and the for the past five years I've played Ebenezer Scrooge in a Christmas Carol.
Author:  Cmarbagoi [ Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:44 am ]
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Recently, I was in the musical "Once Upon A Mattress". Everyone was raving about me. Or at least my mom.
Author:  Jerome [ Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:49 am ]
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Me and my friends have made several short movies, and I've acted in most of them. There was one secret agent one called "Agent Alexander", where I played two roles: the villain, and the villain's clone. Sean (SEAN'D on this forum) played the villain in the sequel.

We're remaking both at the end of this year. I'm actually writing scripts and we're doing storyboards and everything.

EDIT: It's been cancelled. We're doing like a clip-show comedy thing of a new TV station where we make fun of all of these things on TV.
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:08 am ]
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I got the lead in The Time Machine at our school. First rehearsal is on Monday. I haven't even looked at the script... :-S
Author:  breadtangle o' pizza [ Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:27 am ]
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I'm not too keen on acting, but I like working on plays anyway. For the 3 plays performed at the middle school while I was there I was in charge of lighting. I was one of about 3 people in the school who knew the entire system, the other 2 being maintenance guys.

The band classes were held in the auditorium, and since there were lots of buttons and switches on the lighting board, the band kids just had to press them. See, we didn't actually play in band until about a week before the concert. From what I've heard, the board was recently physically damaged, to the point of where it's impossible to use. *sigh*

BTW, the school system spent around $45,000 on the lighting system there, and essentially lost the manual.
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:19 am ]
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As some of you know, I am in yet another play, this one a Shakespearean-age production called The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The only way to describe it is really Monty Python slash Shakespeare. It makes little sense, but is still amazingly funny.

I'm "Boy 1". I'm a scene announcer, mourner, pallbearer, messenger, royal attendant, and tree.

w00t.
Author:  Puphles [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:53 pm ]
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I love acting. I did musical theater as an extra-cirricular activity in 5th grade, and we did My Fair Lady, Oliver, and Greese, but they were only like 20 minuite renditions. In 7th and 8th grade a partook in the 7th/8th grade musicals, and we preformed Iolanthe and HMS Pinifore, both by Gilbert & Sulivan. This past year (9th grade) I preformed in the spring musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This next year I am going to be in both the fall production and the spring musical.
Author:  iKipapa [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:11 pm ]
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The Experimental Film wrote:
As some of you know, I am in yet another play, this one a Shakespearean-age production called The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The only way to describe it is really Monty Python slash Shakespeare. It makes little sense, but is still amazingly funny.

I'm "Boy 1". I'm a scene announcer, mourner, pallbearer, messenger, royal attendant, and tree.

w00t.


Somebody must have thought you were really good with the leaves. I guess being a tree is cool.
Author:  Acekirby [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:40 pm ]
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I can't act. For the life of me.

The last play I did? I think it was in 1st Grade. We were crayons.

1700th Post!
Author:  iKipapa [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:58 pm ]
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The last play I did was at the end of January. And I am doing another one next January, I suppose. Bye Bye, Birdie. That's the play. I've never seen it. And I am going to be the main lead. Yay!
Author:  Einoo T. Spork [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:20 pm ]
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Last school year, at the end of it, I did a little thing where they got people together from all the classes to do a little thing where we'd play theater games (the funnest of all games!) and do pre-planned skits, which the kids actually got to write themselves. My highlight was probably in a skit where some "little kids" had ruined a vase at a friends' house when I had specifically told them not to touch it ("Daddy said something about this vase, but I can't remember what it was..." "Oh, I know! He told us we could touch it!") I had marched them both back into the car, and said "When I get home, I'm going to take some Prozac," a line that I had actually improvised during the rehearsals. The audience, and the parents in particular, roared at that line.
Author:  Rhin Beoulve [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:07 pm ]
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I act!!!!!!!!!!111!!1!!!one!!!!1!!

Yeah, I've been in "The Miracle Worker" and "The Hunting of the Snark and Other Tales of the Sea." I'm currently rehearsing for Midsummer Night's Dream, to be put on on the 20th.
Author:  IantheGecko [ Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:42 pm ]
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I heart the theatre! I love it SO much that I spell it with "re" on the end. I lettered in Drama at school this past year with our Thespians. Every other year we go to NYC & see a bunch of shows; we saw Phantom of the Opera, Blue Man Group, Avenue Q, RENT, Julius Casesar (starring DENZEL WASHINGTON as Brutus!), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (starring Kathleen Turner), & WICKED.

I'm mostly a techie (HOOKed, Les Misérables, Macbeth & The Wiz) at school, but I've acted in 3 plays outside of high school:

In 8th grade I was in Radio Daze, about a Chicago radio soap in the 40s that faces a move to television--and new leads. I played a washed-up vaudeville actor named Dash Darling, the star of the show-within-the show.

Last summer I co-starred in a murder mystery comedy called Mayhem in Mayville that all takes place in a coffee shop in a small Minnesota town.

This week, I'm Gollum in The Hobbit. For the show's costumes, we're doing this randomly-modern, Julie Taymor-style wardrobe. I'm this nasty, disgusting, jaundice yellow all over; it looks like I went swimming in mustard & movie-theatre butter.
Author:  Marshmallow Roast [ Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:09 am ]
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I don't know if I can act, or not. I've never tried. The part I got in my 5th grade musical was a drummer, but the tryouts were singing, not acting, and my music teacher was a jerk.

My grandpa acts.

Honestly, I'd like to try acting, though. They have an actor's workshop at my school, but I wouldn't try it, because I might be embarrassed in front of the seasoned actors and actresses...

It can't be all that hard to get a part as a "Person on the Street", though. Almost all of my friends were in the play as Peoples on the Street.
Author:  homestarman17 [ Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:10 am ]
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I've acted in a nativity scene in third grade (I was Joseph!) and I've made countless movies in wich I have acted in.
Author:  Der Cheat Geist [ Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:20 am ]
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I act. I was in like 3 plays and I'm in one now. "The Man who Came to Dinner." I get to be drunk!!!! YAY!!!!! acting of coarse
Author:  IantheGecko [ Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:23 am ]
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We played SUCH a fun game in my Tech Theatre class today! It's called...
SPOTLIGHT TAG!!! The object is to run from the back of the house to a big chair center stage without getting caught by the 2 spotlights hovering around the theatre, which flash red when they "spot" someone If you are caught, you have to go back & start again. As if that didn't seem hard enough...IT'S ALL IN THE DARK! Muwahahahaha!!!!

The trick is to either stick to the walls, run in the dark & dive down, or just run for it & hope you won't get caught. After about 4 or so rounds (all of which were accompanied by Blue Man Group from someone's iPod hooked up to the sound system :mrgreen:), I finally won a round after bolting to the stage from about halfway down.

Spotlight Tag is also meant to teach us how to use a spotlight, and, as techies, move around quickly in the dark.
Author:  Jenny [ Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:59 pm ]
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I love acting but I never have the guts to try out... but when I do I always get the part.

The last role I played was an old swedish maid in a courtroom drama/comedy called "The Night of January 16th"... I still remember my favorite line:
(My character is talking about this sleazy lady who has a dress made out of platinum) "...she have me heat it over the fireplace, and then put it on her hot as she could stand. Ven it burn her shameless skin, she say it vas man kissing her vild like tiger!"

I got a lot of compliments on my part. It was fun to play! Especially since my grandma is Swedish. She drove up to watch me.

I also got to jump up from in the audience and call everybody sinners and act like a crazy person. :mrgreen:
Author:  Jerome [ Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:25 pm ]
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Whoa! How old is this thread?
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:25 am ]
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Jerome wrote:
Whoa! How old is this thread?

About ten months, Spamuel.

My dad somehow coaxed me into being in this twenty-minute, one-act Christmas play for him. The Hillbilly Christmas Carol. It's not too hard, with only ten rehearsals, but some of the cast are just freakin' annoying.

Heh heh. "Hillbilly."
Author:  IantheGecko [ Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:29 am ]
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Little plug:

My school's putting on Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" this Thursday, Friday, & Saturday. I didn't get cast, but I did do a LOT of set building; I'm also running the sound. :mrgreen:
Author:  Bugkiss [ Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:39 am ]
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I was in Oliver Twist over the summer. (I've said it so many times that you all should know that by now.)

Practice from 7 PM to 1 AM every night for 6 weeks. Fun...

No, seriously, it was fun. Some of the people in it are now some of my best friends.
Author:  DeadGaySon [ Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:24 am ]
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Two summers ago I played a munchkin and a flying monkey and a gaurd to the good witch of the north in, you guessed it, the Human Race Youth Summerstock production of The Wizard of Oz.

I teched for a slightly less well known play by the name of Still Life With Iris last summer, and liked it a whole lot better.

My grandmother minored in drama and theater, and I grew up with her dragging me to every play in the Dayton area. I've always loved theater, I went to see Wicked in New York, and I'm in Muse Machine and Drama club at my highschool. I'm also a part of this wierd little Wicked/Avenue Q cult my friends formed. Everyone has the soundtrack to both plays memorized. I would kill to see Avenue Q on broadway. but if I had to choose I would rather see Spamalot

Problem being, I cannot act worth anything. I much prefer to work backstage.

I'm going through acting class right now. I don't think I'm going to get a good grade... :-S
Author:  IantheGecko [ Fri May 05, 2006 2:39 am ]
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Today I had my second Advanced Acting audition at school; I didn't make it last year.

First, all of us auditioners went into the drama room. It was decorated in this weird "Welcome to the Jungle" theme. Kinda felt like Tribal Council on Survivor. :-O

Then we relaxed for a few minutes, & we did a performance art thing to warm up. One of the current AA members played a tape that had a bunch of different music clips, and what we had to do was move around the room, creating different characters & scenes & plots on the spot, changing with every piece. That was pretty fun.

After that, we were each given audition packets to fill out. These included a serious page, where you explain your theatre experience and what theatre means to you & all that stuff, and a creative-answer page. Questions here included, "What non-edible thing would you want to make edible?", "Pick 4 current cast members of the opposite sex & write down a famous role they should play", and "Draw all of the current AA members as they appear to you when they're 30 years old." There were 10 questions on that section; the drawing part was hardest.

Once we were ready, each person went up on stage. We would answer 2 questions (creatively, again), then do either our pieces (contrasting: classical drama & modern comedy, or vice versa) or an improv challenge first. Most everybody did pretty well; I think I did well myself.

Now (again) comes the agonizing process of waiting for the list to come up. :rolleyes: There's no callback; one day, and that's it. Ms. V waits until after the drama retreat (or the seniors' last day) to post it, so peoples' feelings don't get hurt during the retreat. I think it's so the current AA members don't see the next crop of "replacements".

Well, I did the best I could, I was prepared, and I had a lot of fun, so I hope I make it. :)
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