It's a Wrap!

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[logophile]

I was in our college production of Our Town back in the early 90's. I played Rebecca and I loved it.

We cried every night as George went out to see Emily's grave. Every Night. Cried so hard. He was an amazing actor.

Congrats on a job well-done, Sarahhh.

 

[rgraham666]

Nicely done, sarahh. Congratulations.

Lat play I went to see was Cats. Must be almost twenty years ago now.

I still like RumTumTugger's attitude.

 

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[cloudy]

I did bit parts a few times in high school: a dancer/extra in My Fair Lady and one of the King's principle wives in The King and I (full body makeup in those sort of skimpy costumes is a bitch). We had a kajillion little kids that we recruited from among everyone's younger siblings....they had to have full body makeup, too.

The most memorable, though, was when I was the head of the stage crew my senior year for Guys and Dolls. I had never even heard of it until we started working on it, and now it's one of my favorites.

 

[Alessia Brio]

The most memorable, though, was when I was the head of the stage crew my senior year for Guys and Dolls. I had never even heard of it until we started working on it, and now it's one of my favorites.

I Adelaide's Lament:

It says here:
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper resperatory tract.

In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold.

You can spray her wherever you figure there's streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold.

It says here:
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendancy, see note: (looks at note
Chronic organic symptoms
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat.

In other words, just from worrying if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough.

You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.
If she's getting a kind of name for herself, and the name ain't his
A person can develop a cough.

And furthur more, just from stalling, and stalling,
And stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe.

When they get on that train to Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can develop la grippe,
La grippe.
La post nasal drip.
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!

From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting to old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!
(ADELAIDE sneezes)

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I did summer stock for the local community theater for a couple of years in my late teens. Had big roles in a few shows, bit parts in a few, and worked props/sets for a few. Very educational experience.

 

[Belegon]

I did West Side Story & Once Upon A Mattress in high school... I got talked into it by my friend Adam...they always need more guys in theatre in high school; once I did WSS and realized it meant long afternoons in a room where the girls outnumbered the guys 4 to 1 it didn't take me long to agree to do the next years production too...

I found out I really enjoyed it...

Then in college, they were also doing Mattress so I went ahead and auditioned. Got the same part I had in high school. Captain of the Queens Guard. Only in high school they needed me to play the dance teacher too...

I still remember some of my lines and I suspect it wouldn't take much practice to pull off a fair-to-middlin' Spanish Panic.

 

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[Remec]

Mmm...you've got me thinking...I know I have some theater stories to tell, it's just a matter of sorting them out and deciding which ones bear repeating. (I have a BA in Theatre Arts, and have worked on some community theater as well as with professional companies. Haven't acted professionally, though.)

 

[Remec]

Alright, here's one...

When I was in grad school, I did a one-act that were being directed by one of the directing class students that semester. It was called "The Golden Fleece" and was just a two-person show that revolved around portraying Jason and Medea as a modern-day couple going through a more difficult series of relationship problems than your usual husband and wife might.

The day after we opened, I was working my job at Taco Bell (I had a tuition waiver for school, but nothing that paid for living in the area.) A guy sort of looked at me oddly while I took his girlfriend's order, then stepped up to ask if I'd been in the show the night before.

When I said yes, he nodded and gave me a smile. "I thought so. You were pretty good."

That was the first public recognition and reaction I'd ever gotten from someone not involved with a production or the theater in some fashion.

I must have beamed through the rest of my shift that night.

 

[Guest]

oh god...the last musical i saw really turned me on...
Cabaret

it was glorious! the lead was played by Lea Thompson (of Caroline in the City fame)


it was naughty...bawdy and i totally fell in love with it. NOT the version with Sleeza manelli. *gag*

 

[MagicaPractica]

Congrats! Loved Our Town. Didn't really get it when I was in high school but re-read it some years back and I just felt it.

Also, loooove Adelaide's Lament. LOL They did a great program on PBS not too long ago where they showed videotaped performances by the truly great actors and actresses doing those signature roles. Loved it! There's nothing like performing. I love to go watch but then it makes me want to be up there too.

 

[FallingToFly]

My son is the Mouse King in the Monticello Opera House's showing of Nuncracker on Dec. 10.

Consider this an invitation to come down for an impromptu Litogether, although I have no idea where the heck I would be able to put anyone...

 

[Just-Legal]

I was Loretta in Bugsy Malone in high school and I loved it, its still one of my all time favourite "silly" productions.

I always wanted to be Meg in Phantom of the Opera. I know her role off by heart.

 

[Skip1934a]

My son is the Mouse King in the Monticello Opera House's showing of Nuncracker on Dec. 10.

Consider this an invitation to come down for an impromptu Litogether, although I have no idea where the heck I would be able to put anyone...

Which son?
Surely there are empty stalls in the barn... or Motels nearby

I expect an after-action report.

 

[tanyachrs]

Congratulations on a hit show. There's nothing like live applause to make you feel good about the work you've done.