Attention all thespians!!

[dancing_through_life]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 9:05pm

My school is having our first inititiation week, and we're dressing up for different days: Mime day, musical day, etc. What did your schools do? We're also initiating old members at a ceremony because we've never had one before :)

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:11pm

Ah yes, we did that at our school, but during a festival of one-act plays, so each day corresponded to shows that were performing that day. I believe we had...cartoon character day, clown day, farmer day, and formal day, among others.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:42pm

our school's International Thespian Society initiation stuff was always very weird, like having all of the candidates dress in shirts they had to make with the tragedy/comedy masks on them, and carry around puppets all through the school day, and then come to very odd parties that we would throw at nighttime...I always thought it was a very bizarre sort of ritualized initiation process :0)

[StarsInMyHands]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 11:47am

I was inducted Freshman year, but every year after you're required to attend. Inductions are so friggin creepy here! *L*. It's top secret. You're not allowed to tell anyone what goes one or anything about it. Inductees have to wear all white and members have to wear all black. We had to wait outside the door for a while and when we walked into the blackbox it was pitch black and all you could see were the faces of all of the old members. They were all sitting up on the platform in like two rows holding lit candles in front of their faces. They weren't allowed to smile or speak or anything. Then the inductees lined up in two rows and walked up the aisle (like holy communion or something, hah) and when you got to the front of the stage you had to state your reason for wanting to be inducted and then they light your candle and you go sit with the rest of them on stage, etc. It was so scary, but awesome.

[Jess1483]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 2:53pm

Mine was really intense. We prepared for, like, a month. Our theme was superheroes, and we each had a character and had to dress in costume. I was Captain Obvious. We also had a speech we had to say any time we entered a room (especially a classroom), a "battle cry" whenever we left the room (mine was "i'm leaving the room now!"), a tongue twister to recite on command, and table decorations for the banquet (mine were a folded piece of paper which said "table decoration"). We also had to create a shrine dedicated to an old memeber, we had to kneel in front of any member we passed in the hall that day and give a speech and then do anything they said. At one point I was hopping on one leg down the hall singing a song I made up on the spot about how much I loved four of the older Thespians. We also had two teams of super heroes and had to "fight" during the lunch hour and any time we saw them during the day. My arch-enemy was taking AP classes all day though so I ended up fighting a tree. It was awkward.
There was more. It was pretty ridiculous. But way fun!

[ashley0139]

Posted: 12/13/05 at 4:57pm

Ummm... nothing. We induct people with candles at our drama banquet. How sad that everyone else does something fun.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 12:02am

No, ours is pretty lame too, we just give them a candle and light it and the ceremony, and maybe a flower if they're lucky. Inducting people takes like 15 minutes out of the year.