DESCRIBE YOUR STAGE DEBUT

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:11pm

Mine was in 1962 at the tender age of 5 at the Kreamer Street Elementary School in Bellport, New York. The Kindergarten put on a review and I simply can't remember the name of it. However, I played an old woman who churned butter in a boot. Believe me, that took talent! In another scene I was dressed in a crow costume and flapped my wings and sang a song. What was yours like?

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:13pm

I was five, it was a variety show, and I did very little in the show, at least I can't remember what I did. I know in my early shows I sang songs from Barnum and a song called 'Happiness'.

Good thread.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:13pm

I was ten years old when I made my stage debut. I played the doll that came alive at the end. I was onstage for about five minutes, and that's about it. The play was The Curious Savage.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:14pm

My first big production in high school was Joseph, and I was chorus and understudy for all the soloist brothers. It was a blast and thats where I made a lot of my current bestt friends.

My professional debut was as Rusty Charlie in a large outdoor version of Guys and Dolls.

Akiva
Updated On: 8/4/06 at 06:14 PM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:14pm

I went to this Christian day care and for Christmas, we did a live Nativity (sp?) scene.

I played one of the Shephards. I stood there with a cane. Very challenging.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:16pm

I was just wondering about that, Link wannabe, how come being a swing is quite challenging, learning loads of different roles, and yet it's the lowest rung on the ladder on BWW? I'm talking about your personal profile thingy here.

[qbrute]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:21pm

I was about 6 and living in the UK and I had to play a Jamaican boy in a play called Stirring the Christmas Pudding. So my mother spent all day covering me in boot polish to get my complexion right (I'm white). I think my line was "I bring cocoa from Jamaica" whereas I really wanted to say "To hell with this, I want outta here".

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:30pm

I was 10 and went to a summer theatre camp where we workshopped Honk! Jr. I was a featured animal, and I had this huge blue boa that left feathers everywhere. The entire stage was blue by the end of the performance.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:33pm

I did my very first play when I was 7 years old. I was in second grade, and the play was called "Mind Your P's and Q's." I was one of the leads, a nurse.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:38pm

It was at the J*Company Youth theater, and they had just recieved a commission for a new show to be written. The show was called Hello Tommorow and was written by Sean Hartley (Cupid and Psyche). I remember the opening number, the curtain opened and all these people staring at me, I was ten, and it was the coolest feeling I have ever felt.

[Zyla]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:38pm

My "stage debut" took place when I was five. It was a ballet recital, and my entire class had to dress as tooth fairies. I remember that we had to wear blue eye shadow and red lipstick, plus gold sequined tiaras.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 6:41pm

I think I was about five years old and it was a nativity play on Christmas.
I was a sheep... THE BEST SHEEP THAT GRACED THE STAGE EVER!!!!

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:17pm

vmlinnie,

Being an understudy was a really great oppertunity though because it gave me a chance to play a whole bunch of roles in rehearsals, and show my versatility, so that the next year I got cast as Seymour in Little Shop because I suppose they were impressed with what they saw.

Akiva

[singingwendy]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:19pm

I've been told that at the age of 3, during a Bible School performance where every class had to get up and sing a song, I walked to the back of the stage and laid down and announced to everyone I was very tired!

However, my first big "solo" moment was when I was in first grade and chosen to do the "Morning Star" solo at my church. Anyone who grows up in the Moravian church knows this is a big honor, and traditionally the song is sung by a 4th or 5th grade student. However, I was given this honor at age 6 because I could read, I could sing in tune, and I was the only student in the junior choir who hadn't sung it yet!

[Dabadoll]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:22pm

I was elementary school. I had all of two lines, I tapped to the lip of the stage and in my solar glory I would say something along the lines of “The next day”.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:26pm

I attended St. Michael's elementary school on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. My stage debut was as a germ in their annual Health Pageant.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:32pm

You were typecast, DollyPop!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:33pm

Maybe. I spent the better part of the evening going from thing to thing and infecting them.

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:58pm

Fiction Writer:I went to this Christian day care and for Christmas, we did a live Nativity (sp?) scene.



Funny that you say that...because I made my stage debut 17 months old at a nativity scene...I was passed through a little door hidden by a curtain...

wooo!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:00pm

Dollypop.......The least you could have done was come across the school field to see me in my kindergarten debut. I was a shashing success up there on that stage.

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:03pm

I was in a Christmas pagaent at my daycare when I was three. Nine of us were in a line with large pieces of cardstock with a letter on it. Altogether, they spelled out "CHRISTMAS". I was the M, and I remember my one line was "M is for Mary: the mother of Jesus."

On show night, I froze up, cried, and couldn't say my line. My mother and my daycare-sitter-person had to come up with me.

[Marlene]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:06pm

My elemetary school always did weird revues of sorts, or random culturally themed performances...I've been in those since kindergarten. Unless you count even stranger skits from parents day in pre-school that's it. Whatever I was in...I had plenty of lines because I was loud and could project. (Yay, ghetto elementary school!) In 6th grade we took Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida, butchered it and turned it in to a bad episode of Law and Order, and Achilles was randomly on trial. There were four groups that wrote the play, borrowing from Shakespeare's text. Haha...so there was practically four of every character...o_0.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:10pm

I honestly don't remember. I was around stages and sets from the time I was born, and I started acting almost before I could walk. I know I did about 40 educational films (yes "those films" that many of you saw in grade school about health and safety, etc.) by the time I was 10 years old.

I also modeled as a "tyke" in clothing catalogues (Sears, Montgomery Ward, etc.)

I'll have to ask my mom and dad if they remember what was my first stage time, ever.

Updated On: 8/4/06 at 08:10 PM

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:10pm

I was 4 and I was a dancing angel at a christmas show at my church.

[gettinhep]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 8:37pm

It was the kindergarten Christmas play. There I was, dressed as an angel, the only kid with a solo. I believe the song was about a donkey. Don't ask me why.

I've been stagestruck since...