DESCRIBE YOUR STAGE DEBUT — Page 2

i was in nursery school, so 3 or 4, but i dont remember it.
the first time i remember was playing an elf when i was 8 in "how to eat like a child" (yes i know there were no elves in that play, but it was a school joke where there was an elf in every play we did)
i still have my elf hat. i was the elf because i was the shortest person in the play. i wore a shirt with "lauren m." written on it in big letters. i still have the shirt too.

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oh snap i forgot about the 5 years of tap i took as a kid.
that was actually my first time on stage.

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I was a star (in the sky) in a Christmas play at my school when I was seven.

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My first time on stage I was 4 and I wore one of those things that have boards on the front and back that adversitment people stand on the corners wear, and the board was painted like a clock. I was in some show called The Granny Awards, and it was absolutley horrible.

My first actual musical I was 9 and I accidentally sang the same verse of The Farmer and the Cowman from Oklahoma twice and after I finished I ran offstage crying. Hahah

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Ohh duh, I forgot about dance. So yeah, I was 3.

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oops. I forgot about my Christmas Pagent when I was four. I was an angel and all I got to do was kneel the entire 30 minutes, while I stared enviously at the girls who got to play Mary and the Angel Gabriel.

There was lots of dance experience, way before I can remember (though even then, from the videos, I totally stole the show. I was so shy I would hide behind my mom's leg when meeting people, but on stage I was a total ham).

In 1st grade I was in my school Christmas pageant, as a shepherd. I remember wearing a blue terrycloth bathrobe and that's really it

I was 9 when I did my first real theater production. It was at a local children's theater and was an original show that was based pretty closely off of the Hobbit (which at the time I did not realize as I had never ever heard of The Hobbit). I was one of the lead Hobbit-things and we went on this journey to find the dragon-like creature that had been terrorizing our village, of course meeting many character and obstacles along the way. It was super campy, but really pretty witty and well-written and it was my first real production and I was a lead, so I was pretty thrilled.

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I remember when my brother was kindergarten he was in his first play. This was the 60's so he wore light blue short pants, with matching vest, a white short sleeved shirt and light blue bowtie. He sat there like a little angel with a blond crew cut with the rest of his class. They were all singing some song when he started to squirm and grab his crotch . He teacher stopped playing the piano and announced" We will all sit here quietly in our seats while Stevie visits the little boy's room." He trotted off the bathroom while we had an unscheduled intermission. A few moments later, he comes skipping of the boy's room looking disheveled with his shirt hanging out, bowtie undone, fly open and a huge dark blue stain on the crotch of his shorts. Sheer talent!

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