Have you ever been accused...

If you're weird, then I'm psycho.

(Let the backfire begin!)

I have friends in my school who are into broadway and some that aren't. I get along with the ones that love broadway becuase they know what I am talking about but I have educated some of my friends. I love all my friends if they appreciate my love for broadway or not. Except most people think of broadway (well think of it in my school) as like boring music from older shows, which are great to some people but don't interest me. I try to get my point across that, for example, RENT is something that would played on the radio and they would like it but if they found out it was broadway they would say they hated it. I do have my friends who are like me and are in love with Broadway (except most of them can sing really well unlike me).

I graduated with 116 people. Only one other guy knew what a musical was. The theatre people knew what they were taught, and that's all R&H and the classic stuff. I came into class one day with my Ave Q recording and we listened to it... I got in trouble, but they didn't know if they should like it or love it. Now that was weird.

I know what you mean Captain_Obvious because the same thing happened to me. But not just with Avenue Q...it's the same situation everytime I bring in any Broadway CD.

Greekmusicalfan: "Just because they are ignorant and you are way more cultured" AMEN -- I forget that sometimes.

I think all this is one of the big reasons I love NYC -- you can run across almost anyone on the street, say something about Broadway, and they will know what you are talking about. I can't wait to live there

I think I belong at an arts school but I guess a university with a great theatre program is the next best thing...right?

I'm considered strange, but that isn't just because of my Broadway obsession. I walked around wearing a huge pin of cherries on a dartboard today. Also, I sing much higher than msot people in my grade, which makes them think I'm an alien, and I'm smart, so they also think I'm a robot.

Or a kinship?

mmm kinda. Everyone else in my school isn't in to Broadway at all, but I'm friends with most of them. Actually I'm friends with most of the guys (because is it just me, or are 8th grade boys a lot easier to get along with than the girls) and whatever this one guy, Cody, says, goes,(how said is that?) so he said he thought it was cool that I liked it, and I don't know if everyone else feels the same way, but they haven't said anything.

That being said, they sometimes give me funny (not meanly funny or anything like that, but these dopey smiles) when I hand in a report on say George Gurshwin and their report is on that Bam guy from "Viva La Bam" ..... then the looks start coming on

but otherwise..not really. I remember though I met this one girl at this dance camp, a jazz dance camp, and she made fun of me CONSTANTLY for my broadway fetish. She was awful, always saying the worst things about me, and worse all my "gay ass broadway fiends". Well one of my "gay ass Broadway friends" laid it down to her straight when he met her one day. God I love my Danny boy.


But what kills me about being the only one in my school who likes Broadway? no one to talk to. no one really to talk to who understands, you know? which is why I'm going to an arts school in about a year.

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Updated On: 6/9/05 at 09:11 PM

crazy stuff. and I dunno, I've never communicated well with the girls in my grade. I hate HATE when they bitch off, which is all they ever do. Here's a quote, "Oh my GOD my mom wouldnt buy me my Tiffany ring so instead she bought me this STUPID pair of Dolce and Cabana glasses!" ...poor baby

but the guys are totally different. Immature at times, yes, but good fun

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Okay.. an 8th grader shouldn't wear Tiffany and Company. Well, that goes for D&G too.

Kinda like when I see a 10 year old with a cell phone.. Just shouldn't happen.

before i was introduced to theatre i thought theatre/broadway/musical lovers were weird..but that's just because one particular kid i knew would run around quoting lines from shows and singing songs all the time,,,,it was annoying.

oh, captain obvious... I was giving a tour to the little 4th graders entering middle school next year. one of the little girls goes "am I allowed to being my cell phone to school?"


4th GRADE

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