Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?

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Nothing really bad, the worst thing someone said was at a recent audition for our high school play "Fools" and a bunch of the upper classmen and me (I'm a freshman) were in rooms rehearsing our monologues in front of each other, and after I went one of them said "Pretty good...for a freshman." So that's the worse I've recieved so far.

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I'm currently in the orchestra pit for Wizard of Oz with a not so hot conductor and one of the kids in the show who always seems to have input....came up to me after the show and said..."where were you?"
Apparently he was accusing the orchestra of not being together at all during the Jitterbug dance sequence..when I asked other people in the song they said its the best number we play in the show. Maybe someone just can't count.

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I was in a really horrible production of Cheaper By the Dozen a few years ago. My friend Eli, who I didn't know during Cheaper, was talking about shows that she'd seen at the theatre in the past, and randomly dropped, "Yeah, I left during intermission for that one!"
Of course, I was very aware that the show had been miserable. I probably would've left during intermission too.

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a reviewer once said that all i did was scream and that i was indicating, and felt the need to clarify and explain that "indicating" was an acting term because my knowledge of acting was so horrible that i wouldn't know this on my own.

doesn't matter that our director had us do the whole show in purposeful, over-the-top, melodrama. this reviewer was so brilliant he saw that our acting was not due to a directorial choice but to my own poor skills. reviewers are dicks. particuarly this one.

lovelyspotlight, I know you're a FL thespian... did by any chance you perform this Footloose one-act at FTC this year...? Just curious because I saw one there and I had never heard of it being done that way ever.

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Well, I liked it. Very entertaining. That's so cool, btw, that I've seen you in things.

Back on topic, I haven't had anything insulting, per se, ever said about a performance, although when the judges papers came back for our recent production of Grease they mentioned that I had dialed too few numbers in the Sandra Dee (reprise) scene when I called Frenchy. I don't usually get negative criticism for full-length shows (IEs are a different story), so it took me aback.

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At competition a judge that was not much older than I am told me I had absolutely no character and critized me "Sing what the composer wrote." Because I sang a dotted quarter note as a half note. (by the way, the woman on the original cast recording and DVD sings it that way.)

The one good critique. "Thank you for mentioning the Composers name in your introduction."

Well, I'm glad to see you've started trying to get me riled up on a message board too, and that comment was AFTER you insulted me, but whatever.

While thankfully no ones really insulted my performances to my face, but hey in High School I'm sure there's some insults thrown around behind my back, but at State Thespians this year, I won Solo Acting Male (which was a huge suprise, I still don't think it really happened and believe I'll wake up from the dream very soon,) and I was scared ****less about having to go out to do the showcase. Then the guy who was on the State board and who also won Solo Acting the year before but got 3rd this year, came up to me and said "Solo Acting huh? Well I saw you and you were pretty good, but I still would've won. But I was just really sick this year...it sucks that I don't get to go out with a bang, I mean what with you being a freshman and all."

Talk about raining on the parade...

And Gertie that's awful! What kind of teacher does that?

This wasn't really an insult but my editing professor is the type that tries to find anti-Bush metaphors in everything. So, when I made a movie about a guy eating a hamburger and the woman who tries to steal it from him, she interpreted it as being about people who exploit 9/11.

I don't think I've ever had anyone say anything truly horrible to my FACE... but I have no idea what people say behind my back.

and totally off-topic but: YAY for Odyssy of the Mind people! I was an OMer for five years (and a style judge at my local State Finals for several years after that). World finals in Disney World = the best time EVER (we almost placed too... stupid Spontaneous score dragging us down).

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