Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?
Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?
Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#1
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:46amSpill!!!!!
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#2
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:51amThankfully I can't think of anything, really. I mean, there's this other kid who both goes to school with me and does regional theatre with me whom I always (not to be cocky, but I mean... I do) beat out for roles. He'll audition for the same role I do, and I get it -- simple as that. So he's generally bitter towards me, and usually gives snide remarks about me not deserving parts and whatnot. Bah!
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#2
Posted: 5/13/07 at 7:29amNothing 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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#3
Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:16amNobody has ever said anything negative to me about a performance of mine...the worst thing somebody said was, "Yeah, we didn't see much character development from you, because you were only in like two scenes." That was in regards to my role of Vi in our one-act production of Footloose. We had to cut A LOT, a good deal of which included my scenes, since the parents aren't necessarily a HUGE part of the show. Either way, I did what I could with what I had. =]
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#4
Posted: 5/13/07 at 6:25pm
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.
"Interesting choice"
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#5
Posted: 5/14/07 at 8:54am
not insulting really, but i was recently in a production and i was in the midst of my mono, and my glands were swollen really badly. and my mom came to see it, and after the show she said, wow i can see them from when you were on stage.
it was funny
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#6
Posted: 5/14/07 at 10:22am
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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#7
Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:11pmThank the Lord I haven't been criticized THAT badly, but my former voice/clarinet teacher once told me that I would NEVER go far in life: not with clarinet or singing...it hurt me pretty bad.
Understudy Joined: 7/11/05
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#8
Posted: 5/14/07 at 3:51pm
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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#9
Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:09pm
After my monologue at my NYU audition, the smarmy reviewer asked what I where I went to school (Pratt) and he laughed, and then asked what I was studying there (writing) and he laughed and said in the most asshole-ian kind of way, "Well then why don't you apply to our dramatic writing program?"
That hurt. And, I was rejected. I'm not a bad actor. It wasn't a bad audition. But that guy was a jerk.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#10
Posted: 5/14/07 at 6:22pmlovelyspotlight, 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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#11
Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:06pmYep. That was us. We did it MUCH MUCH MUCH better at Districts...but we were disqualified because we went like 45 seconds overtime. =/
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#12
Posted: 5/16/07 at 6:54pm
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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#13
Posted: 5/16/07 at 8:45pm
Yes. There is someone who posts here named Jack Williamson under the name of wackjack132 who called me an all around bad actor. (He goes to my school).
I will NEVER forget it.
Stand-by Joined: 10/2/05
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#14
Posted: 5/16/07 at 9:13pm
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."
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#15
Posted: 5/17/07 at 2:50amWhen I didn't get accepted into my school's acting series, I very politely asked why I wasn't accepted and the professor told me "We only take the people we think will grow, succeed, and challenge their fellow actors." Talk about pouring salt in a wound!
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#16
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:56pm
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?
Swing Joined: 3/19/06
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#17
Posted: 5/20/07 at 12:47amThe local community college (which I happen to go to part-time through my high school's program) printed a review of our production of "Pirates of Penzance," in which I played Mabel, in their newspaper and they absolutely hated it. Basically, they just said the entire show sucked. Specifically, they said that I was trying to sing opera when everyone else wasn't. It wasn't hurtful more than I just wanted to track down the person and tell them why they were wrong. But I know I'm going to get critisized all through my career and I'm going to have to take it like a real performer. So I brushed it aside and tried even harder the next weekend.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#18
Posted: 5/20/07 at 10:24amThis 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.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#19
Posted: 5/21/07 at 9:26pm
It wasn't really an insult, and it wasn't really geared towards our acting performance, but one year for Odyssey of the Mind my team made friends with a team from Georgia. We were "friends" by they resented us a lot for winning all the time. Anyway, we missed two balls at our World Finals performance and one of the GA team members snidely said, "Well I guess it looks like we're going to win."
In the end, we got first place, and they didn't place at all. Moral of the story: watch what you say.
re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#20
Posted: 5/22/07 at 2:25am
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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I love you because I know no other way than this.
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re: Most Insulting Thing Someone Has Said About Your Performance?#21
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:55am
The only insult I've ever heard about me was that a dear guy friend of mine told a younger male friend (keep in mind the first one is 16 and the other's 11) that I shouldn't play Annie because I suck, to deter the younger's suggestion that I play the role if the theatre we work for produced it this year. (Thank goodness we didn't...the last production of it was HORRIBLE, and like I'd want to do Annie anyway. Ugh!)
I wish Kentucky had fun things to do for high-schoolers. We don't have Odyssey od the Mind or Thespian Society or anything. (I'm sure that the performing arts schools in the western part of the state do this stuff, but I'm not there so it knocks me out of the fun). I do, however, participate in Speech (anyone else here a Speechie?), and at the regional competition, one of my judges said that I was "SO cute!" I didn't know to actually be thankful for the compliment, laugh at it, or be simply apalled.
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