The Student Board has no life anymore! What is everyone up to?! — Page 4

Yeah we are. Thats what i was thinking dramatothemax. He did the same thing with the wiz and most likely he will cast all african americans as puerto ricans.

Wafflehouse, I have a few friends at MMC for MT and they adore it. Keep us all posted on how you like it!

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Okay, well I only read the first and last pages of this thread because I didn't feel like reading another two pages, so anyway, I'll just introduce myself.

I'm Danny, and I'm going into eighth grade this fall (so much younger than everybody on these boards... but at least I'm not fifty years older!). I live in the Northwestern Chicago suburbs. I will be going to a high school with a very good and ambitious performing arts program. This past year, they did Company in the fall, Briar Rose: the Tale of Sleeping Beauty around November, Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten in January/February, and Once on this Island in the spring. They took Company to competition at it did very well, so... yeah, I'm kind of excited to do shows in high school. I really want them to choose The Drowsy Chaperone my senior year because I would make an AWESOME Man in Chair, probably like many other people on this board.

I don't really know how to end this post, so...yeah.

I'm glad that you're not 50 years older than all of us ,Awesomedanny.

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Well to be honest with you, 21 isn't even old enough to do a lot of things. I'll be 21 when I graduate college and with the exception of shows like Spring Awakening, Billy Elliot and Marry Poppins, leads on Broadway/in professional theatre are in their late twenties/early thirties.

What matters right now is the training.

Yeah, well I meant when I said that I wish that I was older meant that if I didn't live in New York, I would have the freedom (if I could afford it) to fly to New York by myself, get a cheap hotel, and wake up at 5 A.M. to do rush for Next to Normal.

I know that the only show that casts people in their early twenties as leads is Rent. You know, I would probably be living a dream being a swing in a Broadway show that I hate... I would even love to be an intern who just sweeps the floors. If it's a job on Broadway, I'll take it. Unless it's a limited engagement, because I don't want to have a job for just a few months and then go job-hunting again.

I know what you mean by loving the training classes and wanting to keep doing them. If I can't do anything related to Broadway, I would like to learn what it takes to go to broadway. In a dance class I recently took about Tony-winning choreographers, we learned the actually B'way choreography for the beginning of "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line. I loved the feeling of learning what so many people had been taught for the roles in it's 15 year run and 2 year revival. It made me feel like I was a part of Broadway, which is a great feeling. Of course, I can't even imagine what it would feel like to mix that feeling with performing on an actual Broadway stage, telling an audience a story that they can't find another professional production of, and possibly giving such a powerful and emotional performance it makes people start to cry. That feeling would be amazing.

BTW, is it bad that I want to make people cry?

Ha ha, that sounds fun. In a production for Joseph I worked a spot on, there was a camp with older kids that came who walked into the theater and said "This is gay" and "Why do we have to watch this stupid play?". Those comments were my two pet peeves: offensive sexism and generalizing theater as a light, fluffy, boring time that's called a play whether or not there is signing and dialogue, or in the case of Joseph, just singing. On the headsets, before the show, we started talking about how annoying those kinds of people are, and how they're going to end up homeless begging on the street because they don't want to work at the one place that will accept them: a fast food restaurant paying minimum wage. (no offense to anybody making minimum wage, but the point I'm trying to make is that it's impossible for them to make anything more than that, while it's probably possible for you to make more than that.

Greetings upon! Honestly, this is the one board on BWW where I don't feel the need to be psychotically sarcastic all the time because we all seem to be in the same boat.

I'm not really the theatre geek I once was and am not really pursuing an acting career anymore. But I am still fascinated by it and will certainly pursue acting as a hobby. I'm a film student currently and mainly would consider myself a writer, comics artist, and filmmaker who is also taking secret voice lessons behind everyone's backs. (I still haven't mastered that whole "Singing for people...thing...")

I've always been fascinated with musical theatre but I think I would like to use it as a springboard for other art. Creating pieces that are musical in some way and that involve lots of singing. Much like The Decemberists use their love of musical theatre to create works like The Hazards of Love.

Anyway...

Well a friend of mine actually saw it and he said it was worse than a bad High school play, with the exception of Stokes

That made my day!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. Please.

I'm an upperclass man again! Yay class of 2011!

I hate hearing about LVA shows where they cast a dance major ensemble. When I did Beauty and the Beast my sophomore year (I can't believe that was over four years ago), only two of us dance majors got cast... because we can SING. Triple threats ftw! I miss LVA sometimes, but I'm kind of over it now. I REALLY recommend doing community theatre shows if you can - especially if you're the kind of person who mostly gets cast in ensemble stuff. LVA ensembles are so big that you don't really get the experience of what it's like being in like every second of a show, the way you are in a show with a smaller ensemble. For instance, in LVA's Joseph (which I wasn't in), they had an ensemble AND brothers and wives. In the production of Joseph I did my senior year (with Signature), the ensemble was the brothers and wives, and we were onstage A LOT. It's so much more fun. Not that I don't have some fabulous memories of lounging around backstage at LVA, but I would rather be onstage.

Also can't wait to get back to school. We have a new ballet teacher this year... love my old ballet teacher so much, but she's not the greatest teacher in the world, and this new guy is supposed to be awesome. Also, we're doing a Balanchine piece as one of our ballet rep pieces. So excited! Not to mention that I have my audition for Rent (and A Streetcar Named Desire and some other play) the first day back. For which I am scared crapless, but shouldn't be because I don't suck.

Spent the day in NYC on Sunday with one of my best friends from school... it was rainy and gross for most of the day, but other than my flip-flops shrinking on my feet from all the wet, it was great. We saw the TAKE Dance Company, and they did a piece that Take originally set on my dance company at school. It was really weird seeing other people, i.e. professional dancers, doing my part. Great show though. Also, the Magnolia Bakery is a win. Get the banana pudding... even if you don't like bananas.

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Thats what i really like about certain shows where you get to be onstage throughout mostly the whole show. In The Wiz last year i was on stage about four times. They were just the dance numbers though. Plus i kinda think the show was alittle over cast. Their were about 30 something girls and only about 15 guys. It was kinda boring hanging back stage. Im looking forward to West Side Story this year because at least if i get cast theres more onstage time. So that should be cool.