2005 High School Musicals Across the USA- Page 4
2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
#75re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 3:53pm
LES MISERABLES at my school
We have just started practices this week. Should be interesting, but the casting was unfair (not to me... I didn't deserve a lead role) but all the leads this year are just not good enough.
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bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#76re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 3:57pm
My school is doing Seussical. Auditions are on Wed, and I haven't found a decent song yet...
I'm kind of hoping for JoJo (the Who kid), esp. since the director said that he's going to cast JoJo male or female, and none of the guys that would be "eligible" for the part (short or freshman) can sing all that well.
Watch, that just jinxed it.
IveGottaBeME
Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
#77re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 3:58pm
Hi- i've been reading posts here forever.. just never felt like signing up.
Anyway, i'm a senior in HS and we're doing Seussical.. i'm Horton 
lol... it's a fun musical, but the songs do get annoying... but Horton has some really pretty songs. last year, we did Anything Goes and I was Billy. our music department is pretty darn good.
#78re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 4:01pm
Sound of Music just got done in October
We're doing "Sweeney Todd" this weekend and next weekend
West Side Story is in March
Violet opens in April
The Spitfire Grill opens in May
gravity87
Featured Actor Joined: 8/4/04
#80re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 5:51pm
Were Doing Bye Bye Birdie-Im playing Albert
Last year Anything Goes-I was Billy crocker
2 Years ago-Pippin (chorus) It was the most god awful show we ever did
Next year there doin little shop but Im a senior so I wont be there for it
#81re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 6:21pmMy middle school is doing Bye Bye Birdie and the high school did Into the Woods.
BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#82re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 7:47pm
i posted before.. mine's doing Damn Yankees...
The two other highschools in my town are doing Suessical and Big River. They should be good.
I am soo jealous of anyone who's doing Into The Woods. I <3 that show and would KILL to be the baker's wife.
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#83re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 8:37pm
This year we are going out on the limb with a lesser known show:
LUCKY STIFF!
I got the leading role, too, which is exciting except much of the music sits too high. Eh, maybe we can fix stuff. Stupid tenor crap.
LittleRed00
Chorus Member Joined: 11/19/04
#84re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 8:49pmWe are doing "Anything Goes", and I am absolutely thrilled because I was cast as Reno!! The rest of our cast should be really good too, except our Billy is one of the most un-talented musical theater boys in our school...we're all really angry about that...but Reno is a dream role for me, so I can't complain too much!!
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#85re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 9:05pmWe did Once Upon a Mattress last fall... I hate it... so much... I was Winnifred. I am trying to convince our director to do Gypsy or You're a Good Man... next year. Let's hope I gain some leverage.
bohemian_actress
Swing Joined: 11/28/04
#86re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 9:13pmmy school's doing Seussical. I didnt' make it into the play but I'm in crew, which is turning out to be just as fun.
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#87re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 9:54pm
We're just finishing up My Fair Lady for Student Directed Showcase (a sort of one-act thing - or shows condensed to one-length, as in the case of our production of MFL, though it's still good ;0) - directed by seniors taking the directing class ), in which I'm Eliza ( 
).
Our spring musical this year is 42nd Street, in which I'm Anytime Annie.
#88re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 10:02pm
The high school that I do shows with (because they don't have enough people who've taken tap, and I'm tall), is doing "42nd Street". I'm in the ensemble there... (not bad for a kid who doesn't even GO to the school...)
And our school is doing "Cheaper by the Dozen". I've been cast as Anne. (It's my opinion that any school that does a play about a family with that many kids just is looking for an excuse to cast as many people as possible, but it's fine with me.)
centerstage
Featured Actor Joined: 10/20/04
#89re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:01pm
my school is doing A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum...it should be way interesting because our director/theatre teacher is out on maternity, and lately theres been speculation as to whether shes coming back...if not, i fear the theatre sub, the retired ms teacher, will direct it and well, god, was the ms production of joseph interesting!
right now is student production though...we are doing Hamlet II: Better than the Original(idk if i'd say better)and im Guildenstern, the director made Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Fransisc(a), and Horati(a) girls, because of a huge lack of male talent...do a lot of schools out there have such a lack of guys?
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Phantom
#90re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:29pmMy old High school is doing anything goes. I go to an arts high school now, but we don't have a musical theater department so we do a musical revue in the dorms. Then I have two more shows for my theater area and this summer in my home town we are doing Cowgirls
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Alix7272
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#91re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:32pmwe have our show early b/c the seniors leave halfway through the year. we did celebration. i choreographed. i go to a small school so there's not much to pick from and we don't have the greatest talent. a lot of people also dropped out if they didnt get a lead (there are only 4) b/c nobody knew the show. it worked out ok though.
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broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#92re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:34pm
we did "once on this island" earlier this year and I was ton ton Julian (originally Agwe, but i was re-cast at the last minute b/c somone dropped and no other guy could play Ton ton, so i got landed w/it) then we're doing "the crucible" this spring
WE WERE NOMINATED FOR SOME COMPETITION IN SCOTTLAND IN THE SUMMER
Updated On: 1/15/05 at 11:34 PM
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#93re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:41pmImpressive high school theatre for all of you. In an earlier time we did Lil Abner, Apple Tree, Damn Yankees and Pippin.
LoudIrishGirl
Broadway Star Joined: 1/6/05
#94re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:49pm
I wish I went to some of your schools.
Still don't know what we are doing this year (we tried and failed to get the rights to Chicago, almost did Once Upon A Matress, and are currently looking at "The King and I" and "Peter Pan"...I believe).
We did Starmites last year (odd, but funny show...I was Mom and a Starmite), Cinderella the year before, and Oaklahoma the year before that.
I really am hoping my director chooses a really dark and meaty play this year, because all of us actors are getting a little tired of fluff.
"If you can talk, you can sing...if you can walk, you can dance."
- T.K. Greene
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#95re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:53pmLES MISERABLES: School Edition... auditions are second week of February, and the show is the second week of April... 8 weeks to pull off Les Mis...
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#96re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/16/05 at 12:23amLucky! My director was thinking of it, but decided on (ugh) Bye Bye Birdie.
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#98re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/16/05 at 11:52am
Hey centerstage-
My school does the same thing! And it's always me who gets stuck with the guys roles, only we don't change them into girls, so I always have to...erm "bind my chest" as the theatre saying goes. Just recently I was the Judge in Inherit the Wind.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
kiss_me2_fiercely
Swing Joined: 12/14/04
#99re: 2005 High School Musicals Across the USA
Posted: 1/16/05 at 12:42pm
my school is doing FAME. It is pretty odd since the role of Carmen is played by who is not hispanic at all. and the role of Serena is not shy but hey thats why they call it acting, right?
I didnt audition because i was sick and my voice was completely gone! The other high school is doing Fiddler on the Roof. Last year we did Once on This Island.
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