First Professional Theatre experience

[musicalsinger20]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:13pm

I am in the middle of the summer season of my first professional theatre experience and I just graduated from Mars Hill College with a degree in musical theatre. I am now working in Horn in the West which is a historical outdoor drama and I am in the chorus and PR Quartets as well as a soloist and an understudy. I am also stage managing Where the Wild Things Are and I am in a dance concert. What was your first professional theatre experience?

[dancnqn5]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 2:53pm

Good News! at a local civic light opera. Not the biggest professional show ever, but it was the first show I got paid for, so it was a big deal. Plus, I was working with a few Equity members. I was in the dance ensemble and got to work with a choroegrapher who had worked with legends like Gene Kelly. Needless to say, it was an amazing learning experience and I can't wait for more like it.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 3:39pm

Williamstown Theatre Festival

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 3:54pm

Timber Lake Playhouse in Illinois.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 4:13pm

"The Music Man" at the Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan.

I was in the ensemble and understudied the barber shop quartet (which was a BITCH, because I had to learn all four parts to all three of their songs).

[AvenueQPat]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:38am

My first professional Company was Northern Lights Playhouse in Wisconsin as Musical Director.

I had a lot of paying jobs at Community and High School theatres (I Musical Direct, not act) - but the first professional company for the summer was NLP.

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:40am

Just recently I did a reading of a musical my friend wrote and I got paid for it...does that count?

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:43am

mine was also Timber Lake Playhouse as well!

[jman]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:59am

My limited "professional" experience was doing shows at the Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan. Never made it on stage, I was a techie. I ran lights for several shows and was ASM. As a typical apprentice I also worked box office, costumes and played for the bar show. It was one of the best summers of my life. I loved it and learned so much!

[Dover]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 2:02pm

A few weeks after I graduated from college, I got a show in the Women of Color Festival. It was a small gig, but it was a good start.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:49pm

THE LOST COLONY directed by Broadway legend, Joe Layton in 1984.

[rclocalz]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 5:52pm

My first professional gig was impersonating Hank Williams Sr. at the Grand Ole Opry.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 7:39pm

Stage crew - moving sets, setting props, etc. - at a dinner theatre in Omaha while I was in high school. I was also a busboy before the show.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 7:44pm

Chorus for shows at the Houston Grand Opera

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:08pm

I was one of those boy dancers with jazz hands behind the girls in The Miss Indiana Scholarsphip Pageant.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:14pm

I did ensemble for a musical my voice teacher's writing and got paid.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:15pm

Directed a play I wrote a few weeks ago. Wasn't paid or anything but it still felt amazing.