Good Experiences doing shows...

[alphieboy]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 2:40pm

What good experiences have you had while doing a show? Have you become very good friends with someone? Or, really discoverd someone with great talent? Or, just had a life learning lesson? Please share your stories including what show it was, and any other information needed.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 2:50pm

I met my wife doing "After the Fall" eight years ago in Massachusetts. I was Quentin. She played Felice, the character that was cut from this summer's underrated Roundabout revival, and understudied Maggie, Louise and Elsie. We married in 1999 and have a three year old son. By far the best experience I've ever had in a play!

[alphieboy]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 3:00pm

Thats awesome! Very cool story.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 3:14pm

I met my wife on a national tour of "No No Nanette". She was Nanette and I was Tom. We have three sons (2 grown and out of the house) and our youngest is in high school. Although we did many shows, separately, we only ever did one other show together. A production of 'Fiddler', where she was Hodel and I was Perchik. 'Nanette' was a very special show for both of us.

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 3:51pm

My closest friends are in the drama dept. with me. Before I student directed a show I was a quiet shy thing and that experience gave me so much confidence. People were worried about this show and I stayed optimistic and I feel like that carried them a bit.

Theater as a whole has just given me confidence and made me like who I really am. And now I know how to deal with people I don't like, because I've learned that from dealing with shows too.

Many of my friends I would not even cross parths with, but they are really cool people.

I wouldn't have met my boyfriend if he hadn't done shows with me. Not a show, but we were Stanley and Stella in a Streetcar Scene (say THAT 10 X fast!) in class and we became really good friends from there. A few months later we started dating, and have been so for a year.

Updated On: 1/22/05 at 03:51 PM

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:14pm

I think the two shows I have done that were the best experiences were when I did Les Miserables and City of Angels. I am only 18, so I didn't meet my wife, hehe. But in both shows, every single person was there and was dedicated. In Les Miserables, which is such a popular show, everybody wanted to be everything (leads mostly). I was Valjean, abut I can honestly say that the kid playing the pimp worked just as hard, and put just as much dedication as I did. Same with City of Angels. I was Buddy, and in that show, there are like 6 leads, some small parts, and then an ensemble that is in like 3 or four scenes throughout the whole show. Every single person put the same effort into it, and that really amazed me. Really put more confidence in me as a performer, and as a person.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:26pm

I've also had some GREAT experiences! My favorites were probably: The Sound of Music- not my favorite show but I met some AMAZING people that I am still friends with.
Joseph...Dreamcoat- at my school and was the first show to sell out in like forever. Also just a fun show.

[alphieboy]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:40pm

Very cool stories. I always like hearing them...

[Derek]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:49pm

My high school does a musical every year (as do most lol) and we always do a very good job and manage to pull through in a school with only 120 graduates each year (we're very tiny lol). This year we did Godspell and blew our town away. We had the band onstage, with 15 people in the cast. We were dancing in the aisles with the audience members and got 2 standing ovations, one at the end of each act. We loved it! The cast became so close, we are still all friends and will never forget it. What we do before the show is all stand backstage and hold hands. I will never forget those times. It was actually magical, and i dont say that that often lol. Now we are nominated for tons of high school theatre awards in our county and state lol, including best musical, actor, featured actor (me :)) featured actress, set design, and choreography. They are announced later this year (cross your fingers for us)!

[alphieboy]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:47pm

who did you play?

[SeeIreallycouldn'tSING!!]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 5:01pm

I did Chorus Line a year ago and it changed my life... Not only did I find my fav. show I found my best friends. Honest to god... plus it was my first big part in a show...

[KateMusic]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 5:56pm

I would have to say that doing "Merrily We Roll Along" was by far my favorite show. I did that Senior year in college, and I pretty much knew it was the last musical I would ever do. The cast clicked in this amazing way. I met some of my best friends in that show. It was also great, because so much of Merrily is about the choices you make in life, and it was relevant to me graduating college.
If you don't know that show, definitely check it out.

[GypsyRoseLee]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 6:54pm

Doing Les Miserables was a really great experience for me. For some reason, there is a lot of tension between the "chorus kids" and the "theatre kids" in my High School, but Les Miserables really changed all of that for us. The "chorus kids" never really did the musicals before, but since Les Mis is an operetta, more of them got involved. For the first few weeks of rehersal, no one really mingled outside of their cliques, but then after months of rehersal, everyone became really good friends. It was really cool to see people abandon that clique-snobbery that runs rampant in high school and come together the way they did for that show. Everyone looks forward to the musicals much more now.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 1/22/05 at 6:58pm

Well it wasn't an actual show (it was a workshop for 3 weeks that lead up to a big performance of different scenes and musical numbers from various plays etc) but I'd have to say that it was the best experience of my life. Through that, I met people who are now some of my closest and dearest friends and I found a great place to go to acting classes and an awsome teacher who is like my older brother. So yeah, I'd say that was a pretty damn good experience.