Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Has any high school 'made up a show'?
NewZealander
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/22/18 at 10:31pm
Yes. Lots write their own material.
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BroadwayRox3588
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#3Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/22/18 at 10:37pm
Student-written works are very common in high schools.
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#4Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/23/18 at 3:36am
Helias High School in Jefferson City, Missouri created an original show and performed it last year. It was about this guy in Australia who desperately craved attention so he finds this theater board and starts an account and ask ridiculous questions, not because he had any interest in the answers but just to see how many he could get to respond. Then he started a second account, and a third and kept creating new accounts but he was super easy to identify cause all his questions sounded alike. The school called it "Mr. Smith Goes To Broadway World". It flopped.
geoffreyC
Understudy Joined: 4/16/18
#5Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/23/18 at 5:17pm
Yes, it was just performed in my barn because the evil administrators and town bigwigs conspired against it. btw we are headed to Broadway!
#6Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/23/18 at 8:17pm
A few of my friends who just graduated high school wrote original plays/musicals as senior projects. One of them, which is basically a parody of every popular fantasy series ever (LoTR, Harry Potter, Narnia, etc) is actually getting performed at a local theater later this week. It's definitely possible for high schoolers to write their own content, the question is just how well it's actually written.
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#7Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/23/18 at 10:55pm
Can you believe Lin-Manuel Miranda just MADE UP Hamilton?! It didn't even exist at all before he made it up!
#8Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/23/18 at 10:57pm
Let's all speculate wildly as to what user UncleCharlie was thinking of when he made his post.
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#9Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/24/18 at 12:37am
Assuming most high schools have an improv club, and that most of those improv clubs put on improv shows, then it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that high schoolers have made up shows, is it?
Why? Well, why does anyone participate in the arts?
Why not? Well, why does anyone not participate in the arts?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#10Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/24/18 at 7:41amI would say it's a bit of a stretch to think most schools have an improv club. I know very few that do.
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StephieElise
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#11Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/25/18 at 5:47am
When I was in year 9 my high school did an original musical that was written by some of the music teachers. It was based on a book written by a girl who attended the school in the late 19th century, basically about how much she hated it, how awful the teachers were and how all the other girls were snobs. As you can imagine, the author was not very popular with school officials at the time!
The book had been adapted to a movie in the 1970s and when writing the musical they copied the structure of the movie exactly, resulting in a ridiculously long show with far too many scene changes.
Some gems from the lyrics included:
- In a song about how the protagonist was a ‘country bumpkin’: ‘Who’s that little country bumpkin / Where could she have found that dress? / Freckly face as round as a pumpkin / Hair like straw and all in a mess’ and ‘I bet her art of conversation would put to sleep a garden gnome’
- In a song about how cold the boarding house was: ‘So cold, so cold / My father is worried his assets will freeze / So cold, so cold / I fear that my legs will break off at the knees’
Unlike in previous years, they wanted the show to be as inclusive as possible, with a massive cast, including teachers, which I suppose is a positive with a school show but the talent was definitely not at the same standard.
The school was so proud of this awful show that they filmed it (so it’s the only one of my school musicals I actually have a recording of!), made us sing a medley of some of the song at the school speech night at the end of the year and when the principal left the following year the choir I was in sang the final song with some adapted lyrics at her farewell assembly!
Still, it was a fun experience and fun to laugh about years later with the director (who walked into this awful mess in his first year at the school) and MD!
DarlingElegantine
Swing Joined: 11/22/15
#12Has any high school 'made up a show'?
Posted: 7/25/18 at 6:01am
UncleCharlie said: "Helias High School in Jefferson City, Missouri created an original showand performed it last year.It was about this guy in Australia who desperatelycraved attention so he finds this theater board and starts an account and askridiculous questions, not because he had any interest in the answers but just to see how many he could get to respond. Then he started a second account, and a third and kept creating newaccounts but he was super easy to identify cause all his questions sounded alike. The school called it "Mr. Smith Goes To Broadway World". It flopped."
UncleCharlie, who hurt you?
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