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Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
#25re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:54pm
The Charlottetown Festival decided one winter to do "Mother Goose" an english pantomime at Christmas and as my father worked on the show, I was coerced into playing "Gus, the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs." My world musical comedy debut in an equity production. Age 13. I was inside a huge solid fiberglass goose cosume - more of a float actually - with just my legs (in orange and red striped tights and goose flippers) sticking out. From inside the goose, I could pull levers to drop golden eggs and bat the goose's eyelashes - why the HELL didn't they do it with muppets like Avenue Q? Oh right, this was before the muppets.
ANYWAY, the costume had a limited line of vision and on my first entrance, with that whole chorus singing "Here's Gus! Here's Gus!" I waddled out and tripped over a prop bucket of birdseed one of the cast had left on stage. I fell down and rolled over on my back with my legs dangling pathetically in the air like a turtle on its back as the audience, cast and orchestra laughed their guts out.
My mother, who was being paid to turn the pages of the score for the keyboards guy in the pit tried to see what was happening and accidentally stepped on one of the footpedals of the organ. All I could hear as I lay there in mortification was a low, rumbling base note and the whispered voice of the keyboard player saying "Madam, get your foot off my organ, get your foot off my organ!!!!"
After the show, the director asked me if I could do that every night of the run. I guess it got huge laughs.
I've never been the same since.
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#26re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 6:52pm
"The Charlottetown Festival decided one winter to do "Mother Goose" an english pantomime at Christmas and as my father worked on the show, I was coerced into playing "Gus, the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs." My world musical comedy debut in an equity production. Age 13. I was inside a huge solid fiberglass goose cosume - more of a float actually - with just my legs (in orange and red striped tights and goose flippers) sticking out. From inside the goose, I could pull levers to drop golden eggs and bat the goose's eyelashes - why the HELL didn't they do it with muppets like Avenue Q? Oh right, this was before the muppets.
ANYWAY, the costume had a limited line of vision and on my first entrance, with that whole chorus singing "Here's Gus! Here's Gus!" I waddled out and tripped over a prop bucket of birdseed one of the cast had left on stage. I fell down and rolled over on my back with my legs dangling pathetically in the air like a turtle on its back as the audience, cast and orchestra laughed their guts out.
My mother, who was being paid to turn the pages of the score for the keyboards guy in the pit tried to see what was happening and accidentally stepped on one of the footpedals of the organ. All I could hear as I lay there in mortification was a low, rumbling base note and the whispered voice of the keyboard player saying "Madam, get your foot off my organ, get your foot off my organ!!!!"
After the show, the director asked me if I could do that every night of the run. I guess it got huge laughs.
I've never been the same since."
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#27re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 7:48pm
Not a musical but... I did "the Flosting Light Bulb" By Woody Allen.... UGH! Small town doing a woody allen show... over three nights we got 40 people, I wanted to die!
I also did "the Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch." I cant remeber who it is by, but again UGH! Cheesy as cheesey can get, it takes place in the old west. Not such good times.
Updated On: 4/21/06 at 07:48 PM
#28re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 8:06pmoops wrong thread...
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Updated On: 4/21/06 at 08:06 PM
#29re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 9:11pm
Katurian2, who did you play in Bugsy Jr.? I was a Splurge Attendant/Clipboard Willie. *clears throat*
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Harmondo21
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#30re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 9:15pmGeorge M! Gawh! Not the best show ever written.
#31re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 9:17pm
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Not a bad show at all, but you know what our chocolate river was? A three and a half foot brown sheet. And our Charlie and Augustus were played by girls. It was soooooooo bad. Thankfully I was a narrator."
Me too. I was an oompa loompa though. Orange face paint all the way.
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#32re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 9:24pmFour Jewish Rock Musicals: Esther!, A Higher Ground, The Role Model, and The Gift...ew
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#33re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:35pm
a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE production of THE MUSIC MAN
a pretty good production of SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, LIVE....but it was still embarassing singing about adjectives and multiplication tables.
and last....but most embarassing....PROFESSOR ZUCCHINI'S TRAVELING TALES. yeah. the name says it ALL.
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
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#34re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/22/06 at 1:16am
i was lowbutt in honk!
i'm in therapy now
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#35re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/22/06 at 8:23am
A show called the Magical Pinata. It is a kid's show that interwoven with Spanish to teach the kids. I played a PURPLE monkey, the sidekick. The monkey king and I ran around trying to steal the magical pinata from the little brat girl that didn't like her presents. It was awful. Thankfully, the people in the show were some of my best friends, so I had some fun. The music was awful though.
I also did Beauty and the Beast. Not Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the original German play version. With Beauty, Bessie, Bossie, and Mary Ellen or something. The director was absolutely the worst, and the cast was just bad. It was probably the worst experience of my life.
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#36re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 4/22/06 at 4:03pmBroadwayNick - I have no doubt that your grade 7 production of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE was a horror but that is not because it is a bad show, or because the students could not sing or act it. It's just that kids on Gr 7 would today have no idea how to play an operetta parody. Operettas in the style that LITTLE MARY mocks fell out of fashion in the 1920s. When LMS was done off-Broadway in 1959 there were still audience members who remembered that genre. Today it really baffles people because the target of the satire has become so obscure. But why would any GR 7 teacher select it in the first place???
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#37re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 2:10pmI was in Little Mary sunsine this year and I played Cora. I was 13 when I layed that role, now I am 14. I know the show is like really corny, but I started to love it after a while. How can you hate it? Well..... I know how cause some of the adults in the play was glad that it was over..lol. Just wanting to tell you that I was just in it in April and that it was a fun experience. I would do anything to play Cora again.
beenthere
Understudy Joined: 8/22/05
#38re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 4:11pmbwaystar you really crack me up
#39re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 4:27pm
yeah oddly enough i love to watch theatre.
But i never had ANY desire to ever get up on stage and dance, sing, or anything. I played the violin and that was it :)
Sooo no bad stories for me :)
#40re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 4:36pm
Pom Pom Zombies. did that show in middle school.
cheerleader, who is the girlfriend of the star football player, eats hot dog with nuclear waste on it. becomes zombie and turns almost everyone else into zombies. can't remember how it ends.
terrible.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#41re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 4:42pmWhy would anyone be embarrassed to be in any show? Whatever, I've been in a lot of shows, but wasn't embarrassed by any of them. Perhaps it's an age thing?
#42re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 5:36pmI agree with you JonnyBoy
#43re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 5:48pm
You are dead on, frontrowcentre2. First of all, Little Mary Sunshine is just not one of my favorite shows. I really don't like it. That is going to bias me against it. However, that is solely my opinion. If done properly, I would guess Little Mary Sunshine would be a great show. My experience with it was not so great. So that's all I'm saying. I somewhat agree with JohnBoy2 to the point of saying that I've enjoyed almost everything I've worked on. The only thing I'd say is that when you audition you don't know how bad or good the show will be so you can't really judge anything.
Wow, that was long.
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#44re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 5:51pmMeet Me In St Louis....never again
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DurtyCurty
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#45re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 6:01pmI was in a show called White Arrow, which was about Robin Hood. It's hard to say that I am terribly embarassed by it because it is so obscure. It was just a poorly written mess of community theater, but I had a great time with my freinds doing it, the best part spicing the lyrics with references to self gratification.
quintia
Featured Actor Joined: 4/5/06
#46re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 6:04pmJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 6th grade. My music teachers thought it would be a good idea if the show had a "baseball theme".
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#47re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 6:12pm
I also hated working on SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE JR. The lyrics make you ponder what the authors were on when writing this. The plot is so thin that you could make a wafer out of it. The music was catchy in some parts, but otherwise, it was just plain anoying. Then again, I'm biased because I really don't like SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK in general.
I know that it's just supposed to be a children's show, and that it was not meant ot be Sondheim or anything, but I just LOATHED working on it.
And it sold out completely, while my Middle School production of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which was very well done by the way, just barely filled the auditorium to 2/3's capacity. Just goes to show how open minded my town is...
Come to think of it, I hated doing two of my Middle School shows out of three. We did BYE BYE BIRDIE last year, and it was just bad. Not because I was only in two scenes, which I didn't do much in at all, but because the production values were just horrible. Plus, the actor playing Albert was about the worst possible choice for that role. Ah, bad times...
Whew, sorry for the long post.
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#48re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 6:28pm
Musicals:
None. I'm proud of them. Even the stupid JR productions of ANNIE and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF- they opened me to theater, so I cant hate them.
Plays:
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER- It was SO BAD, Its such a boring show to put on and its just lame. The jokes werent updated to help audiences understand anything and it sucked.
THE HAPPIEST MILLONAIRE- Yes, the Disney musical turned straight play- doesnt that just scream BAD! But I did it, had a horrible part and did crew pretty much, but it was better than the Man Who Came to Dinner--- but it was the same plot pretty much.
#49re: Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have.
Posted: 6/1/06 at 6:33pmI was in Godspell. It's not a bad show by any means (although "Jesus" musicals are somewhat of a pet peeve of mine) But it's embarassing because it was a very mediocre Church Youth group production (that was before I became a heathan...)Oy...
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