Shows you have been in but you are embarassed to say you have. — Page 2

"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."



I think we have a winner.

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Updated On: 4/21/06 at 08:06 PM

George M! Gawh! Not the best show ever written.

Four Jewish Rock Musicals: Esther!, A Higher Ground, The Role Model, and The Gift...ew

i was lowbutt in honk!

i'm in therapy now

BroadwayNick - 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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bwaystar you really crack me up

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.

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I agree with you JonnyBoy

Meet Me In St Louis....never again

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Joseph 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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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.