What Got You Interested in Theatre?
What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#1What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/16 at 6:01pm
I auditioned for my school musical to try and impress a girl I had a crush on. 3 years later, I'm an actor and soon-to-be-produced playwright.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/16 at 8:10pm
When I was in Elementary School, I saw productions by the Prince Street Players. I was hooked into the worlds they created.
#3What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/16 at 9:06pm
A few things come to mind . . .
1. Like lots of kids, my friends Christopher, Kathy, Stacy and I used to string a rope between two trees in our backyard, put a couple sheets over it for a curtain, and did skits for our families.
2. I lived in a very small mountain town, population about 1,000 at the time, and a college used to come a couple times a year and put on plays. I remember one in particular, Cinderella, and how I was so attracted to the Prince. I was very young, not even in puberty, and certainly had no idea what "gay" was, but he stirred something in me. I thought about him a lot.
3. I was always a shepherd or a king in the Catholic parish's Christmas pageant, and I remember one time being one a few Christmas packages that ran away. I thought the costume was the coolest thing, just a big cardboard box Mom wrapped up and cut out holes for my face, arms and legs.
4. The PTA used to do an annual fundraising event called Ham on the Hill (we lived in the mountains). All the parents and some talented high school kids produced an annual variety show over a couple weekends. It was THE event in Arnold, California. I was never in it but loved watching it and I know the wink-wink adult jokes went over my head.
#4What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/16 at 10:05pm
Musical films.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
DreamboatAnnie
Swing Joined: 4/25/16
#11What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/7/16 at 2:52pm
Les Miz is to blame.
And I mean the stage version not the crappy film version.
TayeDiggsIsaDonkeyD
Swing Joined: 8/19/15
#12What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/7/16 at 2:56pm
Took Theater in College because I thought it would be easy. We were required to see 3 shows. Thought I would hit two birds with one stone and I took a friend to see Wicked on her Birthday. The opening scene with the monkeys scared me. I thought the monkeys were going to come down into the audience so I grabbed my friend. All in all theater incorporated my favorite part about concerts which was the music and the staging. Wicked was a gateway drug to RENT which was a gateway drug to Spring Awakening. People frown upon Wicked but it is what got some people hooked into seeing and supporting live theater.
carolinaguy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
#13What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/7/16 at 2:58pm
When I was in grade school, one of our neighbors was a scenic designer for the music department at the local university, so through knowing him I was an ensemble member in "Falstaff" and "The Music Man" and got interested in music. Years later, the score to "Les Miserables" turned me into a hopeless show freak and it remains that way today.
#14What Got You Interested in Theatre?
Posted: 12/7/16 at 3:03pm
I was lucky enough to go to the best high school in the country, a Jesuit school in Manhattan. A couple of times each year, they had 'X-Days," days on which students could attend cultural events and sites around the city. Choices were open to all, with sign ups by year, then alphabetically. My first year, in the fall of 1979, as a freshman with a last name toward the end of the alphabet, I had very few choices when it was my turn. So, I settled for seeing A Chorus Line. I had never seen a Broadway show before, or any show for that matter, so I was going quite reluctantly.
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