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What made you get into Musical Theatre
#50re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:13pm
Well, I'm bi and I go to an arts school and for the gay sex.
Seriously, it started freshmen year when my friend Stephanie played "Avenue Q" songs when our English teacher was MIA (a frequent event). My friend (and crush) Nate was in musical theatre, so I pretended to adore Avenue Q (which I know nothing about).
But it was last November, when my best friends Alex and Evie went to see RENT and forced the rest of us to listen (I was their tech girl for their abridged version). I fell in love with Adam Pascal's voice on "One Song Glory" and then kept listening until I loved La Vie Boheme and all the rest of the songs. I started to listening to Aida and YAGMCB and Wicked because RENT OBC were in them. It started to grow and now here I am: a fangirl for the theatre.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#51re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:17pmI went to a public high school that is known throughout the country for it's drama program. So all throughout elementary and middle school it was all I looked forward to. Also in seventh grade I went and saw Showboat and I kinda fell in love with musicals...
WestEndBird
Stand-by Joined: 2/21/04
#52re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:23pmMore like interested in it...a friend of mine is an actor and got me hooked on the music...
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#53re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:44pmMy dad moved to NYC when he was 17, and ended up running followspot for the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line. He worked at the Public Theatre for a while too, and then gave it up because he was tired of being poor. I grew up going to tons of children's theatre because of him, but I never thought it was something that I could actually get involved in. I always knew I could sing and act, but I was so involved in figure skating at the time that I could never take lessons. Almost 3 years ago, I went to New York for the first time, and saw RENT. I knew right then and there that that was what I absolutely had to do. I quit skating, and I've been in theatre ever since.
#54re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:55pm
Oh, so much... lol
My godmother is a professional singer and I joined my choir at church with her very early on... when I was 3... and we did a Christmas show... All I know is that my part was not important in the least but all I wanted was to be there... no matter what...
When my mom went back to work when I was in pre-school, I was at my Grandma's every day... She showed me my first musical... "The Sound of Music" then "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" then "Houseboat." I loved them.
When I was 8, my parents saw "The Music Man" in Stratford and decided to take us back up because they liked it so much. I can still remember seeing it... When Amerylis did her piano scene, I sat there thinking "I can do that." It was a very Chorus Line moment. Ever since then, I've told my mom I am going to be an actress... I still intend to live that dream. lol
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#55re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:01pm
I saw a recent revival of Man of La Mancha (with Brian Stokes Mitchell) and loved it. Then my mom bought me the recording. Keep in mind, I thought that broadway shows were never preserved as an recording so I was flabbergasted. I fell in love with it.
#56re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/18/05 at 3:54pmThere was always a passion for Musical Theatre, but I wasnt in love w/it until...well, thats Easy...Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" - Brilliant!
#57re: What made you get into Musical Theatre
Posted: 6/18/05 at 4:01pmwhen i was little i always liked going to shows but it wasn't until i saw rent for my 16th birthday that i fell in love with theater.
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