High School:
Perchik in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Lloyd in "Rehearsal for Murder" (a really stupid murder mystery)
Georg in "She Loves Me"
Jeffrey in "The Curious Savage" (a really stupid serio-comedy)
Cinderella's Prince in "Into the Woods"
Garry in "Present Laughter"
Hines in "The Pajama Game"
College:
Frederick in "Noises Off"
Mr. Ablett in "Trelawny of the Wells" (ever hear of it?)
Sir Joseph in "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Lt. Schrank in "West Side Story"
Ko-Ko in "The Mikado"
Friar John in "Romeo and Juliet" (crappiest part ever)
John in "Oleanna"
Hortensio in "The Taming of the Shrew"
Looseleaf in "Happy Birthday Wanda June"
Ford/Ensemble in "Assassins"
I'm currently a sophomore in High school so I won't have much, and our school dosn't do musicals, but I have done some out of school
Freshman
Plays: Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher (some person.. I wasn't in it much)
Who murdered who (Doctor Gravestand)
Community theater:
Plays in May (IT was a whole buch on one act shows I was in.. "Not quite the VFW)
Greator Tuna (Dresser)
Alice in Wonderland (Tweedle dee)
Les Mis H.S verson (Marius)
Once on this island (Daniels Father)
Sophomore:
Play: Laffin School (Skippy)
Jurors.. Ahh.. one of the Jury people
Community theater:
Pippin (player)
The music man (ensomble)
Thats it so far.....But I have a lot more shows to go before I graduate
im still in high school, junior so this is it since 7th grade.
Musicals
Oliver-orphan
South Pacific- Balahi Hai girl (not sure on spelling)
Music Man- Townsperson, basket holder(haha)
Damn Yankees-Dancer, Girl, Mother
Bye Bye Birdie-Mrs. Merkle and Adult Chorus (hopefully a dancer too we have tryouts tomorrow! my first show with a named role!)
Plays
Our Town
Mid Summers Night Dream
The Crucible- Rebecca Nurse (my first play at school and Im not sure of the other plays that were done before Our Town)
thats it so far I have one more musical and three more plays left in my high school career.
I am a senior in HS but I have done professional acting on the side:
High School-
Freshman-"Casting"(It was student-written musical)-lead male character
Sophmore-"The Fantastiks"-Matt
Junior-"The Wizard of Oz"-Choreographer
Junior-"Little Shop of Horrors" -Co-Director/Producer/ Choreographer/Mr. Mushnik
Senior-I am currently preparing to Co-Direct/Produce/Choreograph/ Play J. Pierpont Finch in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
Professional Acting Experience:
Film-
Wet Hot American Summer -USA Films 2001
Secondary principle actor. Character named Moose. Played opposite of David Hyde Pierce, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, and Molly Shannon. Directed by David Wain
Theater
Pocono Playhouse 2000-
Ensemble member in Peter Pan. -directed by Regina Balinski
Pocono Playhouse 2002-
The Sultan in Aladdin. -directed by Linn McDonald
The Beast in Beauty and the Beast. -directed by Linn McDonald
Pocono Playhouse 2003-
Pierre in Beauty and the Beast. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Pierre in The Little Mermaid. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh. -directed by Nicholas Adler
Pocono Playhouse 2004-
Geppeto/Guard/Thelonius in Shrek. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Narrator/Baker in Beauty and the Beast. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
King Crabonius in Rupunzel. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Guard/Ensemble in Aladdin. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
The Wizard of Oz in The Wizard of Oz. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
The Prince in Cinderella. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
King Gaylord in Sleeping Beauty. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Sailor/Ensemble in The Little Mermaid. -directed by Corinna Sowers Adler
Arts on the mountain in conjunction with Actor’s Equity-fall 2004
The Young One in Sottopassaggio (Underpass). -directed by Kathleen Brant
Print Media
Advertising Model for Pocono Community Bank 2002
so far....
Jack- Into The Woods
Scarecrow- The Wiz
Charlie Brown- You're a good man charlie brown
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
Only one
Hello, Dolly!- Irene Molloy
Doing musicals and plays were definently the best part of high school...
'99: Music Man (ensemble)
'00: Our Town (Emily)
Anything Goes (dance ensemble)
'01: Bye Bye Birdie (Alice)
'02: Prime Time Crime (co-director)
No, No Nanette (Nanette)
Fun times...
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
Still in high school, in fact I'm leaving for our first rehearsal in about an hour.
Li'l Abner (Freshman year - Crony/Bullmoose's Secretary/Cedric Softwicke)
South Pacific (Sophomore year - Harbison)
Grease (current year, Junior - Lead Dancer)
I don't know about any of you that remember your high school shows, but was there more drama involved in the casting and stuff than there was on the actual stage? Definitely how it is at my school - they make the politics so obvious.
Musicals:
Oliver- Charley Bates- Oliver understudy
Bye Bye Birdie- Albert Peterson
Anything Goes(twice)- Chorus,Billy
42nd street- Boy #1 hell yeah
Wizard of Oz- Scarecrow/Hunk
Currently: Lil' Abner- Clem Scragg
Plays:
M*A*S*H- Ho-Jon-understudy:Walt
You Can't Take It With You- Mr. Kirby-Understudy:ED
Pygmalion-Pickering
Much Ado About Nothing- Antonio
Last year my grade performed the bourgoise gehtleman and i was the stage manager. I was also in one of the dance scenes. THis year as our senior play we will be performing a play my friend dan is writing. I should mention i don't act!
I played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's dream. I had one line: "And I!"
Seeing how the shows we did in middle school were beter than the ones we do in high school I'm going to include them too...
6th grade
I don't remember the paly
musical- Pippin
7th
play-Musical Comedy Murders of the 1940's
musical- Anything Goes (Head of Costumes and Make-up)
8th
play- Come Blow Your Horn
musical- Guys & Dolls
in theater class- The Importance of Being Ernest (Stage Manager)
9th
play- Cyrano De Bergerac
musical- Anything Goes (AGAIN...and the other middle shool had done it when I was in 8th grade)(Ensemble)
10th
play- M*A*S*H (Korean)
musical- 42nd Street(ensemble)
theater class- Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro...yes...I was a man)
11th
play- You Can't Take it with You (G-woman Jane)
msucial- Lil Abner (Celia Softwick)
theater class- Pygmalion (Sarcastic Bystander)
Fiddler on the Roof
Godspell
The Pajama Game
Applause (probably one of the very few high schools who did this)
PM me if you have been in a production of Applause!
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
Musicals:
Annie - Annie (5th grade)
Wizard of Oz - Wicked Witch of the West (6th grade)
Working - Dolores (7th grade)
Fiddler of the Roof - Hodel (8th grade)
Annie - Miss Hannigan (10th grade)
HMS Pinafore - Little Buttercup (11th grade)
Musicals:
The Sound of Music- Friedrich Von Trapp
42nd Street-Bert Barry (amazing show and experience. Our Peggy injured herself two weeks before the show opened and an understudy had to learn the part in just three days. The show hit a little too close to home for us:)
Fame-Schlomo Metzenbaum...luckily I had a bunch of friends in the show to make it not a complete waste of time.
Play:
Voices from the High School..had a couple scenes, it's a show made up entirely of monologues and scenes.
High School
The Music Man
Ragtime
Chicago
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
HIGH SCHOOL:
- We did a cabaret when I was a freshman. We had many different songs and scenes. I sang in "Comedy Tonight", "Cool", and a few other songs, and I played Romeo in the balcony scene of ROMEO & JULIET.
- ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (I was to play the Minstrel, but I had to drop out because of prior engagements)
- FAHRENHEIT 451 (Beatty)
- SCAPIN (Scapin)
- THE CRUCIBLE (Deputy-Gov. Danforth... I got the part two days before we opened. The kid dropped out and, since I was the most reliable and skilled actor, I learned the lines in two days and kicked the sh*t out of that play. One of my most proud moments!)
REGIONAL:
- TERMINAL CAFÉ (BB)
- LINE (Dolan)
- YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (Snoopy)
- GUYS AND DOLLS (Ensemble)
- AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFÉ DU GRAND BOEUF (Antoine)
PROFESSIONAL:
- REBELS (Ensemble, u/s Joshua; world premiere musical)
READINGS/WORKSHOPS:
- SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I MISSED THE TRAIN (Toby)
- MARY MAGDALENE IN A SUITCASE (Boy)
- IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE WITH ELVIS (Toleo)
Updated On: 1/3/05 at 06:10 PM
I'm not even in HIGH school yet (next year!), but I've done school shows and lots of community theatre, so here goes.
4th grade: Sally, "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Tessie, "Annie"
5th grade: Curley Locks, "Babes in Toyland"
Becky Thatcher, "Tom Sawyer"
6th grade: Alice Wendleken, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever"
Dori, "Schoolhouse Rock- LIVE"
7th grade: Joisey's Girlfriend, "Last Stop Till Christmas"
Susan, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
8th: Lucy, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Again!)
Upcoming: Anne Gilbreth, "Cheaper by the Dozen"
Plenty of community theatre, including: Mary Tilford, "The Childrens Hour" this past fall, one of the silly girls in "Beauty and the Beast", Adele in "Jane Eyre" when I was ten, the Gryphon in "Alice in Wonderland" when I was twelve, Shirley in "Guys and Dolls", Amaryllis in "The Music Man", Mary Ellen (a school girl) and Dorothy in the parade in "A Christmas Story", and Harriet Ames in "Stuart Little".
When I was in middle school my HS did "Into the Woods", "Once Upon a Mattress", "Taming of the Shrew" and "Kiss Me Kate". I know we have also done "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Brigadoon".
Musicals:
"Schoolhouse Rock, Live!" - tech
"Little Shop of Horrors" - Dentist Patient#1/Skid Row Resident/Skid Row Visitor (Basically Dentist Patient + Ensemble)
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" - Student Director
"Applause" - Petra (originially Peter, Margo Channing's agent"
Plays:
"The Foreigner" - tech
"M*A*S*H*" - Mitzi Bonwit (SOOOOOO FUN)
"Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" - Marjorie Baverstock
"Witness for the Prosecution" - still to be cast
Drama Final Projects, Competition pieces, etc:
(Separate category bc these were kind of cast by ourselves and/opr without real auditions)
"Midsummer Night's Dream" - Mustardseed/Fairy in Monologue
"For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" (Parody of Glass Menagerie) - Amanda Wingvalley
(4 of us did this after 4 other students did Glass Menagerie. It was a hit and this was by far the best role I have ever played and the best script I have ever worked with.
"The Doctor Inspite of Himself" - Lucinde (she's mute until the end which didn't look like a lto of fun but it IS! Not a lot of lines but a LOT of fun)
I'm jealous of schools that get to do a musical every year. They have this system where we alternate every other year doing a musical and going on a trip. I would rather do a musical every year than go somewhere though.
Freshman year I was in the ensemble of birdie.
Now I'm in my junior year, and I'm the Herald in Cinderella because we don't have enough guys that can sing to have a male Herald.
Sometimes I really hate my school.
College:
Junior Year: Dr. Panache in "A Flea in Her Ear"...auditioning for "Evita" next monday
Sophomore Year: Hero in "A Funny Thing...Forum"
Freshmen Year: Bob Cratchit in "A Christmas Carol" and Solo Tenor/Ensemble in "Sweet Charity", plus I choreographed "Footloose" for a High School...my God was that production bad
High School:
Senior Year: Tommy Djilas in "Music Man", Prince Dauntless and the Choreographer for "Once Upon a Mattress", Kenji, Father, Mr. Araki in "1000 Cranes", Ugly in "HONK!"
Junior Year: Dancer/Nazi in "Sound of Music", Tevye in "Fiddler..", Schroeder and Choreographer in "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown"
Sophomore Year: Johnny Casino and Teen Angel in "Grease", G-Man in "You Can't Take It With You",
Freshmen Year: Tap Chorus/Sailor in "Anything Goes", Guard/Dancer/Chorus in "Romeo and Juliet" and the lead player in "Schoolhouse Rock, Live!"
Yep...that's about it...lets hope I get a good part for Evita!
Who's the Lead Player in Schoolhouse? Oh and ShlamDiddly, M*A*S*H* and MCM1940 were done in consecutive years for me! Who were you in MCM1940? GRREEEEEEAT show!
Why is M*A*S*H* so popular? It's got a big cast and and the name's famous. I suppose that's it.
None. My school district NEVER put on shows. In college, two years ago was the first musical they ever did and I was a part of it. It was OKLAHOMA! But, we did do two years of Musical Revues and I played a lot of characters. I had the most parts of the guys both years. Go Me!!!
The way it worked was that we all split up the songs...between our cast of like 20..
But I opened the show and had all the big name songs...
Verb!
I'm Just a Bill
Conjunction Junction
the Gravity Song...etc etc
FAME - Joe
Dracula - Dracula
Bye Bye Birdie - Bartender
Dearly Departed - Norval
Godspell - Jesus
Wizard of Oz - Scarecrow
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Protean
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