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What shows did you do in high school?
#50re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/3/05 at 7:36pmI auditioned for Seussical and got a Who because the director thought I was conceited. I can't audition this year because I'll be in Israel and London!
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#51re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:10pm
Freshman year:
Joseph...Dreamcoat (ensemble)
Guys & Dolls (hot box girl, cuban dancer)
Fiddler on the Roof (ensemble)
Sophomore Year:
Cinderella (cinderella u/s, ensemble)
The Music Man (ensemble)
Die Zauberflote - not a musical, but whatever. (whore/slave)
Oklahoma! (laurey)
Junior Year:
Snoopy, the Musical (Sally Brown)
Schoolhouse Rock, Live! (Shulie)
Kiss Me, Kate (ensemble)
Grease (Rizzo)
Senior Year (so far):
Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larken)
and upcoming....The Wiz, Hansel and Gretl (another opera), and Once on This Island
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
milkengh
Swing Joined: 7/14/04
#52re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:49pm
Freshman Year:
Once Upon a Mattress (the Jester)
Sophomore Year:
Anything Goes (Evelyn Oakleigh)
Junior Year:
Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson)
And hopefully, senior year will be You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which will be fun cuz that's the only one of these that I can actually identify with Broadway, since I have the revival cast album. And I should be Charlie Brown, if I'm hearing all the high school drama/politics right, which will be muy fun!
Does anyone else find it really sad that high school are only allowed to do a certain kind of show, of which there are only about 10? The repeat numbers here are ridiculous!
Te cubrire.
ketaylor
Swing Joined: 12/29/04
#53re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:06pm
We did one musical a year:
Freshman- Children of Eden (ensemble)
Sophomore- Crazy For You (ensemble)
Junior- Show Boat (Julie)
Senior- Seussical the Musical (Mayzie)
Plays we did:
Imaginary Invalid
Lend Me a Tenor
Crow and Weasel (Crow)
Brave Navigator (Nadia)-This isn't a very well-known show but it is amazing. It's about the Lingbergh baby kidnapping....very emotional and touching.
#54re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:50pm
Freshman year
Parade - Frankie Epps
A Chorus Line - Mark
The Secret Garden - (wasn't cast in it)
Lost In Yonkers - (wasn't cast in it)
La Dispute - (wasn't cast in it)
David and Lisa - (wasn't cast in it)
Sophomore year
BatBoy - Institute Man
Sunday in the Park with George - Franz/Dennis
Les Miserables: School Edition - Stage Manager
Footloose - Ren McCormick
The Dining Room - (wasn't cast in it)
The Diary of Anne Frank - (wasn't cast in it)
As You Like It - (wasn't cast in it)
Junior year
Sweeney Todd - Anthony Hope
West Side Story - Pepe
Violet - Monty
The Sound of Music - (wasn't cast in it)
The Spitfire Grill - (wasn't cast in it)
The Young and the Fair - (wasn't cast in it)
London Suite - (wasn't cast in it)
Holes - (wasn't cast in it)
And I think for my Senior year, some of the musicals in mind are Children of Eden, Follies, and Crazy For You.
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#55re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 12:34am
AT high school...
The Pirates of Penzance - ensemble
Infancy - Mo
The Dumb Play - director
The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet - director
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) - director
Chinamen - director
The Last Five Years - Jamie Wellerstein (Seattle premiere! woot! woot!)
Shows I did while IN high school...
The Sound of Music - ensemble/Rolf understudy
Peter Pan - Indian
Searching 4 Y - understudy (now playing Off-Broadway as "The Untouchables")
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MatureDignity
Broadway Star Joined: 10/31/04
#56re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 1:31am
Played in the pit for these:
The Wiz
Jesus Christ Superstar
A Christmas Carol
A Funny Thing... Forum
The Civil War (torture!)
The only acting I did was in a one act called "Ladies in Waiting." I played Kate. She was really sarcastic, but we had to cut or change a lot of the funnier lines to make them clean enough. They wouldn't even let me say 'penis.'
#57re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 1:38amThe Music Man - Harold Hill
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#58re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 3:29am
I had very very bad luck in high school. i never recieved an even semi large role. i always had stupid "easy to re-cast" roles. My high school did four shows a year. Fall Play, Musical, Contest Play (which we compeated against local high schools the org. was called IHSA Illinois High School Association) and Spring Play. The fall play was usually a dramatic piece...key word is usually. Contest play was an original work. And spring play was a stupid "never heard of" comedy that was just a sorry excuse to get every dip **** on stage as they possibly could.
Freshman Year
Musical: 1940's Radio Hour-Dancer
Spring Play: Beverly Hillbillies-a Hillbilly
Sophomore Year
Fall Play: Our Miss. Brooks-Stage crew/lights/sound/make up
Musical: Grease-Dancer/ensemble
Spring Play: May the Farce Be With You-i played an alien named Nerd...it was a rotten expierence.
Junior Year
Fall Play: Do not for the life of me remember the name of the show, had a tiny itty bitty part.
Musical: Annie Get Your Gun (or as i like to call it Annie Get Your Gun and Shoot Frank Butler 'cause he can't sing on key)- Various small speaking parts a few trio songs and Ensemble
Contest Play: Smoked (original work about a woman suing a Tobacco company because she'd dying of Lung Cancer)-Stage Hand we got 7th place...out of 8 we would have gotten 8th if one school wouldn't have had a time disqualification.
Spring Play: The Birds-Tax Collector...it sucked ass
Senior Year (and the real drama starts)
Fall Play: Rally Round The Flag Boys- I don't remember the name of my character but it was the largest role i ever recieved in high school
Musical: Little Shop of Horrors-Ensemble...again.
Okay this is where the drama happened. I thought i was a damn shoe-in for the Voice of Audrey II however the guy who got the role had been cast the year before in the lead as a matter of fact this guy had damn near every lead role since my sophomore year. he was very over rated. the ass had the nerve to call me up the day that the cast list had been posted and tell me "well i really didn't even want the role but it's going to be fun!" no "hey i'm sorry you didn't get the role you wanted" nothing. So i dropped out of the show. probibly a dumb thing but you know what?! i don't care, i was so tired of putting in all that work it just wasn't worth my time. Plus i had the option to graduate early but i decided not to because i wanted to get a lead in the Musical.
Contest Play: Hail to the Cheif- Asst. Director/Stage Manager
Spring Play: The Mouse Goes to Mars- it was a sequil to The Mouse that Roared- The President (on this show i was still a little upset about the musical so i decided to show up to practice...when i felt like it. Also i would leave early un announced and i would also sneak out during practice and smoke a cig.)
My Junior year i started to do Community theater...and found it's much more rewarding.
2001
Wait Until Dark-Lights/Set
2002
Neil Simon's Proposals- Lights
10 Little Indians-Lights/Props/Set(i spent 12 hours working on that set.
Harold and Maude-Lights
Funny Money-Asst Producer/Costumes
Miracle on 34th Street-Choir Director/Props (working on this show was an absolute death wish.)
2003
Amadeus-Props
Communicating Doors-Set
Sly Fox-Police man/set
Dracula-Stage Manager
2004 the 75th Season at my theater
Woman In Black-Stage Manager
Kindertransport- co-producer...the most rewarding show i've ever done.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor-Kenny (MY FIRST BIG ROLE!)
2005 (none of these shows have happened yet)
Grace and Gloire-Lights
Murder in Green Meadows- Co-Producer
Alter Call (original work)- acting? possible props?
Enchanted Apirl- Stage Manager
The Nerd- Lights? maybe props?
so there it is my entire history of life theatre.
Switz78
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/04
#59re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 12:17pm
This is a fun question. Brings back some nice memories.
Here GOES:
1993- Into the Woods (my first ever musical) ensemble (yes we added a 100 person ensemble, my high school was nuts and did big huge extravaganzas) also Cinderella broke her leg falling down the ramp, so they told me to do it since I knew every word to the show, so for 3 dress rehearsals up to 25 minutes before our jr. high matinee I was Cinderella
1994- Once on this Island-Mama Euralie (we made each god 3 people and added about 80 chorus, we were wacked)
1995- Grand Hotel- I played Greta which was one of the 3 people that looked after Grushinskya since we had to take out all homosexual themes, so we changed the words to all the songs and the 3 of us walked around like the 3 headed lesbian singing the new words (I'm pretty sure this was totally illegal)
1996- Kismet- Lalume (the only year we didn't do something random to add more people)
I was very lucky to have done some unknown stuff. That's what made me love theatre and history.
#60re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 1:27pm
Freshman Year: Didn't do drama club
Sophomore: Wizard of Oz (Tinman)
Junior: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hero)
Senior: Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson) & Les Miz Jr. (Marius)
Did a crap load of shows outside school....something around like 90 shows altogether
#61re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/4/05 at 2:44pm
Freshman - "Little Shop Of Horrors"- Ensemble
Junior - "The Wizard of Oz" - The Scarecrow
Senior - "Annie" - Annie
You've gotta have heart AND music
#62re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 1:31am
I'm not out of middle yet (graduating this year), but still...
Each year we do two productions, one well known musical, the other more of a play, but with music that the director writes.
6th: Sheer Luck Holmes- Opera Lady (the director wrote the show as a parody of Sherlock Holmes- don't ask)
The Music Man- wasn't cast; did Oliver! at another company instead- Nancy
7th: Emma- Harriet
Hello Dolly- Minnie
8th: Little Women- Beth
Sound of Music- hasn't been done yet, auditions are tomorrow, keeping my fingers crossed for Maria.
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#63re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:27amI played in the pit for Anything Goes (percussion), Once Upon a Mattress (cello) and South Pacific (cello). Then I was in the chorus for Grease.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#64re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 12:22pm
well I went to three different high schools,
Lucy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Cosette in a recital version of Les Miserables
Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Cinderella in Into the Woods
#65re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 1:01pmJust Guys and Dolls. But it was fun.
You may know what you need but to get what you want better see that you keep what you have.
OhSoWicked
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/04
#66re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 1:04pm
Pirates of Penzance (Dancer --> Pirate/Cop)
The Music Man (Dancer)
The Wiz (Dancer)
Footloose (Dancer)
Bye Bye Birdie (Teen chorus)
High Energy -- a Review (Dancer, chorus, small part)
Elphaba4
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/05
#67re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 1/5/05 at 1:28pm
I'm only in 12 grade. But here are the musicals and the parts I had in each grade:
9-Wizard of Oz-Dorothy
10-West Side Story-Spanish girl
11-Bye-Bye Birdie- Kim Macaffee
12-My Fair Lady- Eliza Dolittle.
I am very excited to have the lead role in one of my favorite musicals!
"There will always be women in rubber flirting with me"
~Maureen, RENT
#69re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 6:06pm
Fun thread to revive. Let's see:
Bye Bye Birdie (I auditioned, didn't get a part)
Plaza Suite (the waiter)
Ten Little Indians (Judge Wargrave)
Then there were various plays I tried out for and didn't get a part in (David and Lisa, Enemy of the People) before I gave up, figuring that the director just didn't think I was any good (I read a review of Ten Little Indians that said I was hard to understand, so maybe that was why). I don't remember my school doing any musicals other than Bye Bye Birdie (and that was a district-wide musical, not just for my school).
#70re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 6:28pm
I agree! Fun thread!
Our small HS in upstate NY alternated plays and musicals.
10th grade - Up the Down Staircase - Elizabeth
11th grade - The Sound of Music - (auditioned for the Baroness, but I can't sing) Postulant, Maid
12th grade - The Curious Savage - Miss Willie
Fun fact, I graduated with James Noone so our sets were AMAZING!
#71re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:54pm
9th, South Pacific (i did not audition)
10th, Anything Goes; purser
11th, Hello Dolly; Barnaby Tucker
12th, Beauty and the Beast; The Beast
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Coolchef93
Swing Joined: 9/30/11
#72re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:59pm
Musicals
My One and Only -ensemble
White Christmas -Ezickal Foster /prop master
Wonderful Town -several minor townsfolk /prop master
Sunset Blvd- set dresser/props
Plays
The Musical Comdey Murders of 1940- did not participate
Is He Dead? - prop master/student director
Irena's Vow - graphic design/ prop master/ coordination of Tovah Feldshuh arrival guest etc.
Fun times!
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#73re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 8:23pm
(If you don't mind me including Stage Crew roles...also, "?" indicates shows that haven't happened yet.)
FRESHMAN YEAR
A Midsummer's Night Dream – Stage Manager
Dancing at Lughnasa – Front-of-House Crew
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) – Stage Manager
Gypsy – Sound Design/Operator
The Crucible – Mercy Lewis
SOPHOMORE YEAR
12 Angry Jurors – Lights/Sound Operation
A Night of Shel Silverstein – Director ("No Soliciting"
Legally Blonde: the Musical – Lighting Design/Operator
Harvey – Betty Chumley
Annie – Lighting Design/Operator
JUNIOR YEAR
Melancholy Play – Lighting Design/Operator
Cymbeline – Stage Manager
Othello – Stage Manager
Words, Words, Words – Director
Godspell – Soloist
One Man, Two Guvnors – Sound Design/Operation
Alice in Wonderland – Running Crew
SENIOR YEAR
The Odd Couple – Director, Lighting/Sound/Set/Costume Designer
Peter and the Starcatcher – Teacher
The Canterbury Tales – ?
The Waiting Room – Original Play, Playwright
Heathers: the Musical – ?
Once in a Lifetime – ?
Seussical – ?
#74re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 9:20pm
7th Grade--Sound of Music- Kurt
9th Grade-Hello Dolly -Rudolph
10th Grade-Oklahoma! -Will Parker
11th Grade-Bye Bye Birdie-Albert Peterson
12th Grade-The Music Man-Marcellus
Freshman College-Cabaret-random chorus guy
Then became involved in the opera program. We did children's operas every fall. More like musicals for children, we would go to area elementary schools and perform them. That brings back some crazy memories. :)
Ahmy
Understudy Joined: 11/15/15
#75re: What shows did you do in high school?
Posted: 9/4/17 at 9:37pm
Middle school shows: an "I don't know how this was considered legal" Newsies, before the Broadway version became a thing, & Annie Jr.
High School: Pippin, You're A Good Man,Charlie Brown (didn't participate), Les Mis, and Leader of the Pack.
Community Theatre: Annie Jr., Godspell, and Les Mis.
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