You Know It's Community Theatre When... — Page 9

They weren't a girl group, though. At least not in the first production when my sister was in it (I didn't see the second, which was put on during my senior year).

---

...the ensemble is split up into dancers and singers, so the dancers only dance with plastered smiles and the singers only blankly stand there and sing at the back of the stage.

...everyone in Aida is white. Including Aida.

...no one in Miss Saigon is actually Asian except for one girl in the ensemble from Vietnam who doesn't speak any English, and was probably only cast because she's Asian.

...the director makes a painfully long speech about the theater's season before every single performance.

...no one in Cats dances, except for Victoria who has been split up into two separate roles. Victoria (the singing cat) and The White Cat (the dancing cat)

...there are 6 bird girls and 6 wickershams (4 of which are girls) in Seussical.

---

Updated On: 12/19/08 at 03:54 PM

When the amount of people onstage is far too great for the width/depth of the stage itself. And you're all supposed to be "dancing".

Talk about a nightmare.

This thread is hilarious.

...when people are tailgating in the parking lot before the show?

A middle-aged woman plays a sixteen-year-old girl, and a sixteen-year-old girl plays a middle-aged woman.

(Five words: Schmerg as Darbus in HSM.)

---

Ha, I am looking at my DVD of the show right now, but because no one online is allowed to know that I have a face, the recording of my performance will never see the light of youtube. It was definitely an Experience.

---

...after the performance the cast tells you, "You should have been here LAST NIGHT. The show was so much better!"

---

Updated On: 12/19/08 at 05:58 PM

...when there are two casts that alternate for a total of 8 performances - labeled the A and B cast - because the director said the talent was so great she couldn't just have one cast.

The theatre smells like a nursing home

---

Jenna, that's nothing. You obviously haven't been exposed to Westchester youth theatre, in which 2-performance shows are double cast.

---

I love this thread...and am living it! aack!

---

Updated On: 6/12/20 at 09:56 PM

..When the creepy group home people are there every night and follow your performances just like Shumeg(sp) follows Micheal Ball(like online checks his website and bio and goes to most of the shows he is in).
..When the star dress room is shared by the 5 male leads and it is a bathroom
..When the director cast his son in every part the father wants him to play and makes him play it
..When the costume mistress was your 3rd grade teacher
..When there is a coffin the the bathroom/dressing room because there is not enough room backstage
..When the backstage wall is covered from signatures from pervous casts
...When people are with the same director every show
... when the green room is actually painted green
... when everyone goes to ice cream after the rehearsals and shows
..when the pit doubles as a dressing room
... when the band is a drummer that looks high and the 29 year old music director on the piano
..When the understudy for everyone is the director or assistance directer
...When you proform at a YMCA and your dress room is a row of lockers taped of for you and the 14 other boy actors
..when the porch also doubles as a dressing room
.. when you have a "reliable friend" to help do your quick change
.. when you have a 10 year old girl doing EVERYONE'S makeup
.. when you have to bring in candy to support the theater and for the concession stand in the lobby
.. when the cast party is in the gas station next door
.. when the leads decide to sabatosh there show because the chorus is in every number and take more time in rehearsal so the leads get nothing done
..when the average age of the chorus in Seussical is 6
.. when everyone has the same shoes
.. when the top hats fold
.. when the article is written in the newspaper and they interview everyone in the chorus and no leads because the reporter was a in chorus when she failed at community theater
.. when the same shows rotate around the community theaters in the area so they can share sets and costumes
.. when the theater director announces what happened at the group meeting at intermission

Updated On: 12/20/08 at 09:58 PM