fun cast traditions...

anybody have any fun cast traditions from past shows youve been in? ive got 2:

the first show i was involved in i did sound. i was only there for about a week. but backstage before a show, the cast would gather in the guys dressing room and sing "down by the bay, where the watermelons grow...." (i was never back there, but we could eavesdrop on their mics, hehehe)

and then aother show i was in we had a really fun tradition. there was a really long overture. it started out playing upbeat 40s swing music, so wed all kinda dance around a little. then there was a few minutes of slow stuff. then the same swing bit played again. when it came on again, wed all be in the wings (there really wasnt a backstage unless we went into the hallway) and wed be dancing like crazy, literally 30 seconds before lights came up. hopefully we were all in blind spots, or some lucky audience members saw a side show

well, those are my 2 stories. anyone else have any good ones?

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We all sing Bohemian Rhapsody and rock out for an energy warm-up before a show. That's one of...many.

Our school's rubber chicken tradition started about 15 years ago, the first time they did Once Upon a Mattress. And now it's part of every show.

Backstage before every performance (it's esspecially important opening night), everyone in the cast has to kiss Astro the rubber chicken. He's covered in lipstick stains and quite a few people (myself included) have given him some tongue.

Also, in the dressing rooms, there are highly confidential traditions. The girls do something and the guys do something, and we're sworn to secrecy. But we forever try to get it out of the other gender...

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Before every performance, the cast gets together in a circle and sings "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. It was something that one of the first members of our drama group started, and we keep it to honor his memory, because he passed away a few days after he graduated.

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I just finished a run of Grease. Every night when they called "5 minutes"- we would put on "Barbie Girl" in the girls dressing room and dance around like idiots. Two of the guys would come in (Our Danny and our Doody) and our Danny would dance on top of the makeup table.

It was pretty raunchy.

We also put on our makeup listening to old music (not old old- but like...Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC old)

Fun stuff.

We had some great traditions at my school during show times.

There was "Talk sh*t about everyone in the cast," "Make the director cry," which was sometimes substituted for "Give the director a nervous breakdown" or "Drive the director to drink."

We also had "Treat the techies like the weirdos they are," "Sabotage someone else's performance," "Miss an important cue" and my personal favorite "Have everyone hate you."

God how I miss high school...

EDIT: A real game we would play during shows, whether you had a small, sh*tty part or you had a big part but enough time offstage was "Leave during the show." We would go out and get coffee or get something to eat and then haul ass back to the theater before our next cue or before the director noticed it was surprisingly quiet backstage.

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Updated On: 10/11/05 at 07:10 PM

My high school had an insane amount of traditions...I don't even think I could list them all, but let's just say that there were several things that would be yelled out or chanted throughout the course during notes before the show.

And after we did our energy circle the girls would run to the side of the theatre where years before a bird had died before a show, and we sang "BYE BYE BIRDIE...WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU SO...BYE BYE BIRDIE...WHY'D YOU HAVE TO GO!"

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At ours we just go down the block to the chinese food place and buy a box of 500 fortune cookies and try to finish them all off asap

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In high school we always went to the nearby Denny's after a show. I dunno when it started, and I dunno why we went. The service was always super slow, though there was usually 25+ people so that's probably why.

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EDCT = Singing of Total Ecplipse of the Heart, Dancing of the Cha Cha Slide, and a round of the Seizure game.

HS = A GP in the bathroom with the girls.

We always sing More than Words after the last show, no one knows who started it or why but it just has to be done

Before the very first shouw I ever got paid for (a children's show tour of course) The three of us who were playing the kids would do our own choreo to "So Fresh, So Clean"

And when I was in Grease, we'd all do a circle and say something about the city we were in or someone in the cast or audience--birthdays, whatever...and it always ended with Motherfu*kers! eg "Let's get lucky in Kentucky, motherfu*kers!"

In high school, after the show, we would blast jungle boogie in the guys dressing room every night. it's a great song to end the night with. (or begin it)

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