what was the first show you were ever in?

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what was the first show you were ever in?

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:25pm

and how old were you?

Fiddler on the Roof when i was 8

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#2

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:28pm

Kiss Me Kate - I think I was 7 or 8.

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:30pm

Oops...misread the title.

Annie Get Your Gun when I was 12.

Updated On: 8/24/05 at 05:30 PM

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:34pm

some play about a princess who alsways wanted to sleep (no it wasnt sleeping beauty) it was in 4th grade. lol i was the princess!!! heeehehe

the first musical i did when i was 10, it was "how i spent my 13th birthday"...ya....

the first like, broadway show i did was Grease, when i was 13.

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:38pm

who can u play in Grease when ur 13?just wondering

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:39pm

Sleepy Hollow - 17
By Zeus! - 16
Twelfth Night - 15
A Tale of Three Knights - 14
A Christmas Grease - 14
Mr. Toads Mad Adventures - 13
Titanic - 12
A Snake In the Grass - 12
Knights of the Rad Table - 11
A Mircle on Bethleham Street - 10
Homeward Bound - 10

Updated On: 8/24/05 at 05:39 PM

#7

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:39pm

It was this school play that a teacher wrote.It was called the Meaning of Life.It was very boring and short as my mother says.

#8

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:46pm

I assume we're not counting church Christmas pageants and the annual show at the elementary school when the kids dress up like turkeys and pilgrims.

But, a very enterprising woman at my elementary school had us GT kids act out a few scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream, so I guess that counts. I was Oberon. And I was, I guess, 8.

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:10pm

My first Equity gig was WEST SIDE STORY and I was 16. My first non dance recital ever that I recall was a school production of THE WIZARD OF OZ and I played The Scarecrow and I was 7.

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#10

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:12pm

The Curious Savage-I was ten.

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#11

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:16pm

The Little Red Hen when I was five (I was offered the role of the Red Hen, but I wanted the Cat instead). My first real musical was Babes in Toyland when I was 10 (I was a gypsy/dancer in the first act and a doll in the second).

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:36pm

A show called The Scarecrows' Christmas in second grade, which was performed at our school's annual holiday thing. I had a lead role, too - I was Stellaluna. Yes, the bat from the kids' book. Don't knock it, I had like three songs. It was a real star turn. :)

#13

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:38pm

Winnie-the-Pooh, when I was 7, playing Christopher Robin. And, got my equity card playing Pooh (many) years later at a theatre less than a mile from where I did it the first time.

#14

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:42pm

Bye Bye Birdie

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#15

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:59pm

"Use your imagination". An elementary school show. I must have been 7. I was the grandchild.

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:28pm

When I was 8, I was the title role in "Arlene the Artist Bunny." A little girl asked for my autograph in the supermarket. I felt like this huge star. *flips hair*

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:31pm

Snoopy in YAGMCB when I was twelve...those were the days. Good times.

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#18

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:33pm

I was in a show called Rats when I was 4. It was about the pied piper and how he got the rats out of a town. I was a rat.

#19

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:53pm

It was either Uncle Joe in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or one of the farm animals in Charlotte's Web. I am not sure which. I was in grade school.

I learned very quickly that my talent was more in the orchestra than on the stage . . .

#20

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:55pm

The Trial of the Big, Bad Wolf....I was the Wolf

#21

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:01pm

A play my teacher wrote in 5th grade. It was about Santa turning Christmas into a modern tech. holiday. I was the 9 and played the Narrator.

#22

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:01pm

Meet Me in St. Louis when I was 8 -I played Tootie, obviously :0)

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#23

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:05pm

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, when I was 13.

#24

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:07pm

West Side Story- 15 (The WORST production of WSS I have come across so far)

which is too young for this show. I know Maria is supposed to be a teenager, but most teenagers do not have the emotional depth to play the characters in West Side.

And beyond that, instead of having a fire escape- we had a patio. 2 flights of stairs that led to a large patio deck with astroturf and flowers on it. To this day it is still embarassing, the director should have known better.

#25

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Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:09pm

The tales of Beatrix Potter... a little podunk musical. In which I played like seven characters. I was seven.