worst high school production EVER..

okay so I've seen some just okay high school productions..but none have been perticularly bad. But no...this past Friday I saw "Into the Woods" at a neighboring high school and let me tell you it was nothing short of TERRIBLE.

I mean first off any sondhiem show is going to be hard for a school to pull off so I give them credit for the attempt. But it was soo bad.

The talent was terrible (except for the girl who played Cinderella but even she was just alright).
There wasn't one guy in the cast who could sing. I mean of course in every school the guys aren't always great because there isn't many that audition but I mean they were so bad...they basically just talked through all the songs because they couldn't sing.
And Jack omg he was the worst...it was this scary looking short kid he akwardly pranced around the stage and his speaking voice was beyond annoying.
The girls weren't good either. The baker's wife could sort of sing but she was playing the baker's wife so WRONG. she was like yelling and whining towards the baker. And they had like no relationship established. It felt like they were totally strangers...not a married couple.
Then...the princes. Ugh one with this kid who was kind of funny but he couldnt sing and the other was a football player in their school. yes a FOOTBALL player...I mean yeah he was attractive but the kid could not sing or act he was sooo bad. it was his first musical EVER and his bio said he just wanted to 'try somehting new at the end of his senior year' omg ahh

oh shoot the bell rang for class...to be contined...

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I adore bad high school theater. Where can I get a video!

Rose -- Honey -- that is the way "Somewhere" is in the original script.

Maria and Tony only sing it in the film. The ballet and the off stage singer work beautifully when done properly. But I can only imagine the dream ballet in the production you saw!

A couple years after HS graduation, my friend and I went back to our HS to see their production of Oliver. During "Who Will Buy", a character is holding up what is obviously a rubber chicken, and sings "Who Will Buy.....", and my friend and I at the exact same time, look at each other and sing "...my rubber chicken". We laughed our asses off (not literally) and fell out of our seats (literally!)

I cannot remember any single other thing about that production.

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Michael Bennett: It actually wasn't too horribly done, it just confused the hell out of me. Although I could have done without all the choking fog spilling into the audience...

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My school's production of Aida was horrible. The sets were the stereotype high school theatre sets, and for costumes, they used table runners to make them look egyptian. It also didn't help that the guy playing Radames could not sing to safe his life. I just kept thinking of Adam Pascal while he was singing.

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I wish you all would elaborate more. I love to hear the details of horrible high school musicals. Like the production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC I saw where somebody threw a bolt of fabric through the window into Maria's bedroom when she was talking about making clothes out of the drapes.

i think that sometimes middle school talent is excusable mainly because the kids are still young. but the horrific "into the woods" that i had to sit through was a high school production done at a private school. so, i know they had money. also, almost all the leads were seniors...seniors who have had leads before.

Shouldn't this be on the off-topic board?

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johnny..."Where abouts was this charming version of ITW?"

in connecticut..urkk

okay so anyways I never finished the rest of what I was saying ahh lol...okay so...

you know when cinderella calls the birds "fly birds..." ya know..well this kid in all black AND a black ski mask came out and dangled the birds from a branch OVER her. okay...so that made the quality go down right away to a middle school show.

oh yeah and so this senior football player who it was his FIRST musical (he wanted to "try something new")he got the loudest applause cuz the freaking cheerleaders were all their like graveling over him. omg he was BAD.

and then rapunzels part was lowered to an alto. I know the girl who was playing her and shes pretty talented but everytime she would go to sing her "ah ah ah..." she freaking cracked on the first note...and it was alto! omg I don't think they should be allowed to change that role..that lowered it like a whole step. The only good thing was like her wig and the tower was really good..but..

and then when the witch transformed(I knew this girl too..and she was alright..) she came back out in this black, plain dress...nothing extravagant...I mean it should be this beautiful elaborate dress but instead it looked like she was dressed to go to a funeral..

the step sisters...omg were they annoying! when they freaking screamed I couldn't hear for about 15 minutes after...it was so annoying and piercing. and their costumes were not the time period AT ALL. I mean I could wear their dresses tomorrow and it would be alright.

hmm what else...oh yeah "agony" is one of my favorite songs in the show...and let me tell you it was nothing short of agonizing. first you have the football player who pranced around the stage looking particularly dumb and who could not sing a NOTE and then you have this fat kid...who tried to be funny but he only was because it is such a well written show not because he himself was a comedian. omg that was one of the WORST numbers...it was sooo bad. I can't even begin to explain.

and then little red. well she wasn't little. she was tall and skinny (I personally think she should be some-what chubby or at least have a "fat personality"--don't know if you get what I mean hahah)soo anyways...first off her costume sucked it was like just a red cape and no bonnet...and her hair in braids(it should be in curls under her cute little bonnet!)and her voice sounded nothing like a cute little girl...in fact it was so low(they lowered this too) if you closed ur eyes at some parts you could have mistakened her for a man. and she didn't even sing most of it...it was all talked in a low voice. and they way the direct had her skipping around the stage was so annoying. during teh company scenes in the corner of your eye all you could see was her moving.

jacks mom and the baker were bad but they didn't evben bother me as half as much as everyone else did.

cinderella was good..ill give her that. the only problem I really had with her was that she moved all over the stage during her song and it was really distracting.

that's another thing the movement in the show was so literal. it was annoying and ammature.

and yeah so I went with cathywellerstein..and we left during intermission because we just couldnt take it...luckily we were in the back because we couldn';t help but make faces at eachother and start to laugh.

and I don't even feel bad about leaving during intermission I mean shouldn't they be thankful we were courteous enough to wait instead of just walk out during the show? yes, they should.
because we wasted $15 I mean if you just add $4.50 to that I could have seen "all shook up" in the balcony and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Or I could have even bought a movie ticket and had enough money left for a popcorn and soda.

yes, so tell me of your experiences...I mean can you top that. Because I really couldn't see how..if someone threw up on stage or even pissed themselves it would have been more enjoyable then this...

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I have got you all beat. Last summer i saw a community theatre production of West Side Story, and it was all high school kids. First, I heard the director was a freak and wnted to have Maria and Anita in bed together in a pseudo-lesbian scene. Then at the end of the show after they carry Tony off and Maria follows them we see Anita crossing on the "bridge" behind everyone, and before the lights go out she jumps! ANITA COMMITED SUICIDE?!?!?!?!?!

oh my word... joel.. tell me you jest... thats something i could have come up with after one too many whisky sours... but i would die if i ever saw that on staged.. someone would have to be hurt.severely