worst high school production EVER.. — Page 2

God, I love these stories. I've got a few, as well.

The HS production of "Anne Frank", when the buzzer mechanism (which signaled someone coming up into the Secret Annex) went kaput during the first act. How did they compensate? The prop master stood right next to the proscenium and shouted "RIIIINNNNNNNG!"

ugh sounds like the director just really really wanted to do ITW without taking into account the "talent" she had.

speaking of which, what kind of "credentials" does one need to direct a high school musical, anyway? at my high school it was a teacher from the school, but i remember being in a few when i was younger where the director was hired out ...

I saw a high school production of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND where Timone,Daniel,Andrea and Erzule were white. In fact, the majority of the cast was white.

>>>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.<<<

XD !!!!!!!!!!

'The HS production of "Anne Frank", when the buzzer mechanism (which signaled someone coming up into the Secret Annex) went kaput during the first act. How did they compensate? The prop master stood right next to the proscenium and shouted "RIIIINNNNNNNG!"'

Haha, that made my day.

I also like reading about these. They make me laugh. I don't have any particular horror stories of my own...yet.

most high school musical productions are ego gratifiiyng garbage.

Hey, what's wrong with football players in musicals? I go to a small school, and I bet that 98% of the guys in the cast are on the football team.
Our shows are usually pretty good, for a high school of only about 350 (I have seen some pretty bad productions from neighboring towns, though). I just hope this fall (my senior year) I'll get to add that reputation with a principal role. I've had plenty of speaking roles, acting wise I guess I'm one of the best in my class, but when it comes to singing, our choral/musical director shamelessly plays favorites...

when i did annie it was quickly determined that the director had no concept of "freezing" the show, at the last dress rehearsal we learned that she never blocked or rehearsed the ending, and every performance of nyc from the rehearsal to the last show was staged differently. The initial one would have been brilliant if it were blocked better, it was officially cut because even with a 40,000 dollar budget and almost no new materials (they recycle the lumber, flats, etc. every year) there was no money to build a set for this number so it was done in front of the curtain, with the sides of the mansion still clearly visible. And my personal favorite, since all of the sets reversed to be something else any time someone opened a door (on which they refused to put real knobs) it showing a good deal of the other set.

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There were rumors of our school doing OotI last year. My school is about 99% white and none of the other 1% are into theatre. I'm extremely glad that plan fell through...

yagmcb......a bunch of whiny kids prancing about in peanuts costumes who couldn't sing or dance....oy

Uh the high school I went to did Once Upon This Island a few years ago. The cast was entirely white and the direction and vocal ability was so horrendous the show was almost unreconizable. In my nightmares I can still hear the skinny white girl attempting to belt "Mama Will Provide" and being so far from successful. The saddest part was, you could tell some of these kids were rather talented but this was not the right show for them.
I also saw an abbreviated version of Fiddler on the Roof put on by a middle school and watching a poor boy going through puberty trying to sing "If I Were a Rich Man" made me want to cry for him and his cracking voice.

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amen to that...except there's only a few that can do it well!

These stories make me feel good about myself.