Plays/Acting/Theater/Theatre, v. 2007.1
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Date: September 7, 2007
Categories: Life, The Universe, Things We like
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Requested by Alice, who is bursting to talk about it.
Actually, we’ve done this before.
Date: September 7, 2007
Categories: Life, The Universe, Things We like
Yay! I love you, GAPAs! *hugs all the GAPAs*
I’m thinking about auditioning for The Dining Room, but I have no idea where I can get a copy so that I’ll know what I’m getting into.
I haven’t been in many plays in the past, but since seeing Twelfth Night (an amazing play, by the way – really, really, good), I’ve been simply dying to get into theater. Depending on how many parts for children there are, I want to audition for the local production of A Christmas Carol. Supposedly it’s the dark and gritty version, which would be fun, and has costumes based on the drawings of Arthur Rackham (sp?), whom I love.
hooray!
Am I the only one who finds random lines from plays in my head occasionally?
“Get out get out GET OUT! I’m his one and only his ONE AND ONLY you’re stepping on my toenail clippings! I’m the only one who gets their toenails clpped around here Get OUT get OUT GET OUT!”
3- Huh? Haha. What’s that from?
I use Bartlett’s Quotations . . . often, to say the least, and I get a lot of quotes from that. But I can’t think of any now. All I can think of is the slogan for Twelfth Night:
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
And of course this one:
“Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
When I was eight I saw Miracle on 34th Street or whatever it is, and I vaguely remember wanting to be in it.
Now I think I’m going to go finish organizing my furniture and read Shakespeare. A warm bed is a most enticing prospect.
Theatre…theatre…
Most of the plays I have been in were Jewish Communtiy plays. They were amazingly ridiculous.
Though if my school has a play open to all school I’ll audition.
I’m in drama class!!!!!!!!! The best teacher in the district. It is verily much fun.
I like plays. The most recent one I went to was………….. an Irish play called “Stones in His Pockets”. It was VERY good. It was especially good because there were only 2 actors and they played a mix of around 15 characters. It was so COOL!!!!!!!!
You could always tell when they were going to switch characters because they would walk around to the edge of the stage as if there first character was walking away and then turn around again as another character. It was even funnier because the actors were both men. Each of them had a woman character, so you could always laugh at their squeaky voices. I know that it probubly sound like a confusing play, but it really wasn’t. Each character had their own personality. Like, wach character walked different, talked different, held themselves different. It was amazing how the actors could just swtch personalitys like that! The play was about an Irish town that was the setting of a romance movie. To make the movie seem real, the directors in the play hired all the locals to act as minor characters. My favorite character was an old man who had alot of drinking problems. I guess he was short because the actor would always walk with his knees bent when he was that character. He had a very scratchy voice and his favorite saying was “You can’t fire me! I’m in the can!”
I’ve done some acting in the past – I was in all my middle school’s musicals, and I was Peter Pan in Peter Pan in eighth grade. I didn’t audition last year (9th grade) for the musical because I didn’t even know auditions happened…and I would have been way too overwhelmed anyway. But I might audition this year, depending on the musical. I was in Carousel this summer, which was fun too.
But I also like writing plays – it’s one of my favorite genres I studied last year. I wrote a terrible play, but I’m going to blame that on my teacher because she said I should use that plot instead of a better one I wanted to use. I think we have screenwriting this year, and I’m curious to see how different it is from playwriting.
7- *cough* So, Pan . . . when are you going to send in your script?
So, in April here’s this thing where they pick the three best high school plays in the state, and then they get the high schools to put them on. And there are workshops of all kinds, from hair to writing to acting, and dances, and all sorts of things. I want to go SO BADLY. Ah.
Who, when’d this pop up?
Oh…yesterday…
Speaking of, yesterday I tried out for a play.
January 16 or something. It’s about murder.
idk if I’ll get in, the part they had me read wasn’t great for an audition piece.
I love acting! I’ve been acting since I was eight. Unfortunately, it looks as if our drama group will be coming to a close seeing as our director is probably getting married.
i’ne been doing drama camp at a theater which i shall not name, and we make up our own play. it’s realy fun.
i want to try working with scrips sometime because i’ve never done it. i’m bad at acting but it’s realy fun.
yay! theater! plays!
5- do you mean plays put on by your JCC? thats where i do most of my plays, and ours are rarley redicoulous, especially the teen shows. the little kid shows can be, but they just got a great musical director (one of my friends, he’s only in 9th grade but he’s really good and in general awsome seriously, he’s better then a lot of the “proffesional” adults they’ve gotten in the past. also,him, another one of my friends and I are writing a musical!)
speaking of JCC shows, i have auditons tomorrow. for Fame. i hope i don’t screw this audition up like i did the last one.
one of the best quotes and one of my mottos: (from the play the fanasticks)
I am special. I am special. Please, God, please don’t let me be normal.
please escuse the ramleiness of this post.
to continue with the JCC play trend I’ve done the following at my JCC and am going to (probably) be in Beauty and the Beast this year.
Free to be You and Me (3rd grade), Stuart Little (4th), Aladdin (7th), Once Upon A Matress (9th), Fiddler on the Roof (10th), Little Shop of Horrors (11th).
Whoa, I didn’t see this therd. Scary. Yeah, I’m an actor. I’m planning on being an actor/director. What I NEED for my birthday is a video camera.
14-I love little shop of horrors! “Be a dentist…It’s like shooting puppies with a BB gun. Be a dentist…”So funny!
I’m an actor, too. I got a semi-major part in the upcoming school play ‘Bye bye Birdy’, I like my part. My plays are…
Alice in wonderland (3rd grade), Rumplestiltskin (5th grade), Joseph, and the Amazing Techinicolor dreamcoat (6th grade), Grease (7th Grade), Snow white (7th grade), and now…Bye bye Birdy (8th grade). I feel like I’m forgetting something…
We’re doing Little Shop of Horrors for a school musical this year.
There’s no way it can be as good as last year.
I’ll probably just be in the chorus; after all I am a freshman with very little previous experience.
Still, a part of me can’t wait until January.
Previous productions I’ve been in: Barnum(7th grade, spring 06 musical, Mrs. Stratton), The Phantom Tollbooth(8th grade, spring 07 play, Dodecahedron). I think that’s all.
i just got back from fame auditions! they went rather well.
I LOVE THEATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going to try out for our next local play I think, I think we are doing OLIVER!, but I am not sure. I wish the auditions were for dancing instead of singing though, because then I would have a much better chance of making it, singing isnt my specialty, and *caughs* I cant very well. I mean I can carry a note, but there are kids who are MUCH better singers than me at my age. Anway, I LOVE THEATRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Escpecailly the dancing part……..*sighs, daydreams* Its so lively and wonderful and uplifting……*daydreams*
I haven’t ever done any acting, but people are always telling me I should. I think it’d be fun, I just never have. I get stage fright, so I’d probably forget everything though….
I find musical theater loveably cheesy.
The longest thing I have ever written was my Vlascar script, and that was just for fun. I don’t really have any ambitions in movie-making, alhtough I can’t deny that I would get a kick out of seeing my Vlascar thing as a real movie.
I do have ballet auditiouns coming up soon, though.
21-[/anger] ‘loveably cheesy’? Is that an Insult to theater?
I was reading Shakespeare today…. I get lines stuck in my head every now and then, similear to what hppens with songs. It’s quite annoying, actually. But, I’ve learned a few bits and pieces to say to impress/annoy people. Today it was from The Taming of the Shrew.
Baptisa: What, will my dughter prove a good musician?
Hortensio: I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier.
Bap.: What, then thou can’st not break her to the lute?
Hor.: Why no, for she hath broke the lute to me! I did but tell her she mistook her frets, and bowed her hand to teach her fingering, when ‘frets?’ quoth she, ‘I’ll fume with them!’ and with that word she struck me on the head and through the lute my pate made way….
Ah, so wonderful. I think I got it right. Pie me if I didn’t, that was from memory.
One of my other favorites is, “Methinks thou art a general offence, and all men should beat thee.” *evil giggle*
I like the line from Feste in Twelfth Night that goes something like:
“I am not a fool, I am a twister of words.”
That was definitely wrong, but it’s been a while and he spoke rather fast. I’ve going to find the actual quote, write it down, and stick it on my binder along with the various other amusing things.
22-Not at all! I love it, although I’m really hopeless at singing. But it’s really fun to watch. I enjoy (some) cheesy things muchly.
Those are fun quotes. I really want to take a Shakespeare course, but the’re not for Freshmen. Or Freshwomen.
The actual quote is rather long and rambling, involving fools, husbands, and, oddly enough, fish.
25- Yeah, ditto.
I was also thinking about some of the scenes in Much Ado about Nothing, when Benedik and Beatrice are soundly abusing each other with their wit.
Lucentio: You must not mistake my neice, signor. There is a merry war betwixt the two of them.
Beatrice: Alas! He gets nothing by that, in our last meeting, four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed by one. And if he hath wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse.
I think there’s more, but I can’t remember it at the moment.
(27) Much Ado is much fun. For my college production I composed the song music, which was very exciting to do.
My acting part was, um, Hero’s father, Leonato. I went to a woman’s college, by strange chance. By virtue of being the tallest girl in school, I was invariably cast in men’s roles. “Dear Mom, I have the male romantic lead in the spring play….”
In four years and seven shows, I did play one female, a part for which I shamelessly lobbied: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Ooh! I went to the Thespian Club meeting today, and so, by pure logic, I must be a thespian! W00t! There are all sorts of exciting field trips and such like. I can hardly wait for the next meeting, which I will be on time to. This time I had to visit my science teacher so I was late.
*horror* I got the names wrong!!! It’s Leonato, not Lucentio. Lucentio is one of the guys in The Tamiong of the Shrew. Sorry. *pies self*
28~ That sounds fun. Leonato isn’t exactly a romantic role though. That’s so neat about composing the song music, as well. I’m always amazed by the array of things all the GAPAs do or have done.
If we were the sorts of people who live conventional, unidirectional lives, we wouldn’t be here.
(30) No, but I also played Lysander in Midsummer Night’s Dream. And a hen-pecked husband in a French farce, among other curiosities. By chance, I played a dragoon in Patience — as my dad had done many years before.
31~ Yes, and I’m glad you all are here. We’d miss you terribly if you wern’t.
32~ Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I read your comment just as the liberary was closing, and the computer went blank. So, I rathar composed that reply in the car on the way home, and then I got on our computer and posted it….
32- What French farce, may I ask? There was a play at the local theater last season that was described as exactly that.
(34) I’m embarrassed to admit, the name escapes me. It was a one act in rhymed verse and we performed it on a double bill with an English farce, Box and Cox.
Never was I so nervous for a performance. I looked a fright: my hair was teased out into a pseudo-Afro and sprayed silver, I had a huge black eye (courtesy of make-up); the part called for me to be continually tripping over my feet — and the man with whom I was madly in love *coughwhomIworshippedfromafarcough* came to watch the show. At my invitation, of course. Self-inflicted agony was a specialty of mine.
Oh, ouch. Well, he came, from what you say! Sounds like a great costume. *snickers* Nah, you’d look lovely no matter what.
Heh. Did you have a nice time, though?
The farce that I did not see but could have was called “Don’t Dress For Dinner.” It had another name too, though . . .
(36, 37) I did have a great time, in fact. Once I said my first line, I was fine.
And Stephen was quite complimentary. If you can’t win ’em, at least you can entertain ’em, I always say. Fortunately, he was very considerate of worshipful females who towered over him, and we became great friends for many years.
Aww, gee, Midnight Fiddler. I shall have to bake you a special (vegan) pie for that. *wanders off to the kitchen*
I was in Willy Wonka over the summer. It was a circus production at my camp though. I was Wonka! It was so cool.
YAY IMPROV CLUB! W00T! happiness. anyways it’s loads of fun. i’m joining stage crew as well.
38~ To throw?! Thank you ever so much! Nah, it’s true.
I get stage fright. Badly. I don’t know how I would retain any lines doing that sort of thing. I hate being so shy.
I’ve only ever had parts with two lines at the most. However, that doesn’t mean that I can’t have a commanding presence. In “If Only I Had A Green Nose” I was a most prominent figure.
does anyone else like improv?
42~ “If Only I Had A Green Nose”?!?!?!?! Do I dare ask?
43~ I’ve never done it.
44- Yes, you dare. You just did ask, or as good as asked. Basicaly, If Only I Had A Green Nose was a very cheesy play put on my grandmother’s church’s drama camp, which I went to one year. It was about some people who lived in a town and bore th ridiculous name of Wemmick. Some guy named Willy Withit came along and declared that green noses were the latest fashion. Green noses turned into red noses, which in turn turned into purple noses, a great many cheesy songs were sung, and in the end everyone learned an important lesson about conformity. I can’t remember what happened to Willy Withit.
I was the mayor’s wife, and as such, I had one line which I can’t remember. I sang a few songs, but I mostly stood in the background with my colorful nose in the air and acted like a complete snob.
43- I’m going to go to an improv workshop later this year, I think.
45~ Sounds lovely. I can just see you with your brilliantly hued schnozz acting haughty. Except for the minor problem that I don’t know what you look like….. Ah well. *dies laughing*
ooh! Improv! yes! amazing!
47- I have pics somewhere.
Aaaaaaaand I found them. Wow, my face has changed a lot in three years.
I wish I could post some of them, but they’re in my scrapbook, not my computer.
43- yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to the point where everytime i see some of my friends we spend quite a while doing improv…… we tend to play ‘who’s line’ which is an improv game in which two people each take two slips of paper with a line on them, they then have to work that line into the scene. awsome game.
44- never? it’s a really fun thing to do and a good skill to have.
I’m in a drama class where we do improv basically the whole time. It’s a lot of fun. Eventually we’re going to pick out our best scenes and put them together into some kind of performance.
52~ Yes, it sounds like such fun. I’ve never exactly done anything with theater at all, though I’d like to. If I ever get the chance I’ll try it.
next tuesday i’m probably auditioning for annie!
in the children’s choir because they’re preforming it at my local high school!
Alice~ today at lunch I thought about you because the prism in the window was making my nose green! I looked down and just aobut died laughing.
55~ Good luck!!
16- you’re in gr.8? is agagabagabag in gr.8 too? weird i thought you were older/same age as me.
57-agagabagabag is not in 8th. Which grade are you in, then? I’m confused.
so much for my answer…
58- She’s in 9th. What grade’s Ag in?
59- excuse me for being off the blog for two days. honestly! joking, ofcourse. Alice is right, I am in nineth grade. but it doesn’t matter that much, we’re all musers here. so, what grade is agagabagabag in?????
60- he’s thirteen and in grade7.
55- wait a minute… are you in the children’s choir or in the highschool?
*sigh* Our choir teacher is going to do a musical with the middle school this year… We’re pretty sure she’s gonna go for Wicked. So I’m kind of nervous now, waiting to see if she’ll murder it or not. Wish my school had a drama program…
Guess what? I’m in Beauty and the Beast and I’m Mrs. Potts! It’s my first time having a big role, a song or anything like that! yay!
65- That’s great! Good for you!
…Who’s Mrs. Potts?
I’ve seen a lot of plays lately.
Twelfth Night
The Importance of Being Earnest
9 Parts of Desire
I have to write a review of one of the latter two, or anything else I happen to see this semester. I can’t do a review of Twelfth Night because I saw it in the summer before school started.
Also, I’m going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival next spring, I think. My mom says she’ll pay if I don’t have $260 by the necessary time. I get to see:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fences
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
I’m not sure I want to see the last one, since it isn’t necessarily . . . appropriate, but oh well. Neither was 9PoD.
I am very excited and clearly on my way to becoming a proper thespian. Tomorrow I’m going to a dance/improv workshop, and last Tuesday I did an acting workshop with an actor who came to my school.
Also, my theatrical grandfather is coming to visit sometime this fall, I think, and in the spring we’re going to go to Santa Barbara to see him in a play. I think. Very little of this rather long post is really set.
I think I’m going to talk to my acting teacher about being an usher or something and therefore get into A Christmas Carol free. It’s the main winter play in our local theater, and I wanted to audition for it, but the auditions were ages ago and I’m too nervous anyway.
My school is doing The Dining Room, another thing I didn’t audition for but will naturally try to see.
I really need a job, you can see.
I wonder how much of that will get snipped…
None? Amazing!
i don’t know if my school is doing anything big. the musical theater usualy is the gr11 and 12. but the dance is doing lord of the flies.
I was in all of my middle school’s musicals. In fifth grade, I was in the chorus of Bye Bye Birdie (I was awful at my audition for a lead). In sixth grade, I was in the chorus for The Wizard of Oz (I got a callback for the part of the Wicked Witch of the West). In seventh grade, I was a playground kid in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (I tried out for Lucy). I had one line, but made various appearances including one as the Sheriff of Nottingham’s assistant in a Robin Hood scene. This year, my school is doing Annie. I plan to try out for Miss Hannigan.
hehehehe… i’m doing a Presidents and Politicians play this year, and it’s all abouut famous political peeps visiting Dover, NH.
How do you do a dance to Lord of the Flies???
My niece and nephew (but especially my nephew) are big fans of the Animal Planet show, Meerkat Manor. Which in case you haven’t heard of it, is a bit like a soap opera (only more interesting) about meerkats (duh).
Anyway, I had thought that it would be neat, if viewers, sent in poems about each of the differents meerkats, and meerkat mobs, and then the people who produce the show would pick the best ones, set them to music, and make a show out of it.
Show title: Meerkats
The name should be an obvious pun on, ‘Cats.’
A friend of mine and I have been discussing starting a theater group of some sort, but we’ve never really gotten around to doing it. It would be fun to do the Beggar’s Opera or something from Shakespere. I ♥ Shakespere.
I &heart; Shakespeare too.
75- It’s & hearts;, plural.
But yes, Shakespeare is great.
Much Ado About Nothing is probably my favorite. I can sympathize with Beatrice!
Have you seen the movie with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson?
No. I got to se it at the Folger. It was the best performance I’ve seen there yet, the Tempest was the worst. A good play, but they did some things that were overly tech-y and would have been better left out.
Bother. Just before Jenni bought tickets for the Beard of Avon, some corporation bought the entire theater! And Jenni found another play, but it looks…questionable. Highly.
I love Shakespeare too. I’m really glad that my parents got a subscription to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. We’re going to perform an abridged version of Twelfth Night in humanities after we read it. I’m not expecting a big part, since some of the schools best actors are in my class.
Hello. This thread is dead, but there’s still hope for it.
I wish to post something about Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Revive? P*****?
i’m in cats right now… meerkats???
so, like, the characters would be meerkats that express themselves thru dance and song?
yet another great idea for a museical.
hahaha! get it? MUSEical?! HAHAHA!!!! *cough* *ahem* *sigh*
84- Oh, finally. I’m a total drama nerd too