We did this a few years ago and it was really fun - and you can all use a dose of fun at this time. I believe JeffandAnn started this on here, and I started it on the Theatre/Drama board. It helps to remember why you are going through this process - think of your kid up on the stage and how much you enjoyed seeing them! List the type of person/animal/vegetable your student played leading up to their college careers, but don’t list the name of the role. So, what’s your kid been up to??? Her is the list I posted about my son:
My son has been a gang member, someone’s sub conscience, a homosexual aids activist, a general who murders cows, a pompous boss, a boy sexually attracted to a horse, a murdering barber, and - presently - a professor who gets syphilis from one of his students!
Last year’s (senior year) roles certainly made my D “mother of the year”. She aborted a child, disowned a child, drove a child to suicide and abandoned a child to a stranger all in the space of about 6 months.
@toowwonderfull - all of the above actions (except, for the obvious reason, the first one) seemed perfectly reasonable to me in the space of the last six months while dealing with my 15 years old.
A Capulet, a newsboy, a boy with a really big flying peach, the crippled son of a hunchback, a Shakespearean fool, a lovesick teenager, a two-headed troll, a Golden Ticket finder, and (currently) Jacob’s favorite son.
D was an underage, pregnant, latent homicidal maniac, with choreography that included repeated, seated fan kicks in a short dress downstage center of very questionable morality (my wife is *still * recovering from that one), committed wanton adultery *in the woods/i, helped murder an innocent student while engaged in very licentious activities with the professor (ok, this play was pretty disturbing), twice played showgirls of obvious ill repute, but was redeemed by Rogers and Hammerstein (and by being strapped into a corset throughout an Oscar Wilde play, although, apparently, some of the cast members liked to parade around in them backstage sans dresses, gasp!).
LOL, EmsDad. I sympathize with your wife, since we are now beginning to understand what plays/scenes we will be seeing at the college level. Lots of f-bombs and “relationship” stuff. The sophomore play (the kids aren’t into the casting pool until spring of sophomore year so they do their own production in the fall) totally freaked me out - I had no idea where to look!!! For S’s first play through casting he played Oscar Wilde, and knowing how blind-sided I was by the other production told me up front that there may be “draws dropped”. It’s only gonna get more freaky!
Keep the lists coming - I love trying to figure out what plays and musicals people are talking about!
I’ll play along: The D played a whore, a suicidal daughter, a sister-witch, a jealous lesbian, an amorous dragon, a smart talking NYC salon owner (orignal play so don’t hurt yourselves on this one) and a naive but cute salon employee.
A high school basketball star who loves to sing, a preacher, a tin man, a Englishman who pretends to not understand English, a millionaire in NY, a policeman who can’t accept the concept of redemption, a magical creature, a Scottish nobleman who kills a corrupt king, a fast talking Instrument salesman, a doctor in the 1800s, a murderous barber, a preacher (again), a womanizing Spaniard, the son of God, and (currently) a married man who strayed in 1680s Massachusetts on trial for being a witch.
A homosexual male version of a famous female star-crossed lover, a sleazy lawyer who gets women off their murder charges, a guy who can’t get enough of his shapoopie (sp?) and is friends with above-mentioned fast talking salesman, a Roman general who dies a bloody death surrounded by bloody, dismembered kinsman and many other dead people, a young German who can’t keep his face out of his piano teacher’s “apples”, a Nazi trying to find a singing family on the run, a Jew who did not escape the Nazis, the uncle of an island girl who gets turned into a tree, a nasty old man who covets his money more than anything else, the 1680’s deputy governor of Massachusetts who believes in witches, a weird little dude who works in a chocolate factory, the best bud of one of the best pickpockets in London, and currently a dog in a family with flying kids.
A spirit that haunts a miser, a dim-witted friend of a poor little rich girl, a Japanese immigrant who is friends with a bunch of puppets, an aspiring writer from Massachusetts with three sisters, an evil troupe leader who is trying to persuade the king’s son to set himself on fire, a witch who likes her greens, a whiny niece to a wealthy Yonkers shopowner. . .I think I got them all – some from her school, some community theatre, some professional.
A prostitute in Berlin, the xtra cheery daughter of a mean rich guy, a stay-at-home housewife, the muse of a post-impressionist painter, a mother who takes in and cares for the girl who killed her daughter, a milkmaid waiting years for her second kiss, a very young star-crossed lover, the Latina version of the star-crossed lover, a Charles Manson follower, a flapper chorus girl who wants to be the star, a chorus girl who dreams of dancing with her absent father, an apple tree.
^^See - that’s why I said vegetable, although I guess an apple tree would be considered fruit! Wow to the class of 2019! So many roles in so many great plays/musicals. I’ve been stuck on a few (MTDadand Proud - policeman who can’t accept redemption?) and some made me laugh out loud (shapoopie - there is no better word!). I hope this has given you a little break from all the worrying. If you can remember back to the auditions for all of these shows, you were probably worried then, too, and look how well the kids did and I’m sure they had a blast doing it!
Nicest kid in town, lovely lady, orphaned daughter of an unwed mother, tap dancing country girl from Deadrock, girl on a ladder, ditzy flapper, dew drop fairy, snow queen, spoke six languages, goddess of the underworld, gentleman’s paramour, turned into a halcyon bird, in a tragic relationship with Romeo, and precocious sister of Jo.
