<p>Maybe for you. Trust me, I’ve slept until noon plenty of times the day after a tough rehearsal (we do a lot of Saturday rehearsals). I think that depends on your school, just like sports.</p>
<p>at my school, the girls JV soccer is pretty much if you sign up, you would get in. one year they had to go around trying to get enough players for it. so its basically like putting in some extra time and you got an easy boost for your app</p>
<p>I have practice mon-friday at 6-8 AM all summer. No days off, intense conditioning. Including 3 games a week. Then during school 2-5:30 PM with practice at 6-9 AM on Saturdays and holidays.</p>
<p>There is someone that always has it worse than you, just remember that.</p>
<p>I was joking about this with a friend on the track team. While our school is quite competitive in a lot of places the track team is 2nd to last in the district(all the talent is sucked into other sports). However, our CC/distance running have some very talented/crazy people. So while he is nothing special here, he told me that when his family was considering a move up North(I think it was Michigan or something), he found his times would put him No1 in the state.</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe, what sports do you play?</p>
<p>I played golf for three years.</p>
<p>Now. Before you go off on me about how golf isn’t a sport.</p>
<p>We were not allowed to ride in those sweet golf carts, and we had to carry our own bags. PLUS, the courses we play are VERY difficult. We had girls get so sick that they had to get taken from the match more than once (we play during the fall, and here in SoCal fall still feels like summer, put that together with large hills and an extra 10-20 lbs. on your back…no bueno).</p>
<p>Okay, golf is a sport, it involves some serious exercise. BUT it’s not a contact sport. </p>
<p>Golf and musical theater don’t even compare to sports like soccer, football, rugby, hockey, etc. in the KIND of intense physical work they reqiure. It’s not just fitness, like being able to run and dance. It’s a strength and a willingess to risk injury that’s hard to explain to somebody that hasn’t really experienced it at a tough high school level.</p>
<p>Ahhh, willingness to risk injury. Yes. I thought we’d get there eventually.</p>
<p>My…I believe it was sophomore year. Two advanced dancers were doing a dance, and fell off of the stage and into the orchestra pit. It’s not much of a fall, but one broke her leg and the other broke an arm, I believe.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I have immense respect for people who play football and all the other rough contact sports. I just don’t like it that people tell me I don’t know what it’s like…I do. Trust me, there have been times when I have come VERY close to being VERY seriously injured.</p>
<p>Even last year, one of the girls at our annual Spring Concert shattered her kneecap during her performance.</p>
<p>I think this is one of those “apples to oranges” deal. The two are just so different, you can’t really say one’s more challenging than the other. They’re challenging and taxing the same level, but in different ways. We risk injury in that we’re running full speed towards the edge of a stage while still having to remember complex choreography and lines (that one depends more on the musical), and athletes are running at another person.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d rather be running at the other person…at least there’s something to cushion your fall. (Yes, I’m being sarcastic.)</p>
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<p>My tennis team is extremely competitive too, I barely made it past try-outs and I’m paying for lessons now for a top spot. God some people just kill at tennis lol</p>
<p>Their is a far greater chance of getting injured playing a contact sport though. Rugby in a gym for about half an hour(this is a PE class) and we had one guy pop out his shoulder after getting hit, and a sprained toe on somebody else. Mind you the game wasn’t anywhere near as intense as a actual sports team game. I don’t think that every time you guys dance you have someone falling off of the stage and getting hurt. Some kind of injury is almost certain to happen in a football game.</p>
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<p>That depends. Gymnastics is most certainly not a contact sport, but the risk of injury is very high. Lose your concentration for a split second and you can get really hurt (anything from a black and blue shin that lasts for three weeks to a broken neck).
There’s always someone injured at my gym.</p>
<p>I just find it hilarious that you think the intensity of contact sports and musical is comparable. It isn’t. That’s not a bad thing, musical theater requires a lot of things contact sports don’t, you just can’t compare their physical intensity.</p>
<p>Let’s just agree sports and theatre are just as demanding and difficult but in different ways.</p>
<p>They aren’t.</p>
<p>And how many musicals have you been in, mr. smarty pants?</p>
<p>If you have, you probably aren’t talking about the caliber of those that my school puts on. We have had people ask us if we pre-record the music because of the level of quality. We rehearse for a MINIMUM of 5 hours a day, 6 days a week, for three months. Which…let me think about it…is the same length of a sports season.</p>
<p>Like kevin63138 said, and as I said earlier: you just can’t compare the two.</p>
<p>I’ve been training my entire life. Well since like 4. My whole life is based around sports, I’d have to say I am more committed into sports than most broad way actors. Do you think good athletes only train during their sports seasons? As I said earlier, in the summer at 6 AM EVERY DAY I am up conditioning. I also do two additional sports. </p>
<p>I am sure theatre is time committing, but I highly doubt more than sports, and I can almost guarantee sports are a TON more physically demanding. </p>
<p>I don’t feel like arguing about it anymore, you’re not going to change your mind, and you’ll never change mine.</p>
<p>Do you really think broadway actors only train while they’re doing musicals? If you want to go anywhere, you HAVE to practice for at least an hour a day.</p>
<p>And I don’t know if you knew this, but most Broadway actors run a show an average of at LEAST a year, and that’s the bare minimum.</p>
<p>And you’re being very close-minded, by the way. I already stated that the two were different…maybe you shouldn’t make judgements about something you obviously know nothing about.</p>
<p>Please don’t put words into my mouth. I never said anywhere that broad way actors don’t work year round or anything. All I said was that I am probably more committed than most of them. </p>
<p>They are different, I never disputed that. Again, you’re not going to change my opinion as I probably won’t change yours. Lets agree to disagree. Thanks, bye.</p>
<p>You don’t think it takes commitment to commit to being away from your friends and family for years on end?</p>
<p>Like I said, you need to stop judging something that you obviously know NOTHING about.</p>
<p>I think a major mistake dank08 made is in his choice of words. He claimed that he is more committed to sports than most Broadway actors are more committed to acting. Well, of course, that’s false; Broadway actors probably spend 12+ hours a day practicing. But I would probably say that most sports are more demanding than musical theater (I say most because musical theater is without a doubt much more demanding than table tennis or golf). Then again, I’m too wimpy for either.</p>