<p>Who are our CCers involved in theatre and what shows have you been a part of? Do you have a Thespian Troupe? Leadership roles? Discuss.</p>
<p>Okay so I'm uber involved in theatre and I've done every play/musical since my freshman year.</p>
<p>Little Shop of Horrors
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Harvey
Romeo and Juliet
Once on this Island
The Odd Couple
The Me Nobody Knows (70s musical...fun!)
The Dining Room (Play w/ series of vignettes revolving around none other than...the dining room!)
Pippin
Arsenic & Old Lace </p>
<p>And next week we open Marcus is Walking, a series of vignettes revolving around a car. (Sound familiar? See: The Dining Room)</p>
<p>I've been singing for 9 years and this is my 7th year doing musicals.</p>
<p>I've done:
The Music Man-townsperson
Guys & Dolls-Arvide Abernathy (yes it's originally a guys role but we didn't have enough guys so they made it a girls role XD)
The King And I-Wife number 9 (yes that was my name w00t!)
Oklahoma!-3rd girl from the left
Cinderella-Grandma (and the understudy for the Stepmother)
Fiddler on the Roof-hopefully Yente, if all goes according to plan. ^_^</p>
<p>Our theater was reported to be really good, so I auditioned for "Cinderella." I made it, got a semi-lead, and hated every minute of it. I tried some Shakespeare second semester and got Portia, then realized how miserable theater made me and dropped out 2 days into rehearsal. I hate everybody that does theater in my school. They are all obnoxius, insecure, arrogant people. I'm so glad I got out before it was too late and I turned into one of them.</p>
<p>I've only been a techie for two shows:</p>
<p>Footloose (AMAZING)
Pride and Prejudice (right now)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (spring musical)</p>
<p>I'm going to be in the pit for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, hopefully.</p>
<p>Wow asian, I must say I've never met (talked to) someone who has had such a terrible experience with theatre! That sucks...</p>
<p>I've done every musical my school has put on since seventh grade (we're small, so we just have the one musical every year).</p>
<p>Music Man: Pickalittle Lady
45 Minutes from Broadway: Mona Monroe [I honestly think the director just made up a lot of how this play went; it was so weird]
Anything Goes: Passenger
Pajama Game: Factory Worker
South Pacific: Ensign Bessie Noonan
Crazy for You: We'll see in January!</p>
<p>I only got into theatre/acting about four years ago (end of 8th grade/beginning of freshman year) so I don't have a TON of experience...</p>
<p>At school, I've done five plays and two musicals (I'm primarily an actor)
Great Expectations
The Dinner Party: A Detective Story (an original one-act for competition)
If Kitchen Tables Could Talk (same as above)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Rehearsal for Murder (the current show- I have a lead! we go up the end of November)
Beauty and the Beast
Aida</p>
<p>Community-wise, I've played
The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz
an ensemble member in Godspell
three small supporting roles in really terrible children's community theatre productions</p>
<p>Our Spring Musical at school is 'Funny Girl' - I think I may just be in the ensemble for that so that I can do the Drama Festival play as well.</p>
<p>Lol kevin63138 did you refer to southeasttitan as 'asian'? Oh the hilarity of the freudian slip (jk).</p>
<p>To be serious though, I tend to agree with southeasttitan. I do not try out for plays or musicals despite the prodding people give me to try out (decent voice my ass--it isn't terribly hard to sing on-key) simply because the people in theater are all the same--high-strung, back-stabbing, arrogant people. </p>
<p>This is for my school, and I am sure that there are drama programs in most other schools where this is not the case.</p>
<p>I know both the actor and actress who almost always get the lead parts in our school plays/musicals. They love drama and are perhaps the most insecure, insincere people I know. They will talk about other people with such malice, then treat them like best friends. I sometimes doubt whether I am one of their best friends, even though I count them among mine. They're incredibly bright and interesting, but they are also good actors who use real life as play rehearsal. I just don't know whether to ever believe them.</p>
<p>And as much as I sometimes want to just get up on stage and deliver a monologue to 500 people, I just can not do so as long as I know that in doing so I will have to join that den of inequity.</p>
<p>I do tech crew instead, whenever homework isn't killer. Now THAT is fun. I get to watch the play for free and it's really fun to interact with people behind the scenes--the people who will not be recognized for their participation, but do the work because they feel it is fun. Because of that attitude, I can go to play practice and relax even if I have to deal with annoying people trying to give me a hard time because it's Hell Week and they're stressed.</p>
<p>TECH CREW FTW.</p>
<p>Haha kevin, I love that you assume my name was "southeastasian." It's actually southeastTITAN, and I'm white, but that's okay. On this forum I can see how you'd make that mistake :)</p>
<p>You know it's not theater I've had a bad experience with. My mom is the artistic director of a really successful theater company in my city (Minneapolis, which has arguably the biggest theater scene in the country next to New York). She works with some of the best professional actors around and has won several major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, etc. So I've grown up around theater.</p>
<p>But it's the theater kids at my school that just make it awful. For some reason, theater at my school (consistantly award-winning) draws the most insecure, arrogant people around and it's just painful to be with them. They're one big, obnoxious, weird bisexual clique. (The bi thing isn't bad on its own, it's just that they are ALL bi and they ALL feel the need to rub it in everybody else's faces and are constantly screaming "homophobia" at anybody who calls them on it.)</p>
<p>But I'm glad most of you guys have had better experiences than I have with your school theaters. Mine just must be the exception, not the rule.</p>
<p>Enderkin, I just read your post, and it's funny because it's the EXACT same deal with my school. When I got into the musical as a freshman, there was so much nastiness and behind-my-back stuff by these ****ed-off seniors who wanted the part. I HEARD them talking about me all the time, it was so rude and just awful for me being so young. When I got into the Shakespeare play I just stepped back and said...is this a community I want to be a part of? I have never been happier to quit anything in my life.</p>
<p>LOL!!!...Wow, yeah I seriously thought your name was "southeastasian" hahah.</p>
<p>That sucks that your guys' theatre kids are like that. It's great at my school...We're like 1 big family and this year we've got a lot of new people (as always).</p>
<p>Oh and actors > techies. :P j/k...maybe xP</p>
<p>Wow, sounds like "High School Musical" without the sweetness.</p>
<p>And with worse singing. :P</p>
<p>Theatre at our school is really good, and I've seen two productions (though one was just a video) and they were both awesome. However, I'm too unsuited for theatre to have any desire to try out. I do pit instead, which is really intense here, but that's okay because I'm more than halfway decent at viola (I can sing on-key, but that's about it, and I just can't act).</p>
<p>Wow I had forgotten to mention the bisexual part of my drama club as well...how utterly bizarre!</p>
<p>They just kind of have these 'parties' where people get 'confused' for members of the opposite sex. </p>
<p>And they tell me this and I'm like, what? Why? He's obviously a he! You mistook nothing!</p>
<p>I was a techie for Grease. I only got into theatre last year, and I only do the spring musical because I'm too busy for the fall play and they don't need as many people.</p>
<p>High School Musical is crap...</p>
<p>Yeah, the theatre people at my school are really like our family because we spend at least 5 hours per day together for roughly 3-4 months. I'm sorry you guys had such a bad experience :(</p>