I auditioned for Seussical and got a Who because the director thought I was conceited. I can't audition this year because I'll be in Israel and London!
Freshman year: Joseph...Dreamcoat (ensemble) Guys & Dolls (hot box girl, cuban dancer) Fiddler on the Roof (ensemble)
Sophomore Year: Cinderella (cinderella u/s, ensemble) The Music Man (ensemble) Die Zauberflote - not a musical, but whatever. (whore/slave) Oklahoma! (laurey)
Junior Year: Snoopy, the Musical (Sally Brown) Schoolhouse Rock, Live! (Shulie) Kiss Me, Kate (ensemble) Grease (Rizzo)
Senior Year (so far): Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larken)
and upcoming....The Wiz, Hansel and Gretl (another opera), and Once on This Island
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
And hopefully, senior year will be You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which will be fun cuz that's the only one of these that I can actually identify with Broadway, since I have the revival cast album. And I should be Charlie Brown, if I'm hearing all the high school drama/politics right, which will be muy fun!
Does anyone else find it really sad that high school are only allowed to do a certain kind of show, of which there are only about 10? The repeat numbers here are ridiculous!
We did one musical a year: Freshman- Children of Eden (ensemble) Sophomore- Crazy For You (ensemble) Junior- Show Boat (Julie) Senior- Seussical the Musical (Mayzie)
Plays we did: Imaginary Invalid Lend Me a Tenor Crow and Weasel (Crow) Brave Navigator (Nadia)-This isn't a very well-known show but it is amazing. It's about the Lingbergh baby kidnapping....very emotional and touching.
Freshman year Parade - Frankie Epps A Chorus Line - Mark The Secret Garden - (wasn't cast in it) Lost In Yonkers - (wasn't cast in it) La Dispute - (wasn't cast in it) David and Lisa - (wasn't cast in it)
Sophomore year BatBoy - Institute Man Sunday in the Park with George - Franz/Dennis Les Miserables: School Edition - Stage Manager Footloose - Ren McCormick The Dining Room - (wasn't cast in it) The Diary of Anne Frank - (wasn't cast in it) As You Like It - (wasn't cast in it)
Junior year Sweeney Todd - Anthony Hope West Side Story - Pepe Violet - Monty The Sound of Music - (wasn't cast in it) The Spitfire Grill - (wasn't cast in it) The Young and the Fair - (wasn't cast in it) London Suite - (wasn't cast in it) Holes - (wasn't cast in it)
And I think for my Senior year, some of the musicals in mind are Children of Eden, Follies, and Crazy For You.
AT high school... The Pirates of Penzance - ensemble Infancy - Mo The Dumb Play - director The Fifteen-Minute Hamlet - director The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) - director Chinamen - director The Last Five Years - Jamie Wellerstein (Seattle premiere! woot! woot!)
Shows I did while IN high school... The Sound of Music - ensemble/Rolf understudy Peter Pan - Indian Searching 4 Y - understudy (now playing Off-Broadway as "The Untouchables")
The Wiz Jesus Christ Superstar A Christmas Carol A Funny Thing... Forum The Civil War (torture!)
The only acting I did was in a one act called "Ladies in Waiting." I played Kate. She was really sarcastic, but we had to cut or change a lot of the funnier lines to make them clean enough. They wouldn't even let me say 'penis.'
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
I had very very bad luck in high school. i never recieved an even semi large role. i always had stupid "easy to re-cast" roles. My high school did four shows a year. Fall Play, Musical, Contest Play (which we compeated against local high schools the org. was called IHSA Illinois High School Association) and Spring Play. The fall play was usually a dramatic piece...key word is usually. Contest play was an original work. And spring play was a stupid "never heard of" comedy that was just a sorry excuse to get every dip **** on stage as they possibly could.
Freshman Year Musical: 1940's Radio Hour-Dancer Spring Play: Beverly Hillbillies-a Hillbilly
Sophomore Year Fall Play: Our Miss. Brooks-Stage crew/lights/sound/make up Musical: Grease-Dancer/ensemble Spring Play: May the Farce Be With You-i played an alien named Nerd...it was a rotten expierence.
Junior Year Fall Play: Do not for the life of me remember the name of the show, had a tiny itty bitty part. Musical: Annie Get Your Gun (or as i like to call it Annie Get Your Gun and Shoot Frank Butler 'cause he can't sing on key)- Various small speaking parts a few trio songs and Ensemble Contest Play: Smoked (original work about a woman suing a Tobacco company because she'd dying of Lung Cancer)-Stage Hand we got 7th place...out of 8 we would have gotten 8th if one school wouldn't have had a time disqualification. Spring Play: The Birds-Tax Collector...it sucked ass
Senior Year (and the real drama starts)
Fall Play: Rally Round The Flag Boys- I don't remember the name of my character but it was the largest role i ever recieved in high school Musical: Little Shop of Horrors-Ensemble...again. Okay this is where the drama happened. I thought i was a damn shoe-in for the Voice of Audrey II however the guy who got the role had been cast the year before in the lead as a matter of fact this guy had damn near every lead role since my sophomore year. he was very over rated. the ass had the nerve to call me up the day that the cast list had been posted and tell me "well i really didn't even want the role but it's going to be fun!" no "hey i'm sorry you didn't get the role you wanted" nothing. So i dropped out of the show. probibly a dumb thing but you know what?! i don't care, i was so tired of putting in all that work it just wasn't worth my time. Plus i had the option to graduate early but i decided not to because i wanted to get a lead in the Musical. Contest Play: Hail to the Cheif- Asst. Director/Stage Manager Spring Play: The Mouse Goes to Mars- it was a sequil to The Mouse that Roared- The President (on this show i was still a little upset about the musical so i decided to show up to practice...when i felt like it. Also i would leave early un announced and i would also sneak out during practice and smoke a cig.)
My Junior year i started to do Community theater...and found it's much more rewarding.
2001 Wait Until Dark-Lights/Set 2002 Neil Simon's Proposals- Lights 10 Little Indians-Lights/Props/Set(i spent 12 hours working on that set. Harold and Maude-Lights Funny Money-Asst Producer/Costumes Miracle on 34th Street-Choir Director/Props (working on this show was an absolute death wish.) 2003 Amadeus-Props Communicating Doors-Set Sly Fox-Police man/set Dracula-Stage Manager 2004 the 75th Season at my theater Woman In Black-Stage Manager Kindertransport- co-producer...the most rewarding show i've ever done. Laughter on the 23rd Floor-Kenny (MY FIRST BIG ROLE!) 2005 (none of these shows have happened yet) Grace and Gloire-Lights Murder in Green Meadows- Co-Producer Alter Call (original work)- acting? possible props? Enchanted Apirl- Stage Manager The Nerd- Lights? maybe props?
This is a fun question. Brings back some nice memories. Here GOES: 1993- Into the Woods (my first ever musical) ensemble (yes we added a 100 person ensemble, my high school was nuts and did big huge extravaganzas) also Cinderella broke her leg falling down the ramp, so they told me to do it since I knew every word to the show, so for 3 dress rehearsals up to 25 minutes before our jr. high matinee I was Cinderella 1994- Once on this Island-Mama Euralie (we made each god 3 people and added about 80 chorus, we were wacked) 1995- Grand Hotel- I played Greta which was one of the 3 people that looked after Grushinskya since we had to take out all homosexual themes, so we changed the words to all the songs and the 3 of us walked around like the 3 headed lesbian singing the new words (I'm pretty sure this was totally illegal) 1996- Kismet- Lalume (the only year we didn't do something random to add more people)
I was very lucky to have done some unknown stuff. That's what made me love theatre and history.
Freshman Year: Didn't do drama club Sophomore: Wizard of Oz (Tinman) Junior: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hero) Senior: Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson) & Les Miz Jr. (Marius) Did a crap load of shows outside school....something around like 90 shows altogether
I'm not out of middle yet (graduating this year), but still... Each year we do two productions, one well known musical, the other more of a play, but with music that the director writes.
6th: Sheer Luck Holmes- Opera Lady (the director wrote the show as a parody of Sherlock Holmes- don't ask) The Music Man- wasn't cast; did Oliver! at another company instead- Nancy
7th: Emma- Harriet Hello Dolly- Minnie
8th: Little Women- Beth Sound of Music- hasn't been done yet, auditions are tomorrow, keeping my fingers crossed for Maria.
And then, do you know Monseiur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you.
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Pirates of Penzance (Dancer --> Pirate/Cop) The Music Man (Dancer) The Wiz (Dancer) Footloose (Dancer) Bye Bye Birdie (Teen chorus) High Energy -- a Review (Dancer, chorus, small part)
I'm only in 12 grade. But here are the musicals and the parts I had in each grade: 9-Wizard of Oz-Dorothy 10-West Side Story-Spanish girl 11-Bye-Bye Birdie- Kim Macaffee 12-My Fair Lady- Eliza Dolittle.
I am very excited to have the lead role in one of my favorite musicals!
"There will always be women in rubber flirting with me"
~Maureen, RENT
Then there were various plays I tried out for and didn't get a part in (David and Lisa, Enemy of the People) before I gave up, figuring that the director just didn't think I was any good (I read a review of Ten Little Indians that said I was hard to understand, so maybe that was why). I don't remember my school doing any musicals other than Bye Bye Birdie (and that was a district-wide musical, not just for my school).
(If you don't mind me including Stage Crew roles...also, "?" indicates shows that haven't happened yet.)
FRESHMAN YEAR A Midsummer's Night Dream – Stage Manager Dancing at Lughnasa – Front-of-House Crew The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) – Stage Manager Gypsy – Sound Design/Operator The Crucible – Mercy Lewis
SOPHOMORE YEAR 12 Angry Jurors – Lights/Sound Operation A Night of Shel Silverstein – Director ("No Soliciting" Legally Blonde: the Musical – Lighting Design/Operator Harvey – Betty Chumley Annie – Lighting Design/Operator
JUNIOR YEAR Melancholy Play – Lighting Design/Operator Cymbeline – Stage Manager Othello – Stage Manager Words, Words, Words – Director Godspell – Soloist One Man, Two Guvnors – Sound Design/Operation Alice in Wonderland – Running Crew
SENIOR YEAR The Odd Couple – Director, Lighting/Sound/Set/Costume Designer Peter and the Starcatcher – Teacher The Canterbury Tales – ? The Waiting Room – Original Play, Playwright Heathers: the Musical – ? Once in a Lifetime – ? Seussical – ?
Then became involved in the opera program. We did children's operas every fall. More like musicals for children, we would go to area elementary schools and perform them. That brings back some crazy memories. :)
Middle school shows: an "I don't know how this was considered legal" Newsies, before the Broadway version became a thing, & Annie Jr. High School: Pippin, You're A Good Man,Charlie Brown (didn't participate), Les Mis, and Leader of the Pack. Community Theatre: Annie Jr., Godspell, and Les Mis.