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the performance that made you choose theatre
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#50re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:57pm
I saw Cats when I was 7. Front row with the runway next to my right arm. It remains one of the most memorable nights of my life.
That was IT for me.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#51re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:14am
I saw Little Women at my community theatre. After that I was the co-lead trumityer(sp?), I was 5 so it was big to me. I was a HUEMUNGO Wizard of OZ fan too. Those 3 things were the pre- theatre mania stage. Then my mom and dad took me to the 1st nat. tour of Beauty and the Beast, and thats were it ALL started!
OH!!!! I forgot! I was a DISNEY kid when I was little, so all the music inspired me to do theatre I guess youed say.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
Coondiggitydogg
Stand-by Joined: 7/18/04
#52re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:15amI was randomly doing local theatre just having fun and whatever not really thinking anything. My mom took me to see "Big" and all the kids looked like they were having so much fun on stage and the lead boy (i dont even remember his name) sang this song and he went for the high note and couldn't hit it and i just looked at my mom and told her. "he can't sing. I'm a hundred times better." and so i was like i'm gonna be better then him. And whenever i enter a theatre or read a play or listen to a great singer i get the craziest butterflies and i just wanna leap out of my seat and take over.
StrStruckDreamr9
Featured Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#53re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:02pmFor me, it was the national tour of Miss Saigon. My first musical was actually Fame, but I really fell in love with theater when I saw Miss Saigon. I just sat there in awe watching (excuse the corniness) the magic on that stage. My cousin and her husband were in the cast, and they took me and my family backstage. That was it for me...I was on love.
StrStruckDreamr9
Featured Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#54re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:03pmFor me, it was the national tour of Miss Saigon. My first musical was actually Fame, but I really fell in love with theater when I saw Miss Saigon. I just sat there in awe watching (excuse the corniness) the magic on that stage. My cousin and her husband were in the cast, and they took me and my family backstage. That was it for me...I was in love. Updated On: 7/29/04 at 05:03 PM
#55re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:07pmIt was seeing Les Miserables on the Tonys. After that, I was obsessed.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#56re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:16pm
I saw Betty Buckley in a local production of The Sound of Music when I was 4 and I remember it so vividly. I remember being glued to everything happening on the stage and begged my grandmother to take me to more shows like that.
**Sidenote: Betty Buckley stood at the front of the theater greeting people as they left. She scared me a little when she hugged me because it was the first time I had ever seen someone from the TV in person - and I didn't quite know how that was possible at that age. It's amazing that I remember so much of that day being so young....
#57re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:19pmits hard to pinpoint when i got obcessed. it was actually relatively recent when my english teacher (one of the biggest les mis freaks i have yet to meet) had a field trip to see the tour and i thought it would be fun. i rented the TAC at blockbuster and i became obcessed. everytime i go to a show i start crying during the overture because i want to be up there so bad.
Thou giveth fever.
#58re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 5:24pm
"too bad the movie is a shameful bastardization of the stage version"
That sentence applies to most movie versions of musicals. A Chorus Line is no exception.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#59re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:24pm
ok the show that made me chose theatre... hmmm it sort of evolved over the years... like the first show i ever saw on broadway was 'les miserables' and my mom personally knew the guy that played 'javert', so after the show we got to go backstage and meet everyone and see the costumes and dressing rooms etc and to me it was absolutely facinating for some reason so i set my sights on the role of 'eponine'
then i got my hands on the recording of rent... i loved the music so much i researched the play on the internet, bought the book and eventually ended up seeing it live... everyone looked like they were having so much fun and i love how close-knit the cast memebers are so i hope to someday play mimi
BroadwayDreams2
Understudy Joined: 7/4/04
#60re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:53pmMy 8th grade music class. The teacher was (and still is) a POTO freak. She helped turn me into one. She had a POTO segment where she cast everyone and we read through the script and listened to the cast recording. She cast me as Christine. I fell in love with Michael Crawford's voice and went to see the show that spring. Then I kind of changed my mind for a while, then I saw Cabaret and it all came back to me. But it wasnt until I saw Idina in Wicked that I really knew that I wanted to do that forever.
BalletGirl85
Featured Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#61re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:18pm
I started performing before I saw a show...kinda did it as a hobby because I loved dancing and my dance studio was connected to a pro theater in my area owner-wise, and I kinda went from one thing to the next. The first show I saw was the Grease tour in I think 1994, and I don't remember much of it. Then I saw Grease on Broadway in September 1996 (my first Broadway show) and I was excited out of my mind. My 11-year-old journal reads...
"I am definately going to be a Broadway actress when I'm older. A lot of people say so. If only my mom will take me to an audition, then I'd be all set for the stage. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, here I come!"
So I guess seeing Grease on Broadway made me want to be on Broadway my future...although I'm still confused by my Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comment. Either I wanted to follow them in their successful child actor -slash- young billionaire habits...or eating disorder, here I come! Sorry, THAT was bad taste.
#62re: the performance that made you choose theatre
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:23amgrease 1995 cast when i was 4
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
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