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what was the first show you were ever in?
#25re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:11pm
I guess it would be in 3rd grade when we had to put on a little show for teh PTA breakfast thing. I think it was The Frog Prince...or something like that. I was the princess and I was supposed to kiss the boy(the frog) on his forehead but I didn't want to so I put my hand on his forehead and kissed my hand. That was when I was going through the "cooties" stage.
The first worthwhile show was when we did M*A*S*H in 10th grade. I was a Korean...yet I am very white with red hair...
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#26re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:32pm"Hello Dolly" - 14
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#27re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:33pmOliver -- "10" I played Oliver.
#28re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:04pmOliver and i think i was 12
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#29re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:12pmIn Kindergarten- We did a play based on a book about the rainforest centered around this tree. We were all rain and I was half a tree:) And the cute boy who was the snake hung from my arm.
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#30re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:18pm
I had lots of on stage experiences with silly elementry programs and choirs but my first actual show was when I was a 6th grader.
I was in two shows at the same time so it's a tie between The Princess and the Pea(I was a lady in waiting and it happened at the middle school) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat (the high school show that called for a children chorus).
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#31re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:20pmgeorge m. cohen. when i was either 11 or 12.. i had two lines.. what can i say..theater is better for me to watch than to take part in lol..
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#32re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:30pm
Lady in the Dark- 10
most fun i have ever had in my life. i was amazed with everyone, i worked with andrea maracovicci as her younger self. i loved it.
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#33re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:31pm
"Peter Pan" when I was 12. I played John and got to fly and everything! 
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#34re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:24amI think it was Annie at a summer camp when I was seven or eight...is it weird that I do not remember anything about it except that I was a Boylen sister?? But the first show that I really count was Aesop's Fabulous Fable Factory when I was 12. I played three parts....I think they were country mouse, homer, and a donkey seller...funny that I remember that.
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#35re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:54amWow! Aesop's Fabulous Fable Factory.... I was in that show once. It's truly a cute show! I was one of the narrators. But my first show was The Castaways. It didnt have anything to do with people stranded on tropical islands. It was about homeless orphans. I even remember some of my lines... "I'm tired and hungry and want to go home"... haha
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#36re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:56amI was "black" chorus in SHOWBOAT......... and I'm not black!! Unfortutely there were not any black Americans available in Glasgow (not surprising)!
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#37re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:58amI did Annie when I was 5. That was my very first show - I was a hoodlum(sp?) boy. After the girl playing Annie did her threatening thing we all were supposed to run off. But before I did, I - completely my thought, did it on the spot - did the Home Alone thing. You know, the "AAAHHHH!!!" thing?
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#38re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:19pm
FIRST PLAY- THE NIGHT OF JAN 16TH- I WAS 12
FIRST MUSICAL- INTO THE WOODS (JACK)- I WAS 15
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#39re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:24pmwow,they did Castaways in our town a couple months ago,but i didn't get to see it,tears
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#40re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:24pm
community theatre: West Side Story
First professional job: Carousel
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#41re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:58pmThe Velveteen Rabbit when I was 7. I was the Third Block, "That means that we teach by the most modern educational methods"
#42re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 4:45pm
it was a hawaiian musical revue when i was 6
but if you want a REAL musical... my first musical was Hello Dolly and i was 12 [junior chorus]
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#43re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 4:59pmMuch Ado About Nothing-And I was 10.
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#44re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 5:01pmThe Wizard of Oz, I was in the 4th grade.
#45re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 5:26pm
Some crappy show called "Krazy Kamp" at about age 11. We never had enough guys for the chorus of boy campers so because I am an alto and my voice carries really well I had to play a boy camper...which basically meant wearing a hat the entire show...it was awful!
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Updated On: 8/25/05 at 05:26 PM
#46re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 5:32pm
As a child:
Space Saucer X2000 age 10
As an adult:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest age 42
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#47re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 6:18pm
EGGBY: I was "black" chorus in SHOWBOAT......... and I'm not black!!
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For me... High school: "Oklahoma!" First Equity gig: "The Music Man."
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#48re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 6:24pmGodspell. 15.
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
#49re: what was the first show you were ever in?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 7:28pmWell I was in our play that had a bunch of greek and roman gods and godesses when i was about 10, but my first musical was Bye Bye Birdie at 16, i was rosie. pretty crazy, huh?
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Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
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rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
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