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Post by Spammich on Jun 22, 2007 11:04:16 GMT -5
It is called theatre... Their is a stage version and if a teacher has permission to perform it then yay.
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Post by Aindel on Jun 22, 2007 11:08:33 GMT -5
Wow... we weren't even allowed to do Grease (for which I am truly thankful)...
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Post by Clover on Jun 22, 2007 13:56:57 GMT -5
Man, not even Grease? We did a whole bunch of plays, the music theatre major kids did all manner of sketchy musicals... We actually had a dance production at one point that basically set to music and dance a relationship. There was the flirtation, the courtship, the kiss and more---- and it was a gorgeous dance. Both boys were brilliant at it. ^_^
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Post by Aindel on Jun 22, 2007 14:57:24 GMT -5
According to my HS drama teacher, Grease gives off a bad message because in the end, the girl changes for the guy. Instead, while I was there, we did Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, and Man of La Mancha.
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Post by child-of-fae on Jun 22, 2007 16:20:11 GMT -5
i've done Annie's New Tomorrow (which is annie, only they didn't want to pay for the use of the title or something...) The True Story Of Little Red Riding Hood (first act is the traditional story, then it switches to where red is bad and the wolf is good.) Cinderella, and The Wizard of Oz with my grammar school.
By far the worst was the wizard of oz because they only gave us a month. They also moved it earlier into the year, so most of the eighth graders (my friends and i) ended up worn out and tired because that was when we had our cheerleading competition and highschool orientations.
I was happy when it ended.
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Post by Trey on Jun 23, 2007 0:12:36 GMT -5
Our principle wouldn't let us do dracula one year because the bad guy wins in the end, so we did the crucible instead. It's a much worse story, but he couldn't do anything about it because it was in our text books.
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Post by Aindel on Jun 23, 2007 0:16:36 GMT -5
I wanted to do Jekyll and Hyde. They said no. It made me sad. They then proceeded to do Bye Bye Birdie and Fiddler on the Roof. Blech.
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Post by child-of-fae on Jun 23, 2007 0:20:20 GMT -5
i wanted to do hair my last year... but my mom stopped me when i told her.
apparantly i'm not supposed to come up with ideas that'll send the nuns to the hospital for strokes and such.
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Post by Clover on Jun 23, 2007 0:22:37 GMT -5
See, you guys were all ACTORS. I was in the fucking orchestra. See, my school had all different sorts of majors-- and I happened to be a violinist. And naturally, the Music Theatre majors did their yearly musical. And of course, they did it to a live Pit Orchestra, manned by their students.
Pit Orchestra was an invite-only select orchestra, and for two years, it was the bane of my frickin' existence. Because you haven't felt pain until you've heard "Into the Woods" repeated for the past five and a half hours. ^_^
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Post by child-of-fae on Jun 23, 2007 0:26:06 GMT -5
woahwoahwoah-wait-
violinist?
that kicks all kinds of ass.
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Post by Aindel on Jun 23, 2007 0:41:31 GMT -5
I can understand your pain, Clover. I was in Peter Pan. I had to sit there for hours listening to "ugawug" because the indians and lost boys couldn't get the timing right on their dance. Torture of the cruel and unusual kind.
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Post by Trey on Jun 23, 2007 0:41:47 GMT -5
See, you guys were all ACTORS. Tech, actually. I acted very few times in my life. Once in elementary school, and I acted for grades in acting class, which I took so I could do some tech stuff during the class. Pit Orchestra was an invite-only select orchestra, and for two years, it was the bane of my frickin' existence. Because you haven't felt pain until you've heard "Into the Woods" repeated for the past five and a half hours. ^_^ Into the woods.... gah. At least you didn't have two guys who can't sing sing Agony... which, btw, they did at the original pitch. Too dumb to lower it to an octive they could hit. That song WAS agony.
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Post by limbowoman on Jun 23, 2007 2:10:10 GMT -5
I envy you all... if my school had of put on any kind of play or something like that teachers as well as students would have been beaten -- severely, by other students and parents...
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Post by Clover on Jun 26, 2007 21:23:33 GMT -5
Actually, we had a hilarious time with the musical---see, we did a compilation of all of the plays we'd produced in the past 25 years [the school celebrated 25 years the year I graduated] and we made a compilation--- mastered, created and produced entirely by students, mind.
And one of the songs WAS 'Agony' from into the woods, and the two guys played off each other -amazingly-. I spent half the song playing the violin through tears of laughter. And I remember there was, at one point, a call-and-repeat portion of one of the songs, where the narrator [the Cat in the Hat from Seussical] was giving a three-minute long synopsis of the plot of Le Mis [using barbie dolls, no less!], and he goes, "And then, Fantine gets...Fantine gets...Fantine gets..." and the pit orchestra replies, "PREGNANT!"
And we had SO much fun with it.
And yeah, to whomever asked. I'm a violinist--- nine years now. I also sing, play piano, play the viola, and play the harp. ^_^;;;
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Post by Aindel on Jun 26, 2007 23:53:44 GMT -5
...Can you play the Devil's Trill? Because I would so totally officially love you forever if you could. #1 favourite violin piece. EVER.
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