Has anyone here been on stage?

gue_barium

Did you take a high school drama class, or participate in community theater? College?

Anything like that...
Church playes, grade school plays.
I think everybody has done a little of that sometime in their lives.
What part did you play?
Did you enjoy it?
How did the performance(s) go?

Heineken Helen

Yep, when I was about 7 I had to play the lead in a play and had to sing a duet with a guy I was mad about at the time. I was just happy cos I got to wear a really fluffy pink dress thank fuck there are no pictures although I'm sure there are somewhere

I got a standing ovation

surfanddestroy

I have been on stage loads.
I did school plays then went on to college to do a course in performing arts and music.
I can't remember most of the things I did as it was quite a while ago, I would say I enjoyed it but always got far to nervous beforehand.

TrixieCat

Many times.
My crowning achievement was playing Duke Frederick in As You Like It.
Yes, I was in drag.
I did alot in college too.

gue_barium

surfanddestroy wrote:

I have been on stage loads.
I did school plays then went on to college to do a course in performing arts and music.
I can't remember most of the things I did as it was quite a while ago, I would say I enjoyed it but always got far to nervous beforehand.

You've got to have at least one memorable moment you can share. Please?

nfanel

i've been on stage lots for dance and musical recitals but never for acting. i give props to those who can do it because the idea of that is scary to me!!

gue_barium

TrixieCat wrote:

Many times.
My crowning achievement was playing Duke Frederick in As You Like It.
Yes, I was in drag.
I did alot in college too.

Memorable moment?
Like tripping over something or laughing uncontrollably, or a standing ovation, or a part where you had the audience in the palm of your hand...

surfanddestroy

gue_barium wrote:

You've got to have at least one memorable moment you can share. Please?

Oh ok...let me see.

I once played Captain Rupert in Jonah Man Jazz (we did it panto style with men playing the women and visa versa) I quite enjoed the play and loved my role cause Rupert was such a good character to play.
I would say the play went well

Heineken Helen

gue_barium wrote:

Memorable moment?
Like tripping over something or laughing uncontrollably, or a standing ovation, or a part where you had the audience in the palm of your hand...

I stomped my feet when I sang the part about how I won't marry him and I was quite adament about it where I really didn't have to be that had everyone laughing.

TrixieCat

gue_barium wrote:

Memorable moment?
Like tripping over something or laughing uncontrollably, or a standing ovation, or a part where you had the audience in the palm of your hand...

I am quite sure I had the audience in the palm of my hand here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/1516764517_195a66bfd9.jpg?v=0

My first time ever. I am on the right.

In college I was the Littlest Nun in The House of Blue Leaves (awesome if you like to read plays) and we had an awful show..all of us. My boyfriend was supposed to be in the audience and after the show I got stinking drunk because I felt I had stunk so bad..he wasn't there...it was sold out.

civ_eng_girl

most of my stage experience has been with music... played cello in loads of recitals throughout middle school and high school, and a music summer camp.... (lol.... this one time... at band camp... )

I also did a couple of fashion shows in high school....

thankfully, you don't have to talk in those... speaking in public makes me pretty nervous! :eek:

nuffingman

I once swept up after a local amateur dramatics pantomime

Pegasus

1 year of Drama School, so several plays ..
tried for a year to get work then had to admit I was crap and gave up.

jojo

i was in chorus all through school so a bunch of times

my high school chorus sang Hallejuah chorus at Boston Symphony Hall with the Handel and Hyden Society that was pretty cool

Heineken Helen

Pegasus wrote:

1 year of Drama School, so several plays ..
tried for a year to get work then had to admit I was crap and gave up.

hey I didn't know that about you

tvismyfriend

I was in a couple school plays and then did some improv at the community theatre.

FinsburyParkCarrots

When I was a kid I used to attend a school of speech and drama. (Nothing to do with proper school, it was a weekly class.) I did lots of exams for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (the drama side), and the English Speaking Board, and quite a few plays, too. Every year I'd enter into regional drama festivals: I got a couple of bronzes and silvers, but I would usually be pipped to the gold by some upper middle-class cutesy-pie (not that I cared, to be honest).

I stopped doing acting when I was about fourteen. Drama classes were sausage fests, and I was into girls.

I didn't really enjoy acting much, to be honest. I always enjoy playing music live, though.

Sian-of-the-dead

Many times, used to go to drama school as a child, did Drama A level at College and have performed at many functions and competitions singing....

I was born to be on the stage Dahrlings!! lol

Solat13

I was in a couple of grade school plays, but in college for a couple of my electives, I took Intro to Acting and Intro to Screenwriting. Both were a ton of fun and we had to perform a scene and a monologue as our final in the Intro to Acting. The screenwriting class was cool because we each got to write a 15-20 minute mini movie and act it out in class. Someday, I'll finish my movie ... lol

Pegasus

Heineken Helen wrote:

hey I didn't know that about you

you don't know everything about me

Heineken Helen

Pegasus wrote:

you don't know everything about me

true that

it's funny the amount of times that was said over halloween weekend... hmm... I think we should all get stupendously drunk some night and spill everything... that way nobody's gonna remember