Has anyone here been on stage?

chadwick

I was on a stage last night under some lighting
the audiance had candles and oil lamps on their tables.
I read my poetry to a group of artists and other guests.
I did a good job and sold a few copies.
It was awesome.
I am ready for that again.

MahoganySouls

I love the theatre, but I rather prefer being in the audience.

pearljam_addiction

i was a Drama Major at the Philadelphia High School For The Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)

iamsampj

i was on the speech and debate team in middle school...i did solo acting and improv duo. it took me awhile to get the hang of it, but after a couple of competitions i made it to the finals for solo acting my monologue was about french fries...it was pretty amazing. sadly my family moved to florida the next year, and my high school didn't have a drama department. when we finally did, they only did musicals...which i wasn't interested in.

i've been on stage plenty of times with band...i played the flute for 8 years. and i did dance during football season in hs, so if a football field can be considered a stage then i was all over that!

and...i had a chance to sing on stage with singer/songwriter matt costa last year for a song...i was amazing if i do say so myself

gue_barium

I'm loving the response this thing is getting. Lots of talented entertainers here. Just as I suspected.

oil alternative

Gigging tonite at the Brittania Margate, 9 till i feel like stopping,
getin paid with a crate of beer this time.

next gig new years eve at some swanky eaterie called number 6 in margate.

played the London Astoria in the grand final of the Emergenza music festival couple of years ago. yeah ive been on stage

GreenTeaDisease

I was like president of the drama club in high school. I was on stage all the time-plays, musicals, etc. I did one very serious play in college. After that I decided I never wanted to set foot in a theater again. I can't imagine being into that stuff anymore. the thought of musicals especially makes me want to barf.

hahaha I just remembered I was voted "most theatrical" in my high school year book...I was actually fairly talented for someone with no real training. but as is the case, the things I seem to be good at are the things I don't seem to enjoy.

pjtaper

I played with a Milwaukee Band, the heavyheads, for a few years, then I moved to Colorado... I found that if I didn't drink enough before I went on stage, I would have to throw up because I was so nervous every time... I usually ended up drinking so much I'd black out at every show, but I think it was entertaining for people to watch and I was told several times i played MUCH better when I was blacked out, which is strange as hell...
(for the record, I can black out after 3 drinks, I don't drink much and I'm not a big dude)

drtyfrnk29

Been onstage hundreds of times between plays and music. I will always prefer music to drama. There's an anergy there, a connection, that cannot be described.

cory

iluvcats wrote:

cory is on stage, on here daily

True indeed:)

I do love being on a stage and playing music. My goal is to open for Fins one day.

True Story.

GraySaturday

I was the lead in our elementary school play. We did the "granny awards" which was a play on the Grammys. Only with all story book characters. I loved it. I love to act but I did so much else in high school and college I didn't have the chance.

Hitch-Hiker

I love being on stage. It's been a while though. I was in a band for a long time and we did loadsa gigs. That was fun. The n I did a show in school when I was about 17. Frikkin loved it. Never tried proper acting though. I dunno if I'd be much good at it. I do love writing though. Working on a screenplay at the moment, and should be making a short after Christmas.

gabers

I stage dived at a Lemonheads/Superchunk show in 1994. Does that count?

BridgeBitch

Got my degree in Performing Arts. Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

So, on stage a lot in high school, all through college and then in a company in San Francisco for a while.

Finally decided I didn't like the competitive nature of it all and just wanted to keep it as my passion.

Ask me sometime about almost getting arrested for doing Shakespeare in London. and no, it wasn't cause I was bad!

JaneNY

I don't know if this counts, but I teach aerobic classes from a stage 12x a week. I memorize choreography to a wide variety of music, that involves jazz dance and other types of moves, cue it, give form and safety tips, and perform the moves myself, all the while doing it on the opposite foot from what I tell them to do (since I face them, when I tell them to plie to the right, I'm going left). Yeah it counts in some way I think. Its fun. Its a rush to see everyone doing it the right way because I explained it well.

Buru

gue_barium wrote:

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?

I've been on stage quite a few times (I am in a music comedy group as a hobbie, we do musicals/plays each year) and I've also sung a couple songs with a friends band (just once).
Performances went well, I never really had a big part in any of them, I'm just part of the cast.

then there are the usual school plays (mommy look at me)

who's_pearljam?

I played guitar on stage for years with different bands and artists.

I sang in a couple of original bands, too. I don't know if that counts as rock and roll or a Shakespearean tragedy. Or maybe a comedy!

zircona1

Yeah, I've been onstage quite a few times in my life so far. Here is the short version:

- Played George Washington in the 4th Grade school play, this was really cool because we did it in the auditorium and lots of people came to see it!

- Was involved with a local drama company in my junior high (pre-teen and teen years), we'd do a young adults play twice a year. The best one we did was called "The Third Wave," which was based on a true story of a high school teacher who taught his students about Hitler and Nazi Germany, and the repercussions that followed.

- Took acting/drama classes in high school.

- Best play/musical I was in was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, there weren't a whole lot of guys, so all the guys got to play Joseph's brothers and we were on stage almost all the time.

- Gave one of the commencement addresses at my high school graduation (I was far from being the valedictorian, I volunteered and I had to audition it)

- Didn't do any acting in college. I don't think I was that good at it.

- Now, I play music at open mic nights by myself, sometimes it's me with an acoustic, an electric, or a keyboard.

Do I still get stage fright? You bet.

Proteus

gue_barium wrote:

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?

College, community, regional, NYC Off-Broadway, not quite on.

1. Many partz.
2. Usually, not always.
3. Sometimes good, sometimes it made me want to stare at my shoes.

Read my 2nd novel: Midget the Turd

...when it comes out...

...for a blistering, scathing account of the NYC theater scene.

SENROCK

gue_barium wrote:

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?

i was in a band once. i have no shame therefore i now openly addmit this! :eek: we did cover songs of......ok im not going THAT far to anounce the bands! um......it was embarassing at first cuz everyone is....like....so close to the stage. but after a few gigs and rockin the mic i enjoyed it! we hadd a solid amount of fans i must say.