School Plays and Musicals - Page 2

Celebréiel · 02-24-2003, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by galadriel
It depends on the school. Many of them at my school turn out a lot better than you'd expect from a high school. Not to brag, of course.... Plays are practically the only high school social event that I attend without fail. Certainly the only really interesting ones.

Yeah, My high school theater dept was obsessive about having all the plays we did (like 15 each year) be 'above high school level'

Everyone took it seriously. but hey, It worked though, theyve had some really excellent performances.

Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn · 02-24-2003, 09:34 PM

yea..we have them at our school. they're alot of fun to be in!

Evenstar1400 · 02-24-2003, 09:35 PM

laura werent u in once on this island??? hehe that play was funny. "and she turned into a tree!" hehehehehehe!

galadriel · 02-25-2003, 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by Celebréiel
Yeah, My high school theater dept was obsessive about having all the plays we did (like 15 each year) be 'above high school level' Everyone took it seriously. but hey, It worked though, theyve had some really excellent performances.

Obsessive is right. While I don't do anything drama-related (I'm just a groupie) I know from testimony how much work a really good play takes. Also, anyone involved in drama at my school must put up with our drama teacher, who's brilliant, but an insufferable jerk. Sigh.

Lady of Rohan · 02-25-2003, 07:20 PM

We had auditions for a school play a few days ago. We just got the news back for who we are going to be in the play. I am going to be Grandmother Perkins. Its going to be sort of different to play a grandma, but it is a lead role so I'm not complaining.

Legolaslvr! · 02-25-2003, 08:27 PM

I got a crapy role in this years play!

galadriel · 02-27-2003, 10:14 PM

Oh? What part is that?

Celebriel · 02-27-2003, 10:23 PM

Our school is putting on a musical very soon. This is the first we have done in a very long time. I may see it.

***HOBBIT*** · 02-28-2003, 12:18 AM

Well my school has school plays, but they suck - sure they are fun to go to. They have your friends and fellow classmates in them and its fun going with friends. But in all honesty, the productions mostly stink.

The actors/actresses in the play all think they can sing...they really can't..... maybe 1 or 2 can sing and the rest can't. And then theres not hearing what they are saying clearly all the time! and just BAD ACTING on the high school level.

The thing that AMAZES me is that everyone thinks that the performances are great. I think this is because most of the students have never seen a good production, so they think that this mediocre/sucky performance is good. I mean I've been to about a dozen plays on broadway and more off, ANd i'm a musician, so know what singing and plays should sound like and what they shouldn't

A couple years ago I saw [b] A funny thing happened on the way to the forum [b] at my school (before I went there) and it was HORRIBLE. Horrible singing and acting - but almost all the students thought it was great. This years productions and last years haven't been to great either - fun to go to because of the people in it and around you though and the funny things they do on stage - probably not doing the play too well though.

I haven't seen any of your schools do a production, so I can't say whether they are good or not, but it is my observation that students think their plays are lke 10X greater than the production actually is

(and i have seen some other school's plays, just not yours)

Celebriel · 02-28-2003, 12:23 AM

I suppose I am easily amused. ^__^

Also, I know many of the people in it and take Drama with the director. Also also, I may need to see it for an English project. I am babbling. Leaving now. Namaarie, melloneamin.

***IronParrot*** · 02-28-2003, 01:51 AM

IronParrot's biggest regret about high school:

That his full IB course load didn't leave him any room to do Musical Theatre.

Daughter of Elros · 03-03-2003, 06:18 PM

Our Drama Club is actualy amazing. Last year Synthesis (political minded club, sorta- deals with world/national issues) and Our Drama club put ona production that compiled hte entire school's opinions on the whole September 11 thing. It's acually being published, so...yeah.
We did a play around Christmas- Madwoman of Chaillot (I, even though I was only a freshman, was propsmaster, mistress, whatever- go me!)
Synthesis is doing a play called Bang Bang You're Dead.
and Drama is doing a production of 11 shorts (written by all of us, of course) and I'm Props mistress again.

and, my pride and joy- transcribed J.K.R's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone into a play in 6th grade (I loved it so before I found LotR- now I love'em both- but for different reasons

anyway- wasted half of my 6th grade classes year beacuse i convinced my teacher to have our class put it on- turned out damn good, too!

so yeah. theatre= veryvervyerveryvery COOL!!!!!!!!!!!

well, enough babbling- ciao!

-DoE

LuthienTinuviel · 03-03-2003, 11:08 PM

[SARCASM] ooooh boy i sure can't wait to do Oaklahoma! this spring!.. im usure it will be a wonderful play even though all the talent and friendliness went out with the graduating class! [/SARCASM]

but hey at least they went out with a bang. last years musical cannot be compared iwith any professional play ive seen.

but hey.. im partial..

Diaxion · 03-03-2003, 11:17 PM

It seems like every year I am in some sort of production not because I choose to be but because it is a requirment. For example in eight grade every year the eight grade which is the oldest grade in the school does a real production. We did flower Drum Song or what I like to call it Flower Dumb Song. ANyway I had the smallest role. That was because I am stagefright even though I am a very active speaker in class. Through the middle school of corse we also put on our own places. My personal opinion, is that we should leave acting up to the pro's.

Fili · 03-04-2003, 12:00 AM

i love school plays

Fili · 03-04-2003, 12:02 AM

I am in one right now and it is so fun. Well..... that might be because I am a lead role

Legolas_is_fit · 03-04-2003, 01:40 PM

At mine and blackboars school we have musicals and at the moment we are doing the Wizard of Oz i wanted to be in it but i cant sing very well so that rules me out!
But we have tickets to see it tomorrow fingers crossed its good. I saw a bit of it yesterday in music and everyone looked so funny

Blackboar · 03-04-2003, 01:45 PM

Yeah, can't wait to see my mates dressed up as ozians!

I was in the one last year, Dick Turpin. I hit my mate Elise in the middle by accident while doing night-fever, everyone was laughing and her mask fell off!

It was really embarrasiing!

Bodo Fraggins · 03-04-2003, 01:57 PM

I hate acting, I always forget my lines or something goes wrong!

Legolas_is_fit · 03-04-2003, 03:17 PM

I love to act, let me say this and I have Blackboar to back me up but I'm a comidien in the makeing, and I love to act, Me, Beth and Jess are the beat out of our drama group...Arent we Black Boar

02-24-2003, 09:34 PM	#22
Legolas_Frodo_Aragorn The Elven Queen Of All Pyros Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Im like a little bug stuck in the lamp...never going anywhere Posts: 795	yea..we have them at our school. they're alot of fun to be in! __________________ Would you judge my future based on what i did in the past? Procrastinators Unite!!!.....tomorrrow.... Kids in backseats cause accidents...accidents in backseats cause kids As long as there are tests..there will be prayers in school

02-24-2003, 09:35 PM	#23
Evenstar1400 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the inner depths of my lair. Posts: 421	laura werent u in once on this island??? hehe that play was funny. "and she turned into a tree!" hehehehehehe! __________________ Treebeard: Hmm, you look like hobbits, smell like hobbits, feel like hobbits and sound like hobbits. You must be orcs!

02-25-2003, 08:27 PM	#26
Legolaslvr! Super Smilie Freak Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the entmoot army, trying to get rid of black and blue! Posts: 350	I got a crapy role in this years play! __________________ MO The fat hobbit hobbit knows!

02-27-2003, 10:14 PM	#27
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02-27-2003, 10:23 PM	#28
Celebriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 139	Our school is putting on a musical very soon. This is the first we have done in a very long time. I may see it. __________________ ~ Celebriel ~ Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. ~ __________________

02-25-2003, 07:20 PM	#25
Lady of Rohan Doughy Elf Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 1,006	We had auditions for a school play a few days ago. We just got the news back for who we are going to be in the play. I am going to be Grandmother Perkins. Its going to be sort of different to play a grandma, but it is a lead role so I'm not complaining.

02-28-2003, 12:18 AM	#29
*HOBBIT* Saviour of Entmoot Admiral Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.) Posts: 61,986	Well my school has school plays, but they suck - sure they are fun to go to. They have your friends and fellow classmates in them and its fun going with friends. But in all honesty, the productions mostly stink. The actors/actresses in the play all think they can sing...they really can't..... maybe 1 or 2 can sing and the rest can't. And then theres not hearing what they are saying clearly all the time! and just BAD ACTING on the high school level. The thing that AMAZES me is that everyone thinks that the performances are great. I think this is because most of the students have never seen a good production, so they think that this mediocre/sucky performance is good. I mean I've been to about a dozen plays on broadway and more off, ANd i'm a musician, so know what singing and plays should sound like and what they shouldn't A couple years ago I saw [b] A funny thing happened on the way to the forum [b] at my school (before I went there) and it was HORRIBLE. Horrible singing and acting - but almost all the students thought it was great. This years productions and last years haven't been to great either - fun to go to because of the people in it and around you though and the funny things they do on stage - probably not doing the play too well though. I haven't seen any of your schools do a production, so I can't say whether they are good or not, but it is my observation that students think their plays are lke 10X greater than the production actually is (and i have seen some other school's plays, just not yours) __________________ President Emeritus (2000-2004) Private message (or email) me if you need any assistance. I am here to help! "I'm up to here with cool, ok? I'm so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis" - Zaphod Beeblebrox Latest Blog Post: Just Quit Facebook? No One Cares!

02-28-2003, 12:23 AM	#30
Celebriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 139	I suppose I am easily amused. ^__^ Also, I know many of the people in it and take Drama with the director. Also also, I may need to see it for an English project. I am babbling. Leaving now. Namaarie, melloneamin. __________________ ~ Celebriel ~ Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. ~ __________________

02-28-2003, 01:51 AM	#31
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03-03-2003, 06:18 PM	#32
Daughter of Elros Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 69	Our Drama Club is actualy amazing. Last year Synthesis (political minded club, sorta- deals with world/national issues) and Our Drama club put ona production that compiled hte entire school's opinions on the whole September 11 thing. It's acually being published, so...yeah. We did a play around Christmas- Madwoman of Chaillot (I, even though I was only a freshman, was propsmaster, mistress, whatever- go me!) Synthesis is doing a play called Bang Bang You're Dead. and Drama is doing a production of 11 shorts (written by all of us, of course) and I'm Props mistress again. and, my pride and joy- transcribed J.K.R's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone into a play in 6th grade (I loved it so before I found LotR- now I love'em both- but for different reasons anyway- wasted half of my 6th grade classes year beacuse i convinced my teacher to have our class put it on- turned out damn good, too! so yeah. theatre= veryvervyerveryvery COOL!!!!!!!!!!! well, enough babbling- ciao! -DoE

03-03-2003, 11:08 PM	#33
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	[SARCASM] ooooh boy i sure can't wait to do Oaklahoma! this spring!.. im usure it will be a wonderful play even though all the talent and friendliness went out with the graduating class! [/SARCASM] but hey at least they went out with a bang. last years musical cannot be compared iwith any professional play ive seen. but hey.. im partial.. __________________

03-03-2003, 11:17 PM	#34
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	It seems like every year I am in some sort of production not because I choose to be but because it is a requirment. For example in eight grade every year the eight grade which is the oldest grade in the school does a real production. We did flower Drum Song or what I like to call it Flower Dumb Song. ANyway I had the smallest role. That was because I am stagefright even though I am a very active speaker in class. Through the middle school of corse we also put on our own places. My personal opinion, is that we should leave acting up to the pro's. __________________ good day

03-04-2003, 12:00 AM	#35
Fili Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hiding in my head... Posts: 57	i love school plays __________________ When the Dark comes rising; Six shall turn it back; Three from the circle; Three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Fire, water stone; Five shall return and one will go alone. Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long; Wood from the burning, stone out of song; Fire from the candle ring, water out of thaw; Six signs the Circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountian shall find the Harp of Gold; Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the Old; Power of the green witch, lost beneath the sea; All shall find the light at last, silver on the tree.

03-04-2003, 12:02 AM	#36
Fili Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hiding in my head... Posts: 57	I am in one right now and it is so fun. Well..... that might be because I am a lead role __________________ When the Dark comes rising; Six shall turn it back; Three from the circle; Three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Fire, water stone; Five shall return and one will go alone. Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long; Wood from the burning, stone out of song; Fire from the candle ring, water out of thaw; Six signs the Circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountian shall find the Harp of Gold; Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the Old; Power of the green witch, lost beneath the sea; All shall find the light at last, silver on the tree.

03-04-2003, 01:40 PM	#37
Legolas_is_fit Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: a dustbin Posts: 109	At mine and blackboars school we have musicals and at the moment we are doing the Wizard of Oz i wanted to be in it but i cant sing very well so that rules me out! But we have tickets to see it tomorrow fingers crossed its good. I saw a bit of it yesterday in music and everyone looked so funny __________________ Aragon:We need to get across to the gate. Gimli:A dwaf cant jump that distance..Toss me. Aragon:What? Gimli:Toss me over to the gate. But just dont tell the elf. Aragon:Ok I promise Well it goes along those lines i cant remember the exact words

03-04-2003, 01:45 PM	#38
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	Yeah, can't wait to see my mates dressed up as ozians! I was in the one last year, Dick Turpin. I hit my mate Elise in the middle by accident while doing night-fever, everyone was laughing and her mask fell off! It was really embarrasiing!

03-04-2003, 01:57 PM	#39
Bodo Fraggins Sapling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Yorkshire - England Posts: 2	I hate acting, I always forget my lines or something goes wrong!

03-04-2003, 03:17 PM	#40
Legolas_is_fit Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: a dustbin Posts: 109	I love to act, let me say this and I have Blackboar to back me up but I'm a comidien in the makeing, and I love to act, Me, Beth and Jess are the beat out of our drama group...Arent we Black Boar __________________ Aragon:We need to get across to the gate. Gimli:A dwaf cant jump that distance..Toss me. Aragon:What? Gimli:Toss me over to the gate. But just dont tell the elf. Aragon:Ok I promise Well it goes along those lines i cant remember the exact words