Did you participate in plays in High School? if so, what plays/roles?

[WI_DEM]

There was a question about what sports people played in High School. I enjoyed participating in drama. I'm wondering if there are any other would-be thespians on DU and what High School plays you participated in and what role or roles you played?

Me? In junior year I played Radar in my school production of "M*A*S*H* and senior year I played the stage manager in "Our Town".

I'll say this it was a nice way to meet girls. :)

[candy]

1. Nope,too shy, I was always an usher.

[KittyWampus]

60. Stage Crew, Here!

:)

[Skinner]

2. Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady."

Prince Dauntless the Drab in "Once Upon a Mattress."

Col. Croftus Thunder in "Wild Oats."

Plus minor roles in "Bad Seed," "Damn Yankees," "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying," and "Take her She's Mine."

I also sang in the School choir.

That's right... I was a drama geek. :thumbsup:

[VOX]

26. Played Freddy Eynsford-Hill in "Pygmalion"...

Also Duke Lambert in "Death Takes a Holiday," Karel Cerny in "The Great Sebastians," and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night."

Was also baritone in the barbershop quarted in "The Music Man."

I totally understand drama geekdom -- I walked that path also. It was a haven for bright kids who didn't quite fit into the mold, or who didn't particularly aspire to travel with the more "color-by-numbers" high-school cliques.

:thumbsup: :toast:

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. Hey! I was also Dauntless!

Now THAT was a fun show. :)

[bluestateguy]

3. 4 plays

Twelfth Night (Shakepeare)--Valentine
Romeo and Juilet (Shakespeare)--Lord Capulet
You Can't Take it With You (George Kaufman)--Henderson (IRS agent)
Street Scene (Elmer Rice)--Jones

I retired from acting at the age of 18.

[Doug Decker]

4. My junior year I played a dead body...

(quite well if I do say so myself) in "Arsenic and Old Lace".

My senior year I played the Cary Grant character in "Bell, Book and Candle".

It was also a nice way to meet boys. :evilgrin:

On edit: Out, out damn typo.

[sbj405]

15. I was a dead body in college

well actually, i was on stage crew and they called up on us to be the dead bodies in "Arsenic and Old Lace."

[rinsd]

5. Tech crew, then took the stage in my senior year.

I helped build sets and hang lights for a year. Then my senior year some of us techie dorks went out for Fiddler on the Roof.

[Soopercali]

6. "Anything Goes"

I was one of Reno Sweeney's Angels.

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. The Wretched Drunk

in the play "Springtime in New York"

I puked several times on the stoop.

[proud patriot]

8. Yes, 3 plays

I played Joanna in "I remember mama"
I got to sing

The drunk actress in "You Can't Take It With You"
It was fun passing out on stage and stealing laughs
with almost coming too just to pass out again .

The Nurse that Hawkeye Pierce bites off stage, a
small bit part but I walked across the stage rubbing
my rump while saying my line "I'm a Dietitian not a
Menu" in M*A*S*H:D

on edit : My current husband Was Captian John"Ugly" Black
in the same HS production as I .

[CO Liberal]

9. The Father In Chechov's "The Proposal"

We did a nifght of one-act comedies my senior year. I was taking Drama as one of my majors as you had to either try out or work backstage for each production.

I had gotten the part of Sir Harry in our Senior Musical ("Once Upon a Mattress"), but I ruptured my spleen in a fall from a platform on the stage and they gave the part to someone else....

[dr.strangelove]

10. Riff, George and Jud

Riff in West side Story - I had my big death scene after Bernardo stabbed me in the rumble.

Jud Fry in Oklahoma - "Poor Jud is dead."

Our Town - George Gibbs (I got to kiss the hottest senior who played Emily when I was a Sophmore.)

Although, I have to tell you that I played baseball and ran track too. I think I met more girls because of baseball then because of theatre. Though I love theatre and still go to see the annual play at my high school.

[lil-petunia]

11. i was in 30 different ones

we had a very active musical, theater, band, etc program.

my favorite was when I, a male, won out the roll of Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz.

what a blast.
of course, the post performance parties were where I learned the most about, well everything. In fleshy detail.

There was the loveliest little girl with a voice like, well, she should have made her living off of it. in four years, I raped, married, divorced, had an affair, killed, was killed, kissed and had (make believe) sex with her on stage. A beauty with a voice from the center of your soul. She had to drop out to start work to support her sick mom. Never heard from her again.

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. My one and only role

I played Maria in the Sound of Music in the 8th grade. Couldn't sing worth a damn but I pulled it off surprisingly well. Lets just hope the tape never surfaces when I decide to run for public office

[wryter2000]

13. Dark at the Top of the Stairs

I was the mother. I tried out every year. Loved it.

[OneBlueSky]

14. Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" . . .

I had a minor part as the "Major Domo" . . . just a few lines . . . but I had a lead role in a 10th grade festival of one-act plays . . . some dumb thing about a match-making computer in a department store . . .

[TrogL]

16. Guys and Dolls, Girl Crazy

Guys and Dolls - a pickpocket
Girl Crazy - I played the accompaniment on electronic organ

[sybylla]

17. Not in highschool but in college

I hated the drama teacher in highschool and dropped out of the class after one day. I don't quit easily. He was really an asshole.

But in college, as a non-traditional student, I got interested in drama and finally became bold enough to try out for Harvey after serving as prop manager for Diary of Anne Frank. I won a smaller part as the society dame, Mrs. Chauvenet. I'd do it again if I had time but I've been too busy since.

[Nikia]

18. A couple of plays, but only one main role

I was a Munchkin and Emerald City dweller in Wizard of Oz. I was a Salvation Army (or whatever it was in the play) person in Guys and Dolls.
I was in a non musical, Squad Car, and played the janitor.

[HEyHEY]

19. A shrink, refugee and pilot in "Immigrants"

And the Bear in Ubu Woi, as well as numerous other roles in in-class stuff

[tigerbeat]

20. went to a performing arts high school for theatre....

so i did plenty:

The Water Engine by David Mamet
Auntie Mame by Robert E. Lee
Feiffer's People by Jules Feiffer
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
R.U.R. by Karl Capek
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
God by Woody Allen

now a director of plays in the school called life.

[achtung_circus]

21. Rusty Charlie

in Guys and Dolls. The music is still stuck in my brain, 30 some years later.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

22. I played the

Wicked bitch of the west in the Wizard of Oz in High School.

[RebelOne]

23. In my 6th year of elementary school, I played a princess.

I don't even remember the name of the play. When I was in high school, I had a starring role in "Seventeen." Forgot the name of the character I played, but if anyone is familiar with the play, I was the bitch.

[Maeve]

24. Lucy Van Pelt--You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Wore my mom's short black wig. One of the best times I ever had.

Three of my four kids are in school plays--#2 Son has been in 6 in his three years of high school, Elder Daughter was Marion the Librarian in a junior high production of "Music Man"!

[bbernardini]

25. I've always played the piano...here's my 18!

Damn Yankees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The Most Happy Fella
Little Shop of Horrors (2X)
Good
Beggar's Opera
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
Bood Brothers
The Music Man (3X)
Crazy For You
The Boyfriend
The World Goes 'Round
South Pacific
Peter Pan
Honk!

[emulatorloo]

27. J.B. in Archibald MacLeish's J.B.

Great modern retelling of the Book of Job. . .it was a big challenge for me and extremely rewarding.

On the lighter musical comedy side, Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes.

[nuxvomica]

45. J.B.'s a great play

I am genuinely impressed that you played the lead. :thumbsup:

[emulatorloo]

50. It is a terrific play - opened up my teenaged mind

THNX< but, don't know how good I was. But it was great to do it.

[Khephra]

28. I played a marshmellow for Christmas

[flamingyouth]

29. I can't wait for Finnfan's response in this

:kick:

[nuxvomica]

58. No Finnfan response yet

But you got me intrigued so... :kick:

[Padraig18]

30. I was 'Teddy' in 'Arsenic and Old Lace'

I was also in 4 musicals: Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls and South Pacific.

[MissMillie]

31. I did, until

one of the teacher/directors decided that I was too fat. Yep, she even wrote me a letter to tell me that she wouldn't cast me because I was too fat.

[SarahB]

32. Yeah, and it was so political.

I did a lot of plays as a younger kid in Omaha and have a pretty decent voice, but moved to Connecticut in the middle of high school. Everything was sort of already "established" so to speak, and it was the chorus director who assigned parts and he already had them predetermined before the auditions. Twice, I auditioned, was very prepared, kicked ass and ended up with woman #3 type roles. I thought about doing more in college, but then I ended up pregnant, then married at 19, so it all sort of knocked the acting bug out of me.

[tigereye]

33. I was Mrs. Boyles who got murdered

in The MOusetrap, Senior Class Play. Otherwise, I was on running crew/props in Guys And Dolls and did programs for The Wiz. Dramats and plays were a lot of fun!

[skippysmom]

49. Sounds like my drama experience

I loved acting as a kid, and had some lead roles in elementary school plays. But when I became an awkward teenager, even though I was a decent actress and a good singer, I couldn't buy a lead role. They all seemed to go to the popular kids.

[emulatorloo]

51. We were lucky to have drama teachers who were serious about it

they did auditions, and they genuinely tried to get people who would do the best job. If I go back through the casting of all the plays I saw our highschool do, I can't think of one where the most popular kids were cast as leads.

[SarahB]

54. What sucks is...

I wasn't even awkward really. Just an outsider for not having grown up there or starting high school there. My entire high school years were a big reminder that while reasonably smart, cute, or whatever, I just didn't quite belong or fit. Unfortunately, that's been a running theme for many years.

[pagerbear]

34. Simon Stimson in "Out Town"

The alcoholic organist

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Tweedledee in a grade school presentation of Alice in Wonderland.

I could have been Alice...but I was moving....Wahhhhhhh!


Also little bitty parts in high school productions of:


Grease--Teen angel choir

The Music Man---angry mob mother

:hi:

Sigh...always the background.

[curse10]

36. I played horn in the pit!

We had way more fun than the kids on stage!

Did The Music Man, South Pacific, and Oliver!

[Doc_Technical]

37. I played the judge and a drunken reveler,

in "The skin of our Teeth".
I also portrayed the policeman in "Youth, Spring, Love, and the
United Nations".

I was usually one of the crew, helping with sets, lighting, etc.

[Pithlet]

38. I was the Irish Landlady in 'Flowers for Algernon'.

The play that the movie Charlie is based on. The only role I ever tried out for. It wasn't the lead, but it had a few lines. It was a great supporting role. I wished I'd done more theater.

[nemo137]

39. It's pretty much all I do at school

9th grade:
Drone in some Recruiting show for 8th graders
Benjamin in "Joseph and the Amazing..."

10th grade:
Set Construction for "Lend me a Tenor"
Dancer in "The Wiz" (All City Musical)
Asst Light/Set Design for "The Christmas Cup"
Asst. Stage Manager for "Once on This Island"
Jonathon in "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." (a one-act cutting)

11th Grade
Lt. Wright in "the Secret Garden"
Mr. Brownlow in "Oliver!"
Directed "Babels in Arms" (one-act)
Props for "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung you in the Closet and I'm feeling so sad" (full version.

Next year I'm hoping to either direct or assistant direct "The Crucible."

[Gore1FL]

40. I did most in college

I don't remember them all by a longshot.

Now I write plays.

[LibDemAlways]

41. I played Eve (as in Adam and)

in "Green Pastures." The role of God was played by Chris Boyce - who later became notorious as a convicted spy - the Falcoln - of The Falcon and the Snowman fame.

[Dookus]

42. hmm...

chorus and dancer in Music Man
Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes
The psychiatrist in Harvey
Count Orsino in Twelfth Night

[Red State Rebel]

43. Anything Goes - Dancer/Singer and

Music Man - Orchestra

[nuxvomica]

44. One of the villagers in "The Lottery"

That was my biggest role. There's a piece of dialogue early on that sounds like a cue from later in the play. During rehaearsals, this caused one of the actors to say the wrong lines, essentially skipping the middle of the play. It happened on opening night and I ad libbed a "bridge" back to where we belonged. I don't even think the other actors realized what happened, we were all so nervous.

I also played the second cook in Hello Dolly: "Ach, Rudolph! It's like old times again!" The two cooks danced with a roasted chicken on a platter, the other cook dropped it on the stage and without missing a step, I scooped it back up and made it look like it was part of the choreography.

So my entire acting career involved fixing other people's mistakes. :-)

[LynneSin]

46. I was always in the pit band

where we would eat Double-Stuff cookies and goof on the bad acting in the musicals. Probably because the pitband was about 50 times better than the musical itself!

[Melsky]

47. I did sound and set design

I'm not an actress, but I enjoyed being around the drama crowd and doing technical stuff.

[bif]

48. "A Man Called Peter"

I played the Grandpa.

[TahitiNut]

53. Grandpa Martin Vanderhof in "You Can't Take It With You"

Lionel Barrymore's part in the movie -- a VERY liberal role. It was our 'All-School Play' in high school when I was a senior.

[LowerManhattanite]

55. I was Sky Masterson in my school's production of "Guys and Dolls"

"Lets keep this party polite
Never get out of my sight
Stick with me baby, I’m the guy that you came in with
Luck be a lady tonight"


Good times...good times. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

56. Ursula's mother in Bye Bye Birdie

Dino's mother in Dino
Magda Svenson, the Swedish housekeeper, in The Night of January 16

[bookfreak]

57. I was in two...

I was Magda Swenson in Ayn Rand's "The Night of January 16th"

I was also the judge and one of the jurors in "12 Angry Women", which was a spinoff of the old classic "12 Angry Men".

[HawkerHurricane]

59. None in High School...

but in Jr. College...

The Palace Gaurd in 'God: A Play'.

Constable Locke in 'The Music Man'.

2nd Immigration Officer in 'A View of the Bridge'.

The Logician in 'Rhinoceros'.

The Postmaster in 'The Glass Harp'.

Lots of authority figures.