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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:12 am
DispatchNA Pharaoh Ramases DispatchNA Yeah, Saturday performances have always been cursed. They're usually the worst show because everyone's tired from Friday and used up all their excitement. I've always found Friday to be the worst. Thursday's usually opening night and the adrenaline's rushing for finally opening. Saturday's usually closing night and the adrenaline's rushing because you want to leave the audience with a lasting memory. Thing is, this will be my first show with a Thursday night performance. In middle school, we just had Friday, Saturday and sunday performances. So I don't know what'll happen. Good luck! I'm sure you'll do fine. Let us know how it goes.
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Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:22 pm
Thanks! I will! Quote: But when all is said and done, I think these mistakes and variations make it fun to be an actor. You need the bad to be able to fully appreciate the good. Besides, mishaps make for great stories later on. I fully agree. ^_^
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:40 pm
I feel so unexperienced... *hides in corner*
Anyway, my middleschool production was MacBeth, and it was completely atrocious. Our director and musical director are completely flaky and unreliable, and I think that they were actually trying to get Shakespeare to rise from the dead just to kill them. They made it a musical, spoofing odd songs, and cutting most of them the day before we performed. (Just a taste of how bad the songs were: You know the song, Do the Locomotion? The witches sang "Do the Magic Potion." *weeps*) Everyone's costumes were badly fitting and completely random. The witches were wearing sparkly neon capes. None of the stagehands knew any of their cues, except for one who was also an actor, so you saw him alone on stage trying to change the scene when he was actually supposed to be coming in for a line.
The audience was also bad. I mean, the parents weren't too awful, but they have to love us. When we performed for the school, they laughed whenever someone died or someone forgot to bring something on stage. When we made a joke, however, there was dead silence. After Lady Macbeth and I (Banquo) were dead, we were talking about this offstage. It was right after she went crazy and walked off to kill herself with a knife, and the audience WOULD NOT STOP LAUGHING. We were just kind of sitting there saying "Do they know I/you just died??"
I'm done rambling now, and I'm sorry for any of you who actually read through this, as it must have been a bore. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who's play has gone wrong, though...
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:10 pm
Worst Seen: Grease
It was a high school production, and as I'm sure you know, Grease is a musical. Only two of the cast members could sing well (Rizzo and Kenicke), and I left with a headache.
Worst Performed in: Grease
Sadly, a year or so after seeing that production, I actually ended up joining a group that performed Grease. Most of the cast was not given their parts for vocal capabilies, plus it was a class, not a company, and the director only started the play half way through the year.
To give it some credit, I would have to say the first night was a horrid show, but the second/last night actually went really well. ^_^
I've come to a conclusion, Grease is horribly difficult to do well live. Perhaps the movie overshadows any performance anyone could ever do. eek
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:53 pm
flaed Worst Seen: Grease It was a high school production, and as I'm sure you know, Grease is a musical. Only two of the cast members could sing well (Rizzo and Kenicke), and I left with a headache. Worst Performed in: Grease Sadly, a year or so after seeing that production, I actually ended up joining a group that performed Grease. Most of the cast was not given their parts for vocal capabilies, plus it was a class, not a company, and the director only started the play half way through the year. To give it some credit, I would have to say the first night was a horrid show, but the second/last night actually went really well. ^_^ I've come to a conclusion, Grease is horribly difficult to do well live. Perhaps the movie overshadows any performance anyone could ever do. eek Well, let's hope that's not true. I'm auditioning for it next summer.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:56 pm
I saw a really bad version of footloose. You couldn't hear the singing and they couldn't dance. It was terrible.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:02 pm
Pharaoh Ramases flaed I've come to a conclusion, Grease is horribly difficult to do well live. Perhaps the movie overshadows any performance anyone could ever do. eek Well, let's hope that's not true. I'm auditioning for it next summer. I'm sure it can be done well, it just seems like I've been cursed with bad experiences with that show. I found that the movie was really well done, and, unlike shows without a well-known film, most of the audience will probably end up comparing the stage show to the film. After seeing both, I would say that they are actually somewhat different, and what you can do on a movie is often very difficult on the stage. Long story short...make Grease great and prove my pessimistic conclusion wrong xp
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:54 pm
Das_Naughty! I saw a really bad version of footloose. You couldn't hear the singing and they couldn't dance. It was terrible. I like Footloose ^_^ Good show. My first dinner theatre show was Footloose.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:02 pm
Vadadaca (Just a taste of how bad the songs were: You know the song, Do the Locomotion? The witches sang "Do the Magic Potion." *weeps*) Just imagining that makes me want to die revoltingly in a shed, you have my sympathies... neutral
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:25 pm
Hey! I've got a new worst moment! It was...about three hours ago!
Okay, so in Sound of Music we have a 'living room unit' and stairs that we fly down for scenes at the Von Trapp's house. We'd been having serious trouble with the stairs - sometimes they wouldn't come down all the way to the ground, and we'd literally have to stand on the inside of the stairs while people came down them. So tonight, we were making a transition from the living room to the terrace. They closed the curtain so the stairs/living room unit could be flown out. They flew out the stairs...
...And the living room unit wouldn't budge. I mean, it wouldn't move an inch. It just swayed. By then, the music they had was over and it was complete silence while *everyone* was freaking out. In the end our Tech Director had to come and help us out. Apparently, since there's molding on the side of the living room unit, it had gotten stud about an inch under the stairs. We had to fly the stairs back in and then fly them both out together. It was horrible. This all lasted about three minutes - and when the audience, used to waiting about 5-10 seconds for a scene change, has to wait that long...Not. Good.
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:00 am
My old school did "Honk!" for the spring musical when I was in eighth grade. Everything went spiffily until the Saturday night performance. Right after "Joys of Motherhood," all the stage lights went out and the entire auditorium was plunged into darkness. It was pitch-black backstage, where I was working as a techie. Two people lost contact lenses, there were too many stubbed toes to count (including onstage), everyone learned fifteen new ways to say the f-word, and the director, a five-foot-tall Irishman, was spazzing like all get out. It was oddly funny despite the circumstances.
The spotlight people finally realized that the spotlights still worked, so we managed to get a little light onstage, but it was still pitch-black backstage and remained so until the middle of the second act. xd Fondest memory of middle school.
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:15 pm
this isn't really a best or worst play. i just didn't know where to put this
I was at Thespian district competitions today and this one guy (from another school) was doing monologues, he said he was doing this one monologue, when he got to that one he is some sort of exotic dancer/mechanic. so he kinda does his thing ("nothing faggy") he unbottons his shirt, does his thing (says something weird about girls sticking twenties up his trousers), takes off his shirt, takes of his tank top, then takes off......his pants. everyone in the room (including the judges) were like "HOLY s**t!" there he was in his boxers, he grabs his crotch once or twice, finishes, grabs his clothes and leaves the room probably thinking "oh yeah!". turns out that it wasnt the monologue he signed up with. he used that monologue i guess for the first time that day and no one had knowlege of it beforehand. I was like....WOAH! eek all day..
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:12 pm
oh yeah, i was in Fame once and it was such a horrible version
1. the director sucks in general
2. she is all for "equal chances" so she makes up names for nameless people, takes away all but 2 of my lines in one scene (i was mabel) and other characters' lines, and gives them to those girls
3. She gave the song "Think of Meryl Streep" to Lambchops, just because Lambchops didnt have a song!!!!!
4. She cut a ton of scenes and songs (some of which were important to the story, such as the Romeo and Juliet scene)
5. Carmen lives
6. She cut the lines where Serena thinks Nick is gay (she thought it was inappropriate)
7. She frickin butchered it in general
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:39 pm
Kitsune Ookami 6. She cut the lines where Serena thinks Nick is gay (she thought it was inappropriate) o.o Did she know the show at all before she decided to do it? *foreheadslap*
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:29 pm
DispatchNA Kitsune Ookami 6. She cut the lines where Serena thinks Nick is gay (she thought it was inappropriate) o.o Did she know the show at all before she decided to do it? *foreheadslap* she (sadly) did (also since we didnt have any black guys, our Tyrone was white) songs she cut ( gonk scream sad crying ) (most of) Hard Work Can't Keep it Down (after all, our Joe was JOEsephine) Tyrone's Rap (the spanish part of) Fame the Teacher's Arguement Hard Work (reprise) I Want to Make Magic (reprise) Dancing on the Sidewalk the Curtain Call song (she also killed my song [Mabel's Prayer] by making it lower)
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