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 Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:31 am
beyond just the art, and beyond just the job...
The personalities that I encounter in the theatre are some of the most accepting and loving people I have met...
for example: I am part of my college's Gay Straight Alliance, and a large topic of conversation is that our campus is so homophobic... when they go around in a circle and talk and complain and it gets to me and all I can say is "I don't really encounter that..."
Its beyond just homophobia though...where else can a crazed costume lady that is a total tyrant and a shy-spirited lighting designer AND a ego-crazed actress collaborate to have art?
What are your stories?
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:11 am
When I started High School none of my MS friends went to my school. NOT ONE! so lonely. Then Freshman year i was in Our Town adn I made lots of friends. Now I'm a senior who has made many friends through drama, as well as getting outside friends involved. I also love how in class, even if ur not friends the rest of the time, everyone hangs out adn goofs off together adn is really nice
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:32 pm
You're totally right. I'm with a youth theatre company with kids from 6 to 20 hispanic, white, black. No-one cares at all. It's great especially because there's already so much racism in the world.
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:49 pm
I love that theatre families are so accepting of new blood. Cause lately, that's been me. X3
Last year, I was a freshman, and there were quite a few upperclassmen that were so readily accepting of the newbies. Especially the actor/techies like myself. The actors sort of tended to bully the techies around and the techies....well passive aggression was their thing. twisted
Now that I'm not there anymore, I'm going to be the resident little sister again come January. Since it's an eensy-weensy little 2-year school in Appalachia, I'm guessing those folks are going to be pretty tight, but also accepting of new-comers. One hopes. xd I can't wait.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:11 am
When I moved to a new town, my mother wanted me to "get involved" and both of my parents worked, so I needed to find something to do after school. She made me (I REALLY DIDNT WANNA) join a theatre group and I thought I would hate it, but boy was I wrong! My life revolves around it now and its where I've met some of the best friends you could ask for.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:31 am
Long story...but i ended up taking acting/ drama classes all throughout high school, and in doing so...discovered i could sing. Since then, I was granted wonderful roles in plays such as Godspell, Pirates of Penzance, and Narnia the Musical. I was fortunate to win all star cast my senior year at competiton, and best all around actress two years in a row at our annual drama banquets. XD What a blessing that was. I met my very best friends in drama and they are still my best and closest friends to this day. They are my "theatre family" and i would not be where i am today without them. smile I then became a music major in college. it has been too long though since ive been in theatre....im going to change my major to theatre as soon as i transfer. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:14 pm
I started at my high school last year and I have truly gotten a second family. Everyone in my theatre program just immediately embraces the new people. At first, the seniors who were all amazing and talented really intimidated me. But I slowly realized just how nice they were. And now I miss them dearly. There is that one kid that no one actually likes. I sort of consider her "that really distant relative that no one ever sees....and makes to effort to keep in touch with". But we're a family, so we just deal with her.
The people are my second family, and the theatre itself is my second home. What more could I ask for?
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:04 am
My drama class is filed with anger and hatred sweatdrop
but the cast for Hamlet is pretty friendly and despite the fact we're all different ages and barely know each other we all seem to be getting along and enjoying ourselves.
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:42 pm
So now that I've gotten to know my theatre department at my new college it's safe to say that they're all pretty much amazing. I've known them less than a month and I'm already more comfortable with these people than I ever was at my old school. Everyone is just fabulous.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:00 pm
I'm going to a junior college in Texas, and I absolutely love my department. I had a pretty sucky high school experience(small highschool, every little diva just knew that they were born to be Elphaba in Wicked), and actually started out a flute performance major in college, but after my first audition for Quality Street I was hooked. I got a part in that one and then auditioned for our next show, Scapino! and got a part in that, too. I went to cosmetology school for a year and then came back, and now i'm in my last semester before I transfer to a 4 year.
I love all of my teachers so much and have enjoyed being anle to work with them the past 2 1/2 years. Your friends really become your family, especially after being with them every day for 2 months lol. I probably spend more time with my theatre family than I do with my husband lol...
The 4 year i'm going to doesn't have a theatre department =(. I am going to do music instead.
Gotta go to Little Shop of Horrors practice! Woo!
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:25 pm
At our school, we adopt underclassmen! My sister adopted me, then it was Ashley, then Erin, and then I took Stephanie, then Jim I think, and I haven't selected my prey yet this year.
I have two separate families. I have the community theatre one, who I haven't been with for almost two years (going through total withdrawls, but it's okay because I go to school with a lot of the kids I love).
My high school one is pretty much amazing. We all love each other SO much! The seniors (us. wow, that's weird!) are totally open to letting the underclassmen into our little circles. We're ALL EXTREMELY touchy-feely, which is to expected, I suppose. I couldn't have asked for a better theatre family and I'm going to be so upset when this show is over and I have to bid them goodbye.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:43 am
Well, I have Asperger's Syndrome, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was already in college. I won't get into the technical details of AS, I'll just say it's related to Autism, but more high-functioning. Anyway, as a kid I just didn't get all the stuff that came easily to other kids, I couldn't understand nonverbal communication, and the idea that people might say things other than what they literally mean was beyond me. I was socially crippled, had no friends...
Then I got involved in drama. It saved my life. Through drama I learned about body language, facial expression, vocal intonation, and subtext. I learned how to make my outward self correspond with what I was thinking, and I was no longer a stiff, blank-faced, monotonous un!child. Even better, I started to meet people who *appreciated* some of the things that made me me, people who liked me despite and because of the weirdness that had always kept me seperate. I made friends, and I found that, in the theatre, it was fun and *easy* for me to do so, something I'd never imagined possible.
=^__^=
Anneko
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:21 pm
I first joined my highschool drama club as a Freshman by accident. They had announced the first meeting but I was still debating whether or not to join. Then an upperclassman friend (Thespian) comes up to me, asks, "So , are you joining drama/" I couldn't well tell her no, so she says lightly, "Oh, well, you're headed the wrong way." And steers me off to the meeting. And that's how my stage life started. I'm so glad I said yes!!! I just wish my mom would let me audition outside school...but beggers can't be choosers, I suppose.
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