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Every show our theatre company has a tradition of putting a lemon in some form or aanother on stage for at least one scene, sometimes it is a drawn picture, other times it is an abstract painting, o the actual fruit, sometimes it is in a different spot every night because our director tells us no it looks to bad there. Does anyone else have someting like this

There's always a little bit of The Man of La Mancha in every set. Our graduating class this year was the last year involved with it and we gave the underclassmen EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS that the tradition was to be upheld. The background was amazing and the show was amazing, so we refuse to let it die. That's that.

We have a running joke about Splenda. And gnomes. Every opportunity for the audience to see Splenda or gnomes, by golly, they will be seen. That's not an always thing, though.

We also have a pre-show ritual called Circle Up that HAS TO HAPPEN or the show doesn't happen where we all hold hands with our hands crossed right over left, and somebody (usually a senior or a freshman) says something inspirational and then they squeeze the hand next to him or her and it goes like that in a circle in silence until the leader gets a squeeze on the opposite hand and then we clap and scream end it by saying "Let's ******** this puppy". Usually somebody will say "If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right", at which point you get yelled at and things thrown at you, because everybody hates the kid who started it. But the saying of it and subsequent throwing of things is becoming a tradition in itself. xd

two directors ago at my school there was this stuffed dog that he would always get on in the shows in one way or another. example: in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, at the end Snoopy came on holding it. He was before my time, so when I would watch the shows that my brother was in, I owuld always look for the dog.

We did a egyptian murder mystery. (I was the killer/mummy/rich spoiled nephewe) it was the most fun play ever. Anyways one part told about the mad goats of the ancient king Kabdu-Madu... So we had this monkey thingy made out of a coconut... now we put that somewhere in every set because the ghost of king Kabdu-Madu brings us good luck lol!

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I give up. I usually have two windows going on Gaia because my computer is so slow, and now I'm just furcking everything up.

I'm soooooooooooooooo sorry for furcking the thread in the butt.



Our school also does a circle thing, where we put our right feet in and cross our arms right over left to hold hands with the people next to us. Generally, the director and one or two of the seniors say something (nondenominational) about being completely awesome. And then we 'pass the energy' by squeezing each others hands in a circle as fast as possible. Then we say 'There's magic in the theatre, the theatre is magic.' and we un cross our arms and turn around with out letting go of hands.

Oh, and we have a ghost, and if there's anyone in the fly space during the show, we make a sacrifice to her. Her name is Tabby.

At my high school, we all have to circle up before the show and do the passing on the squeeze thing after our director has said something inspirtational. It's always depressing during the last show where she has the seniors in the middle and she talks about how much she'll miss them and stuff.
Another thing we do is sign somethong on the stage, one of them was a book, one of them we all signed a ribbion and tied them on the railings of the stairs. Malo says it's like we're christening the stage as ours.

My school's tradition is the rose ceremony. What it is is the director gives a speach before closing, talking about how our show couldn't exist without each and every person. He calls everyone up (first band if its a musical, then Techs, then actors, going in order of smallest to largest part. Ending with the SM) telling them exactly of their importance to the show.

My personal tradition is my legging snap. In every show I've ever been in, I have worn either tights, fishnets, leggings, or general spandex. So it's become a tradition to snap whatever type of legging I happen to be wearing for that show. Otherwise, we'll have a bad show. I even teched once and was required to wear black leggings just for the snap.
I decided that when I graduate, I shall come back just to tell a freshman to continue the legging snap.

My school has a few:

- Before every preformance, we all (techies included) go onto the floor level of the stage (we always have two levels) and hold hands in a circle, right over left, and we chant "energy energy all around it brings you up it brings you down" x number of times, starting off whispering and crouch-bouncing, ending up shouting and jumping as high as we can (this sometimes becomes a problem for the shorter ones of us). Then at the last one, we shout "ENERGY ENERGY ALL AROUND IT BRINGS YOU UP -" then we all shout a random funny line from the show.

- we all sign the backs of the set walls in sharpie

- we all sign the school posters for the show

- I am always pacing in a circle backstage before every preformance - its not a school tradition, it's a "me" habbit

- our quickchange room is co-ed, so we are all required to wear volleyball shorts and tank tops under everything, unless you don't care (which many of us dont)

- The AD that just left us ( crying ) started one that happened before every show. along with saying "break a leg", we go around shaking everyone's hand, looking them in the eye, and saying "I give you my best" I hope this one continues this year...

- Similar to the lemon, we have a teddy bear with a velcro-ed on head, and he is in every preformance. No clue how he'll fit into Les Mis this year... sweatdrop