| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
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| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:58 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - BruceinIthaca 06:43 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| I attended Lyons Township High School (in LaGrange) from 1962-'66. Although I loved musicals, I couldn't sing but I did act a little in a few plays. I was Biff in Death of a Salesman, George in Our Town, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Tony (of course) in You Can't Take It with You, and Giles Corey in The Crucible. I actually auditioned for the role of John Proctor, but was embarrassingly bad -- I just couldn't do lust. Even my best friend (who witnessed my audition) said "You really sucked up there." In college at the U. of I., I didn't want to have anything to do with theatre, but someone told my professor that I had acted in high school and she roped me (literally) into trying out and then playing the title role in Ivanov. In the 70's I taught at Hinsdale Central High School and coached baseball there as well and community baseball into the 80's. Three kids whose names you might recognize who either played on my baseball (yes, baseball) teams or on teams I played against were Isiah Thomas (the Pistons one, who played on one of my teams when he was 15 and also on the St. Joseph H.S. sophomore team), Jeff Hornacek who played against me for LTHS and the LaGrange community team, and Glenn (I never called him Doc) Rivers, who was a left-handed 3rd baseman on the Proviso East varsity baseball team (he was dynamite). Rivers almost played on one of my older teams, but he was a liitle gun-shy about being the only black kid in an all-white league. |
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