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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:39 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - BroadwayTonyJ 07:58 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| Dang, TonyJ, that’s some sports royalty! As for your high school career, it far surpasses mine. I began as Moth (the lowest ranking fairy in Titania’s court); ensemble in MY FAIR LADY, BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS, THE TROJAN WOMEN, ANDROCLES AND THE LION; the oldest of James Thurber’s batty aunts in JABBERWOCKY; the Nurse in a weird “sequel” to ROMEO AND JULIET called JULIET IN MANTUA; and the twin highlights of my brief stage career were Grandmother Tzeitel in FIDDLER and the female lead in a short play, set in Anglo-Saxon England, by Christopher Fry called THOR, WITH ANGELS. My senior year, I got to adapt, direct, and star as the Wicked Witch in a twenty minute show of THE WIZARD OF OZ (we reused the lion from Androcles), which we then performed at two nearby elementary schools. My best buds playing the flying monkeys, who turned on me after the curtain calls. Nothing like having a mob of the ten-and-under set screaming for your blood! I may not have gotten many cheers in my brief time on the boards, but, by God, did those tykes boo! Laura, watching as the brush fire season takes off... |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:53 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - showtunetrivia 08:39 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| To clarify my "theatrical career" in high school and college, the plays I performed in were never part of the Drama Department's productions. In high school they were done by the Honors English Program and in college by the History Department. They started out as readings, but then developed into off-book performances in an auditorium for the student body. Nobody ever paid to see any of the plays I acted in, although I believe some of them were pretty good, at least that is what I remember being told. I remember my high school Drama Department doing musicals like The Music Man and the U. of I. Drama Department doing a number of well-known plays. Some of my friends were in those productions but I was never a part of them. I was a much better baseball coach than actor. |
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