Did you perform in school? Plays, sing, dance etc?

[Bennyboy]

I did an indian thing in the fourth grade. Had loin clothes, war paint, the whole deal. Some Iroquois dance number. The Gym was so hot though, that some of the members of my troupe passed out in mid routine.

Pretty funny.

[JackBeck]

1. Hmm...let's see...

Chorus member in "42nd Street".

Small role in the 4th act, of the 10th hour of "Arsenic and Old Lace", can't even remember the name of the character.

Cornelius in "Hello, Dolly!"

Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"

And some French dude in "Carnival!" that played the accordion.

Plus, I was a "Madrigal".

So to answer your questions, No, I never performed in school stuff.

[LeftyMom]

2. I spoke at a school board meeting and impressed them enough that they upped the budget

for the gifted program instead of cutting it. Which is pretty cool for a seven year old, I guess.

My teachers retaliated by making our class square dance at some PTA thing. I should have told the school board they beat us. :P

In high school I did speech and debate, which let me travel a lot and gave me an excuse to get out of classes most friday afternoons. The best part about that was when I'd take other classes from my debate coach and she'd just send me to the library to do research for the team's cases. That's what I really got out of debate- I'm a really good researcher and I have a knack for remembering obscure details and were I read them.

[VenusRising]

3. Yep.

I was in a few plays in school. I was student director for a few spring musicals. I also was in chorus for awhile and also did some twirling (baton). I enjoyed Art Club and Academic Team the most, though.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. My one brush with fame...

I played Maria in The Sound of Music when I was in the 8th grade. Never did the play thing in high school, didn't think I was good enough. I did play with a band for a couple of high school talent shows though.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Boys Glee, A Cappella Choir, Vocal Ensemble

Central Coast Section Honor Choir in my junior and senior years.

[Rhythm]

6. Drama Club for a couple of years (mostly techie stuff, but acted too...)

Marching band / orchestra - Played trombone for 8 years. and i was my JROTC unit's drill team and colorguard commander.

[Gore1FL]

7. I waited until after school

and acted professionally for a while.

[enigmatic]

8. My band played Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" at my high school's Battle Of The Bands

Well, that's the song I wanted to play, but I was overruled by everybody else; we played Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My" instead....

[caty]

9. Sang with a

band called "Raven" in college. We played at high school and college dances. I was in several musicals in high school. Nothing in Jr. High but sang in several school pageants in grade school. I came from a musical family and was alway encouraged to get involved in anything musical at school.

[Orsino]

10. Chorus in elementary school...

...then got as far away from the performing arts as a I could during high school. It was later on that I caught the acting bug, performing in college and community theater, culminating in my playing and singing as Feste in Twelfth Night, to tunes I wrote. Here's me again with Stephen Colbert, suited up for A. A. Milne's one-act, "The Ugly Duckling":

[trof]

11. My dirty little secret: I was in a minstrel show.

It was a fund raiser for my Glen Iris Grammar School in Birmingham (where else?) Alabama in the mid 1950s.

I stood in front of a chorus line of little girls and we sang and danced The Hokey Pokey.

We were all in blackface.
I wore a straw boater with red, white, and blue band.
Black, wooly wig.
White shirt with string tie.
Red and white striped vest and blue pants.
Carried a bamboo cane.
DOOD!
We brought the house down.

Yes, today that is totally unacceptable, but back then it was perfectly OK, especially in our all white segregated schools and society.
:-(

[Mad_Dem_X]

12. I was in a few school plays

I was terribly shy, so I always tried out for the smallest female role.
And I was so afraid of forgetting my lines, that once I wrote some of them on my hand, like a cheat sheet. :)

[AllegroRondo]

13. I was a total band geek

what happens at band camp, stays at band camp

[suninvited]

14. In High School I was in several plays

I played Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Ernest and Peggy in Goodbye to the Clown. I played Mary in The Childrens Hour at UT at Austin at a summer drama workshop which I got invited to because of my awards from the UIL competition for Goodbye to the Clown.

The funny thing is, I was so shy in high school I barely even talked to anyone except my closest friends but somehow I lost that shyness when I was on stage.

[DarkTirade]

15. I was in chorus from 6th grade on

and at one point when they needed a violinist for the pit orchestra for 'Into the Woods' I signed up.

Most. Boring. Pit orchestra music. EVER.

95% of the time we were just playing on the off beats. But we still had to pay attention, because every now and then... ooh, look! Playing on the on beats!

If there'd been an orchestra at my school I woulda signed up for that too. But I lived in a fairly culturally devoid area. There wasn't a single school orchestra in my entire county. Everybody had a band, of course. Gotta have something to play during the football games. But no orchestra.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

16. All of the above.

Band geek, choir, orchestra, Thespian, all of that. We all wanted to do Grease so badly, but our choir director thought it was too "suggestive." She was pretty square, huh?

[Beer Snob-50]

17. I was in the all city choir for the city of springfield ma

we did some moody blues song from what i remember as well as some patriotic numbers.

[DS1]

18. reluctantly

there's video

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Yes, ded a few plays

[Auggie]

20. Plays

All High School: West Side Story, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, And Then There Were None

Teenagers playing adults -- hilarious to think about it now.

[TommyO]

21. Yes, through my HS years theater was a godsend!

I started out doing tech work and did some time on stage as well. My biggest role was Father Drobney in Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water in my junior year.

As master carpenter for Once Upon a Mattress, I had the dubious task of climbing a 14 foot ladder every time one of those damned banners got hung up on the curtain. I'll get on a 300' tall roller coaster without hesitation, but ladders give me the willies.

[Burma Jones]

22. A Lot

I started with reading the Gettysburg Address with a beard glued on to my 8 year old chin.

Let's see, I did the following in Jr. High:

Charlie Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
Marryin' Sam in "Lil Abner"
The Murderer in "Sorry Wrong Number"

In High School:

Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple"
Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
Nicely Nicely Johnson in "Guys and Dolls"
Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof"

And I was part of a fake tumbling act called the Zucchini Brothers that did all sorts of humorous and silly things

I was in all-state Chorus (Tenor) and Jazz Band (Lead Trumpet) all through HS as well.


Later, I tried to make a living at performing.......ah well.....

[Thirtieschild]

23. Lots of plays, declamation, musical readings (said poems to music, usually Danny Boy)

Even had a $500 speech scholarship to Texas Tech. I thought I was so good. Realize now that I was awful - thank God I didn't take the scholarship, would have lost it half-way through the first semester.

(In those days a $500-scholarship would pay for tuitiion and room and board for a year.)

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[Shell Beau]

24. If being a cheerleader counts then yes! If not then no!

[1gobluedem]

25. I starred in a play about reading in fifth grade

Some Martians landed in a library and started eating the books. It was very cool to be in the play because we had a cake that looked like a book and got to eat it.

In sixth grade I was a lady-in-waiting in The Mouse That Roared and the only thing I can remember about it was the maxi-dress I wore.

In high school I played in the marching and concert bands (in my school if you were in the marching band for four years you didn't have to take gym) and played in the pit orchestra for Carousel my junior year.

That was it.

[SteppingRazor]

26. In high school, I was in Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night's Dream, Guys and Dolls ...

and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Did a couple plays in college, but mostly indie stuff that no one's probably heard of.

My first role was as a munchkin at the age of, oh, 5 or 6. And I acted fairly regularly from then up through age 20, when I transferred colleges and finally managed to ditch the acting bug somewhere between Colorado and Missouri.

[sakabatou]

27. "The Devil's Monologue"

I also did backstage stuff too.