In high school I tried out for a play....I was so bad the drama teacher suggested I be the prop manager for the play.
I loved doing it.

I was a Christmas tree in a 4th grade play. Does that count?

I got the part of the Baroness in the Sounds of Music in high school, but I turned it down. It conflicted with softball.

I'd love to take a trip down memory lane!

My senior year of high school, I tried out for the Fall play on a whim. I didn't even have a monologue. I picked up a book someone had and started reading. I got up on stage and realized it was a monologue about a sexual encounter. I must have hammed it up really well because I got the comic relief role in the play. At the end of the school year, I received the "Best Supporting Actress" award. The play was Dick Whittington and his Cat. I had so much fun doing the comedy piece of it. Wit is one of my strong suits.

In the winter that year, I was the grandmother in Anne of Green Gables, and I didn't enjoy that as much.

That spring we did the musical, Barnum. We had real trainers from the circus come to teach people how to do the trapeze, ropes, juggling, the whole bit. Since I am soo not a singer, I opted to be a show girl. We came out between certain scenes and did dances to play it all up. Our costumes were borrowed from the circus as well. I was selected to silently act out part of the play with the lead clown. after each major scene, this clown would silently act out the part of PT Barnum. He fell in love with the girl clown. Notices fancy show girl (me), runs off with her. Later goes back to girl clown, show girl left in the dust (or water from a flower in this instance). Again, it was back to the comedy, and I really enjoyed it.

I really liked being a part of the cast, I wish I had done it much earlier in high school. I just didn't have the confidence. The rehearsals were a blast, and performing is such a rush.

Just a few weeks ago, DH and I ran into a high school teacher who commented that I didn't know him, but he really enjoyed me in the fall play. He asked if I ever did any more acting. Unfortunately, I am NOT a risk taker, and went on to college to major in business and computers (during the 90s tech boom). Had I been more confident in my acting skills and been more of a risk taker, I would have seriously considered it.

Thanks for bearing with me. I really enjoyed it :)

I played Eve (as in Adam and Eve) in a first grade school (catholic) play.

I was Mrs Paroo in my HS Senior play, The Music Man.

Funny thing was...I wanted the part of the Mayor's wife because it was a comedy part, and I coached a girlfriend to try out for Mrs Paroo, but the drama teacher asked me to take the part.

My one song was a duet that involved coming in on a totally different key. It was so difficult for me, but I finally nailed it in the dress rehearsal.

It was a lot of fun....the play was presented for a week.

I never had a second of stage fright...then, or since.

When I was in the 7th grade I was a munchkin in our school's production of " The Wizard of OZ ". My older sister was the make up artist and my future husband was the guy with the spotlight.

Linda

Acted in a HS play.."Mrs. McThing"..and had a ball, mostly because I got to live at my grandma's house (3 blocks from the HS) and be totally independent for the duration of the production. Worked on makeup and costumes for all of the other HS productions, and got the same living arrangements. Sweet!

Much later got involved with a dinner theatre/musical group and sang in groups and in a trio which was compared to the Andrews Sisters. High praise!

I discovered community theater when I was in my 50's. Oh my, I was hooked! Here is a list of some of the plays I was in.
Female version of the odd couple.
Fiddler on the roof
Diary of Anne Frank
Rumors
Arsenic and old lace
Lets murder Marsha
Cheaper by the dozen
There isn't an active CT in the area we moved to 4 yrs ago, and I really miss it. I worked "back stage" in a lot of other productions. Guess there will be no more curtain calls for me until the last one, alas. Dottie

I was the Innkeeper's wife in third grade.

My claim to fame was in 4th grade. My girl scout troop went ice skating at a skating rink. A local news station showed up and filmed us skating. They caught me falling down as I skated across the screen. I was the highlight of their station commercial for a while. Oh, and I got paid $5 for it.

Hasn't every high school senior class done "Guys and Dolls"? (or "South Pacific"?)

My youngest son was one of the male leads and had a ball.

Of course, he's a FANTASTIC singer and actor.

No, really. (:

Cream

I was in Guys and Dolls in my freshman year of HS.

I was "Ma in her kerchief" in the first grade. I joined the choir in the fifth grade and stayed with that through H.S.
I was Aunt Polly in a Junior High production of Tom Sawyer. One of the Mission workers in Guys and Dolls. Stage hand stuff for the rest of H.S. (I liked choir more). I sang at the County Fair when I was 20ish, just once. I used to sing with a friend of mine at parties and, ahem, a bar in Oakland around the same time. Then I didn't do anything again until a few years ago when I got involved in our local theater. I've don't three shows here. I have turned down the last two because it competes too much with my kids. I decide to wait until they are a little older or until a show doesn't conflict.

I started out as the Prime Minister in The Ugly American in high school. After joining the military, while stationed overseas, I became involved with a group on base and I was hooked. After returning to the states joined another group in Northern VA where I was living and continued my activities until I moved to Delaware.

I've played a variety of roles in musicals, dramas, and comedies. The comedies being my favorite.

What a talented bunch!

I played The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe in second grade. I got all my kids to bed, and said, "Now I can play my piano." At which point I sat down and played. My mother, an artist, did the sets.

In high school I tagged along with a friend who wanted to audition for "My Sister Eileen." The director handed me a script and told me to read a scene in which I was supposed to be on the phone. I did, and he gave me the lead role. However, having zero confidence in myself at the time (things were difficult at home, and I was failing everything), I turned it down.

Fast forward to the years when my children were small, and we did community theater together. Jill memorized lines before she could read (and she read early). Because of my singing voice, I got all the leads in musicals. I'll never forget singing about my purity to my male lead . . . I was 38, and he was 19. Gotta love community theater!

I swore I'd get involved again after my children were grown. And I still might. But it's a bit of a drive (gas prices!) and they rehearse long hours late at night (I'm tired!). So I'll have to see how it goes next summer.

Last year I spoke at a roast for my former boss. I faked a call on my cell phone in the middle of the speech, and it was hilarious. Someone asked me afterward if I'd ever studied acting. I said no, which was true. But I remembered that audition for "My Sister Eileen" . . .

This is a fun thread, Cream!

alisande,, LOL, in every production where I had a "love interest" he was always a lot younger than I was. like you said....gotta love community theater. Our CYT was putting on a mystery dinner theater and two and a half weeks before opening, one of the gals had to drop out. They knew I could memorize fast, so they asked me to take over her part. It was of a rather man-ish dominatrix woman who wore knee high, high heeled boots and tied her husband to a chair to 'slap' him around. The guy who played my husband had to be at least 15 years younger than me. Thank goodness for makeup and lighting. LOL Dottie

When in elementary school I was in the school plays and was so nervous. I was also in a play at church when I was a teenager and loved it. I enjoyed all the fellowship at rehearsals and was surprised that I wasn't nervous at all when on stage.

I love to sing, was in the school chorus all through high school. Also sang in the choir at church along with my mother and father. When we were stationed at Ft. Bragg back in the 70's I joined the Stars and Stripes which was a group of Army wives that loved to sing and dance. We would put on performances around the area and also on Base. I hated it when we had to move away from there.

When we arrived here in AZ I looked around for a group to sing with and joined the Sweet Adeline's and sang with them until they broke up. My friends have been pushing me to join the local choral group here in town and I just might one of these days. I go to their performances and have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. lol

I elementary school, junior high and high school I acted in school plays almost every year. I usually had the lead if not close to lead role. I've been a judge, a scared teenager in a haunted house, a stagehand in a play about a play and other roles I've now forgotten.

Bigbaby was a professional actress for a while.
She's busy this morning but I'll mention this thread to her.

Ron

I sang my way through high school. In my junior class Operetta, I played the lead. Can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but my name was Zena. I played a princess that was an exchange student in the USA and I fell in love with a commoner. From my freshman year througout high school, I was the soprano in a trio of school mates. We sang at every school function and around the area for public functions. I also sang in 2 church choirs and usually had a solo in the Christmas and Easter Cantatas. My Dad, base, my Mom, alto and my brother, tenor, sang together for a short time. When Dad passed away and brother went to the army, Mom and I sang duets for many funerals, weddings, etc. till I moved out of state. I haven't sung in public since 1966.

For my senior class play, I did a skit that I wrote playing a 'hillbilly' girl....with no teeth! Seemed the natural thing to do, as just 2 days before the play, I had all my upper teeth pulled in prep for full dentures. When I think about it now, I cringe! My classmates won't let me forget it of course!

I had roles in my junior and senior class plays...really enjoyed it, too. Played a young teen-ager in the junior class play and a Spanish seniorita in the senior one. I think I still have the playbills in one of my old yearbooks.

Oh, Gazania, you were brave!! Or just very young. :-)

Dotmom, we'll be calling you Dominatrix Dot if you don't watch out!

I meant to add that for years I sang in nursing homes, accompanying myself on the piano. I encountered some funny situations, and had a good time with it. The residents seemed to enjoy it, but I'll bet they enjoyed what came after even more. I always went around the room greeting people and touching them.

I once saw a local play where a woman was lowered to the stage in a large swing. She wore a gorgous gown and a big hat with plumes. She had no lines to memorize. She got off her swing, sang a song, and brought down the house. Then she got back on her swing and was raised up again, disappearing. I thought, That's the part I want! LOL

I was on the Drama Commission in high school and was involved in several plays both on stage and behind the scenes working my way up to student director.

In my early 20s I sang and played guitar at weddings.

In my late 20s I was a dance club disc jockey. Now I just sit in front of a computer all day and design stuff...sigh

Jodi-

Grew up going to the community theatre, called Little Theatre. Always had a yearly membership. The "gang" and I would go see all their plays. Little building with sawdust floors, and had intermission for yummies made by members.

I performed in Look Who's is Coming for Dinner, handled props for Our Town, and worked back stage for lots of plays.

And MAN the party at the end of the season was fantastic, for cast and stageworkers, etc. For grownups, which I was, as I was in college and married at one time. So I got to go.

I was Mary in the Christmas musical at church one year. As a teenager I was in a "Friends Forever" musical at church.

When I was about 12, they were filming "Invasion USA" in Atlanta. My family worked as extras in the movie- my dad, brother, cousin, and an ex-aunt are in the final film. Was kind of exciting except my brother an I caught chicken pox form some kid that came because her mom just KNEW she would be a star if she was in the movie, UGHHH!

Was in several plays in elem. school, many, many years ago and can't remember the name of any of them.

When in RN training I had to have an elective and took Children's Theater and was in The Canterville Ghost, playing the English housekeeper, Mrs. Umney.

We only put the play one time and the day of the play still needed some props. I drove to K-Mart to get some posterboard and stuff and as I was leaving a woman crossing the parking lot broadsided me. She wasn't in the driving lane just speeding across the parking slots.. I managed to get back to the theater with the stuff, rather upset and was consoled by other members, all of them college age students but me, in my 40s. I did mess up on one of my lines but no one even noticed until I told them afterwards and was apologizing.

The instructor kept teasing me about being an English housekeeper with a Southern accent. lol. I really enjoyed this and have always wished I lived close enough to a community theater to join. Whether or not I acted, I enjoyed doing props and costumes.

Our whole family roller skated in the mid 70s and were in skating productions and besides skating I made, designed and made many, many costumes.

One of our DDs majored in theater in college and appeared in quite a few plays.

Yeah, I acted once in real life. One Sunday morning, I was dead tired and wanted to sleep in, but realized that the wife had a church duty that morning. Got up. Got dressed in something other than weekend togs. Took her to church. Sat through the sermon and pretended it was the best ever. Complimented the wife on her efforts.

I pulled it off! Got through the morning without incident. Returned home, put my feet and relaxed. What an act! Just Kidding :)

not what you'd call acting but a classmate and i were chosen (because we could read out loud, lol) and did some sort of voice over?? never found out exactly what it was...all i know we missed a couple of days of elementary school...