Friday #2 - A Little Bit it Drama

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @Bipolarcy for this thread!

Have you ever appeared in a play or musical, whether in high school or afterward, and/or were you ever embarrassed on stage?

 

[Cyclonepride]

On one of our early dates with my wife, we went to the Funny Bone and there was a hypnotist there, and for some damn reason, I volunteered to go up there with a group of random people. He went through the process of "hypnotizing" us, and it totally didn't work. He had us running through some really idiotic stuff, and I played along for a bit, but as it got weirder, I was just not drunk enough, so I just walked off the stage and back to the table.

 

[MJ29]

I was in musicals in high school (ensemble). Never had anything embarrassing happen though. I get nervous in front of people on stage, so I'm fine being in the background.

 

[GTO]

On one of our early dates with my wife, we went to the Funny Bone and there was a hypnotist there, and for some damn reason, I volunteered to go up there with a group of random people. He went through the process of "hypnotizing" us, and it totally didn't work. He had us running through some really idiotic stuff, and I played along for a bit, but as it got weirder, I was just not drunk enough, so I just walked off the stage and back to the table.

Hello again.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Thank goodness for pit orchestras.

 

[Angie]

On one of our early dates with my wife, we went to the Funny Bone and there was a hypnotist there, and for some damn reason, I volunteered to go up there with a group of random people. He went through the process of "hypnotizing" us, and it totally didn't work. He had us running through some really idiotic stuff, and I played along for a bit, but as it got weirder, I was just not drunk enough, so I just walked off the stage and back to the table.

I was hypnotized once at a work function, and have heard this story told since. I was on stage, as was a friend of mine who had on tall boots. The crowd was telling the hypnotist something about her, and someone had said “the one with the boots.” The magician misheard and said loudly while pointing at me, “the one with the BOOBS?” (He then later made a pass at me after the show.)

First and last time I wore a low-cut dress to a Christmas party.

 

[dahliaclone]

Never

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Not in any plays or anything but an embarrassing performance when I was asked to go out for a race at a Oklahoma City Dodgers minor league game.

Can you guess which one is me?

 

[frackincygy]

As a 2nd grader, I was a background character in the local Children's Theatre Summer Program's rendition of 'The Jungle Book' - No lines, just a 'scenery' part. I was petrified.

It was in this moment I realized I'd never make it to Hollywood and began my journey towards my 'true calling' in Engineering.

 

[VeloClone]

I did theater in high school and at ISU. One of those moments was when I had the title role of "Tom Sawyer" in high school. I have a little sister who is much younger than me. We were about a third of the way into the show and apparently my little sister hadn't recognized me yet on stage. It was a quiet scene and I was "hiding" on stage. Dead quiet until my toddler little sister recognized me and shouted (her version) of my name at the top of her lungs. The entire audience lost it and I did all I could to not lose it.

At ISU theater we were doing "Treasure Island" and I had a scene where I had to shoot a pirate who was going to kill young Jim Hawkins. My muzzle loader failed to fire so I had to run across stage and knock out the pirate with the butt of my pistol. Not as embarrasing as when another actor's gun failed to fire so he shouted "bang." I wanted to crawl off stage when he did that.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I sang "Born to Hand Jive" in our HS rendition of Grease. No video exists, but I'm pretty sure there were some dance moves involved that resembled someone being electrocuted.

So I'll put a check mark into both categories of "appearance" and "embarrassing".

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Not in any plays or anything but an embarrassing performance when I was asked to go out for a race at a Oklahoma City Dodgers minor league game.

Can you guess which one is me?

I'm not sure how many times I can watch this without laughing, but I'm gonna keep trying.

That first guy is a machine, though. I think it was fixed from the get-go.

 

[85clone]

As a 2nd grader, I was a background character in the local Children's Theatre Summer Program's rendition of 'The Jungle Book' - No lines, just a 'scenery' part. I was petrified.

It was in this moment I realized I'd never make it to Hollywood and began my journey towards my 'true calling' in Engineering.

Reminds me of my son's story: he's a quiet guy of few words. Yes, now an ISU grad Engineer.
Middle school musical - had one solo line in a song - time comes for his big shining moment and he...just...froze - nothing but a wide-eyed stare out into the audience - song and play went along without further incident. Afterwards on the ride home, he was sobbing uncontrollably - felt so embarrassed. My heart hurt so bad for him and not much we could do to console him. He did go on to perform in a choral reading speech team in High School, which was really out of character for him. Safety in numbers I guess. He makes us proud to this day.

 

[wxman1]

My wife and I have always been a behind the scenes type. I did sound in high school and she does costumes at TCR (well did but wants to help with Mama Mia this summer).

 

[Entropy]

Never in a formal play or musical, but I worked camp staff for many summers and was in more skits than I can count or remember.

One of the ones that come to mind was a joke played by the maintenance guy on me (I was the assistant for the summer) with a quick run-on skit. He had it all set up ahead of time.
He was working on some type of prop item on stage, and things clearly weren't going well. He turned to one of the other folks in the skit and asked for the biggest tool in the shop.
Guy brought out a sledge hammer. That was refused and he asked again.
Guy brought out a 4' pipe wrench. That was refused and he asked again.
I was sitting in the crowd, and by that point, I figured out the joke, and was led up on stage.

 

[cowgirl836]

It's how I met my spouse. We had ensemble roles sophomore year and I just vaguely knew who he was because I became bffs with his cousin. I'll never forget her calling him a computer nerd so i was like oh, no way then.The next year I was ensemble again and he had a major role as one of the few males capable of carrying a tune. But computer nerd had grown about a foot since I'd last seen him so I my interest was piqued. We were then the only 2 who made it to state choir and I got to hang with him for a couple days. I was strongly interested in getting to know this boy more but he seemed rather obtuse about my interest.

Senior year there were a couple options being floated for musicals and I knew it was highly likely he and I would be leads. One option involved zero romance and little interaction between the leading man and woman. The other involved a kiss, marriage, domestic violence and the husband's death but oh well, gotta do what you gotta do. I lobbied HARD for that option and got it. Spent the summer getting to rehearse and then eventually kissing on stage in front of family. That's hella awkward especially when the "kiss" is the tiniest grandma peck because we were both too chicken.

Anyway, by the end of the musical everyone is like you guys should date but it took him a couple more months and a family party at my house where he kinda broke his face to get up the courage. But he did and we both ended up at ISU and did choir throughout.
And here we are 15 yrs and 2 kids later. Now whenever I sing, my 3 yr old goes "mommy stop, you aren't good at singing" to which DH laughs hysterically and I contemplate adopting out the kid. Kid doesnt know ****. His metric of "good" is the Blippi excavator song. My singing is the reason he exists

 

[wxman1]

It's how I met my spouse. We had ensemble roles sophomore year and I just vaguely knew who he was because I became bffs with his cousin. I'll never forget her calling him a computer nerd so i was like oh, no way then.The next year I was ensemble again and he had a major role as one of the few males capable of carrying a tune. But computer nerd had grown about a foot since I'd last seen him so I my interest was piqued. We were then the only 2 who made it to state choir and I got to hang with him for a couple days. I was strongly interested in getting to know this boy more but he seemed rather obtuse about my interest.

Senior year there were a couple options being floated for musicals and I knew it was highly likely he and I would be leads. One option involved zero romance and little interaction between the leading man and woman. The other involved a kiss, marriage, domestic violence and the husband's death but oh well, gotta do what you gotta do. I lobbied HARD for that option and got it. Spent the summer getting to rehearse and then eventually kissing on stage in front of family. That's hella awkward especially when the "kiss" is the tiniest grandma peck because we were both too chicken.

Anyway, by the end of the musical everyone is like you guys should date but it took him a couple more months and a family party at my house where he kinda broke his face to get up the courage. But he did and we both ended up at ISU and did choir throughout.
And here we are 15 yrs and 2 kids later. Now whenever I sing, my 3 yr old goes "mommy stop, you aren't good at singing" to which DH laughs hysterically and I contemplate adopting out the kid. Kid doesnt know ****. His metric of "good" is the Blippi excavator song. My singing is the reason he exists

Ya don't say....

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

I'm not sure how many times I can watch this without laughing, but I'm gonna keep trying.

That first guy is a machine, though. I think it was fixed from the get-go.

My friends and I have dissected it a few times for obvious reasons lol. The first guy actually was getting jeered from the crowd for cheating. You can see that he’s not using the inflatable to bounce he’s just bunny hopping on his feet. You can see the second guy notice this and start doing it himself.

So I stand by the fact that I was the only one true to the rules and the rightful winner…. Even if I got bucked off by an inflatable horse

 

[ruxCYtable]

Despite my outgoing personality I always preferred to be part of an ensemble. As a senior I sort of came out of the shadows and had leading roles in a fall play and spring musical. @keepngoal was there. Wish I would have gotten my confidence earlier and done more after. Nothing really embarrassing ever happened to me on stage.

 

[MeanDean]

About 2nd grade there was an elementary school play. They auditioned us by voice and some were in the 'good' some were in the 'ok' and some were in the 'no' group.

I was in the ok group. Well one of the 'good' guys moved away and so I got moved (or maybe just sat with them to even up the groups). So it came time to cast and the person in charge asked which of the boys in the 'good' group had the best grades. Which happened to be me (very small school).

So I got cast as one of the leads. I was a turtle and had one song. I have no idea if I was worth a damn or not. My costume was leotards, a long sleeve tee and an umbrella top as my shell. I don't remember anything about it except my big laugh was something about "wearing my galoshes in the bathtub."

The only other was I got to do a solo performance on my cornet in 6th grade.

Then in HS I was in the Speech club and we did group Oral Interpretation. Won our district but kind of stunk it up with our performance at State.