When I was in 7th grade my mom put me in acting summer camp.
I begged to go.
It was so fun.
The summer ended with a big production play of “The Princess and the Pea”.
I got a ■■■■■■■■ part, but it was still a great time.
Had a couple lines, the whole family came to see.
Pretty awesome.
Another time I was 17 and my mother was forcing me to go to church.
The youth department was putting on a Christmas play and the woman in charge pulled me aside and said she knew I was not very involved and that I didn’t want to be, but she needed me to take the lead in the play because no one else would take it seriously enough.
She looked desperate , so I said I would.
Super big mistake.
The play was like two hours long.
I had lines that went on for seemingly pages.
I was on stage or having dialogue like every second.
I was the dove age 8 and I had to sing .but i wasn’t a great singer
I played part of the beggar age 10 in the nativity
I had to say “money for the poor @ and shake a ton then I got mugged
Age 15 I was JR and got shot and fell to the ground
I was in a Christmas play when I was 9 years old or so. I was kinda just thrown in, no practice, not enough time for memorization of any lines. It was a disaster.
It wasn’t 2 hours long, like yours, though. It was super short… like 15 minutes.
20 Years Ago, the GP got me into an Amateur Dramatics Company - Singing Gilbert and Sullivens “Ruddigore”. He even prescribed me beta blockers for stage fright.
The family visited a performance on the quiet.
I left in the end - my singing was hardly upto scratch. Im more used to singing in a Chancel with a Cassock on in a Catherdral lol.
Unfortunately(?) I have an alter who doesn’t mind being the center of attention.
I found out that Apparently he’s a good singer though. I dissociated one night and woke up in a karaoke bar apparently “I” had gone up in front of everyone and sung “my” heart out I had quite a few people compliment me lmao it was super awkward and I wanted to vanish at the time but it’s pretty funny now even though I cringe a bit lol
Yes, in elementary school I played the Page (= knight apprentice) in some kind of fairy tale adaptation for kids.
Oh and a couple years later I actually wrote a short play, forcing all my family to take part in it, and I played the king, who mindlessly gives money to scammers until he goes bankrupt, but then he casts a powerful curse on his wrongdoers, who die a painful death
When I was in second grade I was in a play about teeth and taking care of them. I played Mr. Bicuspid and dressed up in a huge tooth costume, lol. It was in front of the whole school and all the parents.
I was forced to be in a play at public school that my A level English teacher was putting on. It was a horrific experience due to my severe social anxiety. I only had 2 lines to say, and forgot them both. That increased my already negative status as a ‘F*****g useless weirdo’
I was in plays and acting classes from 12-17. I even was in a theater troupe where had to audition to get in. Then I was in dinner theater in my early twenties.
In kindergarten, I was the mother in Hansel and Gretel. In the 4th grade, I was Santa’s helper and sang. I was also in a play the juniors put on in high school. It was a murder mystery complete with beans poured on a cookie sheet for the sound of a rainstorm.
It was super short… like 15 minutes.
I had quite a few people compliment me lmao it was super awkward and I wanted to vanish at the time but it’s pretty funny now even though I cringe a bit lol