Acting!

[Anna]

I just got back from Literary Competition. I did Girls' Dramatic Interpretation, a cut from the croquet match in [u]Alice in Wonderland[/u]. One judge gave me perfect marks--no points taken off--except for an ending comment of the "narrator melodramatic at times" or something like that and ranked me 2nd place, total score of 94. The [i]other[/i] judge gave me a 77, and said the same thing the first judge said about the narrator, and said something about gesturing for the sake of gesturing. o_O? But everything was compliments!... but I still got a 77. >_> Go figure. I got 4th overrall, and it was my first (and last) year doing Literary so I'm satisfied. I know I did really well. Anyways, other acting I've done:

[b]"Of Poems, Youth, and Spring" (2000)[/b]- First time I tried out as a freshmen, spring play. I was in the chorus and bounced all over the stage (had to) with energy because the chorus moved the scenes along in the play. The "voices" were on ladders the whole time, the characters came for their scenes, and the chorus flew on and off spurting silly lines. It was fun.... but probably one of the hardest I've done. Not just because it was my first play but it was very demanding physically.

[b]"Attack of the Moral Fuzzies" (2001)[/b]- This play was a "gameshow". Of course it was deeper than that, as the contestant had to make decisions that would unavoidably affect other people. For example, Bethanne (contestant) had to make a decision of where a grant should go to: I think it was a father whose business went bust, a young boy who needed a liver transplant, and a dying cancer patient. I was Nada Ivanhoe, the mother of the boy needing a liver transplant. I had a good-sized paragraph where I had to go from sarcastically perky to crying to pissed off. I didn't like my part very much.

[b]"Every Seventeen Minutes, the Crowd Goes Crazy" (2002)[/b]- One of the better roles I've gotten. At first I absolutely hated my part because it wasn't ANYTHING like me and I had no clue what a bulimic slut would act like. The play was about a house full of kids whose parents "gave up" on them and left. I was one of the sisters. I got awarded "Best Supporting Actress" of the year for my role as Wendy. So yeah, I like that part now.

[b]"Breakfast" (2003)[/b]- I'm a customer ordering breakfast. That's it! It was fun though, one of three one-acts making up one major performance. It was a comedy, and I hadn't done a comedy before. I rather enjoyed it.

I would have done more plays, One Act Competition as well, but marching band goes on at the same time and most of the time I had for extracurricular activities was taken but by that, leaving little room for theatre. I regret that, because I love the theatre.

[JCBaggee]

[color=red][font=arial][size=1]Snow White auditions are after school today. Wish me luck!

--Chris[/color][/font][/size]

[Defcon5]

Jesus Christ Superstar opens tommorow, and our Judas got kicked out yesterday. All due to a self-centered ***** who made up a lie about him hitting her. So now our director, as if he didn't have enough on his hands, will be playing Judas. Every one in the play is very pissed off with this girl for do this, (She got kicked out too for other reasons) because our lighting isn't set because the director was going to do it but now he has to memorize Judas' lines and blocking. And all I can do is pray for him (and his wife who helps out ALOT) and hope he can get everything done, because those two are doing the job of sixteen.