Our Drama team is putting together 'Little Petshop of Horrors'.
I wont go.
the best play we ever did in high school was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, but that was because it was the only play we actually had any kind of production values for.
like we spent real money hiring professionals to help us out. every other play was like 'okay, Grade six art class, today we're painting scenery!' and then costumes were 'let's go to the local Salvation Army and buy hobo clothes!'
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Is Little Petshop of Horrors the same as just Little Shop of Horrors or similar in any way?
My bad. Those drunken looking 'petshop' toys my sister adores are all over the house. I stepped on one and I was filled with more rage than is usual for me.
I hate those drunken animals so passionately.
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No worries I just thought it was a different thing.
My School did that in 2004 or something. And the fat kid who couldn't sing got the role of the plant, and just tried to sing so hard, but couldn't and man it was horrible.
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edited January 2008
They market their plays so badly though, and I can't reward that.
I haven't thought about it in a while, but my parents must have been fucking worried as shit because I was in speech therapy for maybe seven-eight serious issues
like no "r"s, no "l"s, no "sh"s, none of that
given that their only other child is autistic they must have been incredibly stressed
I know I would have been
also jesus Khavall, that is exactly how I tell if I'm drunk or not
it's like the gates that keep the socially unacceptable pedantic language inside break when I get a few drinks in me
Woah crazy.
I think mine's from a different source though. I did read a lot, but most of my speech being flowery comes from being a classically trained vocalist, and thus having crazy-ass diction when speaking, so once I don't force myself to be normal BAM I'm blasting out words like there's some sort of syllable minimum.
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No worries I just thought it was a different thing.
My School did that in 2004 or something. And the fat kid who couldn't sing got the role of the plant, and just tried to sing so hard, but couldn't and man it was horrible.
Wait, if there's a chance it will be unintentionally funny I will go.
I haven't thought about it in a while, but my parents must have been fucking worried as shit because I was in speech therapy for maybe seven-eight serious issues
like no "r"s, no "l"s, no "sh"s, none of that
given that their only other child is autistic they must have been incredibly stressed
I know I would have been
also jesus Khavall, that is exactly how I tell if I'm drunk or not
it's like the gates that keep the socially unacceptable pedantic language inside break when I get a few drinks in me
Woah crazy.
I think mine's from a different source though. I did read a lot, but most of my speech being flowery comes from being a classically trained vocalist, and thus having crazy-ass diction when speaking, so once I don't force myself to be normal BAM I'm blasting out words like there's some sort of syllable minimum.
I just tend to avoid larger words because they make me sound like an insufferable prick whenever I do use them. Having said that, I'm quite willing to use my vocabulary as a bludgeon if someone doesn't want to see sense.
(it also helps that I really am an insufferable prick)
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edited January 2008
My high school did Little Shop and I fell in love with it. My school had a really great drama department though, most of the plays they performed were stellar. Although there was always not enough guys, and you'd get some gender bending casting or character changes. I still think of Audrey II as a lady.
I'm MDing for PSUs production of bare. Last semester I played for Blood Brothers(GOD AWFUL SHOW) and Assassins(GORGEOUS SHOW)
Over the summer I played for Damn Yankees
Last year I wrote the score to "Reelpolitik" which is currently still in negotiations to get it up in New York
I'm pretty into that stuff. Unfortunately this means I have many friends who like Spring Awakening and don't understand that all Jason Robert Brown is is a brilliant musician who can't help throwing that all away to masturbate onto a piano.
For bare? I cut two guys. I had enough men audition who I felt comfortable having in a cast under my musical direction that I could cut two, including one guy who we cut because he'll get a lead in another show and would only get chorus in ours. We also cut two girls for the same reason.
Actually I think we cut 2 or 3 more from the initial auditions now that I think back.
Anyways the point is I had an overflow of men auditiong for a show. That never happens.
Also I love my director. She is incredible in every way. She decided that it would be a good idea to have a cast party(note, not the, so there will be more than one) three weeks before rehearsals start.
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edited January 2008
Yeah that is pretty goddamn rare in my theatrical experience.
come to think of it my vocabulary coincides pretty well with my speaking voice
I may have a pretty up-and-down talking voice, but when it comes to recitation or anything I can engage my diaphragm and keep my voice to a pretty good pitch
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Sometimes I spell my words in the English manner (color = colour, theater = theatre, etcetera). My teachers dock my points off and I want to slap them silly.
Sometimes I spell my words in the English manner (color = colour, theater = theatre, etcetera). My teachers dock my points off and I want to slap them silly.
Sometimes I spell my words in the English manner (color = colour, theater = theatre, etcetera). My teachers dock my points off and I want to slap them silly.
To be fair, I would too.
bloody colonials.
in the uk you'd be docked marks for spelling words the american way so i don't see why it shouldn't go both ways
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edited January 2008
I know this is late, but the graphic version of V for Vendetta was way deeper and more subtle than the movie. I also liked how it was entirely in black and white up until the dude took a bunch of acid, wherein it switched to really vibrant color, and then when the trip was over it was back to greyscale.
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edited January 2008
Theatre is awesome. I did it in middle and high school, and my high school had an amazing drama department. We did not have a class for it or anything, it was entirely extra-curricular, but the stage and shop were just fantastic. My school had a lot of talent too. I was not so great with the singing though. I am a guy and I was cast in the ensemble for Seussical, while no less than 3 male parts went to females. Awesome. I just did sound director for Bye Bye Birdie.
I am not going on to do anything in theatre, (I wish I could, but I am not majoring in it, and the only way you can get into drama at IU is if you are majoring), but I have some friends going to NYU, Ithica, and BU with theatre as either a major or minor.
My reading did not really catch on until later elementary and middle school. I started reading more in high school. When I was really young I watched a lot of tv and that actually contributed to my vocabulary quite nicely. I never really get out of hand with it though, which makes it even more annoying when somebody gets on my case for using "big words" in conversation.
And tMuse, about the English way of spelling things during class. Well, you are in America, we speak American English. American English and British English are two very different things. Which one do you think you should use? I am not even saying one is better than the other, I am just acknowledging that the two are quite different and you should really accept that and learn the differences.
Edit: Oh I forgot another reason I was going to post here. I would not count them as my friends at all, but I am going to go ahead and say; the G&T forum. They just had a "Games you regret buying thread." I am just going to go ahead and list some of the games these people have said they hate.
1)Starcraft
2)Morrowind
3)Resident Evil 4
4)Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
5)Viewtiful Joe
6)Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrows
7)Beyond Good and Evil
8)Final Fantasy VI
9) Half Life
10) Beautiful Katamari
11)Twilight Princess
Dear God what is wrong with these people. I can understand people having differing opinions, but most of those games are widely heralded as fantastic examples of the medium of gaming in general. Some of these people are saying those games suck.
And by the way, the first 5 alone were from one person, although the entire thread is having an RE4 shitfest.
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edited January 2008
I went to a high school where you could select a "major", since it was inclined towards the arts. I was literary arts, which meant most of my courses focussed on creative writing, but there was a massive bastion of theatre kids.
And you know what? I can't think of any group more fucking annoying then fifty suburban highschoolers specializing in Musical Theatre. Fucking random songs and high-pitched chitter chatter and ugh.
Edit: Oh I forgot another reason I was going to post here. I would not count them as my friends at all, but I am going to go ahead and say; the G&T forum. They just had a "Games you regret buying thread." I am just going to go ahead and list some of the games these people have said they hate.
1)Starcraft
2)Morrowind
3)Resident Evil 4
4)Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
5)Viewtiful Joe
6)Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrows
7)Beyond Good and Evil
8)Final Fantasy VI
9) Half Life
10) Beautiful Katamari
11)Twilight Princess
Dear God what is wrong with these people. I can understand people having differing opinions, but most of those games are widely heralded as fantastic examples of the medium of gaming in general. Some of these people are saying those games suck.
And by the way, the first 5 alone were from one person, although the entire thread is having an RE4 shitfest.
look you are talking about G&T.
this is the same forum that is convinced that the PS3 will never do well and it is a terrible machine. it is a forum populated almost entirely by xbox fanboys. except for the ps3 fanboys who occasionally flit in and out.
rarely there is an interesting thread. it usually gets derailed within about 3 or 4 pages by sheer dumbassery.
Ugh, my dad was a vocal teacher for a number of years (as well as being a regular musician and a college lecturer for years) and there is nothing, NOTHING, more annoying than goddamn people who can't sing in my house being taught to sing. Luckily my dad can be an ass and usually told them how crap they were and sent them packing pretty sharpish
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Sounds like he was a pretty awful teacher
YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ACQUIRED THE SKILLS YOU ARE PAYING ME TO TEACH YOU? BEGONE
YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ACQUIRED THE SKILLS YOU ARE PAYING ME TO TEACH YOU? BEGONE
Seriously, he is a really remarkably skilled man, so he didn't need to teach people with no potential. He is an ass because of a number of things but damn if he doesn't know what is what when it comes to who can learn to sing and who can't. If he thought he could teach people he would but if he didn't then he didn't need to waste everyone's time
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YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ACQUIRED THE SKILLS YOU ARE PAYING ME TO TEACH YOU? BEGONE
Seriously, he is a really remarkably skilled man, so he didn't need to teach people with no potential. He is an ass because of a number of things but damn if he doesn't know what is what when it comes to who can learn to sing and who can't. If he thought he could teach people he would but if he didn't then he didn't need to waste everyone's time
My girlfriend hates Arrested Development because she thinks it's "stupid" and "doesn't make any sense".
This is her greatest failing.
This seems to be the biggest criticism of people who dislike the show.
They don't realize that about half of the jokes in any given episode are just iterations of running jokes, which makes watching it from the start all the more important.
If, however, they have watched it from the start and still don't like it, then I have no explanation.
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My girlfriend hates Arrested Development because she thinks it's "stupid" and "doesn't make any sense".
This is her greatest failing.
This seems to be the biggest criticism of people who dislike the show.
They don't realize that about half of the jokes in any given episode are just iterations of running jokes, which makes watching it from the start all the more important.
If, however, they have watched it from the start and still don't like it, then I have no explanation.
Yeah. Shit, even watching a random episode with no context can be great, because they took time to insert plenty of clever non-running gags that were usually all about verbal context and being subtle yet oh so dirty.
Shit, is AD still $55 on Amazon? 'Cus now I want it.
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Or as I like to call it, "Bunch of fags that quote Monty Python for 50 minutes a day".
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THOMPSON LIVES.
the best play we ever did in high school was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, but that was because it was the only play we actually had any kind of production values for.
like we spent real money hiring professionals to help us out. every other play was like 'okay, Grade six art class, today we're painting scenery!' and then costumes were 'let's go to the local Salvation Army and buy hobo clothes!'
My bad. Those drunken looking 'petshop' toys my sister adores are all over the house. I stepped on one and I was filled with more rage than is usual for me.
I hate those drunken animals so passionately.
My School did that in 2004 or something. And the fat kid who couldn't sing got the role of the plant, and just tried to sing so hard, but couldn't and man it was horrible.
Woah crazy.
I think mine's from a different source though. I did read a lot, but most of my speech being flowery comes from being a classically trained vocalist, and thus having crazy-ass diction when speaking, so once I don't force myself to be normal BAM I'm blasting out words like there's some sort of syllable minimum.
Wait, if there's a chance it will be unintentionally funny I will go.
I just tend to avoid larger words because they make me sound like an insufferable prick whenever I do use them. Having said that, I'm quite willing to use my vocabulary as a bludgeon if someone doesn't want to see sense.
(it also helps that I really am an insufferable prick)
I'm MDing for PSUs production of bare. Last semester I played for Blood Brothers(GOD AWFUL SHOW) and Assassins(GORGEOUS SHOW)
Over the summer I played for Damn Yankees
Last year I wrote the score to "Reelpolitik" which is currently still in negotiations to get it up in New York
I'm pretty into that stuff. Unfortunately this means I have many friends who like Spring Awakening and don't understand that all Jason Robert Brown is is a brilliant musician who can't help throwing that all away to masturbate onto a piano.
For bare? I cut two guys. I had enough men audition who I felt comfortable having in a cast under my musical direction that I could cut two, including one guy who we cut because he'll get a lead in another show and would only get chorus in ours. We also cut two girls for the same reason.
Actually I think we cut 2 or 3 more from the initial auditions now that I think back.
Anyways the point is I had an overflow of men auditiong for a show. That never happens.
Also I love my director. She is incredible in every way. She decided that it would be a good idea to have a cast party(note, not the, so there will be more than one) three weeks before rehearsals start.
I may have a pretty up-and-down talking voice, but when it comes to recitation or anything I can engage my diaphragm and keep my voice to a pretty good pitch
To be fair, I would too.
bloody colonials.
It involves soy sauce and garlic salt.
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in the uk you'd be docked marks for spelling words the american way so i don't see why it shouldn't go both ways
I am not going on to do anything in theatre, (I wish I could, but I am not majoring in it, and the only way you can get into drama at IU is if you are majoring), but I have some friends going to NYU, Ithica, and BU with theatre as either a major or minor.
My reading did not really catch on until later elementary and middle school. I started reading more in high school. When I was really young I watched a lot of tv and that actually contributed to my vocabulary quite nicely. I never really get out of hand with it though, which makes it even more annoying when somebody gets on my case for using "big words" in conversation.
And tMuse, about the English way of spelling things during class. Well, you are in America, we speak American English. American English and British English are two very different things. Which one do you think you should use? I am not even saying one is better than the other, I am just acknowledging that the two are quite different and you should really accept that and learn the differences.
Edit: Oh I forgot another reason I was going to post here. I would not count them as my friends at all, but I am going to go ahead and say; the G&T forum. They just had a "Games you regret buying thread." I am just going to go ahead and list some of the games these people have said they hate.
1)Starcraft
2)Morrowind
3)Resident Evil 4
4)Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
5)Viewtiful Joe
6)Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrows
7)Beyond Good and Evil
8)Final Fantasy VI
9) Half Life
10) Beautiful Katamari
11)Twilight Princess
Dear God what is wrong with these people. I can understand people having differing opinions, but most of those games are widely heralded as fantastic examples of the medium of gaming in general. Some of these people are saying those games suck.
And by the way, the first 5 alone were from one person, although the entire thread is having an RE4 shitfest.
And you know what? I can't think of any group more fucking annoying then fifty suburban highschoolers specializing in Musical Theatre. Fucking random songs and high-pitched chitter chatter and ugh.
You know what is delicious on steak? Blood. Juicy, pink steak needs no dressing.
look you are talking about G&T.
this is the same forum that is convinced that the PS3 will never do well and it is a terrible machine. it is a forum populated almost entirely by xbox fanboys. except for the ps3 fanboys who occasionally flit in and out.
rarely there is an interesting thread. it usually gets derailed within about 3 or 4 pages by sheer dumbassery.
you are better off here.
YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ACQUIRED THE SKILLS YOU ARE PAYING ME TO TEACH YOU? BEGONE
Seriously, he is a really remarkably skilled man, so he didn't need to teach people with no potential. He is an ass because of a number of things but damn if he doesn't know what is what when it comes to who can learn to sing and who can't. If he thought he could teach people he would but if he didn't then he didn't need to waste everyone's time
Yeah, thats valid
I was just yankin' yer chain
one of the guys i used to work with hated arrested development. i eventually discovered it was because he didn't get it. sad really.
This is her greatest failing.
This seems to be the biggest criticism of people who dislike the show.
They don't realize that about half of the jokes in any given episode are just iterations of running jokes, which makes watching it from the start all the more important.
If, however, they have watched it from the start and still don't like it, then I have no explanation.
Yeah. Shit, even watching a random episode with no context can be great, because they took time to insert plenty of clever non-running gags that were usually all about verbal context and being subtle yet oh so dirty.
Shit, is AD still $55 on Amazon? 'Cus now I want it.