Describe the single most incredible moment that you have ever had onstage. This can be anything!
2006-06-11 16:03:43 · 17 answers · asked by texasboy0069 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I actually just got through my most incredible moment on stage today! ok, i have just finished up my 8th grade year and i swear i have the best theatre teacher ever! Anyway, my teacher is Danish and a friend of hers gave her a play called "Number the Stars". In the play there is 3 freiends 2 our sisters and one of them is Jewish, the girls parents were forced to leave their apartment and the Jewish girl stayed with her friends and their parents and pretended to be their dead sister Lisa. This play is about The Hollacost (sp) and how Hitler and the Nazi army went all over Europe and killed all Jews. I live in El Campo, Texas and Danivein (sp) Texas is about 30 minutes from me and it is the Danish Capital of Texas and our theatre class was asked to perfrom the play there. A man named Wolf Finkelmen, who is one of the Hollacost survivers was there and he loved the play so he asked her to go to Houston and perform the same play for 20 or 30 Hollacost survivers. Today, we went to Houston and perfromed the play and it felt so good to see people getting so into this play. During world war 2, 6 million jews were killed during the Hollacost. I could go on for days! If you have any questions please feel free to email me emily_b06@yahoo.com
2006-06-11 16:36:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, my most incredible moment onstage was actually an accident. I wasn't even in the play!
I worked as a volunteer for a sort of small community theater company (the house only had about 200 seats). I mainly did tech work for them, or worked in the office. On closing night of one run the backstage manager had a last minute emergency and could not come in, and because I was working in the booth and knew everything that was supposed to happen on stage, I filled in for him. It was the beginning of Act III, and suddenly we heard from one of the people off stage left, "The lighter is missing!" The lighter and the cigarette it was supposed to light played a large part in the first scene. There was no time to go looking for the prop master, so I grabbed my Zippo out of my pocket and snuck onstage to give it to the actor who would be using it. The lights came up just as I got to him. He was so surprised to see me standing there in a Sex Pistols t-shirt, cut-off shorts, and black Chuck Taylor high tops that he dropped the lighter when I handed it to him. I managed to bend down and catch it before it hit the floor. It was a period piece (1930s), and I was definitely not dressed appropriately, but I did get a standing ovation for my good catch :) I took a small bow and exited stage left. It took the crowd a while to settle down, but it took me considerably longer to stop laughing.
I acted in high school and in college, and I have also acted in community theater, but that stands out as my most memorable and incredible moment onstage, ever.
2006-06-11 23:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last year I was in our school play, Anything Goes. I was the youngest Angel (basically the whore-ish characters) and got to tap dance and whore it up onstage in a Catholic school. That was extremely fun.
This year was also incredible because, though I didn't get the part I wanted, we put on Fiddler on the Roof which is my favorite musical ever. Preforming in your favorite one is the best ever-- I savored every moment and, even though Anything Goes is more upbeat and funny as compared to Fiddler which is more mellow yet sad, I could never pick just one.
2006-06-11 23:09:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mandi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was voted Most Humorous in my high school, was mostly known for clowning around. Despite that I was cast as Mr. Gibbs in Our Town.
In the third act, I lingered for a moment after the funeral in front of my wife's grave. Then, when everyone else was gone, I stood up, turned around with tears in my eyes, put on my hat and quickly walked off stage.
Every night I would catch someone who knew goofy me react in shock. One even burst into tears.
It was when I really realized the incredible power that live theatre can have, as well as the truth behind the maxim of "make the clown cry." I also knew I should never linger in that moment, it wouldn't serve the play and would be self-indulgent, so I just moved on. to this day nothing bothers me so much as seeing actors become self-indulgent on stage
2006-06-11 23:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by blueowlboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The single most incredible moment i had is when i won 1st place in the 2006 Geography Bee when i was 12
2006-06-11 23:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by connor_comeau 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my company's last run of shows I had a hand balancing solo. ...That is, I was performing on 2 blocks on tall metal poles, doing handstands and different contortion shapes. Well, during our first show I was feeling excited and super flexible, so to please the crowd I pushed myself even further than usual... way over-arching my feet over my head. I got carried away, and came to a point where I had no control over my balance anymore. I fell over on my *** and onto one of the metal poles, breaking it from its stand. ...Most incredibly EMBARRASSING moment ever... not just onstage, but in life, as well!
2006-06-13 13:09:17 · answer #6 · answered by Invi(nc/s)ible 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was singing is a church program. I look out in the crowd and I saw my two year old son smile so hard that he started to cry.I stop singing for just a second. when I finish singing, I sit down and he give me the biggest bear hug ever. So ever time I sing I go back and think about that bear hug. I sing a harder and better, because of that moment.
2006-06-11 23:15:55 · answer #7 · answered by mauricejr77 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Growing up, I took dance lessons. When I was 9, we started competing. My best moment, was when I was 11. We were in the MS state fair youth talent competition. We won first place overall. I'll never forget the moment they announced that we won. The announcer wasn't happy and the girl next to us who lost collapsed and had to be carried off stage. It was unbelieveable.
2006-06-11 23:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by beweird22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was Puck in Midsummer last year. I was saying the next-to-last monologue, and was the only person on stage. The lights were hitting me and I was complety taken over by the character. Then, I knew that I wanted to do this for the rest of my life. It was the biggest high of my entire life.
2006-06-12 17:38:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had to do a short play or portion of a play when i was in high school... my play partner and i chose a short diologue from Ana Karenina... i was freaking out and was very nervous, but once on stage the character took over... i don't remember being myself, but Ana Karenina.. teh feeling was amazing.. the best part, however, came after the play was over when a group of middleschoolers came up to us and asked my partner and I if we were rally in love cuz we looked that way on stage... it was an incredible feeling
2006-06-12 00:54:43 · answer #10 · answered by anix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋