Category: Jam Session
Let's see how many choristers and broadway (musical theater) geeks we have here. I'm one, so let's see how many more. Tell us your voice part (if you sing, if you just like broadway, that's ok too), what you've done as far as choral performances and shows and any other information you deam relivent. I'll start.
I sing in my school's select choir, when I was in second grade, my elementary school drama teachers made up a play and I got the lead, same in third grade, in fourth grade I was in Peter Pan and I played Smee, Captain Hook's first mate, in fifth grade I played the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Ozz, in sixth grade, I played Herr Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music. Then I quit theater for a while and just sang. In eighth grade I made the Connecticut Western Region middle school choir and in freshman year of high school I made the same choir, but the high school version. In freshman year, I also participated in my high school's performance of Showboat. I'm looking forward to trying out (and hopefully making) this year's show, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Oh yeah, I was in the CT all-state choir last year too. Well, I think that's all.
What an impressive resume, already; LOL! I can, but don't, sing. The husband and I have a collection of "original broadway cast recordings" of musicals, we've been heard to spontaneously break into song, especially from "Into The Woods", a favorite. I've heard John Rate in a number of great performances at Ogunquit.
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Maybe it's genetic?? LOL,
-Dave
i really love broadway musicals. it is the atmosphere. it's so electric
Wow! That's so awesome! I've always loved singing but never had the guts to try out for solos till the 6th grade. As for broadway stuff, our schools weren't big on those types of performances because of money issues. *sad face* In elementary school, I was in the school concerts, and the school musical; "the Sound of Music." In the 7th grade, I was in the Central JR. MA chorus. It was such an awesome experience! In high school, I played small parts in our school plays, one of which was "To Kill A Mockingbird." I made the MA All States Chorus in both my sophomore and senior years. I took one semester of chorus in college and am not sure I'll be taking it again. But I do love choral and broadway stuff! Yay for Wicked!
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Wicked; Yay1! I'm so going to see that when it comes to Boston! Love the book and soundtrack! I've heard one song, thus far, from "Spamalot"; sounds like fun. That's coming next Spring, I think. Check out "Avenue Q" if you haven't already.
-Dave
Oo! I love "Avenue Q" as well!
RyanS1 asked about choirs and such; I did time in my school's chorus and handbell ensemble. I was far better in the latter.
Cheers,
Dave
I was in choir in elementary school and again in high school. I love broadway stuff ... it's so awesome! One of my favorite songs to sing is "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables.
oo, this is soooo my topic! I'm a huge broadway/theater/vocal music nerd, but I've never been in lead roles. I was in huge choral numbers in eight grade (once upon a mattress), ninth grade (Oliver!), tenth grade (the sound of Music), and eleventh grade (the King and I.) I've sung in choirs of various sorts from the age of sicx to eighteen.
Ooh. I think everyone has a shameful love of showtunes buried somewhere. I did all the school choir stuff, of course, and one of them did pretty well in the international youth music festival in Viena in my final year, which was an awesome opportunity to go sing in europe. Never been much into solo stuff, even if there is an incriminating video floating around of a ten-year-old me as the princess in the frog-prince, with the Princess Laiah hair do and everything! Was also one of the wives in the King and I one year, which was fun. Meantime, anyone sharing a flat with me has to withstand the occasional burst of musical-theatre from the shower.
oh gosh, heres your top musical freak. I sing. I've been in 5 school productions but i tend to not count them as they were quite dumb... but out of school i've been in 3 christmas shows at burn-brae dinner theater. as well as 5 spring shows. this was 2 years ao and i don't feel like looking up all the names. lol i was in a chorus line, i played maggie. i was in little show of horrors playing audrey. umm what else? Rizzo in grease. and that's all i can think of at the moment. I also dance. But to tell the truth, i'm an awful dancer. lol i just take lessons for my future broadway career.
oh and i forgot school choirs... i was in choir in elementary and middle school but it hasn't gotten serious until now. I'm in my schools show choir which is a selected 8 girls. we sing and dance and compete and things. it's a lot of fun.
I haven't checked this topic in a while. Nice to see the replies. I love this! We've got so many music theater/choral geeks! Let's get some more music theater chat going. Let's all just chat about music theater-anything you guys want. Right now, my high school is doing "How to scucceed in business without really trying." It's not going well. My high school has a reputation for putting on the best musicals in the state, but it's going to have a reputation for putting on the worst musical in the state if this production keeps going the way it is. I'm in the ensemble, but it is not has fun as it was last year just because the director is new and he...well, he isn't really qualified to direct the show because he's actually a chemistry teacher and the choir director doesn't want to take the responsibility of directing the show because he's a first-year teacher.
Trouble is, Ryan, y'all are trying, perhaps, too hard. The show will bomb
Hahahahaha,
-Dave
hmm, yeah, i've been in the school choir ever since i've been at school...and now i'm doing HSC music. for one of my major pieces i'm performing the soprano part of a renaissance madrigal, i just can't get enough of them. i love anything with harmonies.
OK, definitely count em in as a choral geek. I love choir, and I got the wonderful opportunity to participate in All-State Choir here in Clorado, and it was great! Well, Iv'e tried writing a choir piece myself, but anyway, but yeah...definitely a choir geek.
YAY! Musical Theatre! I love Broadway, my first, and truest love being the Phantom of the Opera. I love anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but especially Cats, Sunset Bullivard, Avita, Star Light Express, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technecolor Dream Coat and Aspects of Love: oh hell, all of it. I can't choose. I love Avenue Q; It sucks to be me, it sucks to be me, isn't there anyone in this world it doesn't suck to be? I'm just about to see the Lion King, YAY, me sooooooo excited. I've seen, Phantom three times, and also, Rent, Les Misserables, Cats, Jesus Christ Super Star, Mamma Mia, Moving Out, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Amazing Technolocolered Dream Coat, Camelot, A Chorus Line, Dame Edna, the Producers, the King and I, and Peter Pan. I also saw Joseph when I was little, along with the Sound of Music, but as I was very young I don't remember those performances clearly. I was in the chorus for our highschool's production of Forty-Second Street, in tenth grade, but although the dancing was stellar, the vocals were substandard. Our school put on How to Succeed in Business with Out Really Trying when I was in ninth grade, you're a Good Man Charley Brown in the summer of that year, In to the woods, in the summer after my tenth grade year, Guys and Dolls while I was in eleventh, Little Shop of Horrors in the summer of that year, and Copacabana, in my senior year. I managed to get our substandard choir dirrector asked to leave during my senior year, so there was no summer musical in that year. At NYSSSA I participated in sceens from A Street Sceen and the Mecatto, this past year, and the Sound of Music, Candeed and Cinderella, the year before that. I'm probably forgetting a few, but I need to go switch over the laundry now.
Oh, and I forgot Chicago; oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both, oh yes they both, oh yes they both reached for the gun, the gun the gun, the gun, the gun, both reached for the gun.
Candeed! Eeeeeee! Candeed! And My Fair Lady! Wow, you got all the good ones! Ahem, And isn't Chicago fantabulous? It's one of the very few I've seen live, in an awesome performance, and I was completely in love, and then the movie came out and I was all set to hate it because Rene singing? Eww! But the movie was great too! Damn them! Even Richard Geer was great! Wasn't so fond of movie!Amos though. Cel-le-phane, Mister Cel-le-phane, shoulda been my name....
I wasn't overly impressed with the movie, but then again, I was in the middle of an eight hour plane trip from Iceland to New York, and I was exhausted, had a rotten headache, and my friend Kaitlyn wouldn't give me her chocolate mousse. rofl I suppose those conditions could put anybody off of an in flight movie.
Hehe, paging Amnesty International, brutal enforced sufferance of a long plane trip with no chocolate! It's an outrage I tells ya! *g*
It's probably better watched with a good describing-type-person, since the beauty of the film is the interesting amalgamation of the two worlds, the real story as it's happening, with the setting of prison and courtroom etc, and the spectacular one, with chorus-lines, disappearing tricks, puppet shows, the band, and all the other speccy stuff that was just shoved together on stage in the original.
Any one ever performed Beethoven's ninth, or any of the larger choral works by Mozart or Bach? I'm looking into the Fingerlakes Choral Society summer schedule, and before I commit to participating I'd like some in put, please?
I've done the whole of Mozart's requiem with a chamber orchestra and medium-sized choir, and the Kirea Elaeson (excuse my crap latin spelling) with a huge choir and huge orchestra, which was really electric and exciting, but I preferred the smaller group and performing the entire work. It's a thing of beauty. Never had the chance to sing any Beethoven, but I dream of being in the Misus Solemnis.
Hi I love all kinds of music including brodway. I was in choir in the sixth grade up untillmy twelth grade year. I went to New Yourk City in the tenth grade and performed with my choir at three big places. I love all kinds of musicals the most. I think the sound of music is the best one that I know. I would like to learn more. If you all can please educate me more. Thanks.
Cindy
If you get the opportunity, check out either the Broadway or a touring production of "Wicked". The husband IandI saw it in Boston last week; it's fabulous! LOL. I've you've read the book and/or heard the soundtrack, I'm sure you'll appreciate it even more. In case you haven't heard, "Wicked" is the "Wizard of Oz" story, told from the perspective of the girl better known as the Wicked Witch of the West.
i've done both mozart requiem and beethoven 9.
Also done mahler's 8th symphony, the mozart great mass in c minor, requiems by berlioz, faure and derufle.
Beethoven nine is a real scream though. the tecetura is very very high
Well, I'm not particularly in love with singing. I mean I love listening to it, and harmonizing spontaneously, but I've done my share of classical singing in college years ago when I was a music major. The bulk of my broadway experience has been accompanying others both sols and ensembles. Musical theatre is a genre I came to appreciate later in life. I used to run sound for plays in high school. Back to the music though; I'm one of these odd keyboad players who loves accompanying others. I've no need to be top banana, as it were.
Lou
well, i love any musicals by sir andrew loyed webber. his music is legendary, and usually the storries are good as well. i have also seen the lion king, mary poppins, chitty chitty bang bang, and the queen musical we will rock you. oh, yeah, my fave andrew loyed webber songs are memories, the music of the night, the phantom of the opera (the main tune) and any dream will do
Heya, I sing saparano, I;'ve been in several quires school based mostly since I was 3, and love musical theatre! I've been in 2 musicals for school and a dinner theatre and it was tons of fun! I love most thints musical related, so it's all good! Glad to see im not hte only musical geek here.
Ok. I've ben in Choir all through school and this year I'll be in our two select choirs. Chamber singers and Jazz choir. I am so excited about them. Anyway, as for my music theatre credit, I've been in Guys and Dolls twice, Byebye Birdie, which I absolutely hated doing cause our choir director sucked at the time, The Music Man, I was Mrs. Paroo, that was sooooooooooo fun. As well as The Wiz with our phisically handicapped company which has gotten country and worldwide recognition called PHAMALY, I was supposed to do Urine Town, but my dad wouldn't let me audition. Sob sob. But the most fun show I've ever done was Joseph with Phamaly. It was such a beautiful show and I cried on closing day.
On Saturday, the 19th, my husband and I saw a fabulous matinee performance of "Spamalot" at Boston's Opera House. We got the tickets as a Christmas gift. Following the show, we had an early dinner at the Cottonwood Cafe, a place for quality Texican food and drink.
Spamalot is a fast-paced Broadway musical, with elements of "Monte Python and the Holy Grail", and wonderfully witty zingers at Broadway, in general, including one at Andrew Loyde Webber, in particular. Unlike the real quest for the Holy Grail, King Arthur's knights actually find the thing in this show. Clues lead them to one of the seats near the stage. The guy who was seated where the grail was hidden was brought on stage and presented with an "Arty" award by His Majesty.
Ok. Sorry for the blank. Anyway, I have always wanted to see Spamalot. Right now, I just finished, "Into the Woods." as Cinderella's mother and voice of the giant, that was so fucking cool. I scared my whole family. Lol
Cinderella's mother and the giant's voice? Wow, how versatile!
I know... Lmfao.