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SMNetwork Archives / I don't want to be an actor, mommy!
« on: Jan 05, 2004, 05:33 am »
That was a great story, and I'm sure that you are glad that you never actually had to go out on stage that night. I have a funny story from my early (when dinasours roamed the planet) days of being an SM in high school: We were doing the musical Guys and Dolls, and everyone sings and dances at some point. One night, the actor who played Joey Biltmore
and had six or so key lines during a phone call scene became ill after the opening number. My music teacher and play director buzzed the SM console on the intercom and said "Kid,I'm gonna make you a star". He then suggested in his stern teacher's voice that I grab my prompting script and go out on stage during the set change,as I was now Joey Biltmore. It's a good thing there was no singing or dancing-the audience would have laughed me into oblivion, but it was easy because I was sitting behind a prop desk and simply read the lines into the prop phone from my SM script-after all desks do have papers on them. That was my one and thankfully only stage appearance. Keep the faith- Rich
and had six or so key lines during a phone call scene became ill after the opening number. My music teacher and play director buzzed the SM console on the intercom and said "Kid,I'm gonna make you a star". He then suggested in his stern teacher's voice that I grab my prompting script and go out on stage during the set change,as I was now Joey Biltmore. It's a good thing there was no singing or dancing-the audience would have laughed me into oblivion, but it was easy because I was sitting behind a prop desk and simply read the lines into the prop phone from my SM script-after all desks do have papers on them. That was my one and thankfully only stage appearance. Keep the faith- Rich