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[anotherusedpage]

My kid sister is doing Lord of the Rings - The Panto! as her christmas play with her drama group. Her best friend - another little girl - is playing Frodo. But my sister is playing... wait for it... Treebeard. I think someone somewhere has an evil sense of humour, seeing as she's easily the shortest person in the class. Steph, who's playing Frodo, is a good foot taller than her. I watched their rehearsal last night and - well, it was about what you'd expect from a bunch of ten-year-olds given a load of plasic swords and told to go do Lord of the Rings.

And I thought the Arsenal Champion's league match was today, but it's not til tomorrow. Which means I don't get to watch it, cos I'm SURE opportunemoment won't want to sit through it... I'll just have to get the results off the net. Again.

And I didn't get the lead in the show I'm doing next term. Again. They were very appologetic about it, but I've ended up with the exact same crappy bit part that I had when doing the show at the age of eleven. I suspect I know who's got the other parts, and if I'm right then I don't grudge 'em. But if it's blondy from last term again, I'll be irritated.

Drama and acting and musicals always make me wish I was a bloke. All the bloke's parts are better. Almost without exception. My absolute dream roles - only one or two of them are female. Carmen. Carmen would fun. But other than that - I'd sell my soul to sing any of the four male leads from Les Mis. And I'd love to do Tony or Riff from West Side Story.
And guys chorus parts are always more fun than girls.

Comments

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

... HOW can they not make Jane Frodo? She IS Frodo! We've established that Jane is without doubt at least half hobbit! On the other hand... Treebeard! *collapses in giggles, then gets up cause that's just cruel*
Ahem.
... yeah, you're right, I'm not going to sit through the Champion's League match. The thing is, if I had a TV I'd happily let you watch it. But I don't. And personally I'm quite glad. :)
I think I might have heard someone say Blondy from last term wasn't taking part in Pinafore. But that could be someone else, or I could have heard wrong, or... something.
If you're around could you come on line or ring me or something? I need to know how old Jonty is and where his home town is... I don't necessarily expect you to know, but it's worth a try...
Or I suppose you could just mail me. But... yeah.

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

I won't be watching the game either. I'm not dedicated enough to get up at 3:30 am.

The girls I know in drama who stay at my residential college have a similar problem to you. We're an all-girl college and traditionally the single sex colleges have a "brother" or "sister" college that we do a lot of cultural and social events with. Our brother college, however, went co-ed ten years ago, which creates real problems when it comes to drama (which we do as a joint activity with that college). Because it is nigh on impossible to find decent plays with even a 50-50 ratio of male/female roles . So unless you' want to put on The Crucible every year, if you're a female you basically have only a third of a chance that the guys do of getting a role. It's really unfair, so I can sympathise.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Blondy's not doing Pinafore. Her name's Alex and she's actually quite sweet, but the REASON she's not doing Pinafore is cos she cacked up her voice so badly doing Patience that they almost got me to sing her part at the last minute...

[ani-matrix.livejournal.com]

hey my name's shay. saheli actually but people find calling me shay rather convinient. anyway anna told me that you wanted to know my name. lol. actually i'm the girl who plays Raul in RPG. haha. actually i got the whole thing messed up for a while but it is ok now. hopefully. anyway so i just wanted to say hi. :)

[herringprincess.livejournal.com]

and all the dram groups ive been to have more women in them anyway so even if there were as many good female roles thered still be less of a chance of getting them...... it sucks :-)

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Hiya, yeah just wanted to know who you were and what you were like and stuff. Don't worry about it, it's kinda weird that we had the whole set up before your Raul actually existed, but.... yeah. Have fun with it!