Did you ever perform in any school plays when you were a child & if so, what roles can you recall?

In grade school, we put on a Christmas play and I was a toy doll named Annie, I got to be carried in to the stage and posed and everything. It was so much fun!

In middle school, we put on a Winnie the Pooh play and I was Piglet. I had a blast!

I was chosen to play the Virgin Mary in the sixth grade Christmas play because I had long, thick hair. The principal called my mother for permission because we were Jewish. My mother said, “Fine.”

I was chosen to play Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” at camp because I had long, thick blond hair.

Later that season I did a knock-‘em-dead impersonation of a radish in “Peter Rabbit.”

I began acting at age 6 appearing as the Great Pumpkin in a Halloween play in the first grade of elementary school. I haven’t quit acting yet.

I played the Virgin Mary in our Christmas play (I had long, dark brown hair), I did an awesome Howard Cosell impression (the voice that I chose to narrate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – my own interesting choice). I wasn’t a shy kid. I won public speaking for our school a few years in a row.

I played a character called “Harry of the Duck Farm” in a Christmas play in 5th grade. I had one line where I introduced myself. And yes, I made the predictable mistake, honestly by accident, and I was so mortified that it ended my acting career. Oh, what a talent the Performing Arts lost that day!

I remember playing in Free to be You and Me, I just don’t remember what role I had it was in 6th grade…

No,and you can’t make me! <Stamps feet and walks off>

@hawaii_jake Ah, how could I forget? Keep up it up bud!
@lucillelucillelucille Well, I know who’s ideal for the role of this little madam! ;¬}

I played the Queen of Hearts. Most of the time I was behind the scenes, I did a lot of the makeup for our school plays.

@ucme She needed her @ss kicked! XD

@lucillelucillelucille Several times…...with jackboots on :¬)

I played in a adaptation of The Great Kapok Tree in kindergarten. I was the Giant sloth, with about two lines. But I was so proud and my parents were sure I was destined for greatness.(I wasn’t.)

I am female but played the role of a male headmaster. I led a mission into space with a Colinder on my head. I did a great job until I was eaten by a black hole and turned into a tin of corned beef! I then had to be eaten by a white hole to turn back into human form. There was a running theme… may the sauce be with you! !

When I was 3 something, the Lutheran church I attended did their annual Christmas pageant. I was supposed to be a shepherd, but I decided I wanted to walk with Mary and Joseph. I don’t remember what I did, probably threw a tantrum the day of the performance, and they let me walk with Mary and Joseph. My mother thought it was very funny that I picked out the center of attention to attach myself to. I certainly had no idea who Mary and Joseph were or any sense of what it was all about.

I was Annie Sullivan in our Girl Scout troop production of The Miracle Worker. There was a scene where Helen Keller knocks a pitcher off a table. During our performance she knocked it off the table and stage and clear into the first row of the audience. I could not contain my laughter as I walked off the stage to retrieve the giant plastic projectile. Fortunately it did not hit any audience members.

In kindergarten, I was the Mother Duck and still remember my line. In grade school, it was the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. In junior high, the church I belonged to was responsible for putting on a living Nativity scene every year on Christmas Eve. I’ve played the part of a shepherd, an angel, and in the final year, King Herod. Kudos to those that let me do that, considering I am a female.

I was in an acting class my freshman year of high school and acted out a scene from a play…I can’t remember the name though. But my character was a young woman who worked at a diner and was really naive. I did okay acting-wise, but after delivering one of my lines I slammed down the coffee cup I had been holding and then struggled to work my hand out of the handle. It sort of screwed up the timing of everything, and I nearly dropped it once I got my hand free. I was a little embarrassed, and have not had the urge to act since.

I played Blousy Brown in Bugsy Malone and one of the street girls in Little Shop of Horrors.

My senior year in HighSchool I played the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof.

In first grade I played a part that was written for a generic character called “the boy.” My teacher changed it to “the girl,” because she knew that I could memorize the lines. It was a play about the weather – I remember a sun, an icicle, a raindrop, and a cloud. I’m sure there were others, but heaven knows they’re gone from my memory. In second grade I played the shoemaker’s wife in “The Shoemaker and the Elves.” That was it until college when I was in the chorus of “H.M.S. Pinafore.”

Thanks folks, good stuff!

@tedibear: What kind of a stupid play is “The Shoemaker and Elvis”?

@gailcalled – LoL! Dumb play but the music was great. By the way, thank you! That was my first real laugh after a long day of baking in a basement with broken air conditioning.

In junior high, I played Cinderella, but not in Cinderella… it was a play called “Happily Never After”, about the horrible marriages of all the princes and princesses in fairytale land. A marriage counselor switched us all up, so I got recoupled with the frog prince or something like that. In the end, of course, ‘true love’ prevailed, and I got back together with Prince Charming. I also played Lady Shropshire in a knock off of an Inspector Clouseau story. I absolutely loved doing those shows. I don’t know why I didn’t pursue acting any further. Probably laziness.

I have been in many, many shows over the years. I started very young, playing minor characters and/or singing in the chorus. I was in four or five shows by the time I finished eighth grade, but didn’t get any good roles until high school.

Over the course of those four years, I was in seven shows:

Bye Bye Birdie (Harry MacAfee)
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge’s nephew Fred)
Godspell (only two characters have names, but I played the one who sings “All Good Gifts”)
All in the Timing (various roles, as it’s a series of one-act plays)
The Wiz (The Wizard of Oz)
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (Ken De La Maize)
Anything Goes (Billy Crocker)