The male lead. Another kid was supposed to get this part, but for some reason his parents wouldn’t let him. I was not at all right for the part, but I worked my ass off, and got rave reviews from the drama teacher.
Narrator!
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Chose “other,” since I did multiple.
For the school’s big, main, production I was in the pit orchestra three of my four years.
The school also had a smaller drama group I was part of that was entirely student-created. We wrote small one-acts and performed them during a theatre night, and the best one we then performed at a state-wide one-act competition. We were unique in that we were the only school that always performed a play one of us had written.
So for that one, since it was such a small group, we all did lots of duties. I wrote a one-act, directed another, and helped with the set, music, and lighting. I even did a bit of acting. A couple supporting roles, and a lead role once.
I did everything from lighting/set crew to stage manager & assistant stage manager to member of the chorus to Tybalt & Will Parker (Romeo & Juliet; Oklahoma! respectively, in case it wasn’t obvious), and 2nd lead roles of that ilk. Never actually the leading man, but I did get to bang Ado Annie, who was much more fun in the sack than Laurey.
Other- I was in the audience.
Other - I filled in for the trombonist in the pit for one show when she was sick.
Top supporting cast. I played the father in a non-musical version of Meet Me in St. Louis, and the Mayor in Never Too Late.
In middle school and high school, I was always the lead.
I chose “offstage role” as the closest - I was in the pit.
Stage crew, usually lights. I had an amazing amount of fun doing that sort of stuff, all through high school.
Years after I graduated from college, I was kinda pissed when I found out that I could have studied production in college and gotten a job doing it… instead of music.
I was the male lead in our school play my sophomore year, and the female lead was a senior. We had to kiss, and she was absolutely mortified to be kissing a sophomore. Heh. We were supposed to be professing our love for each other but she wouldn’t go for more than a quick peck on the lips.
I was always the whacky character actress/supporting actress. Think Miss Hannigan. Secretly, I wanted to be the lead but I never went out for it.
Except for my first grade play where I was not given the role of Betsy Ross, and I’m still bitter about it thankyewverymuch.
The only school play I was required to participate in was in the Fifth Grade. I refuse until they gave me a non-speaking part.
I played Martha in Arsenic and Old Lace, wife #5 in The King & I. We all had to do costumes, sets and props as well. Spring semester was always very busy.
Lights, sound, and off-stage/disembodied voices. I didn’t want a stage role, and I’ve always been a vocal chameleon, so I sometimes ended up with as many as five or six speaking roles (most with only one or two lines, granted) in a single play without ever being seen. We only did farces, so I got to play around with lots of goofy accents and voices.
Our sponsor did try repeatedly to get a Shakespeare production off the ground and had preemptively decided that I would play Richard III. I was never sure if I should take that as a compliment or not. There was never a realistic chance that it would happen, regardless.
I was a Munchkin.
I had the lead in my seventh grade school play. I don’t know how that happened. I never acted in a play again after that and have never had any desire to act either.
I was Melchior in my high school production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Good solid part, with a major solo.
Does musical count? The only theatre production I was involved in was my senior year high school, and I was the piano player/musical director for Pippin.
Romeo and Juliet - Romeo
Pygmalion - Henry Higgins
Misanthrope - Philinte
Endless smaller parts in one acts and scenes as needed.