Topic: CASTING- last call

[Hyacinth]

Right-Oh you lot - all the relevant threads have been bumped up...openers and beginners (when? on the 19th??)... let the casting commence...

1st off...Oz is a well-wicked tree, and the only professionally trained actor we have here but, at this time of year, he's obviously and understandably in demand...got to do Stratford you understand? Lots of trees and woods in Shakespeare plays and 'sides, with his weight-gain this year, he's fully booked at The Globe.. SO...

1) at what time can we expect The Mighty Oak on Stage, please? and

2) may we have other trees - young saplings, perhaps??
   it seems that we will need 7 of these...as EJ, who
   sort of fancies being Maid Marion,or Snow White if
   she can work it and they can be  transmogriphied

3) I AM GRASSY NELL - no stand/lie-ins needed..

4) the rest of you????

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

Yo LIsh

when the landlords in cardiff city centre throw me out :):):)

But rest assured I will send me Imaginary Twin to stand in for me.. you'll never know the difference... cept Im more sexier... but me imaginary twin dead sexy toooo.. so we should wing it....

whats tha? my imaginary twin...

okay I'll tell her.. ish me imaginary twin sez if he wuz 20 years older... he wod be demanding an audition on the casting couch').. naughty naughty imaginary twin peep, dont be cheeky you figment..

BIG babble alert

oZzY

xxx

[Ragged Robin]

I know i've asked before
Can I have the merry men- I'll share them around later at the party and they must be wearing green tights!

 PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE

[Mrs Ava]

Merry men....hmmm....will there be 7 of them....  ;D

[ava_banana]

.....message to self........ ;)

.......go up loft.......

.....get out fireman's uniform... :P

.....and a coupla pairs of green tights....... ::)


Casting wise-------- :-/

Will fill in where necessary (don't worry Ozzy, you won't need the putty)........

...always fancied myself as a dashing knight kinda' character.......you never know.....

(once played the Undertaker in school production of Oliver....but that was 20 years ago at least).... ::) ::)

[campanula]

erm, the acting life not for me im afraid - i was once a playing card in alice thru the looking glass at school - and that was stressful enough!
suzy

[Hyacinth]

erm, the acting life not for me im afraid - i was once a playing card

howls of laughter from me  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D - lish

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

Yo peeps

Caampnula acting cv has remindedme when I wuz dead dead young.. bowt 7 maybe 8 tops.. anyway the skooool dun a nativty play, and the biatch music mistress told me to stand i theback row of the choir and,,,,MIME...lmao.. anyway in the play.. the baby jesus wuz born.. and along camethe 3 wise men and the like laying their gifts of  thingmajig... and thenafter the 3 wise men... only a bloody cowboy who then strutted john wayne like to the crib, and then  gave the baby jesus a rope and his...GUN?????
tell ya them teachers in my day
sadistic bstrds, but you gotta laugh ::)

btw I had to mime and wuz warned
of severe consequences if I even attempted to give it a go.. so I did...   mimed me way through silent night, once in royal beleding davids city, and many many more.....

ooer

flashback alert

oZzY ::):):)

[campanula]

in the sixties, all the girls had tiny tears dolls but we were proud(ish) owners of a large plastic LIFESIZE doll which we lent our school to use in the nativity play. At the most tender moment, Mary lifted the baby jesus for all to see. Into the silence, the piercing voice of my younger sister....'ahh look, it's our simon'!

suzy

[Ragged Robin]

... A big Ahhhhhh and keep your fingers crossed everyone my Littl'un is singing a solo in the school nativity tomorrow, so this is a soggy tissue warning.
She shone in her ballet show on Saturday as well.....

Am I still a maiden playing with Ozzy's stalk....?

[jethro]

Hi Lish, i'm back and raring to go, any chance of a part in the panto? or is it too late  :-/ .
I'm prepared  'TO DO ANYTHING' to get in  ;D ;)   :P , i'll even play a blade of grass ( just so the women can lay down on me  ;D ;)).

[Hyacinth]

Ahhhhhhhhhh. Jethro! Greater love hath NO woman!! The thought of you just sort-of-lounging on Grassy Nell????? (ohhh!sigh, sigh!attack of vapours...)....

but...

you OK for The Wicked Sheriff, then??

and PS. after all the exertions of The Panto, you want some rest&recuperation on the Grassy Nell, is OK by me  ;) ;D ;D ;D

[gavin]

Aaaah - school nativity plays; just been at my daughter's.  Nerve-wracking - especially remembering a primary school nativity play in Dundee (or so I've heard tell!).


Wee Ian is right miffed at not being chosen for the part of Joseph.  No, not even a shepherd, or a wise man, he.  And the screaming tantrum he threw excluded him from being chosen as an angel.  As consolation, he's given the part of the inn-keeper.

And bless his cotton socks, he puts all his effort into getting his one line right - every single rehearsal, he's  just spot on.  No more tantrums, no more anger - teacher thinks she's got him sussed.


So - the big night -

Angelic eight- and nine-year olds singing their hearts out.

Mary and Joseph come through the side door of the school hall, and trudge through the serried rows of parents.  Shoulders bowed, heads low, Mary and Joseph reach the inn door, and rap dramatically.

Wee Ian/Innkeeper opens the door.




Joseph (clear as a bell - they've been well rehearsed this little lot) - "We are travellers, cold and tired - is there any room at the inn?"




Innkeeper/Ian (clear as a bell, also) - "Why sure, come right on in - I've kept the best room in the inn just for you!"

[Mrs Ava]

Fantastic Gavin!  Bless their little cottons!  Our little Jessica has been rehersing for weeks for her nativity - shes the narrator, she told us, THE most important job of all, and what happens just the day before the big performance.....................she gets chicken pox and can't go!  you can imagine  :'( :-[ :'( :-[ :'(  I assured her 'there's always next year....' Kids!!!!!!!

As for Jethro the wicked sheriff.....what does he do to me the Maid Marion after he has exhausted himself with the grassy Nell??   ;)

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

Yo gavin


LOL...

oZzY %)

[campanula]

ah bless! i am past all that - no more having to rustle up full costumes (the night before the big event) using a tea-towel and an old sheet - no more halloween dressing up and no more nerve wracking performances watching the (inevitable) chaos, wishing yours would stop picking their nose, poking their neighbour and waving at us. No more tanties when hated rival gets best part whilst yours is cast as 'fourth sheep'. Best of all, no more cringing as young(ish) headmaster leads a rousing chorus of 'lord of the dance' on his guitar (or kumbaya if really unlucky).

Oh yeh, grandchildren.......gulp.

[jethro]

Hi Lish, the sherriff will do nicely thank you, i love having my wicked ways  ;D .
Hi Ej, well when i'm finished with Grassy Nell and the nurse has brought the oxygen mask and tanks, do you really want to know  ::) or should i leave it to your imagination.  ;).