Hooray, I actually have something to contribute!
I was in a few school plays. Right up until secondary school, where they always did musicals. Sadly, I am so horrendously off-key that I couldn't even make the chorus, which irked me no end.

At first school, I was usually cast as one of the Three Wise Men, which doesn't do much for a girl's self confidence - looking back, I realise it was because I was tall and had the deepest voice in the school.

There was one where for some reason we had some sort of rainbow theme. I was yellow, which meant dressing up in a bright yellow hula girl outfit, complete with yellow crepe paper skirt. Before going on, we were all stapled into our skirts - however, one day, I was at the back of the line and the teacher got distracted before she got to me, so my skirt was never stapled. I tried to get her attention again, but I was always the shy and quiet type and didn't get the message across.

Up comes our lilty, Hawai'ian style song and I'm reluctantly thrust onto the stage. Naturally, I keep my hands firmly on my hips - the teacher is by the stage frantically making waving motions with her arms to try and prompt me to do the moves. Pah. You can see what's coming next. I join in with the moves, the skirt drops to my feet and I'm left hula-ing in my baggy old flowery knickers in front of everyone. Not quite Bucks Fizz.
( useful_idiot, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 18:55, Reply)