rubbish
Luckily as an adult I have avoided the stage like the plague (unless it involves drunken dancing), and this is likely due to my completely inept experiences as a child.

1) Falling of the stage when playing a munchkin aged 8.

2) Being put in the choir for everything as I was 'musical' but then not being allowed to sing in my naturally very deep voice and being forced to sing painfully high (for me), causing me to look like a villager with a hernia and constipation, a munchkin with same, various rhubarb-speaking parts with same.

3) Not getting on stage thank goodness as a very small child- my mother took me to a ballet lesson when I was 4 and I was so bad even she laughed as she watched me lumber across the floor attempting to portray Miss Muffet through the medium of dance. I thought my look of horror as the spider sat down beside me was brilliant, personally. In fairness, tall, strong, inflexible, short-haired deep-voiced little girls probably shouldn't be allowed to have a go at things like this.

4) Being completely upstaged by a 12 year old boy when I was 16, in a school production of Oliver, where (in a completely flawless piece of casting I was to play the old male doctor. Finally!) In fairness I can't act, didn't really get the concept of rehearsing, and he was rather good. Never again.

I did lighting instead. It was lush. Not once would I have swapped my place to be a mere 'actor'.
(clapper, Mon 5 Dec 2005, 12:41, Reply)