Do you know what it feels like to give everything you have into one performance and then get first place, because I do. The West Branch show choir competition provided me with the life lesson of perseverance, determination, hard work. To start the day you wake up at five in the morning and get on the bus at five thirty. You set out for West Branch. The bus ride in the morning is usually quiet. You don’t hear many people talking because everyone is going back to sleep. When you arrive at West Branch you get off the bus and the hosts of the school will stamp your wrist. Once everyone is off of the bus we head to our room, set our stuff down, and then we go help unload trailers. After the heavy work, the girls go back to the room and start hair …show more content…
Walking onto the stage is a feeling I can not describe. Hearing everyone cheering for you is something I will never be able to explain. As you are walking on you have to act in character. I am a maid so I have to act prim and proper. I am showing the the guests Mr.Body’s mansion. While you are performing you always need to make sure you are in character. After the first couple songs you are getting into it and having fun and then you get to the girls song. This is the most stressful song because this is the song right before the costume change. I am hoping when they guys changed none of them moved my stuff. I am nervous that I won’t find my costume or I will put it on wrong. Right after the song I am running off stage and yelling for someone to unzip my dress. I grab my costume and I start putting it on. I have someone help untangle my straps and pull up the back of my costume. After I get my costume on I am running back on stage. We start our closer song with Mr.Body reappearing. We all react and have a fun time at the party. I am out of breath, but I know I need to dig deep to find more air and push through. Once the song is over and I hit that last pose, it is a feeling I can not describe. Knowing I just killed that performance and I couldn’t have done any better. Knowing my team and I had the determination to push through and kill that performance is an amazing …show more content…
In critique one of the judges comes in and give you tips on how to improve your show. They also give you compliments on what you did well in your show. All I can think about while in critique is how well we just did on our performance. Critique is over and now we head back to the room to change and go to awards. Awards make me nervous. You never know if maybe one judge loved your show better than another or if one judge hated your show and scored you terrible. I am also thinking about the other schools that were here and how well they did. Once the MC announce 3rd place and we are down to 1st and 2nd, I am even more nervous. I am holding hands with the person next to me. They announce 2nd place. We stand and cheer for them knowing they did the best they could. They announce 1st place grand champions and Acapella won. We storm the stage jumping and cheering and some people were even crying. As we head off of the stage cheering we go back to the room to grab our things and load the buses. The bus ride home was definitely one of the best bus rides because everyone was in such a great mood. Everyone knew they did the best they could and the team has put so much hard work into practice to make this happen. This award definitely wouldn’t of happened if we didn’t work
Even if I didn’t make it, I don’t think anyone realizes what you learn when training in this profession. Musical theatre has allowed me to step up, commit to my work, become more confident and to have fun! You learn to become focused and pay more attention to detail. Building sets, reading scenes and learning music betters your communication and listening skills. All of these skills I have acquired over the last few years and I they are still helping me to grow. I think my biggest take away from this past summer is to become more confident as a person and in my work. Confidence is a big part of doing musical theatre. Some people having no confidence or a little too much. Trying to gain confidence has made me appreciate my body, the little things and what I do. I have already had many people come up to me at school and tell me that they’re loving my new glow confidence and love for myself. Overall, I see why people doubt the career, but they only consider the outside results. Musical theatre has made me the person I am today and I will never forget
Within school, I have participated in Glee Club/Chorus and Drama Club. I have a strong interest and love of both and hope to continue with them in the future. Last year, I had the privilege of being selected for our school's select choir, North Naturals. The Congregation Sons of Israel in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania honored us with the chance to perform at their annual Holocaust Memorial Service. The Messiah College Women's Choir also invited us to perform as a guest in their annual spring concert, in which I performed a solo, along with some members of the Women's Chorus. This year, I consider it a great prestige to say I participate in my school's select choir for ninth- and tenth-graders- Cantamos. In Drama Club, I have performed a variety
High school gives you the opportunity to explore and engage with different sports or/and extracurricular activities. Many of which are arguably classified as a sport. Show Choir is one that many single out and classify it as an extracurricular activity. Show Choir is a group of people who combine choral singing with dancing, sometimes within the context of a specific idea or storyline. Traveling across the United States gaining trophies and competing for the best spots to calm a champion reputation within their show choir group. So, what intentionally makes up a sport? If you sweat, work out, compete, or maybe condition can be possibly the considerations on what makes up a sport. Show choir has different forms of memorizing moves, motions put
As I get closer, my heart pumps faster and my hands begin to shake. I do not know why there are so many nerves acting up, it’s not like this is the first event I am performing in. On the other hand, many bull riders, steer wrestlers, etc. get nervous before performing. Slowly, the line moves. Dancer is getting anxious, making it difficult to keep him restless. Before I begin the run, I say a prayer for safety and a great performance.
As I walked onto the stage, the bright light blinded me for nearly a full twenty seconds, but I continued to walk towards what I thought was the podium. I noticed the sea of people in the audience as my eyes finally focus. The taut dress was suffocating me, I had to pee, and the blazing lights were making me sweat. I am very clumsy- just a side note- and I was wearing heels. With all that being said, I’ve done this a million times before. FBLA events, other pageants, and school activities constantly have me on a stage. Getting in front of a crowd has never hindered my ability to talk, however this time was completely and utterly different. It was the Miss Metter High School Pageant and I made the top five contestants as a junior, which is not
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
This story takes place in a New York City school in Manhattan, in the nineteen- sixties. The book covers the span of one school semester form September to February.
The coffins and fog machines were set up, and everyone was ready. Well at least for the dress rehearsal. For the dress rehearsal, we had the entire gym to ourselves- we the fifth grade class. First was Mrs. Machevics class doing a random mash-up of various sports songs, then Mrs. Engen’s class doing “Can't Hold Us”, next was Ms. Johnston’s class performing “Sail”, and the mini groups. Our class was the last due to all of the extra pieces that had to be set up. The transitions at first were jerky, but were clean by the second run through. It was amazing to see how just a month of work could create something so spectacular. From what I have heard, the performances were incredible. Throwing candy out to kids, driving tiny cars through masses of jump ropes, and having kids rising from coffins were just a few of the things I heard about the final
There were boys and girls that loved to play… They played all day, even in the hallway. They loved school, waiting to cool in the steaming hot whirlpool. The luxurious school was a prized possession that couldn’t be taken away.
It has been three years ago, since that fun trip. The trip filled with excitement, pride, and joy. I was in 7th grade, and only 13 years old (Or 12). I was in the middle school band, one of the most fun class in my year. At the start of the year of my first year in middle school, I disliked band, because I thought it was just going to waste my time with my other classes, and drawings, and not to mention, that we had to buy a new reed, and I disliked wasting money, but when I learning the pros of the band, I started to get more used to it.
We get up just before eight and head towards The Burlington School and when we finally get there, we begin to get a lot of odd looks from people. The are probably surprised we are here. We get to the high school campus which is two small buildings, one building with most of the classrooms and a gym, the other containing a bunch of offices and a meeting
Ever since I was a small child, I have loved music. The strong, steady beats, the
As the music starts I forget everything and everybody around me .I can no longer see the people watching my every move I can no longer see the judges facial expressions or try to read there lips. All I can hear is the music I am dancing to, all I can see are the bright lights shinning down on me, the blur of people, and my feet moving, dancing like they've never danced before.
It was finally the first day of school; I was excited yet nervous. I hoped I would be able to make new friends. The first time I saw the schools name I thought it was the strangest name I’ve ever heard or read, therefore I found it hard to pronounce it in the beginning. The schools’ floors had painted black paw prints, which stood out on the white tiled floor. Once you walk through the doors the office is to the right. The office seemed a bit cramped, since it had so many rooms in such a small area. In the office I meet with a really nice, sweet secretary who helped me register into the school, giving me a small tour of the school, also helping me find
The fear of not living up to the expectations of the people who believed in me was heavy on my shoulders as I walked into the tiny room with two stern-looking judges who only focused on the paper in front of them. I was confident for a moment, but it was only a pretension. In the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided to join the All-State Music Festival, a music program where anyone can audition to play at a festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Although the result was not what I expected, the experience has influenced me to become the person I am today.