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I was seven years old when my local high school put on a production of the musical Annie. I remember the bright lights, booming voices, live orchestra, and audience applause. However, I wasn’t watching this show from the auditorium; I was participating on the stage. I played Molly, the precocious young orphan who mocks Miss Hannigan by proclaiming that the orphanage must be cleaned until it “shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!” Due to my unusual experience, my first play taught me many important life lessons at a young age. One lesson that has stayed with me into adulthood is how to take direction. The high school theater teacher was Joel B. Short. To me, his name has always invoked a perfect image of the man. He was squat, round, and usually jolly. When he laughed his face was reminiscent of an elated chipmunk with acorns stuffed into its cheeks. His Hawaiian shirts were as loud and bad as the high school band in the orchestra pit. Mr. Short would provide blocking, offer constructive criticism, and demand attentiveness from the cast during rehearsals. If any of his directions were ignored, missed because of inattentiveness, or misunderstood due to distraction his typical lighthearted demeanor would turn into …show more content…
There were the loud, boisterous, and dramatic stars of the show. The assistant director seemed angry, stressed, and power hungry. Stage hands tended to be more quiet and reserved. Yet, even with these conflicting personality types, everyone involved always worked together for the good of the show. Any incident that popped up would be quickly and quietly resolved. Because of this I grew to understand how to work with a diverse group of people. Clashing beliefs, attitudes, and personalities may exist but that doesn’t mean I can’t work in a team environment productively. However, in order to do so, I had to learn one more very important
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On March 31, I had the pleasure of seeing Hello Dolly at Mandeville High School. As a talented theater student at the school, I take the shows that are put on very seriously. Being involved in the show, helping make set pieces, and working at the box office brings light to me as an individual, every little helping hand counts. I want to make sure that my school represents theater in the best way possible. With this production put on, I am proud to say that I am a theater student at Mandeville High.
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There are many attractions to Cal State Northridge and this online SLP master’s program. First, my husband and I are “Made in the CSU.” My husband and I held student executive officer positions at Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Fullerton, respectively. Becoming a Matador and expanding my graduate education to CSUN is a dream come true. Second, is my commitment to the California public education system, which has been fostered by numerous individuals whom I have met through my involvement in campus service at CSUF, as an advocate for public higher education on the California State Student Association, in my classes, and through my sorority. Third, is that I am a mother of two beautiful babies (and trying to adopt a third). Next year, my
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Before this accident happened I wasn´t a very cautious girl,but now i've learned my lesson to be more careful. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember my little eight year old self: I was short, with long pretty curly brown hair, I had pretty tan skin, and I had the perfect smile. It was Wednesday and I was at Roberson's Kiddie Lane Daycare.
As I sat in the brightly lit kitchen doing my homework, I suddenly realized that someone was intently watching me through the nearby window. I slowly turned my head around hoping that it was all a dream, but I am disappointed to find out it was real. I could hardly see through the smoggy window, but I could see that it was an adult male. He was about seven-feet tall hunched-back and by the looks of it he was forty five. His grey hair told me his age. As he moved his head closer to the window I could see it is covered with charcoal black dye and his red tips in his hair were like pine’s on a porcupine. The hair was thick and chunky-black but fluffy like cotton candy. As his eyes closed in at my food I knew why. It looked like he hasn't eaten
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It was a gloomy saturday afternoon an ash colored cloud covering every inch of the sky. My mom Tiffany, her boyfriend Kelly, and I all sat around the old wooden oval dining table. I was not thrilled to be sitting there thinking back on all of the other family memories that had been made with my dad and brother. My mom was saying something, but I wasn’t listening. It was like I was underwater my vision was a blurred around me, and everything was inaudible through my ears. Just seconds ago I had received possibly the most life changing news in my teenage years.
I was able to put everything that happened in those years into a part of myself that practices discipline and love for this art form. Theatre will be the beacon of hope that saves the masses from personal destruction, depredation, and dismal, because it requires everyone involved to access its power through the soul. It beckons such a strong reaction, because theatre is based on the interaction of people, and humans interact with each other in every single way possible, which makes for a communication tool beyond compare. This is the reason I have kept it in my life, because, unlike every other experience, my experience in theatre has always led to self-discovery. Every time I leave the stage I know I have touched someone in some way, whether lightly or heavily, thus expanding my emotional capacity as a person. Seeing people’s lives played out on stage makes one put his or her own in perspective, and this type of self reflection is what will truly make the world progress into the place I believe it needs to go. My goal is to reach entire communities with the arts, and the greatest obstacle the world faces is that of