My 8th grade class is putting on a musical at the end of the month! We start Monday. Its gonna be sooo fun. It is set in the 50's. All the old music. We are going to have rehearsals every day Monday through Friday until the performance. And we are doing 2 night performances. Its another fund raiser for our 8th grade trip.
Some of the songs being used are:
At the Hop
Build me up, Buttercup
Dont know much about History
Charlie Brown
My Boyfriend's Back
Will you still love me tomorrow?
I will Survive
I've got you Babe
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in his Kiss)
Sugar Shack
It's My Party
The Twist
Locomotion

And thats just to name a few!

We get to learn dances too! We have to learn the Locomotion, The Twist, The Jitterbug and some more. It gonna be SOOO FUN!

AWESOME!!! (the scary part is I know some of those songs!!) LOL!!! I taught a class on the 50's last year. It was part of my girted class, we had to find a bunch of info about the 50's and teach our class, and then test them and stuff.IT was AWFUL..lol..but that's just cause my class is weird! Anyway, I would kill to do a musical at our school!! WHOA!! THAT TOTALLY RULES!Break a leg, I know you'll be AWESOME!

Originally posted by StrudelBone

Some of the songs being used are:

Build me up, Buttercup
My Boyfriend's Back
I will Survive
Locomotion

Oh wow! Those are some of my favorite oldies! LOL! Sound great, Brandon! :dance:

That sounds AWESOME!! My skool would neva do NEthin so fun...:(!!! HAHA...jk...that is REALLY cool though!!!

Cool, Brandon! Sounds fun! (even though you already told me about it) but some of those songs are my fave oldies! hehe! Good luck!

Oohh cool!!! Sounds like fun!!!!

That definetly was just a little list of the songs. We have 45 songs so far lol. Its gonna be awesome. I play a foreign exchange student. lol

Originally posted by StrudelBone
Some of the songs being used are:
Build me up, Buttercup
I will Survive
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in his Kiss)
It's My Party


omg how did you kno my fave oldies??? also is that song "more more more, how do you like it, how do you like it" in there? And "Last Dance" by Donna Summer?

oh that's cool! :) My school is doing the sound of music..

Originally posted by Delta Burke Forever


omg how did you kno my fave oldies??? also is that song "more more more, how do you like it, how do you like it" in there? And "Last Dance" by Donna Summer?

I dont think those are in there. By the way, I forgot to mention that most of us will be lip synching and some of us will really be singing. Rehearsals start TOMORROW. Im SOO EXCITED!

First rehearsal was today. It was awesome. We got our dancing partners this morning and practiced the Jitterbug for about a half an hour this morning. That dance is SOO fun. We did the rest of practice after school. We make our entrance to the song At The Hop. We all come from different directions in the audience and meet up with our partners and start the Jitterbug. Then we go upstage and do the Jitterbug, Twist, Locomotion, or Swim. I'll tell ya about some more later.

The play is next week. It is gonna be soo fun. I lip synch Wake Up Little Susie and Sheila. I might do another one but I dunno yet.

Originally posted by Wild Child
oh that's cool! :) My school is doing the sound of music..

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens..brown paper packages tied up with string! These are a few of my favorite things...

i love that musical hehe. i could keep on singing but i won't for u guys' sake :D

KOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The play was AWESOME. We are gettin a copy of the tape whenever the lady has time to make them. The audience loved us. We performed it 3 times so far. We performed/Will perform on..
Thursday, April 4, 2002 @ 7:00 pm - Public
Friday, April 5, 2002 @ 7:00 pm - Public
Monday, April 8, 2002 11:30 am - Grades 5-8
Tuesday, April 9, 2002 11:30 -Grades 9-12
And again for the public at a later date.
We had food and stuff for the audience so they could eat while they watched the play and we had tables and chairs set up for them. We also sold Hot Fudge Sundaes.

This has turned into quite a production. The TV station came and did a little news segment on it. The whole town loved it and is still talking about it. We were even asked by the town to perform it again on the 4th of July. We made A LOT of money on it. It was really fun.

It was called Puttin' on the Hits, and the characters are...
TEEN ANGELS
Kitten
Candy
Bubbles
Buttercup
Cupcake
Buttons

PINK PEPPERS
Roxy
Sandy
Judy
Josie
Frannie

T-BONZ
Snake
Manny
Jack
Freddie
Beau
Sonny

Our teacher and director made a few Appearances as Pookie, and our principal made a few appearances as Principal Daddy-O. I played Freddie.

The List of songs is....

Prelude: At the Hop

Act 1:
Scene 1...Classroom - Dream Town High
Buttercup - Beau
My Boyfriend's Back - Bubbles
Shoop Shoop (It's in his Kiss) - Kitten
Short Shorts - Pink Peppers & T-Bonz

Interlude: Do You Want to Dance

Scene 2...Dream Town High Gym
Locomotion - Pookie
Chapel of Love - Pink Peppers
I Will Survive - Roxy
I Got You Babe - Snake & Butch
It's My Party - Candy
The Stroll

Interlude: Birds and the Bees

Scene 3...Drive-In
Sandy - Jack
Mama Said - Sandy
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Kitten
He Dont Love You (Like I Love You) - Sonny
Wake Up Little Susie - Freddie

Intermission

Act 2:
Scene 1...Kitten's & Josie's homes - getting ready
Johhny Angel - Josie
Leader of the Pack - Buttercup
Rubber Ducky/Splish Splash - Jack
Bobby's Girl - Frannie/Roxy
Soldier Boy - Bubbles
My Guy - Judy

Scene 2...Dream Town High Parking Lot
Sheila - Freddie
Run Around Sue - Beau
Little Town Flirt - Snake & Jack
This Diamond Ring - Sonny
Love Potion #9 - Jack, Snake, & Beau

Scene 3..."Stairway to the Stars" Dance Theme
Judy's Turn to Cry - Candy
Save the Last Dance for Me - Daddy-O
The Twist
Earth Angel - Freddie
Rock Around the Clock
You're the One That I Want - Judy & Jack
Time of My Life - Johnny (Josie) & Judy
We Go Together

YAY!!I told you you'd do good..lol...

NEways, I think that's awesome! Break a leg in what's left of it!

good job! Sounds like fun! I wish I could have seen it!

Originally posted by StrudelBone
The play was AWESOME. We are gettin a copy of the tape whenever the lady has time to make them. The audience loved us. We performed it 3 times so far. We performed/Will perform on..
Thursday, April 4, 2002 @ 7:00 pm - Public
Friday, April 5, 2002 @ 7:00 pm - Public
Monday, April 8, 2002 11:30 am - Grades 5-8
Tuesday, April 9, 2002 11:30 -Grades 9-12
And again for the public at a later date.
We had food and stuff for the audience so they could eat while they watched the play and we had tables and chairs set up for them. We also sold Hot Fudge Sundaes.

This has turned into quite a production. The TV station came and did a little news segment on it. The whole town loved it and is still talking about it. We were even asked by the town to perform it again on the 4th of July. We made A LOT of money on it. It was really fun.

It was called Puttin' on the Hits, and the characters are...
TEEN ANGELS
Kitten
Candy
Bubbles
Buttercup
Cupcake
Buttons

PINK PEPPERS
Roxy
Sandy
Judy
Josie
Frannie

T-BONZ
Snake
Manny
Jack
Freddie
Beau
Sonny

Our teacher and director made a few Appearances as Pookie, and our principal made a few appearances as Principal Daddy-O. I played Freddie.

The List of songs is....

Prelude: At the Hop

Act 1:
Scene 1...Classroom - Dream Town High
Buttercup - Beau
My Boyfriend's Back - Bubbles
Shoop Shoop (It's in his Kiss) - Kitten
Short Shorts - Pink Peppers & T-Bonz

Interlude: Do You Want to Dance

Scene 2...Dream Town High Gym
Locomotion - Pookie
Chapel of Love - Pink Peppers
I Will Survive - Roxy
I Got You Babe - Snake & Butch
It's My Party - Candy
The Stroll

Interlude: Birds and the Bees

Scene 3...Drive-In
Sandy - Jack
Mama Said - Sandy
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Kitten
He Dont Love You (Like I Love You) - Sonny
Wake Up Little Susie - Freddie

Intermission

Act 2:
Scene 1...Kitten's & Josie's homes - getting ready
Johhny Angel - Josie
Leader of the Pack - Buttercup
Rubber Ducky/Splish Splash - Jack
Bobby's Girl - Frannie/Roxy
Soldier Boy - Bubbles
My Guy - Judy

Scene 2...Dream Town High Parking Lot
Sheila - Freddie
Run Around Sue - Beau
Little Town Flirt - Snake & Jack
This Diamond Ring - Sonny
Love Potion #9 - Jack, Snake, & Beau

Scene 3..."Stairway to the Stars" Dance Theme
Judy's Turn to Cry - Candy
Save the Last Dance for Me - Daddy-O
The Twist
Earth Angel - Freddie
Rock Around the Clock
You're the One That I Want - Judy & Jack
Time of My Life - Johnny (Josie) & Judy
We Go Together Oh wow, Brandon! That's an awful lot of songs, lol. Did you bring a bottle of Poland Spring wiht you? LOL. :p

:joke:

We had a cooler with water backstage.

Glad it turned out well


D

Thats cool! Did you guys actually sing all of those songs? Or was it lip syncing?

*sigh* My 8th grade musical was "Krazy Kamp" by Tim Rice. Oh, how I adored middle school musicals. I was Kate, singing a messed up rendition of "Broadway Baby." No, it was not the same one from Follies. In 7th grade, we did "You Ain't Nothin' But a Werewolf." For a rich prep school, you'd assume they could have afforded the rights to more well-known musicals, as opposed to cheap take offs by Tim Rice. :lol:

I can't say high school was too much better. Yes, much better shows... Camelot (Guenevere), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), Pippin (Catherine). Pippin -- a Fosse musical without dancing. The irony! I don't think Pippin should be done in a high school, IMHO, unless you have the dancers for it. The show is ruined without the dancing! It loses that magic. Especially a Fastrada that can't dance! *sigh* But, I digress.

Good luck on your show!

We lip synched.