"I say sir, is it your will to make me a stale amongst these mates?"
As part of my Shakespeare Comedies class, Prof. Dugas think its fun to assign students to groups to perform sections from six of the plays we go over. I was assigned to the "Taming of the Shrew" group, which, assigned by alphabetical order, happened to include myself, another guy, and five ladies.
The section we were performing happened to have five male characters, and two female characters. Meredith, of course, had a great idea: "Let's let the girls play the guys, and the guys play the girls!"
You can see where this is going.
Of course the girls fell in love with this idea, and started talking about how pretty Nick and I would look in wigs, dresses, makeup, bras, and high-heels. Really, this wasn't a bad deal, since in this particular section, the characters of Kathrina and Biance have VERY few lines -- I didn't actually memorize mine until today, earning quite a few odd looks from people as I munched on a BLT in the Brick sprouting off Shakespeare "...comb your noodle with a three legged stool..."
So I got to be Kathrina, the title character. We decided we'd perform it as it would have been done in the 16th century, with "period" costumes -- aka, $30 worth of material from the fabric store.
So, 3:30pm today found me in the 2nd floor hall of Linthicum Hall, in a cheaply made dress (that kept falling over my breasts, dammit!), wearing a cheaper wig, and some very high quality makeup (or so I'm told). Got through my lines (I had four speaking sequences, which, although I didn't get 100%, I did get very well).
Aside from the paraphrased line at the top of this post, mine included:
"Faith sir, and fear not. It is not halfway to her heart, but if it were, doubt not her care would be to comb your noodle with a three legged stool, paste your face, and use you like a fool."
"A pretty peat! Put finger in her eye, and she knew why!"
"What, and may I not leave? Shall I be assigned hours as if I know not what to take and what to leave?"
I also got to throw an apple at Meredith (Hortensio) when she said her line about the rotting apple. We were supposed to have a plastic apple, but no one could find one, so we bought a real one ... she told me to aim for her ass, but during the performance, she and Michelle (Gremio) moved further from the door, and I wound up hitting the back of her knee (oh well). It got a laugh.
Anyway, it went pretty well (although several of my current and former professors who saw me in the hall burst out in laughter).
(PS - me and Nick stood firm, and weren't subjegated to high heels, bras, or fake breasts).
Posted by Nimrod Pimding (Member # 205) on :
We need pictures or we'll never believe thee.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Reminds of a Spanish skit I had to do in high school. I wound up dressing like a fat Madonna with bad fashion sense. I had to sing, as well. The teacher recorded it on video, too.
I'm never attending a reunion for fear that this tape will surface.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I had the role of a 10 year old orphan boy in my schools production of Nicholas Nickleby as a Sophomore.
The problem with that is that I'm not really BUILD like a 10 year old boy. Our director, who is a wee bit on the fruity side, if you catch my drift, tried his darndest to conceal my.. um.... distinguishing female sttributes, but alas no article of clothing could quite pull it off. The result? I was sent to the dressing room on opening night with the worlds biggest ace bandage and the orders to just put my arms up high and spin while someone wrapped the thing around me....
It didn't quite pull off the trick, and it was highly painful to breath, and I was sore for over a week, but such is life....
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Hmm... sounds interesting. Now let's see the pics and compare them to mine.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
No online pictures exist of Tom playing an eight-year Norwegian boy in an Ibsen play last year. Thankfully.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I demand that everyone in this thread produce pictures immediately. For great entertainment.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...in a cheaply made dress (that kept falling over my breasts, dammit!)..."
"(PS - me and Nick stood firm, and weren't subjegated to...fake breasts)."
So, what you're saying is that you have real breasts?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Dear god no! Not the man boobs! Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, well, life imitates art - at the end of the production, one wonders if there was a competition to see who got to remove Princess LOA's bandage. 8)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hm... I wonder why I never thought of the "Princess LOA"/"Princess Leia" pun before. Especially since... but I'm not allowed to tell you about that.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
No, TSN, what I'm saying is we didn't have to get baloons stuck down our shirt. I was making a joke with the earlier line ... however, if we HAD had breasts (real or otherwise), the dress would not have been able to accomodate them.
Our reasoning was, if the girls didn't have to tape down their breasts, or stick socks in their pants, we weren't going to wear balloons.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Snay, you have my deepest sympathies.
See, in my freshman year of high school (about eight years ago), my history teacher got a perverse pleasure out of assigning regular "video projects," where we were to perform 5 to 10-minute skits of some play or story relating to the current material.
We were covering the ancient Greeks, and my got stuck with play about the murder of Agamemnon. I don't remember all the details, but I do remember that I was in an all-male group assigned to a play that had a number of prominent femal characters in the story. Naturally, I got stuck with one of the parts requiring a wig and a dress. Figures.
Understandably, though I understand the amusement that people may find from such a situation, I am not laughing. Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
*hunts around for pics of his appearance in Universal Studios' Star Trek Adventure...*
--Jonah
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Tim~
It is a connection that does NOT need to be made.... *evil eye* I know what you're thinking, so you'd better make sure to BEHAVE.....
~LOA
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Initiation into the high school marching band was traumatic. The senior trumpet players came to my house at 4:30 a.m. one morning during summer band camp. They kidnapped me, bound me, blindfolded me, and took me to a secure location. I then made to dress as a women and spend the rest of the dressed as such. I looked like a cheap 40 year old hooker. And snow cone holders were my boobies.
I have too many stories about personal experiences involving cross-dressing.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Through a freak incident, the title of this topic is now known to UBB owners world-wide. Congradulations. Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Um, er, it is? What? Explain before I rip your throat out!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
There's something just right about people all over the world knowing Jeff from his "Snay in a Dress" thread. It brings a tear to me eye. Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Yeah 'cuz they're not going to know about Siggy's cross-dressing experience, right?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Shit.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Teehee.
Well, UBB6.4 went out to the public last night... and it went out with a newsletter, in which the new content island feature was explained. The screencap used in the newsletter to demonstrate the feature was taken from the list on the forum summary page. Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
That's evil. Good job. Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
The kicker being that the mail was sent out hours after I left the office - I didn't know about it until I received a copy. Posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir (Member # 481) on :
I applaud thee, Mr. Capps.
And, well, yeah, until we see pics we won't believe you, Jeff. You'd better warm up Flare Upload and gives us some stills.
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