[wtfchuck]

Which was the first musical you performed infront of a paying audience outside of school and who did you play?

Mine was Bugsy Malone and i played "Snake-Eyes"


(sorry if this has been done before)

[Joshua]

No need to apologize.
My first musical was The Music Man years ago. I was only in the children's chorus.

[broadwayxdoll]

my first ever musical was Honk! Jr. and i was Ugly


but outside of school was Seussical and i was a Who

[shadowdancer]

Outside of school and where people paid to see it. Well I will go with the first time I got paid too, or my first professional credit because I can't remember the first one ever.
Jack from Into the Woods

[LadyOfTheLake]

My first musical outside-of-school was Once Upon a Mattress Jr., and I played Princess No. 12.

[Kiwi]

My first musical outside of school was Cats, and I was Bombalurina. It wasn't my crowning MT moment, believe me.

[ConverseSneaker]

My first ever was Sugar, I was in the chorus and constantly switched costumes to be a musican bum/gangster/chorus girl/nurse/swimmer on the beach/high society lady

Outside of school, it was Honk Jr., and I was the Mother Swan.

[wicked_boy]

Wizard of Oz, when I was like 8. It was terrible, I just watched a clip of me in it last night, it's amazing how much I've changed since then.

[Luc]

[sopranodespair]

Aladdin, Jr.
I played a harem girl.

[Angel-of-Music*]

chorus in return to the forbidden planet,

well that was the first in my current group, i cant remeber which was my first ever

[LaurelDP]

Anita in West Side Story.

If you've ever seen me you'll realize the hilarity.

[MunkustrapQC]

I never done Musical Theater outside of school, but our Cats production will not be presented in the school. It will be in the second biggest professonnal theater in Quebec City. 2 nights in front of 1500 people.

In only 10 days!

[Brock07]

Does collge count as post-school? (It isn't high school...)

My first musical ever was Singin In The Rain my Jr. year...I was the police officer and got to stare Don down as he was "dancin', and singin in the rain."

However, if collge counts as post school, it was this spring when I did Once Upon A Mattress.

[ActingDude17]

My first musical was The Wizard of Oz. I was 6 when I auditioned, 7 when I performed.

I was a Lollipop Guild Boy and a monkey.

[Annie]

The Music Man with a Jewish community group. I was 11. All the other kids went to mucho expensive Jewish private elementary schools. I went to a regular old public one and nobody talked to me. It wasn't because I wasn't Jewish, but because I was a public school kid! haha.

Actually, only one girl was nice to me. We ended up going to high school together, being friends, but not close, and ending up in theatre school together after high school! We've been in this conservatory program of 23 people in my class together for 3 years! We were actually double cast in Richard III! Too funny. Small world. Lovely girl.

I played Jacey Squires in The Music Man. He's one of the dudes in the barbershop quartet. Yep. I was an 11 year-old dude.

[Beagle On Stage]

"Mr. Scrooge" with a community theatre. I was Harry, and I was eleven.

But I tend not to acknowledge that because it was a pretty crappy production. I typically recognise Dauntless in "Once Upon a Mattress" as my first. I was fourteen, and it was a different community theatre.

[Matthew]

Tom Sawyer.
Sid Sawyer.
Age 5.

[LadyOfTheLake]

[kozafluitmusique]

Have yet to be in a musical of any form...

But it'll be probably whatever musical I do this summer with a group of my friends.

[~GertrudeMcFuzz~]

When I was seven, I did my first community theatre show, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I wasn't any of the principal parts; I was basically in the ensemble but had a few lines. Good times.

[kakoforever]

Charlotte's Web. Children's Theatre. I was billed as "Little Girl".

Big-Kid theatre... The Who's Tommy. Sally Simpson. That was badass. I'll always remember that one.

[Cake_in_Song]

Outside of school? Seussical, and I was in the ensemble. I'd already done a couple in school (for paying audiences), though.

[darthlorexa]

My first role was when I was 16 and I played Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, it was part of an arts course that was run by the local music conservatorium.

[idTAPthat89]

I was 16 and in the ensemble of Anything Goes and now I am currently playing one of Reno Sweeney's angels, Purity.

[Melindaisy]

Martha Jefferson in 1776, I was not quite 18. community theatre. It was an awesome experience!

[Set_Buildin_Dad]

Can't remember the first show, but my first lead was in a HS production where we did the last act of Cyrano. I got to play Cyrano.

[Lepitot]

How come musicals from school don't count? My first musical ever was Children of Eden, and I've adored it ever since. I don't care what anyone else on here says, I think it's fantastic. And, it was my favorite musical to perform in.

But, outside of school, I performed in 42nd Street at a performing arts school. It was amazing.

[Sweeney Hyde]

Brigadoon
Harry Beaton

Community Theatre

[lilmissbroadway]

Mine was a crappy Pioneer Drama version of The Nutcraker when I was 9 and was a toy soldier.

[Catherine]

Jet Chorus - West Side Story, 4 days ago. =]

[ActingDude17]

[musictheatre00]

When I was 11, I played Ewart Dunlap in my elementary school's production of The Music Man, but it was very cheesily staged because it was meant to just be sung by my school's chorus class, to the point where I halfly consider it as my first musical, it gave me a good taste of it, a year later I was Winthrop in a fully staged production of The Music Man at my middle school.

[Buff Daddy]

Les Miserables, playing Babet and ensemble

Buff

[jetblack_diva]

Oliver I was Bet and the understudy for Nancy! I was in 7th grade! It was fun! my brother was Fagin and one of my sisters was Mrs. Sowerberry. Acting and singing run in the family. Yay for Oliver!!!!!!

[lt.shaw]

Chorus - age 11
The Pajama Game

Community theater

[Chevstriss]

so if school/college doesn't count, I won't count amusement park shows and dinner theatre review things, or anything unpublished, which would make

H2$ my first book show not in an educational setting.

I was Hedy LaRue.

It was not a great production.

[BroadwayObssessed]

Wizard Of OZ- I was a munchkin and a Jitterbug. I was 10.

[wicked_diva]

I'm not certain if my first show had a paying audience or not, but it probably did. It was Wizard of Oz, and I was six, and played a munchkin and Mischief the flying monkey.

[lilmissbroadway]

[candymancan]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, I was a happy little towns person. I only joined the show because the needed more men and Dancers. I fell underneath both categories! Ever since then I became obsessed with theatre!

[Tumnus1031]

In sixth grade I tried out for the middle school play, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The director (it was his first year) doublecast the six leads; I got Linus.

I've been doing plays ever since.

[jackissensational]

Bye Bye Birdie, Randolph Macafee, 8th grade.

The man who played Harry Macafee still doesn't know my name. Tough love?