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Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

The get to know eachother thread

Critter · Old Reg

Username: Critter
What you want to be called here: Critter
Age: 17
What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you were born in: Victoria, Australia
What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you currently reside in: Victoria, Australia
Have any siblings?: One older sister
Have any pets?: One Dog called Ripley. Used to have a rabbit called Washington.
How many times have you seen Wicked?: 1
Where have you seen Wicked: Melbourne
Which Elphaba and Glinda would make up your ideal cast of Wicked?: Amanda Harrison - Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth - Glinda
What's your favorite song in Wicked?: No Good Deed
What's your favorite musical not including Wicked?: Chicago
What would be your dream role to play in a show?: I don't act
What's your favorite role that you've ever played in a show?: -
What was the first role you ever played in a show?: I dunno, i don't do shows. But I suppose in primary school I did a couple. I was usually just in the ensemble.
What's you favorite book?:Cant pick one. I have too many.
What's your favorite movie?: Also have too many. theres a list somewhere on here though. I htink its in the movies thread. it has most of my favourites.
What's your least favorite type of music?:I dont really have a whole type of music i dont like. more like certain songs i dont like.
If you could see three shows that are on broadway right now, what would you see?: Wicked, RENT, Mamma Mia
Do you do any sports? Which ones?: Archery
What's your favorite subject in school?: Media
Where do you want to go to college?: Melbourne
What do you usually watch on tv?: America's Next Top Model
If you could travel to anywhere in the world where would you go?: Africa
What career would you like to end up having?: Film Director, or Pixar Animator
Would you rather travel by car, train, plane, or boat?:Car
How important are grades to you?: depends on the subject
What have you done with your summer so far?: its winter

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Username: WitchoftheWest

What you want to be called here:Mel/ Mephilly/ Ellis/ Lissa/ Elissa (any component of my name, of if you know me personally, a cetain trait of mine...)

Age: 15

What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you were born in: Hamburg, Germany

What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you currently reside in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Have any siblings?: One older brother

Have any pets?: One old dog

How many times have you seen Wicked?: Never. (going next time I'm in England or Germany)

Where have you seen Wicked: No where

Which Elphaba and Glinda would make up your ideal cast of Wicked?: Willemijn Verkaik/ Idina Menzel/ Kerry Ellis/ Eden Espinosa with Kirstin Chenoweth

What's your favorite song in Wicked?: I'm stuck between No Good Deed, Defying Gravity, and The Wizard And I

What's your favorite musical not including Wicked?: Tanz Der Vampire

What would be your dream role to play in a show?: Elphaba/ Sarah (Tanz Der Vampire) / Elisabeth (Elisabeth)

What's your favorite role that you've ever played in a show?: Elphie (Charms & Heartbreaks- a short play I wrote, that was produced into our competition drama)

What was the first role you ever played in a show?: Mrs Sweetheart (Midnight Puppet, the Musical - 2007)

What's you favorite book?: Wicked

What's your favorite movie?: Oh, so many..... But the latest one is Dark Knight

What's your least favorite type of music?: Hip Hop

If you could see three shows that are on broadway right now, what would you see?: I'm not sure about broadway, but I really wanna see Wicked, Tanz Der Vampire, and Elisabeth

Do you do any sports? Which ones?: I used to play volleyball, then hockey, right now I run...

What's your favorite subject in school?: English

Where do you want to go to college?: I don't. But if ever, London

What do you usually watch on tv?: My favourite movies..... Mostly Tim Burton

If you could travel to anywhere in the world where would you go?: I'd go to Germany, London, America (LA), Italy

What career would you like to end up having?: Stage performer, or actress

Would you rather travel by car, train, plane, or boat?: Plane

How important are grades to you?: Fairly

What have you done with your summer so far?: Malaysia is always summer, so I've got school, but in the upcoming holidays, I'm going shopping, and to a lot of movies and parties.

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

Critter wrote:

What have you done with your summer so far?: its winter

woops. forgot about that, only been to australia once

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

WitchoftheWest wrote:

If you could see three shows that are on broadway right now, what would you see?: I'm not sure about broadway, but I really wanna see Wicked, Tanz Der Vampire, and Elisabeth

ooh i really want to see Elisabeth too. I was in germany and we were staying really close to the theater it was playing in a couple of years ago but my mom didn't want to see it since we don't speak German doh

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

So? You don't have to understand a language to find a story moving or its' songs beautiful.

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

exactly! I was super mad. My mom is stubborn when it comes to that (or more like cheap) ah well it's playing in a lot of places now, i'll see it one day hopefully

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Yeah, I hope so too.... I think it's a really good show.

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

Yup, me too :D

so do any musicals come to malaysia? i mean i'm sure they do, but how is theater there?

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Malaysian theatre sucks. Almost none of it is worth watching.

And the students doing school dramas here suck even more. They're so unprofessional and they always change every single detail fo the story just so they like it and that it suits them, when it should be in the best interests of the audience. That's why I'm leaving the school drama team. Heck, I might even leave the school! The teachers are terrible (I can't learn a thing from most of them), and the students are so damn stuck up and selfish. They think what they do and say is right, when it has nothing to do with even the topic in question! Absolutely sickening. I'm looking for a good school to spend my last year in. One that has better students, and a better drama team.

Perhaps the international school, or maybe the England style school.............

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

aww that sucks
yeah i'm going to an international school right now actually. I really like it.

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Hooray for you.................. I'm stuck in friggin' government school, and I hate it. Most of the teachers here are terrible, and the students (previously mentioned) suck BAD. Can't wait- next year's my last. Then it's freestyle here 'till my results come back in April, and then it's goodbye Malaysia (forever!) and hello, dear sweet Germany, and perhaps a job onstage in England......

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

well that's good, only one year. I still got two. Hah, maybe we'll see eachother in england. Yeah my school is nice but the area surrounding it and whre i live are just about the most boring places imaginable. And no shows ever come here, shows always come to toronto which is like 7 hours away

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Well, at least you have good shows there. I'd have to take a plane to see a good production.

It would be good to see you in england. It'd be nice to be with some one like me. No one here is.

And the opportunities there are better there than here - the best thing here has been "Midnight Puppet-2007," and that wasn't exactly wonderful for me either. (Then again, it was for charity....)

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

wow, what was midnight puppet?

well, only one more year for you :)

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Midnight Puppet was a musical written by a young aspiring musician, Gan Jia Ying, two years ago. In 2007, it was brought to the stage for the second time to raise money for charity.

The story is about a spoilt little girl named Emi Griggs who has tested the patience of her three fairy godmothers. So, they decide to send her a doll for her twelfth birthday. When the clock strikes midnight, she would become the doll and the doll would become her.

After her twelfth birthday, she (the doll) becomes nice and decides to send all her toys away to an orphanage, much to the surprise of her parents and everyone else. When Emi (in the form of the doll) reaches the orphanage, she is told by the other toys there that life there is terrible, and she tries to get home, with the help of a tag-along rag doll called Linnet.

Together, they face perils such as a clan of alley cats, and are split up. Later, Emi is found by a man and his daugther, Sophie, who bring her home. She discovers there from their humble life and strong grateful attitude, that life is about much more than jewels and wealth. That night, Linnet comes back for Emi, and the two of them make for Emi's home. There they confront the doll, who does not wish to go back to being inanimate and cast aside. The doll takes Linnet hostage to make Emi let her continue to live her life. But when Emi agrees, the doll tosses Linnet out the window.

Emi screams and wakes up- it had all been a dream. But from that she had learned her lesson and would never be spoilt and arroggant again.

I played Mrs. Sweetheart, wife of the business partner of Emi parents. I had two songs onstage (The Birthday Song and The Finale, which was a collaboration of all the songs) Backstage, I sang along with the choir, because the onstage choir wasn't that big. That was the Kuala Lumpur version. In the Sabah version, I had to take over my "husband's" role of business partner, and got to be in an extra scene. (No extra singing though, although during the production of the Sabah version, I did more singing during practice to help them along, since not everyone could come along to Sabah)

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

that's really cool though! I'd love to be in an original musical. like not something that everyone has done already.

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Well, it was done once before, in 2006, but that was by the same people, with a few new additions (including me).......

But the rest of the drama her REALLY sucks. Whatever you do, DON'T take part in Connaught High School's drama team. Don't even speak to the others on the team - they're so STUPID. Don't even come to the school- everything and everyone here is terrible. I want to get out.

Critter · Old Reg

Heart it Races!

ActingDude17 · Mr. Dude

Username: ActingDude17
What you want to be called here: Keaton, AD17, AD, ActingDude, whatever
Age:
What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you were born in: North Carolina
What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you currently reside in: North Carolina
Have any siblings?: No.
Have any pets?: Not at the moment.
How many times have you seen Wicked?: 1.
Where have you seen Wicked: Broadway.
Which Elphaba and Glinda would make up your ideal cast of Wicked?: I really don't know.
What's your favorite song in Wicked?: Defying Gravity.
What's your favorite musical not including Wicked?: Sweeney Todd is at the top of that list.
What would be your dream role to play in a show?: I have a lot...Sweeney Todd is one.
What's your favorite role that you've ever played in a show?: Linus in YAGMCB.
What was the first role you ever played in a show?: Lollipop Guild Boy/monkey - The Wizard of Oz.
What's you favorite book?: The Harry Potter Series
What's your favorite movie?: I like a lot of movies
What's your least favorite type of music?: Rap and country.
If you could see three shows that are on broadway right now, what would you see?: RENT (even though I've already seen it on tour), Wicked (even though I've already seen it on Broadway), and The Phantom of the Opera
Do you do any sports? Which ones?: I used to play a lot of soccer and basketball.
What's your favorite subject in school?: As far as core classes go, Math and Social Studies.
Where do you want to go to college?: UNC and Duke Divinity School.
What do you usually watch on TV?: Reality TV, game shows, etc.
If you could travel to anywhere in the world where would you go?: New York City (again)
What career would you like to end up having?: Actor and/or preacher.
Would you rather travel by car, train, plane, or boat?: Plane.
How important are grades to you?: Very important.
What have you done with your summer so far?: Camp, Once Upon A Mattress, swimming, chilled, summer reading

Broadwayprincess19 · Veteran Member

Username: Broadwayprincess19
What you want to be called here:Chae, Broadwayprincess...idk wateva
Age:19
What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you were born in:Sacramento,cali

What city/country/state (whichever you want to say) you currently reside in:Livermore,Cali
Have any siblings?:yep 7
Have any pets?: a dog, a saint bernard to be exact
How many times have you seen Wicked?:twice
Where have you seen Wicked:L.A, New York
Which Elphaba and Glinda would make up your ideal cast of Wicked?:OBC all the way
What's your favorite song in Wicked?:its a toss up between no good deed, for good and, Defying Gravity
What's your favorite musical not including Wicked?:Beauty and the Beast, Legally Blonde, The Little Mermaid,Rent, Urinetown...u know what screw it...I love 'em all! lol
What would be your dream role to play in a show?:Either Ariel or Elle Woods
What's your favorite role that you've ever played in a show?:Lucy in Charlie Brown

What was the first role you ever played in a show?:my first major role was Molly in Annie
What's you favorite book?:Pride and prejudice
What's your favorite movie?:Peter Pan
What's your least favorite type of music?: rap, and Heavy metal
If you could see three shows that are on broadway right now, what would you see?:Legally Blonde, The Little Mermaid and of course WICKED
Do you do any sports? Which ones?:Hockey, Basketball,football. Lacrosse, softball and track and field
What's your favorite subject in school?:Drama
Where do you want to go to college?:i'm going to the community college where i live but i'm transfering to San Fran State
What do you usually watch on tv?:What i like about you, Secret Life/american Teenager, Queen Bees, Gilomore girls, Sheer Genius
If you could travel to anywhere in the world where would you go?: Greece
What career would you like to end up having?:Broadway Entertainer
Would you rather travel by car, train, plane, or boat?:car or plane
How important are grades to you?:extremely
What have you done with your summer so far?:Beauty and the beast, getting ready to cast my play, chillin with friends,working, vacation with the family...

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

dude, you guys resurfaced!
start posting again!
please?

ActingDude17 · Mr. Dude

Oh, I was never gone.

I've just been lurking for awhile. *guilty-yet-innocent face*

Broadwayprincess19 · Veteran Member

yea same here

Critter · Old Reg

same here! well... I sort of come and go, like a shadow...or a ghost. who knows if I'm even here right now? It could all be in your imagination (X -Files theme music plays here)