May 7 in Drama

"Bobby....it's a frozen scene we're building"

"I know....sorry....I just wanted to shoot the bunny"

recently..

"Is it ok if I go to the bathroom and take out my tooth? It's really bugging me"
    (Sure kid....you needa pair of pliers?)

From the past (all the way from the beginning to yesterday...)

While substituting in a grade primary music class, for which I wore a green sweater (to help the little tykes remember my name):
       5 year-old: "You really like the colour green!"
       Me:           "Yes I do; it's one of my favourite colours"
       Kid:            " Maybe that's why your Mommy called you Mrs Greene"
I'll ask her about that, kid......


"Andrew...why is there a shoe in your trumpet??"
"I forgot my mute"


"Well, I did punch a cow once in Mr Jenkins pasture."
(a line from a scene that a grade 10 drama group wrote)


"I'm just going to sit back, listen to some jazz music and stroke my chicken."
(said by a very innocent, sweet girl, as an improv character who like jazz and raises rare, exotic chickens...)

We need less s and m sound, and more 'aw'.
(I actually said this in a choir rehearsal, when explaining the pronunciation of the word 'small'.)

"While I work with the trumpets, the rest of you sit and quietly finger your parts."
(And while you're at it, try to add in some tonguing....)


 

I teach Music and Drama in a rural high school. There are a LOT of benefits to being a teacher in an Arts Department....

• You can wear just about anything and the other teachers will just shake their heads and mumble something about the 'artsy style'
• You get to laugh (sometimes really hard) almost every day
• Your students are just as right-brained and crazy as you are.
• Nobody questions your judgement, because nobody else in the school knows what the heck you do.
• You get to be at the school long before anyone else gets there and long after everyone else leaves.

I hear and say things everyday that cause me to do one of the following:

1. Laugh uncontrollably
2. Try REALLY hard not to laugh uncontrollably.
3. Stifle myself with every ounce of control I possess.
4. Raise an eyebrow (well...both, really; I don't have the 'one eyebrow' skill) 
5. shake my head and point to the door.

I'm sure there are more...give me time.

I thought I would start writing this stuff down. I don't want to look back in 15 years and think, "This kid once said this really funny thing in Drama class in 2013, but I can't remember what it was." I already sound nuts to most people, and that won't help. 

I am going to rummage through my memory and start by writing things I remember, and then start updating as they happen. I will not use names, to protect the innocent (and sometimes slightly guilty) and I'll set up any quotes that might need it. 

Hope you enjoy!