40 Musical Classics Every Theatre Guru Knows

• Posted on June 26, 2009 at 3:13 am

These are actually just a healthy taste of my favorite melodies from some of my favorite “Musicals.”

As some of my friends will know, I spent many years involved in theater productions when I was younger. I guess I will begin about 20 years back.

The Consortium For The Arts Program in the summer, I really did love being On that Stage.

This was a program for students in grades 6-12, in one of the three school districts below,

participate in an end-of-summer performance that they’ve worked on all summer to complete.

The first production I performed in with The Consortium For The Arts profram was The Wizard of Oz, in the summer of 1989.

These annual productions were held, most years, at Norristown Area High School,

Sometimes Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, or Upper Merion Area High School, in Pennsylvania, USA.

Now I believe they only do their performances at Upper Merion Area High School.

I think it is great that my 13-years younger sister Kelly (now 17yrs old) was also given the opportunity to enjoy what this theater program has to offer.

Being only 10 years old when I began; I had my “big role” as the little witch. This was because I was so short and I just “matched”

the “little person” that Popped Out Suddenly as Dorothy & the rest of the gang threw water on the Wicked Witch.

She Sounded, “Melting, melting, melting… As her now lightly sounding ploys for help in excaping were close to null. That is when…

My “HUGE” Starring role, I appeared from behind the Big Black Cauldron, dressed completely in Black (perfect matching my naturally brownish-black toned fluffy hair).

“The Witch” was not totally melted yet, in our production. Then the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, & Scarecrow (the people who played those characters, of course; See Links, caught me, snagged me up eagerly, and quickly placed me back in the Witch’s (my …ha ha ha) cauldron.

Next, it was my young responsibility to preview a dark-haired Barbie Doll, “proving” to our audinece of family & friends, that the Wicked Witch Indeed Was Dead!

Traaa lala lala-la lala-la lala-la…

…Tra lala lala-la laaa laaaaa

I really did have a GREAT time during the 8 years I participated in The Consortium for the Arts and I am really Glad to know

That a few of my acting buddies from years ago, are now The Only Reason That The Show Still Goes On…

And they now have their own theater organization called Theatre Horizon.

To see how you can get involved with Theater Horizon Click Here

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