[TPIN] Adults playing in student productions

[Steve B]

I think this arises from our culture seeing education
as a product instead of a process.  You learn a bunch
of facts but you also need to learn to learn.  Instead
we focus on passing standardized tests and producing
marketable school plays.  

I have some very fond memories of HS plays.  They made
me a temporary multi-instrumentalist.   We didn't have
anyone who could cut the horn parts in Bye-Bye Birdy
so I borrowed a horn and made it work.  There are some
nice lines in the horn parts there.  The next year we
didn't have anyone who could cut the 'bone parts in
Forum so I picked up a Euphonium.

The highlight of that play was when the guy playing
Pseudolus, the HS head jock and center linebacker,
decided to 'dis' the band geeks by pretending to toss
his cookies over the pit we he had to drink the mare's
sweat at the dress rehearsal.  He was close enough to
me so I raised the bell as a receptacle.   It got a
great laugh at the rehearsal and I guess he felt
upstaged since he stayed away from the pit for the run
of the play.

Steve

--- Rich Szabo <rich at richszabo.com> wrote:

> At 06:33 AM 3/30/2007, mike magers wrote:
> 
> >If students are excluded, I think it defeats the
> purpose, but if 
> >every student who desires to is allowed to
> participate along side a 
> >few adult parents, I don't see a problem.  I have
> since rotated out 
> >of the group, but in my childrens' case, the
> playing parents were 
> >the same ones who were the band and orchestra
> sponsors.  It was just 
> >one more mentor situation, as you say.<<<<<<
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> This is a major pet peeve of mine.
> 
> When I was in high school back in the dark ages we
> did not have ANY 
> adults in the pit orchestra. The orchestra was
> comprised of ALL 
> students. And we had to cut the parts.  Mark
> Wallendjack can verify 
> this as we went to high school together.  We had
> some killer pit 
> bands while we were there. Some of the players
> weren't up to snuff, 
> but we put in the time and sweat to make it happen.
> 
> I think that hiring "ringers" to come in defeats the
> entire purpose 
> of learning an instrument.  You don't see the
> football team hire 
> professionals to fill out the front line do you? 
> But then again, the 
> world has changed.  It's that mind set of instant 
> gratification.  Look at the olympics. It used to be
> ALL amature 
> athletes. Now we have the entire NBA and NHL as our
> olympic teams. It 
> disgusts me.
> 
> Stepping off my soapbox and putting on my flame
> retardant suit.
> 
> Rich Szabo
> rich at richszabo.com
> http://www.richszabo.com
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