I'm having a junior high flashback! Care to join me?

[fudge stripe cookays]

Andrew Lloyd Webber haters probably want to withdraw from the thread now....

So the other day, I started working on a scrapbook layout for 1980, which was a majorly-important year in my life.

It was 8th grade, the last year of junior high (at a Catholic school), and my dad died in April. One of the other events that spring was me in the school play. We did Jesus Christ Superstar and lip-synched to original cast album (the one with Ian Gillan and Murray Head). It was GREAT!

Since we didn't have enough guys who wanted to be in the play, the guys played guards, and we had girls with shorter hair playing guys' parts. I was Pontius Pilate.

So I was feeling nostalgic (since I hadn't heard the album in 26 years) and ordered a copy off Amazon the other day. I'm driving reprehensor (an ALW hater) crazy singing along to all the songs.

Anyone else indulging in nostalgia this evening?



A young fudge as Pilate, hanging with the guards and talking about this dream he had.

[Misunderestimator]

1. You make an awfully cute boy!

I remember once playing the King in some play when I was six years old. Had to bite my cheeks to keep from laughing.

But back to you... everything about that picture is cool... the modern day guards... juxtaposed by your costume... and your stance... the spread legs... the cock of your head... you were a pretty good little actor... a very convincing man! :thumbsup:

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Thanks!

The nun in charge, Sister Sharon, was a SLAVEdriver! Driving me to ever-increasing levels of frustrated, "dreaming of Galileean" perfection! Over and over and over....

I can definitely see how actors get so into what they do. It was just a measly school play, but having everybody coming up to you for weeks afterward telling you how great you are is a DRUG.

I tried drama for awhile in high school, but HATED the teacher. That pretty much did it for me there. I might have done more acting but for her snooty act. She had favorites, and if you wren't one of them, hang up being in anything.

[swag]

2. Pilate is a great part.

I bet you out-Pilated Barry Dennen's bad-assed Pilate.

More pics, por favor.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. I was INDEED bad-ass!

Unfortunately, I think I only have these 2! My mom was so intent on me she neglected all the other folks.



Here is me getting bad advice from Caiaphas. :D

[swag]

4. Caiaphas! Almost as shitful as Annas!

I love the production design, by the way.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Yeah...the bleachers really make it....

:D

We had all those robes just for the taking for the acolytes and deacons and priests and stuff, so we had anough for everybody. We even put it on in the main church. Once. Then the main pastor got a little uncomfortable with the whole hippy thing and we ended up going to another nearby church for a second performance.

The second performance, I....well, I....

OK. I caught my Roman sandal on the carpet and fell flat on my exit. Right as I made my dramatic exit after the 39 lashes. Sort of detracted from the brilliance a bit. :blush:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Oh Gawd, no!

Not junior high! I still refer to them as The Nightmare Years!

BTW, you look pretty damned cool in those pictures! :loveya:

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Gack! Sorry!

Junior high (the last two years, anyway) was pretty OK for me. It was a small school, and I had a group of girlfriends I really liked. When my dad died, Sister brought just about everybody she could round up to his service. I felt really loved and close to everyone.

Even the first 2 years of high school weren't too bad because I was with kids I knew, and we were all in the same boat.

It was the last two years of high school that blew for me.... (new high school in a new city). Sucked. So I can empathize!

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. You look like some unshaven dirty Commie hippie...

of the sort I knew in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

I also attended Catholic grade school. I understand....

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. Nah.

That came later!

I was an EXTREMELY good girl then. But you know what they say about Catholic school girls! (of course you do...you used to be one too!) :D

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. I went to a Catholic high school too....

An all girls one.

O8)

Edited for stupid typo

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Oh dear.

I mean, good for you! :thumbsup:


;)

[tigereye]

13. I love the sunglasses on the guards

say what you want about ALW, he really does cultural crossover and commentary well.

that's a very nice pic of you.

as far as junior high goes, I did have some wonderful teachers whom I have never forgotten, but generally I preferred high school.