"Beauty school dropout...."

[reyd reid reed]

If I hear it one more time, I'm gonna lose what little mind I have left.

#2 son is auditioning for his school's fall production. This year, they're doing "Grease" and, believe it or not, he's never seen it, so I've got "Grease" playing up here...and "And Now for Something Completely Different" playing over and over again downstairs. And him wandering around singing "Beauty School Dropout" because that's his audition music.

Don't get me wrong. I like "Grease" but...come on...there's Gotta be a limit.

Where's his humanity????

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear reyd reid reed!

OK.......earplugs, anyone?

And just keep on thinking how proud you'll be when he gets the part!

This too shall pass, sweetie.......


:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

4. That's what I keep telling myself.

The production is in November...and odds are he'll get a part; apparently there were only a half-dozen boys that showed up today.

*sigh*

[Elidor]

2. Baby get moving...

Why keep your feeble hopes alive?
What are you proving
You've got the dream but not the drive

I love that song! :D

[reyd reid reed]

3. Oh, don't get me wrong.

I love my kid and I like the music...but my kid's musical talents do NOT lie in voice.

Bless his li'l heart. I've gotta give him credit for trying, though.

[Aristus]

5. "Turn in your teasing comb and go back to high school."

[reyd reid reed]

7. Oh...this afternoon it got even better.

He added dance steps. The kid really can dance...usually. Except he pulled a 'Marcia Brady' in gym today and caught a football with his nose and then, once they got the bleeding stopped and he went back to play, he caught a helmet with his knee.

The dancing was.....interesting.

one, two, three, limp, five, six, seven, limp...

At least it was on an even count.

[evlbstrd]

6. Try this out.

My daughter, evlspwn, has just been cast as the underwear girl in her college's main fall production of "Noises Off." Worse, I'm telling everyone I know to come and watch her in her underwear. Come to think of it, it's not even her own underwear.

edit to add:
She started playing Suzuki violin at age four, and we had three years of variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." She still plays, but not that song.

[reyd reid reed]

8. Heh...one of those weird things...

If she was running from one building to another in her underwear, you'd be chasing her with a blanket. But on a stage in someone else's underwear, you want to show her off.

Go figure.

My daughter plays violin, too...it's her passion although she plays trombone very well, too. That's what she's playing at school right now (because jazz band is cool and they compete) but she wants to go back to orchestra and her violin next year when she starts high school.

Band director's going to be unhappy.

[WCGreen]

9. I just hated Grease....

That 50's shit swept through our high school like a fucking plague....



I sang Moria from Paint Your Wagon and Cabaret for my Audition to deliver singing telegrams....


I feel your pain...

My new client just bought a music store...

I can't go there during lesson time...

It drives me fucking NUTS!!!!!

[reyd reid reed]

12. HA!

You wanna see fuckin' nuts?

One of my kids plays the trombone (Grease Boy, aka "Bonehead", aka #2 son, aka...oh. Well, we'll stop there. I've embarrassed him enough).

One of my kids plays the trombone and the violin (Girly-poo).

One of my kids plays the trumpet, the cello and the bass guitar (Buzzard butt, aka #3 son).

The baby is deciding what he's going to learn. He's thinking trumpet; I nixed the drums.

:scared:

You should be there during practice time. On second thought, maybe not. Why do you think I work nights?

[WCGreen]

13. can't one of them pick up a guitar.....

That's got the easy learning curve and it doesn't take too long to get a song right...

[reyd reid reed]

17. Well, Buzzard Butt plays the bass guitar...

I s'pose I should've been a little clearer since there's more than one. He made jazz band this year...which reminds me, I'm gonna have to get him the tuxedo pants and shirt and stuff now, too.

Damn.

[WCGreen]

27. You are such a good mommy.....

[Neoma]

10. Can't you get a radio to play it louder then that?

It sounds like you need some sanity.

[reyd reid reed]

14. I rented the movie yesterday so that he could watch it

Believe it or not, the boy's 17 and has never seen Grease.

Anyway, I did find that if he sang while the movie was on it was better. But he's trying to pro-JECT. His voice pro-JECTS anyway, when he actually tries....Lord help us.

I did feel kinda bad for him when he was dancing, though. His knee got bruised up pretty badly and it's a lovely shade of blackish-purple and he's still dancing on it. And managed his lifts, too. I cringed but he didn't drop her once.

[Broken_Hero]

11. I watched Grease once...

bought it for my wife, cause she LOVES it....it was okay, it had its moments, but if I had to deal with it 24/7, or for long extended amounts of time, I just might lose it, just a tad....:)

[reyd reid reed]

15. My daughter loves it.

She watches it every chance she gets when it's on teevee. And it's okay...once in a while. But I've got a feeling it's gonna be a loooooong 3 months. And that I'll never want to hear the name Sandy again. Or Danny, and that's gonna be a little tougher. In a fit of non-precognition, I named one of my kids Daniel.

I'm doomed.

[Broken_Hero]

16. I'm sorry...:(

but have a beer on me :toast:

[reyd reid reed]

18. Heh...

Thanks.

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Send him to me

I played Danny Zukko once. :smoke:









Not sure if it was wise to reveal that, but...

[reyd reid reed]

20. Have I mentioned that his musical talents aren't in the area of voice?

He needs all the help he can get. Now the dancing, he's good at. He's LOVING that. And he CAN project. Oh boy, can he project.

*sigh*



Not a new revelation, actually. I remember you mentioning it and wisdom's overrated anyway.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Tell him to listen to the song, not just the lyrics

Frankie's got a great voice and he knows how to modulate it. There's places in it for "projection" and places to be smooooooth.

Forte and piano.

[crim son]

24. LOL! Not one of his talents, huh?

My fifteen-yr-old daughter is trying out for the HS musical. This year it's "Aida". She can't sing either and listening to her practice is painful. I so empathise with you!

[Guava Jelly]

22. Poor thing

I listened to that album a million times

Stranded at the drive in .Branded a fool. What will they say? Monday at school..

Oh Sandy an We go together were my two fav's on that album

[lizziegrace]

23. Trust me, Grease has taken over the house

While on the phone with me, RRR tried to quietly turn on the BALL GAME and the volume was at 11+ because her daughter had the DVD playing full blast. Heh. She thought she could talk and watch the game at the same time. Wrong!

:hi: RRR :loveya:

kiss kiss!

Oh, and hug Sarah for me. :eyes:

[malta blue]

25. I feel your pain

Little MB is 7 and listens to the soundtrack EVERY night as her lullably...I jsut hear "shoop bop bop..." in a little whisper for about 15 minutes as "Summer Nights" plays on repeat.

[LanternWaste]

26. Damn you!

Damn you! Now I'm going to have that particular little ditty stuck in my head for the rest of the day. "Beauty school dropout" happens to be the only three worlds to the song I know, so I'll be mumbling the stanza and refrain and suddenly burst out with "... Beauty School Dropout... something, something, mumble, mumble" to the surprise of all my co-workers.

If I lose my job over this, you better hire me or something.... :)