Kiddies' Kilt Theatre

**auld argonian** · 16th June 08, 06:59 PM

You gotta love this one here:

http://www.nationaltheatrescotland.c...mperorsNewKilt

...can we get a group rate?

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**ardchoille** · 16th June 08, 07:02 PM

Not sure about a group rate, but that's a MacGregor tartan he's wearing

**beloitpiper** · 17th June 08, 11:03 PM

Looks like fun. Let's round up some airfare.

**Coemgen** · 18th June 08, 03:26 PM

Looks like great fun!

Hmm… according to my calculations, I only need to work 37.42 hr/day for 3.15 months in order to be able to afford transportation and lodgings. Better get started!

**jordanjm** · 19th June 08, 05:39 AM

That looks like fun.

**Splash_4** · 19th June 08, 05:57 AM

What a great concept. I wonder if it is coming 'across the pond'?

**auld argonian** · 19th June 08, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by Splash_4

What a great concept. I wonder if it is coming 'across the pond'?

I'll tell ya...they could tour Highland Games and Celtic Fests over here all summer. Perhaps a more do-able thing would be for local groups to buy the rights and the script from them and perform it locally. I could see the City of Chicago sponsoring something like that for their Celtic Fest in the fall...always good to have a performance going that amuses the adults and keeps the kids occupied.

I have a bias towards kiddies' theatre as three of the hippest and funniest seniors at my old high school had summer jobs as the core of a children's theatre group...and this was back in the late 60's. It basically turned into "Fractured Fairy Tales" because these three guys just couldn't do a story straight. I distinctly remember a photo of Jerry Rosetti, mustache and all, dressed as Little Red Riding Hood...priceless!

And I tell my kids that they should do something like that and they just blow the idea off. Think of the fun that they're missing...

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**SteveB** · 19th June 08, 07:59 AM

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That brings back my memories of high school in the 60's. At 6' 1" I was the shortest male in my junior class and most of the females were short. The theatre group was well mixed co-ed. The problem was finding a tall Queen to be with a very tall King on stage. The most admired girl in the school (Andrea) asked me if I would be in the theatre group, and play the role of the Queen. The King being 6' 5". I really thoroughly enjoyed the work and fun it created. Andrea new that I wore a kilt, and could pull off being in the costume. It was fun being around campus for half a year being envied by all the football, basketball, etc athletes, having the best eye candy with me ( a lowly cross country runner).

By June the production had made the stage and the school's Summer Theatre was in full swing with two Shakespeare, and three contemporary productions in progress. Senior year, Andrea and I would greet each other in the hallways with lines from the play at random. ( mine in falsetto of course) to lots of laughter from our classmates.