Memorable warm-ups - 2007/11/24 22:21In another thread, I mentioned singing Queen songs for warmups and thought it'd be fun to start a thread!
We love playing "WAH!" Basically, you point to someone and scream 'WAHHHH!' like you're dying. They raise their arms up and shout 'WAHHH!' and the two people on either side pretend to hit them in the stomachs and scream 'WAHH!' like they, too, are dying. It continues like that until the house opens and the techs yell at us! haha
There is also: 'Form potato, form form, potato (in a soft voice, making a circle above head) Form potato, form form, potato peel potato, peel peel, potato (deforming the circle) and you peel potato, peel peel potato MASH! POTATOES! MASH, MASH POTATOES! (crazy stomping) MASH! POTATOES! MASH MASH POTATOES!' Variations include 'form the mullet/style the mullet/rock the mullet', 'form banana/peel banana/go bananas', 'form avacado/peel avacado/guacamole'. What others do you have for this?
Another classic is similar to WAHH! but involves -'bunny, bunny, bunny' (middle person 'chews on a carrot' and the two on the sides form ears with their hands) -'Viking viking viking' (middle person grunts and beats on a 'drum', the others row) -'jello jello jello' (middle person imitates shakira while the two on the sides touch hands with each other and shake like jello as well) -'Robin Hood' (the middle person dances a festive jig and singsongs 'hey, nonny nonny' while the two on the sides pantomime shooting arrows) -'Charlie's Angels' (I hope I don't have to explain this one) as well as others. Who has other ideas for this game?-Ali
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lilmissbroadway
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Re:Memorable warm-ups - 2007/11/24 22:49Ahhhhhh! I love form banana! We do that all the time at camp!
We do zap! where we all form a circle and someone starts going zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...... and squeezes the other persons hand and when it gets back to the start we jump and yell ZAP!
We also do sirens. Our makeup designer loves that.I Rent a Wicked apartment on Avenue Q! (Unfortunatly, it's haunted by a Phantom) Sarah
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Re:Memorable warm-ups - 2007/11/24 23:23at this camp i went to we did this thing where everyone buzzed really loudly and then clapped and were silent. it was kind of random.
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Re:Memorable warm-ups - 2007/11/25 01:27To work on diction we sing "I bite the heads of puppieeeeess, and their warm blood drips all over my new shoes..." in scales...the first time I sang it, I couldn't stop laughing long enough to get through a full line of it. Imagine 100+ people singing the warmup... And then one of my musical directors taught me another scale where you sing "zing binga ring aloha alo kookoo ayay." no idea why she uses it but it's pretty out there.Current Show: Coppelia (Swanhilda's friend) Shows in the Last Year: The Nutcracker(Spanish Chocolate, The Prissy Doll) Little Shop of Horrors (Ronnette), Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit), Urinetown (Little Sally), Schoolhouse Rock Live (Dori),
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Re:Memorable warm-ups - 2007/11/25 13:11To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
It's a favorite to do with crazy inflections!
Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts, with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Another crazy inflection one. Now who remembers:
One hen; two ducks; three squawking geese; four Limerick oysters; five corpulent porpoises; six pairs of Don Alversos tweezers; 7,000 Macedonians warriors dressed in full battle array; eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt; nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity toward procrastination and sloth; 10 lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep dark den who all stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.
Say it in one breath. It was a final for my director's acting class. mwaha! I can do it up to 'Egypt' and then the rest of the way through after a biiig breath!
edit: NOW I can get thru sloth!
Post edited by: aliauthor, at: 2007/11/25 20:39-Ali
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We do that all the time at camp!
