I was in the outdoor drama 'The Lone Star' as a dancer. I was twenty then, full of vim and verve. This was back in the 70's when we were stoned most of the time during the run. It was a wild crowd, but we did a damn good show. I loved going back to see it over the year, and nothing has changed... at least from what I can see. I am surprised that most of these shows are still planning to open this year, so far.
Has anyone seen or been in an Outdoor Drama?
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| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 23, 2021 4:40 AM |
I was the lead in MADONNA! MAMMA OF CHRIST at the Hollywood Bowl. One performance, but the afterbirth scene brought the house down.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 22, 2021 5:28 PM |
I was in a bit of an outdoor drama when Mother didn’t bring the regular mayonnaise to the Christian youth picnic!
I queened it up, let me tell you!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 22, 2021 5:32 PM |
I've been in many outdoor dramas, just not the kind you're thinking of. The last one consisted of my neighbor whose two dogs were lost in the woods for 6 days, but the crisis ended happily yesterday at noon.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 22, 2021 6:49 PM |
I'm a bit confused. Is an Outdoor Drama just a play in a theatre without a roof?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 22, 2021 6:54 PM |
Does the Ashland Shakespear Festival count?
It's all outdoors in the summer, with a replica of the Globe Theater stage.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 22, 2021 8:17 PM |
I thought all outdoor dramas were fundie events and jesus theater.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 22, 2021 8:21 PM |
Outdoor dramas are plays about a historic event performed on the site where the historic event actually happened.
The Lost Colony is performed on the site where the original English colony in America was located. This was a colony settled some 20 years before Jamestown, but when supply ships returned from England, all the colonists had disappeared.
Unto These Hills is performed on the land where the Cherokee Indians lived before the US government forced them to relocate to Oklahoma via the Trail of Tears.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 22, 2021 8:39 PM |
I spent a summer in The Cross and The Sword, an outdoor drama about the founding of St. Augustine and Pedro Menendez. This would have been circa 1976 or 1977. It WAS a wild time. I think I made....$125 a week, chorus and understudying one of the leads. We only worked 2 and half hours a night, five days a week so there was much partying in the off-times. I remember that we somehow convinced the local movie theatre owner to put on a special midnight showing of Star Wars. A lot of us took acid and went to see the movie. Ahhh..fun times.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 22, 2021 8:48 PM |
California has the Ramona Pageant. And then there's the Pageant of the Masters, which really isn't a drama, but a truly unique experience. (Although I'm sure there's plenty of drama backstage.)
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 22, 2021 9:54 PM |
we want to know who got hit on for the first time while performing at one of these eipcs.......all the details please.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 23, 2021 1:01 AM |
I drove engine #2 at the '39 World's Fair's Golden Spike Pageant. That's me on the left.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 23, 2021 1:30 AM |
I had two guys fighting over me in the street once, Is that an outdoor drama!? "Boys BOYS Please!!"
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 23, 2021 4:40 AM |