Raise your hand if you were ever labeled a “theatre kid”!
(Your hand better be raised high and proud with jazz fingers.)
You might have done theatre in middle school or high school. And now, you're in college or living the real adult life. Now, some of us theatre kids have either gone into the theatre, or we decided to let that curtain close. But on the inside, we will always be theatre kids, because there are just some things we haven’t let go of when it come to being theatre kid.
You know you were a theatre kid when…
1. You open that token drawer of T-shirts and it’s filled to the top with cast shirts that you’ve probably only worn once for opening night.
2. You still have the collection of every show you did on DVD… and you still watch them.
3. You jump at any chance to do a community show.
4. You’re ready to break out into a "High School Musical" song in a minute!
5. Most of your Facebook albums are titled after shows you did.
6. Throat coat, honey and tea were always in your book bag.
7. Those local restaurants (AKA Waffle House and Steak and Shake, from where I’m from) are filled with before and after show memories.
8. You look forward to going back to your high school and watching your theatre prodigies grace the stage (but you’re secretly wishing it was you up there again).
9. When you put your iTunes on shuffle and it takes about 10 times until you get to a non-Broadway song.
10. When those Broadway songs come on in the car, you belt louder than when a Justin Bieber song comes on.
11. When someone references stage left or stage right, you give them that look like “fellow theatre kid”.
12. You can still rattle off a monologue you spent hours memorizing for either a show or class assignment years ago... no biggie.
13. People still refer to you as the character you played in eighth grade, because you were just that good.
14. You still have stage shoes in the back of your closet, just in case you have to break those bad boys out.
15. You’re a master at stage makeup.
16. You can still do a quick change in under a minute if necessary.
17. You love the weird smell of hair spray, curling irons, and concealer — it just brings back wonderful dressing room memories.
18. When you go back to your friend’s basement years later and the first memory that comes to mind is the cast parties.
19. You still hope to see your name on a marque one day.
20. You will still never say that “M” word in a theatre.
21. You still know all the vocal warms ups and catch yourself randomly doing them in shower.
22. For the first couple of years after you graduate, you still go on the cast website to see the cast list, and you’re hitting refresh just as much as the person who’s actually in the cast.
25. It bothers you when you see theatre spelled theater.
25. Once a theatre kid always a theatre kid … no matter what. Remember, we’re all in this together!
The world is your stage now, so go break a leg!
