Okay, so I've got to tell this story: once, during tech week, I was running fitness. My eyes kept drooping shut, and there was one instance where they stayed shut for a little more than two seconds. I turned towards the center of the track a little too much, and opened my eyes right as I was about to run head on into one of the black metal poles on the inside of the track. I jerked backwards and nearly fell over.
While it's quite funny looking back on it now, I was very disgruntled. :(
"During tech week, though, it's a different story. I'm not saying that the level of physical activity is necessarily heightened, but the stress on our bodies definitely is." <- I think that's a very important sentence in Lauren's column that people are missing. Carl, cross-country practices are *definitely* more strenuous physically than tech week -- but cross country never has practices from 5-10, either. Also, I don't think it's fair when people say that play practice doesn't involve any sort of physical strength, either. Those risers are *heavy*, and dragging them (and the chairs) between the attics actually takes some work. We also have workdays on the weekend: it is mandatory for anyone in a show to put in 4 hours of work, and many people do more than that.
Also (ahhh, sorry, this is getting very long), there is no required fine arts class for theater participants to petition out of. There isn't an equivalent. It would make a great deal more sense for people to be able to get out of a fine arts class, but there is no universal class.
BAM.
Okay, so I've got to tell this story: once, during tech week, I was running fitness. My eyes kept drooping shut, and there was one instance where they stayed shut for a little more than two seconds. I turned towards the center of the track a little too much, and opened my eyes right as I was about to run head on into one of the black metal poles on the inside of the track. I jerked backwards and nearly fell over.
While it's quite funny looking back on it now, I was very disgruntled. :(
"During tech week, though, it's a different story. I'm not saying that the level of physical activity is necessarily heightened, but the stress on our bodies definitely is." <- I think that's a very important sentence in Lauren's column that people are missing. Carl, cross-country practices are *definitely* more strenuous physically than tech week -- but cross country never has practices from 5-10, either. Also, I don't think it's fair when people say that play practice doesn't involve any sort of physical strength, either. Those risers are *heavy*, and dragging them (and the chairs) between the attics actually takes some work. We also have workdays on the weekend: it is mandatory for anyone in a show to put in 4 hours of work, and many people do more than that.
Also (ahhh, sorry, this is getting very long), there is no required fine arts class for theater participants to petition out of. There isn't an equivalent. It would make a great deal more sense for people to be able to get out of a fine arts class, but there is no universal class.
The end.