jen
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Post by jen on Dec 17, 2006 3:16:20 GMT -5
It was her arrogant attitude that was so obnoxiously entertaining!! You don't know whether you feel like slapping the girl or laughing in her face! I agree! Jessi is what makes this whole book, really
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 4, 2007 19:04:57 GMT -5
I liked that this book wasn't about the girls going on vacation again, but it bugged me so much! First of all, the entire concept of it is weird. What middle school would seriously put on a musical that ANYONE at any school (as evidenced by the fact that their were freakin' private school kids in the play..) is allowed to try out for? How utterly chaotic! And with the sheer number of kids participating, I can't imagine how the director had the time or energy to even learn all of their names, let alone do the actual directing.
And of course I agree with what everyone else said about the BSC getting all the big roles. And also, Stacey and Sam as Mr. and Mrs. Darling? Right, what are the odds of that happening? I did love how Logan got kicked out of the play, though. That was awesome and very age-appropriate -- much better than the Logan who rents horse-drawn carriages and crap for his girlfriend.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 5, 2007 19:06:36 GMT -5
I don't think they necessarily meant that ALL schools could participate. If that were the case, Shannon Kilbourne probably would have tried out. I think they just needed some elementary school kids that the readers would recognize, so they threw out consistency (again) and put in whoever.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 6, 2007 12:33:32 GMT -5
^ And high school kids, too, don't forget.
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 6, 2007 12:40:29 GMT -5
I don't think they necessarily meant that ALL schools could participate. If that were the case, Shannon Kilbourne probably would have tried out. Well, the flyer at the beginning of the book says "Tryouts open to all elementary school, middle school, and high school students" so I assume that includes all schools. Especially since there were some private school kids there. Good point about Shannon, though. It would have been cool to see her as Wendy or something. Then we wouldn't have had to listen to Dawn's complaining. I guess she was too busy with all of her other activities, though.
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digigirl02
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Post by digigirl02 on Jan 6, 2007 15:11:13 GMT -5
Probably, where her sister's in the book though?
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Post by ktag on Jan 6, 2007 18:00:30 GMT -5
The lame thing though is they likely gave preference to students from SMS, so kids from other middle schools probably didn't even bother. They only opened it up to get older and younger kids for parts. Which wasn't really necessary. It's just a middle school production, not Broadway. Why take roles away from people who actually go to the school and who want to be in it? Guess they just wanted to make it super special by sticking in more characters.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 12, 2007 15:48:36 GMT -5
I liked this so much more than I expected to considering I don't like theater or Peter Pan. Kinda odd that just a few books before this Kristy ran for class president because she didn't like the babyish play (Mary Poppins) that the school was putting on. Yet Peter Pan was the biggest, most exciting event ever.
I agree with everyone about Jessi. It's like Ann woke up one day and decided she hated her. Which was awesome. I thought Mary Anne was also a hag. She had a ton of kids to help out with and was supposed to be Jackie's special helper on top of that, so who really cares if Mallory stepped in to help out with (mostly) her own siblings.
Sam's friends call him a cradle-robber. Heh, that's awesome.
I thought the play was mostly an SMS production, meaning most of the parts would go to 6-8th graders. Of course the BSC girls would get big parts, they were all total drama queens!
For those of you who still have the postcard from the book, does Santa look a little too excited to be surrounded by a bunch of teenage girls? His eyes are bugging out of his head.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 14, 2007 16:24:17 GMT -5
Was reading this again on a long car ride, and it really is a lot of fun. I love it. It flows very well, there's not random sitting jobs thrown in for the heck of it. I like that all the focus was put on the play. I didn't mind Jackie's chapters; he was really cute, and I was VERY glad there weren't any tedious chapters from Karen about her huffiness over the Tinkerbell role. MA was annoying with her "leave the backstage babysitting to me" with Mallory. Like she couldn't use the help? She never even explains why it bothers her so much.
I must have bypassed this moment in one of Jessi's chapters all the times before: she admits she wasn't even planning to go to opening night, before she was offered the job of Nana and the crocodile. WTF. Talk about sulking for entirely too long. So the entire club was involved in the production, a bunch of kids they sit for too, and her whole family was going to be in attendance. Way to lend your moral support. And not wanting to be credited as "assistant choreographer"...too bad she passed it up, it probably would have seemed, to the audience, like an impressive title to have. But I found it kind of touching that she "saved" Kristy in the end by feeding her her first line when Kristy forget it.
And speaking of touching parts, I love when Claudia is talking to Mimi's portrait before the opening night performance, Kristy, Dawn, and Stacey talk about their fathers backstage, and Richard informs Dawn he videotaped the performance to send to her dad in California. It's the little things that make this book so good.
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Post by greer on Jan 14, 2007 20:08:57 GMT -5
Remember when Logan yelled that the pirates were going to mutiny and got fired from the play because he was setting a bad example for the children? That was kind of dumb because what kid knows what the hell "mutiny" means? I learned it from this book.
Also Claud's sets sounded really cool.
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jen
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Post by jen on Jan 15, 2007 5:33:54 GMT -5
And not wanting to be credited as "assistant choreographer"...too bad she passed it up, it probably would have seemed, to the audience, like an impressive title to have. I can't believe she wanted to be credited as "assistant producer"... Jessi, you're not that important.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 15, 2007 12:23:25 GMT -5
That bit was so uncharacteristic of Logan. It seriously came from nowhere, but it was hilarious none the less.
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Post by lilafowler on Jan 15, 2007 12:46:31 GMT -5
I had no clue. Another poster upthread mentioned thinking it was a bad word -- I totally did, too!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 13:52:43 GMT -5
That bit was so uncharacteristic of Logan. It seriously came from nowhere, but it was hilarious none the less. Yeah. I liked it, for once, Logan acted like a 13 year old boy.
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Post by mckay on Mar 10, 2007 22:12:14 GMT -5
I have a question about this one. Jessi told the girls that Mr. Cheney had said that she hadn't gotten the role of Peter Pan because she already had so much experience performing that he wanted to let someone else have a chance.
Did he ever actually say that or was she just lying to save face? If he said it, I'm sure he didn't mean it, given that she was a sixth-grader who couldn't sing (in my middle school, as well as high school, seniors/seventh graders - the highest grade in our middle school; it started in fifth - always got the leads. Even if there was a more talented younger kid.)
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