-EYES LIKE STARS GIVEAWAY-Rules:
-Open only to the U.S.A. Sorry, but I just don't have that kind of money to send internationally.
-Post everything in ONE entry.
-Post your EMAIL. No email, no entry.
-There will be only One winner, which will be drawn randomly to receive the ARC.
-Contest open until Midnight of July 7th, 2009.
(Midnight whatever your time is. I won't post the winner till a day afterward.)
To Enter:
+1 Comment on here: Post one of your most memorable Theatre experience or post your favorite Shakespearean play and why. (or BOTH for +2)
Extra Entries:
+1 for commenting on my review of ELS: Here
+1 for commenting on my Interview with Lisa Mantchev: Here
+1 for everywhere you post this contest or link my blog (ex: Sidebar+1, post+1, Blog Roll+1 so that would be 3 entries-- make sure to leave a link).
+2 for following me on Twitter: Here
+3 for being/becoming a follower.
Make sure you tell me what you do or you won't get the extra entries!
THIS CONTEST IS OVER.
49 comments:
Hey!! Great Contest!!
KailaEscobales(at)aol(dot)com
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+1 My Most Memorable Theatre Moment Would Have To Be When I Saw A Play In The Sixth Grade Called "The Nifty Fifties" It Was Like Grease Meets Happy Days... LOL.. It Was My First Play Ever... It Was Like I Was Watching Magic... I Loved The Scene Changes And The Actors...
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RagDollVampGirl
this is going to sound really lame but I went to Ohio once and got in up-close performance of Alice in Wonderland, it was a musical sort of, but I absolutely loved it! Especially the grinning cat!
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Yay a contest! Happy times!
+1 for commenting on the review of ELS (doing so in a moment)
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+2 I just started following you on twitter (my name is breanna21)
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+1 My favorite Shakespeare play would have to be Romeo and Juliet mainly because it's one of the few that I've even read. It's just a really good play in itself. I also like the ending even though they both die. haha yeah, I'm a bit morbid at times. I love Shakespeare's word usage the most.
+1 My most memorable Theatre experience was when I went to see Dracula with my best friend last year. It was so incredibly awesome. All the actors were amazing and the music was to die for. I just loved everything about it.
Thanks for this awesome contest!
-Breanna
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+2 I'm combining these two questions into one big long answer. My most memorable theatre experience actually involves my favorite Shakespearean play - A Midsummer's Night Dream. This is why the play was so memorable - the acting was fabulous - and what really stood out to me was that one my classmates played puck - a small stringy guy who just really put his all into it. I still remember when Oberon (sp?) grabbed him by one ankle and could dangle him upside down without his head on the floor. And the actor was so good he didn't even falter in his lines. I just remember so fondly the way he played the perfect Puck. It was also amusing years later (he was a freshman in high school then) that he was nearly 6 feet tall. :) This was probably when I fell in love with this Shakespearean play. Another reason I love this play is Gaiman's graphic novel rendition of it.
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+1 My Most Memorable Theatre Moment would be going with my mom as a kid. We went and saw Snow White and sat in the balcony seating, I will never forget that!
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+1-my favorite Shakespearen play (so far) is Much Ado About Nothing. There's romance, miscommunications and best of all, NO ONE DIES. *is sick of Romeo and Juliet*
+1 I commented on your review for ELS
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+1? I've never seen a play, so my most memorable theatre experience probably doesn't count, but I'll let you decide: My best "theatre" moment involved me, my three bestest friends, and a copy of Hamlet. I read it aloud to them and did a different voice for each character (really hard to keep track!). They were laughing so hard they almost choked, and I nearly strained my vocal chords when the ghosts came along. It was a blast. XD
+1 I commented on your ELS review.
+1 I commented on your awesome interview.
+1 I put a link on my sidebar.
+3 I'm a follower.
Great contest, BTW, Eli!
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+2 For Commenting Here:
My most memorable theater experience is when I participated in the production of James and the Giant Peach for my school my freshman year. I ended up playing a crowd member and a cloud person. Being the cloud person was so weird, because we basically looked like giant cotton balls and we had to make our faces really pale. I didn't like it too much because we had to act really strangely.
My favorite Shakespeare play is probably Romeo and Juliet. I just love the story, and one time I got to work on a video project of the death scene with my crush, where he was Romeo and I was Juliet.
Awesome contest :D
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I just wanted to say, one time in college I was in ALICE IN WONDERLAND and played the white rabbit. Some crazy director got in his head that I could do a backflip. Um, yeah. Come showtime, I TRIED! Instead I fell off the stage and broke my ring finger.
Everyone thought it was part of the show and I finished the play. Thankfully I wore white gloves to hide the splint the next night. :-)
-Suz
I can't wait for this book!
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+1 - My favorite Shakespearean play is Much Ado About Nothing. I love it because while there is not much of a plot compared to the other plays like Hamlet or Macbeth, there is plenty of humor and problems that create enough of a plot to enjoy. The bickering between Beatrice and Benedick is one of my favorite things.
+1 My favorite theatre experience was in high school. I was in the pit for Suessical the Musical. It was great to be able to see how the cast started out and came together to create the show they did. It was also great that I was a part of a musical even though I have no acting or singing talent. =)
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My most memorable Theatre experience -- when I was in a play at the age of five (it was a Christmas play but I don't remember the name of it) and I fell flat on my face on the stage and everyone laughed -- that pretty much ended my theatre career :-)
My favorite Shakespeare play -- I like a lot of them but I really love the speeches in Henry V -- very dramatic!
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Great contest! I hope I win.
+1 My fave Shakespearean play is Romeo and Juliet cause it is the only one I've read. I do own Hamlet but haven't read it yet.
+1 My most memorable theatre experience was when I saw Hairspray the musical on Broadway in NY. My discovery class went to NY for three days when I was in 7th grade. We had some parent chaperones who were a little ticked at some of the language and sexual references. lol.
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~Briana :D
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in nyc we got to go back and meet the cast of mamamia- it was rushed but it was amazing how fast they move and are so used to it...I would have been flat on my bum or a costume backwards
hi, just became a follower. my most memorable theatre experience just happened yesterday! i finally got to see Wicked. looooved it! everything was well done from the set to the costumes to the acting. the good witch glinda was a hoot!
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So let's start with my favorite experience in theatre would be my 8th grade play when we did HSM, i played the part of Kelsi and had to trip at one point, when i first when to fake trip i ended up sliding off the stage, not too elegantly might i add, and my favorite Shakespeare play is Midsummer's Night Dream, i fell in love with it when i was six and went to see the play (was going through fairy loving phase at this point), i just though the costumes and way they talked was so different so obviously magical that i demanded my father buy me more of this man's work
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Dominique
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My most memorable theatre experience? Probably working backstage for a production and having a desk dropped on my toes while we were setting up for the second act, then having that same desk cut my leg when we were moving it back for the next act! It was so hectic opening night with all the crazy scene changes, but still an interesting experience being back stage!
My favorite Shakespeare play is Hamlet! I just love the soliloquies and the many interpretations are all so interesting to consider!
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Dominique
+1 Most memorable theater experience was my sister in Hansel and Gretel when she was in college
+1 I love Macbeth...its one of the few works of Shakespeare I have read. I like the darkness of it.
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My favorite Shakespeare play is A Midsummer Nights Dream. I saw an awesome production of it once and have loved it ever since.
I commented on your interview.
I commented on your review.
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I've also blogged about this giveaway here.
Thanks,
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As much as I thought I never had a theatre experience, I actually do. It is quite "memorable" considering two men made out in front of me and my friends (which is a first for me, honestly), and what I mean by made out is REALLY MADE OUT... which made me pretty sure that I will not be forgetting it for quite some time and this might sound cliche but Romeo and Juliet is my favorite Shakespearean play and why? I don't really know, but maybe because it's about love:) Thanks for holding this contest!
sylvia_uy4@yahoo.com
My favorite Shakespeare play would probably be Hamlet. I love Ophelia's mad scene - I feel cliche saying that, but there is something so real and terrifying about that scene. I also really love the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene. And the play A Midsummer's Night Dream - the whole play is so funny.
I posted about the contest on my blog as well. (http://thehidingspot.blogspot.com)
Sara
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the best time at the theater i ever had was seeing the phantom of the opera
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my favorite shakespearian play gosh that is tough i can't choose between a midsummer night's dream and romeo and juliet. :) I say both. :D
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+1 My most memorable theater experience was sitting in the front row of an intimate show of Romeo and Juliet. It was absolutely terrifying to watch swordplay a foot in front of my face, and amazing to be so close to the actors.
+1 My favorite Shakespeare play is Henry V. We read it my junior year of high school, and I remember very clearly thinking that Falstaff was the most surprising hilarious character I'd ever read.
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+ My high school production of GREASE because it's always been my favorite movie, and none of the kids in my school looked at ALL like the characters, but somehow it still worked.
+duh, Romeo and Juliet
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My favorite Shakespeare play to read is Hamlet and to see performed is Much Ado About Nothing. +1
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My most memorable theater experience had less to do with what was on stage, and more to do with who was sitting in the audience...a famous, heart-throb actor came to the Kennedy center to see a play. On the same night that about 5 private schools had brought their students to the same play. He got gang-rushed by about 500 screaming girls. I hung back and just watched the out-of-control-ness of it all, even though I was of an age that I did have a crush on him...but I certainly wasn't going to act stupid and ruin his night to get an autograph. lol.
Kiki
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+1 My favorite Shakespeare play is Hamlet, because it was the first play I ever read by Shakespeare and it introduced a wonderful world to me.
+1 My most memorable theatre experience was seeing As You Like It in NYC.
+1 I commented on your review of Eyes Like Stars.
+1 I commented on your interview with Lisa Mantchev.
Thanks for having such a great book for a giveaway!
Jennifer
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+1 Comment on here: doing improv with friends. they always end up being dramatic and hilarious.
+1 favorite Shakespearean play and why. Romeo and Juliet. so dramatic and romantic. love the concept of star crossed lovers and fate
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I love romeo and juliet
Great contest! I'd like to be counted in, please :)
My favorite Shakespeare play is A Midsummer Night's Dream. I think it is not the most romantic play, nor the funniest, nor the most interesting, but it holds certain charm. Besides, when I was in second grade my class and I had to do the play for a general assembly in front of the whole school. I so wanted to have the lead, but unfortunately I got the part of a TREE. Yes, a tree. All I did was wave my branches right and left, and then leave the stage. That was it. But anyway, I've loved the story since then.
Thanks a lot!
Cata
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Cata
I love Romeo and Juliet because its a tragic romance story, like my romance life :-)
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Sarah
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My very first theater experience was playing an orphan in a community production of the musical Annie when I was 12. I tried out with over 100 girls and was one of the 7 who made it--talk about an ego boost. Singing, dancing and acting with other girls my own age... I still count it as one of the best experiences of my life.
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Commenting again, with my correct identity--my favorite is Midsummers Night Dream, because its funny and magical. Thanks!
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My most memorable theatre experience was seeing my first Broadway Play(Sweeney Todd).
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Fave theater memory - I played a young women in a community players play - and my fiance in the play was my brother in law in real life - that was weird!
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Great Contest.
Count me in!
Please&Thankyou.
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I really liked The Tragdy of Macbeth. It is fun to watch himself and his wife switch gender roles throughout the play.
Thanks!
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my most memorable play, id have to say, is watchin my high school prduction of sweeny todd.
it was fun to watch it being interpreted in a different way and being acted out before me (since i knew some of the cast).
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My favorite Shakespeare play is definitely Much Ado About Nothing, because it's a fun story, plus you pity the characters for not really being able to see the bigger picture (it took faking Hero's death to get Claudio to realize he was being stupid).
My most memorable theater experience was my junior year in high school when we did the play Into the Woods. My high school was well-known for it's good theater department (even though we were a relatively small school), so that meant a lot of pressure during the actual show...especially for people in stage crew like me. There were quick changes, and two other people and I had to hide in a tiny space to lift up the Witch, to make it look like she was floating. It was tiring, and amazing...best theater production we did, too.
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My most memorable experience is going to see the Nutcracker! My aunt would take me every year and I enjoyed our time together.
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Romeo & Juliet is my favorite because it's so romantic.
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My Favorite play is The Taming of the Shrew. I love the language and cadence of the story, and it stages really well.
My most memorable theater experience was when I saw the Phantom on Broadway. A friend had a friend who worked in the theater and we not only had box seats, we got to go backstage afterwords and try on some of the costumes.
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OMG I wanna win!!!
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+1 Comment on here:
When I was in junior high, I tried out for MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. I wanted to be Titania, but I got cast as Anonymous Fairy Number 3, which ended up being WAY more fun, because we got to just run around the stage and throw glitter around during the random dance sequence the drama teacher made up. In amidst the dancing and glitter, I noticed the sound guy, a guy dressed all in black with a weird name who was a grade below me. I never would have looked at him again, except fate kept throwing us together...and then we started dating in high school...and then we got married, eight years later. We celebrate our second anniversary July 7 (we got married on the infamous 7/7/07 date)...so if I win, that would be about the most perfect anniversary present I could imagine!!
(And can I get a +1 for saying that MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is one of my favorite Shakespearean plays for the exact same reason?)
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Whew! OK, I've maxed out entries...can you tell I REALLY want this book, especially if I can win it on this day?!
+1 Comment "Most Memorable Theatre Experience"
As an audience member? Seeing "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with Donny Osmond. It was my first show and it stuck with me. As a performer? Losing my shoe in the middle of a set change and having it sit there throughout the next act.
+1 Comment "Favorite Shakespeare Play"
"The Tempest." I love everything about it. And it's the only Shakespeare play I've seen performed and actually enjoyed the performance.
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- Katie
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My favorite shakespearean play is Hamlet because it's just so amazing and all the backstabbing is just awesome. Sad for them though
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My most memorable Theatre experience was just April, actually. It was first time in a production with an audience over 500, and I was SO freaked out. What made everything OK, funny enough, was my costume. You see, I was playing a fairy in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe, and as part of my costume I had WINGS. I kept them, of course. So I have to say that those wings made the show the most memorable for me.
As for favorite Shakespeare play, that's tough. As an English Lit dork, I love his works. I think I would have to say Othello, though, because I think Iago is brilliant (evil, but brilliant). The way he manipulates everyone is disturbing yet sort of awe-worthy.
Also, I commented on your interview with Lisa Mantchev, I'm a follower, and you're on my blog roll. :)
Kristin (email = dazdnconfusd@comcast.net)
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