Hello,
Here is the story and yes I cannot remember everything but I will try to remember.
Please keep in mind at all times that it was 1968 and I had this part of my history well hidden, except for the fact my mother did keep all the dresses and the bloomer and other undergarments I had to wear in order to look like a woman form about 1906. that would mean a corset and stockings and even my shoes and the female boots i had to wear, even the wig as well.
Now i was a very shy boy unit the day I was cast for the role to play Laurey Williams from Oklahoma.
The story would go this way.
I did not want to be in drama class, but seeing that my school schedule was changed because of a new thing that was started whereby I could not take any male classes at all. you see i was also force to take a girls physical education and health class as well.
now to the reason why I was forced to play the role Laurey Williams is because we in drama class where studying Shakespeare at the time, and we where even told that males had to play every role because a woman was not allowed to play any roles in a play at Shakespeare's time and era.
Well I made some kind of comment that got me in trouble, for I almost got expelled from school.
My drama teacher and principal came up with an idea not to teach me a lesson, but the rest of the class too.
I was told see that I think i said thankfully boys don't have to play a female in a play I was to play the role Laurey Williams in the musical play Oklahoma.
Yes the girl that wanted the role did not like that, but she did help me prepare the most for the role, for she helped me learn how to be a girl.
Now I cannot dance, sing, and I could not even act at all. I was just a 14 year old boy at the time i did not even know how to be a girl, for i had no role model to even teach me but my mother.
here is one thing i did protest a lot and so did my parents at the time, but if I was expelled from school the only way I could come back is to wear a dress all the time, plus other things too that is hard to talk about.
The school did bring in volunteers from the preforming art from our area and local community theater to help make my dresses and all the undergarments I would wear even the shoes and dresses to just fit me only. they even brought in professional makeup volunteers to make me up and make me look like a girl, yes even the wig was designed for me to wear. Yes the whole cast was done by the volunteers as well, but they did focus on me. I was only 110 pounds at that time and very skinny boy with a natural female looking body. I was told that by the way.
The one dress that gave me the most trouble was my wedding dress by the way.
During all the rehearsals I had to wear just a plain dress and learn how to be a female that was the first thing i had to learn. At first I did not even want to be seen wearing a dress, but it was the girl that wanted to role made me come out and just relax and pretend to be a girl.
Yes there was times I felt really embarrassed for i forgot some things that was taught to me, but I got over it.
The truth is as the rehearsals was going on and i was now use to being a girl I was liking and loving being a girl more and more in secret.
The first dress rehearsal came and I had to wear all the dresses even the wedding dress, plus all the undergarments for a female from 1906, and hold my bridal bouquet as a bride would at her wedding.
the very first girl that I could recall saying that I looked very beautiful as a lady and very sexy too. That got me to smile and say to myself yes this is going to work.
I would like to tell you and the other ladies that I was not yet a developed boy at that time, so the female voice was very easy for me to do.
Okay the other girls even thought the very same thing as well as the boys that where in the play too. I remember my teacher saying I should have stills of me being taken so that there was a memory of this moment.
On opening night I was nervous only for about 30 seconds until I first began to sing my part "Oh what a Beautiful Morning" and talk. You see the only model for me was Sherry Jones from the 1955 production of Oklahoma, for that is who I did study and imitate in order for me to play or become Laurey Williams. that is also how I learn the role too.
Well the musical play did go over very well, for at the end of the play on the first night when they did introduce the cast to the accident I was the last one for I was the main Character and the other reason why I was introduced last is because I was a boy playing a female role. Yes I was forced back onto the stage and I had to curtsy like a girl would because I was a girl at the time. I received a standing ovation that night and was asked to sing a song from the play by the audience. so I sang this song "Many of New Days" I could of cried when I got the standing ovation, by the way for i want to run away, but the stage makeup would not run. the boy that played Curley forgot that I was a boy and did ask me out on a date, and so did the boy that played Jud too. the girl that wanted to play the role Laurey Williams did ask me out and we did go out on a date by the way.
Now I thought that this would just be a one night thing. No it lasted almost one year by the way and our class was asked to do Oklahoma on their stage as part of the preforming Art production, and we did, so I got to play Laurey Williams more than one time.
Okay I must confess to like play the role Laurey Williams and wear the dresses and undergarments, plus the dress and okay I never said this the female undergarment to get me use to be a girl too. Yes that does mean a bra and panties slips stocking and everything else that a female would wear.
I was never teased or nothing did happen to me at all, by the way my teacher and principal made that point very clearly and to the fact I was to play this role for a real reason. If you want to hear more ladies just ask and I will tell Yes I had to kiss the boy that played Curley in the play by the way, and yes as I am now remembering things . I can now remember the marriage proposal now and how I felt being proposed to by a boy. Ladies that felt nice as I can recall. okay I did like the wedding dress that I wore.
Now you know that a very shy boy at the age of 14 years old did love being Laurey Williams. Oh i almost forgot this I did not want this to end at all.
Thank you
Laurey Williams
