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Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers: A must-read for fans of musical theater, show choir (and vampires…) Kindle Edition

by S.M. Stevens (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Finally, a novel for teen lovers of musical theatre and show choir! Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers takes you deep into the heart of a high school drama program, with its creativity, camaraderie, politics and, well, drama. Join Sadie Perkins in her quest for a lead role, as the Crudup High School drama club makes its own musical out of Twilight. Intrigue abounds. Why does Sadie’s rival Lucey really get the role of Bella? What’s behind foreign exchange student Nigel’s interest in high school theatre? And where does the show’s director, Mr. Ellison, disappear to three days before opening night? With everything falling apart, can the cast even pull off the show?Check out www.BitPlayers.me to connect with other high school theatre buffs.

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If you love theatre, drama, young adult fiction, or just enjoy a sing or a dance, this is the book for you...What a story! This book definitely has the reader racing to find out what will happen to this loveable cast of characters...I could not help but sing my praises for this book; it screams drama, theatre, and show business and is definitely worth a read if that's your kind of thing. I thought it was a lovely book with a real understanding of the genre that it is describing. A light-hearted read with some brilliant writing and an exceptional understanding of drama! - mylittlebookblog

The pursuit of fame starts young. "Bit Players, Has-Been Actors, and Other Posers" is a drama novel based in the high school drama we all have faced at some level or another. Sadie Perkins quests to rise up and gain a bit more of that high school fame, and the struggles to even get the show off the ground during a tumultuous time. "Bit Players, Has-Been Actors, and Other Posers" is a riveting and much recommended pick for any young adult fiction collection.

-- from the Midwest Book Review, Feb. 2012

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Finally, a novel for teen lovers of musical theatre and show choir! Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers takes you deep into the heart of a high school drama program, with its creativity, camaraderie, politics and, well, drama. Join Sadie Perkins in her quest for a lead role, as the Crudup High School drama club makes its own musical out of Twilight. Intrigue abounds. Why does Sadie's rival Lucey really get the role of Bella? What's behind foreign exchange student Nigel's interest in high school theatre? And where does the show's director, Mr. Ellison, disappear to three days before opening night? With everything falling apart, can the cast even pull off the show?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006AXT7QO
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1148 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 232 pages

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After many years as a business writer, S.M. Stevens found the time to pen her first novel when a pelvis broken in 3 places absolved her from housework and chauffeuring the kids around for several months. The result was her middle-grade novel Shannon's Odyssey, written for adventurous animal-lovers.

A year later, while in treatment for cancer, she wrote the first of the Bit Players series to fill the void of fiction for music and theatre-loving teens. The YA series now has three books, and appeals to all teens not just drama-loving ones.

Her first adult novel (thankfully not prompted by another health crisis!) was Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, published in 2019. The story is a coming-of-age tale about two young women starting their careers in Boston while dealing with past and present demons.

Her next novel, Beautiful and Terrible Things, will be released by Black Rose Writing in Summer 2024. For a taste of that, read the short story "Two Kinds of People" published on Smoky Quartz. You can also meet the characters through the novelette, The Wallace House of Pain (available on Amazon).

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Ruth Stevens

A fun read

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023

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Though I am considerably older than the target YA audience for this book, as a lifelong Broadway theatre lover I found myself enjoying it fully! Great characters, a fast-moving story, and wonderful descriptions of the musical created and staged by the high school kids in the final portion of the book. I look forward to reading the rest of this three-book series.

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2011

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Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers: A must-read for fans of Glee, High School Musical and Twilight
SM Stevens did an excellent job creating the characters and developing the story of a high school drama production. Although I have never watched Glee or Twilight, I was captivated by the writing style and anxiously reading to find out what happened next. It is a fun, easy-reading story with surprising plot twist at the end. I know many of my 8th grade students will love to read this story. I am looking forward to the next "production"!

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Wicked Good Witch of Metrowest

What a good read for adults, too!

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2013

I loved this book. I could identify with Sadie, the main character. SM Stevens did a great job of making her a realistic character, as well as the other characters in the book. I loved that the characters had flaws, some were smarter and funnier than others. I could easily picture them in our local school.
As a young adult book, it was the perfect length, with action, romance and mystery. As an adult book, I could have easily read another 100 pages of the story!
Stevens' stories are much better written and are more engaging than the popular vampire series of wishy-washy twilight characters.
If you're in High School or if your kid is, the Bit Players series is the better choice by far.

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Tim Boucher

What an enjoyable read!

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2012

My daughter is now a teenager, and recently was recently in her 2nd play. This sounded like a good book for her, but I thought I'd read it first to make sure it was appropriate for her. I have an hour each day on the commuter rail, so I figured I had to read something anyway. Well, much to my surprise (since I'm a "sports dad" and not a theater-guy) I loved it. It was an easy read and I really liked the characters and the story moved right along. Our family never got involved with the "Twighlight" stuff, so I thought I'd be missing a lot of references or inside information, but that wasn't the case. The biggest compliment I can give is I found myself disapointed when my train arrived at the station, as I'd have to stop reading until my next commute!

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2012

The characters in Bit Players were well developed three-dimensional people I cared more and more about as I read this novel. The teen voices struck just the right chord and the issues all high school juniors and seniors deal with were mentioned but not dwelt upon. This was a fun read, I could not wait to see what happened next. The climax of the story seemed to happen too fast, and was resolved just a little too quickly for me, I wanted more. I will definitely add it to my YA collection.

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Paige Bradish

for some reason I love books that take place in the high school setting

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

I received Bit Players, Has-Been Actors And Other Posers by S.M. Stevens for review, and these are my honest thoughts.

I agreed to take on this trilogy for a few reasons. The main one being, for some reason I love books that take place in the high school setting. I am not sure why, I just love seeing how everything unfolds. The drama, whose friends with whom, the cliques, the bullies, etc. It all fits together to make for a great book. Also! I love reading about plays. I do not love reading plays that much but I love reading books that have characters in plays.

The first characters introduced are of course the main character Sadie who loves to be on stage, and the play we read about in this first book is her chance to finally be the lead. We also meet Alex, who is Sadie’s best friend in the beginning. The two have a pretty rough falling out mid way through the book which made for some crazy drama that sort of turned me off to both of them to be completely honest. Throughout the rest of the book, they gained my likings back through many things though so I am happy with that.

I like Alex even though he did do some things to piss me off, granted some of those things were deserved but still mean nonetheless. I love that he has basically turned into a popular, and is still trying to be best friends with Sadie despite how hard she is trying to push him and his new life away from her. We then meet the foreign exchange student Nigel. Normally everybody dies over foreign exchange students, but me on the other hand? Unless they are really nice and deserve attention I do not really care for them. Nigel proved to me yet again why I feel this way about foreign exchange students in books!

I have a love hate relationship with the suspense that occurred in the barn near the end of the book. I liked that Stevens incorporated it because the way it all happened was really cool. But at the same time I feel like Lord finally going rogue, and everything that happened was really rushed, and squeezed into one or two chapters. After the barn incident we only hear about a sentence worth of whatever happened to Lord. Which, granted is all he deserves but I would have liked to see something leading up to the mysterious texts Sadie gets, and then something more explaining what happened to Lord.

Overall, I loved the idea for the play. Twilight was such a big thing back when this book was published in 2011 so I liked that Stevens instead of deciding to write something about vampires chose to incorporate something so popular into her book extensively without having to make it a vampire book completely. I give her props and will be for sure reading the next two books in the series!

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2015

Great insight and ideas into the teenage theater world! Great reading for all! What a wonderful story!

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2012

I pre-read this for my tween-age, theater-loving son, primarily to see how age appropriate the adult content was because so many of his friends at school are talking about this book. I don't normally read fiction but found myself really enjoying it. The characters are juniors and seniors in high school so the content was geared more towards teenagers then pre-teens touching on teen pregnancy, drinking, etc. but this was not a major part of the story. The characters were well developed and there were plot twists and surprises you don't see coming. I could easily see this becoming a movie. A great read!

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