My favorite teacher in high school... didn't teach any classes I took, she was the vocal music teacher and part-time drama coach. So I only knew her from extracurriculars.
But she was big in the community theater scene down around Capital City and would call in favors to get us professional lighting, costumes, even consultations for our blocking and such.
Also gave me the easiest audition I ever had, which was a shouted "You can do the Clouseau accent, right?" in a hallway.
(The part was Clouseau.)
Which maybe sounds like favoritism but she had watched me for years always play the comic sidekick role because nobody else could do pratfalls and timing like I could, so she for the all-school play my senior year picked a play where that would be the lead.
That was the only reason we did a Pink Panther adaptation; this was when Austin Powers was big so a 60s-ish James Bond spoof was very much where the student body was.
(I say ish because by the time the Pink Panther series detoured into 007-land it was the 70s, but our staging was very 60s.)
I got thoroughly upstaged by a younger kid doing a comic sidekick bit, but I can chalk that up to a "be careful what you wish for" learning experience because obviously I'd been doing that for years, too.
She was also the only teacher I ever heard say anything beyond a meek "Well, that's not nice." about the people throwing around gay and the f-slur for everyone and everything they didn't like. She would go OFF.
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