#Access Theatre

[travsd]

For International Jazz Day: A Jazz Finding Aid for Travalanche

April 30 is International Jazz Day! Travalanche has hundreds of posts celebrating jazz singers, composers, and musicians, but they are not grouped into a single section. Rather, the various styles each have a section under “music“, along with other styles, such as classical and folk music, and they are listed there alphabetically. So for quick reference, I thought I would do this quick little…

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#Access Theatre #international jazz day #jazz #show business #variety #vaudeville

[earthspark-shockwaves-reduction]

Rise of the Beasts Spoilers Without Context

#mine #transformers #tf #rise of the beasts #rotb spoilers #rise of the beasts spoilers #i never get to make these bc i havent gone to theatres in 3 years #but not only did i go but i got EARLY ACCESS #rotb

[lore-gore]

When we say make theatre more accessible, we don't just mean for physically disabled people but mentally disabled people as well.

Allowing actors to step aside and process a direction is just as important as putting in ramps.

I say this as someone who who was made to feel guilty for asking for time to process a big change because "if a director tells you to do it, you do it." But I couldn't do it. I was freezing up. I was unable to perform. I'm not being stubborn or disrespectful. I. Am. Disabled. And I need to be accommodated.

#mad pride #actually adhd #adhd #make theatre accessible #processing disorders #madpunk #actually neurodiverse #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #disability #disabled #invisible disability

[thealogie]

I have to say I’m so impressed with British theatre’s accessibility effort. They always have audio description performances with touch tours beforehand, sensory adapted performances and good availability for sign language and captioned performances. I think those two are pretty standard now but I just saw that the young Vic is doing a couple of relaxed performances. Not something I was familiar with but it’s so awesome!

#for one of the most classist countries on the planet I think the UK has really thought long and hard about theatre accessibility both in #terms of price and disability. also subtitles are so common in continental Europe.

[thelegendofmik]

The Little Big Things - Setting the Standard for Accessibility in Theatre

The Little Big Things is a musical that recently opened at the West End's Soho Place and it is a stage adaptation of Henry Fraser's memoir of the same name. It is about Fraser's experience with becoming disabled and figuring out how to navigate life newly disabled.

Of course, the show portrays Fraser's life before and after becoming disabled. And this show comes up with a very simple solution that doesn't involve an abled bodied actor "cripping up" - they literally just double cast the role of Henry Fraser. They have abled actor Jonny Amies play Fraser pre-accident, and disabled actor Ed Larkin plays post-accident Fraser. Like the reality is, no one cares that the actors don't look identical.

Not only is Fraser played by a wheelchair user, as is another character, Agnes (Amy Trigg), but both their understudies are wheelchair users as well (Joseph Wolff and Elena Pitsiaeli). That is four wheelchair users in the cast of the show. The associate director, Nickie Miles-Wildin, is also a wheelchair user.

So the narrative that "there just aren't enough disabled performers" is a load of bullshit. Not only was this show able to hire five wheelchair users, but they also hired several other disabled/chronically ill cast and crew members. It is clear that in this show accessibility was a priority, not an afterthought, as it often is in theatre.

Like look at this beautiful representation:

This is a story about disability being told by disabled people, and this should really be the standard for the industry. I really hope that there are more shows like this created because this is the authentic representation disabled people deserve. We deserve to be able to tell our own stories.

Have a link to some of the music:

#why dont yall focus on cool shit like this rather than fixating on ableist shows #disability #fuck ableism #representation matters #disabilities #disability rights #disabled #this musical looks so cool #musicals #musical theatre #west end #disability representation #wheelchair users belong on stage #accessible art #access is a human right #Spotify

[communistkenobi]

im always saying this

#this is from a chapter in a book called fascist mass spectacle by Jeffery Schnapp #if you search it on google scholar theres an open access link to it #its about fascist theatre in italy i believe. excited 2 read #book club

[reginalds]

The Australian premiere of The Grinning Man, a tragicomic musical based on Victor Hugo's novel 'The Man Who Laughs'. Book by Carl Grose, music by Tim Phillips, Marc Teitler and lyrics by Carl Grose, Tom Morris, Tim Phillips and Marc Teitler.

Where the original production employed the use of puppets to portray the childhood of the lead characters, Salty Theatre has cast two disabled artists in the roles. Seventeen year old blind musician Lilly Cascun as Young Dea and disability advocate Matthew Hearne as Young Grinpayne.

They are joined by a brilliant ensemble of artists, guided by disability consultants and nurtured by the blossoming Melbourne based independent theatre company that is Salty Theatre.

The Grinning Man is now playing at the Alex Theatre in Melbourne until May 19th. Photography by Ben Fon.

#The Grinning Man #mirror up to nature #there is still so much work to be done in this industry #but the fact that even an independent theatre company can do all of this work around access and inclusion? #not just in the rehearsal room but through every single aspect of the production #in spite of how hard and costly it can be? #well major theatre companies have no excuse.

[songmingisthighs]

i got spanx on tighter than my parents ever hugged me and my tits are pushed up so fucking high like they're being offered to God. am omw to an event held by the damn european economic community with guerrilla playing on loop

is this my rebel spy arc ???????

#someone tell ateez to hmu if they need someone with access #yknow #espionage and all that jazz #i'm your go to girl #bc g0rl #you don't wanna know stories about these people #conglomerates #oligarchs #this is where my years (aka 3) of being in theatre comes in handy #i can nawt show my true expression #and the alcohol they consume #i had to soak it up with fried chicken when i get home #it's always a game of will i wake up for work the next day roulette #smt tmi

[wright-phoenix]

last belated tag game, i promise

tagged by @dilfbuck and @opaleyedprince and @strixhaven! thank you!!

URL Song Game:

W — World So Cold - Fire From The Gods [YT, flash warning] R — Rule #13 Waterfall - Fish in a Birdcage [YT] I — iGhost - MNQN [YT] G — Grapes - James Marriott [YT] H — Hexie Mountains - Orville Peck [YT] T — The Tower - Drama Moth [YT] P — Please, Just Breathe - Written by Wolves [YT, flash warning] H — His Hands - Blegh [YT] O — OUROBOROS - Former Vandal [YT] E — Everglow - Starset [YT] N — Not Yet / Love Run (Reprise) - The Amazing Devil [YT] I — I Want to Live - Borislav Slavov [YT] X — XO - EDEN [YT]

6 Songs on Repeat:

Masterpiece Theatre III - Marianas Trench [YT] So Much (For) Stardust - Fall Out Boy [YT] Cold Reactor - Everything Everything [YT] Long Time Friends - The Living Tombstone [YT] 成歩堂龍一 ～異議あり！ 2001 - Masakazu Sugimori [YT] 逆転裁判3 〜スペシャルブレンドミックス - Capcom Sound Team [YT]

tagging: @woohooincoffin @spiderslyre @notmeowse @thesem @vanoefucks

(sorry if i tagged anyone who already did it, also feel free to ignore or only do one of these!)

#P ? #PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT #(Rock Is.) #physically holding myself back to put a starset song everywhere. btw mnqn is starset's singer's side project #do you know how hard it is to choose One Song Per Letter when you're as allergic to making decisions as i am #there are so many songs.... #technically masterpiece theatre 1 through 3 are on my rotation and like 5 different ace attorney soundtracks #first and foremost the whole piano album #but i thought i'd give other current rotations a chance on that list #tag games #i usually put youtube links bc i assume everyone has access to youtube but not everyone uses spotify #but i saw everyone else uses spotify links so.....i also did #but just in case....youtube links too IDK #whoever even clicks thru these i dont know if anyone does but JUST IN CASE #fish in a birdcage's drunk on pride/calmity/man-o-war are also bangers #and more but these r amongst my favs

[spiderwarden]

@thcdoomed requested pictures (this post) and I’ll do them one better, because who am I to deny:

#[ 🕷️ ] —— visage #[ 🕷️ ] —— [ clips ] #[ early access Minthy had to three phases before coming to her final form all of which I treat as younger/earlier years ] #[ the bobcut - the freshly graduated cleric who’s just started her Paladin training - she lives in pleasure parties ] #[ the pixie cut- the newly graduated paladin - who still attends murder parties and Drow o*rgies ] #[ also wake-up-in-a-pile-of-naked-bodies pixie cut ] #[ her favorite is theatre because drow plays end in a massive o*rgy between audience and cast ] #[ this one- the the semi long hair from pixie cut to the current - is the established Paladin ] #[ starting to grow bored and this is also the area in which she’s killed her wife figure ] #[ which ends in the long hair as we know but still young aka the early access version 3 and then finally ] #[ minth as we know her now - the final current self - her matured into a drow woman self who’s tired of the party s*x life ] #[ because she’s had it all and been in it all ] #[ that’s how her life exists in my head in these phases ]

[drewsaturday]

actually i do think it's funny how few lesbian films i've seen as someone who's been out for over a decade.

like. these are the only Classics TM i can remember watching:

but i'm a cheerleader

blue is the warmest color

loving annabelle

chloe 2009

carol

obvs i did get a TON of rep through tv shows and Certain Webseries and music videos instead but i feel so uncultured. i need to put a list together of the ones i particularly need to see so any recs are welcome lol.

#txt #the uncultured-ness is again bc i didn't have much time after realizing i was gay and wanting to get into these kinds of films #before tumblr purity culture made it problematic to watch the old ones and being poor/ill made it impossible to go to #movie theatres to watch the new ones or have access to streaming sites with the sooooorta current ones #i also didn't get a ton out of most of them since... i couldn't relate to the non age gap ones lol so that's another reason it's such a #short list. easier to get that in fanfic. #though i guess i am lucky for the thing lots of other lesbians seem to hate re: how many of the films we DID have proportionally at #a certain point were so geared for age gaps ;jlkskdfj #it's nice to have but it does kinda get balanced out when there's so much backlash from fellow lesbians who fuckin hate you #anyway recs don't need to be age gap centric but it does help esp if it does not revolve around teenagers generally #i think my issue rly was that instead of watching lesbian films #i'd be lesbian for an actress and just watch all of their stuff instead #and then just stumble onto a lesbian tv show episode they were in in like 1998 #as happened with alex kingston in like 3 different ways

[icewindandboringhorror]

I really love the fabric texture and color of this jacket but can’t ever find much to use it with so, hmm.... just a simple dress sort of look. Someone who’d be out painting in a garden in a movie perhaps .. just pretend it’s an actual dress and not a bunch of curtains pinned together lol

#as always wishing I had access to the local theatre company's dumpster or something. would love to have REAL historical costume #pieces or whatever. This is literally just 75% safety pins and curtains with a jacket on top trying to give the illusion of actualy #being a dress or something lol #mori kei #not REALLY lol but.. similarities #self #anyway remember like.. outfit and costume photos lol #the thing I eventually get around to doing once every 5 months or something because I feel too bad or other stuff most of the time lol

[nonbinarytheatrekid07]

Bruh Riverdale used my guy's song without his permission, what a James Corden-esque move

#This is an accessible and funny joke #joe iconis and family #joe iconis #be more chill #musicals #music #musical theater #musical #theatre #musical theatre #broadway #tony awards #riverdale

[talentforlying]

one of these days i'm going to write up all that i've changed from azzarello's bullshit era and the one (1) piece i've kept from milligan (and also changed) and the only thing currently stopping me is that it is going to be so, so inside-baseball incomprehensible. and i almost never want to go reading/screencapping azzarello and milligan to add references but i Want to add references.

canon is goop, just know that we continue to ride the bus down "hellblazer ended at #250 and looks like swiss cheese before that" street.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #i'm doing page maintenance before i fuck off to work rip it's got me thinking #anyway i think i said WAY back on this blog that a side goal of mine is to make hellblazer lore accessible to non-comic readers where i can #bc it's such a Heavy comic & i love it so much & i always felt Terrible recommending it to people only for them to be disgusted #and like. @ past me that particular goal is NOT as easy as you thought it would be lmao #esp because i have a habit of getting VERY detail-oriented when it comes to talking about hellblazer i think #but by GOD it's still a goal. i can put in some motherfucking references here and there when i talk about The Lore #like. azzarello's writing style never translates well for me in synopsis bc he Loves to put the audience in the outside perspective #where we are bystanders/with the rest of the bystanders to constantine's actions and not to his motivations/inner monologue #and i HATE that. hellblazer has ALWAYS been about what this guy has going on underneath the masked exterior #all the things you can't say out loud when you're queer and working class trying to survive in 70s-80s-90s england #but that you FEEL with your WHOLE fucking chest. how that feeling drives you to enjoy little rebellions wherever you can get them #(also azzarello just fucking Sucks LMAO but i'm talking style rn) #so i end up relying on frusin's art to tell the story a little more bc i think he understands the Theatre of constantine's public persona #and when that theatre is Absent then it's really REALLY noticeable. so frusin keeps me in it most of the time #and if i'm digging into frusin art then i'm Going to want to compare it to older panels bc i like body language consistency #milligan on the other hand has NOTHING to save his sorry ass bc his writing is drop-jaw fucking terrible AND the artist seems to like it #but the loss of john's thumb being tied to his mental health (ignoring the bullshit with shade) has always felt. important to me somehow id #anyway MUCH thinking about my favorite loser on this about-to-be-annoying day shdjksd he has been done so dirty #hellblazer brain go brrrr

[patheticblorbloscholar]

I need more proshots. No more turning musicals into movies. I swear if they make a Hadestown musical movie I will scream. We don't want another Into the Woods. Please. Just give us the proshots.

#Musical theatre #rants #Proshots #Make Broadway accessible #Why do you think Hamilton was so successful? #The original Into the woods is steller #It ruins the magic that the stage can provide #Broadway needs to be accessible to all audiences #For fucks sake its art

[flawlessbellamy]

I haven’t logged onto Tumblr for 5 years and now here I am discovering there’s a musical bootleg community who trade each other which I knew nothing about and not one of them has offered me an &juliet bootleg.

#& juliet #&juliet #and juliet #west end #&juliet musical #where the hell was this community when I was 16 #when you were too naive and a theatre kid this is what happens #I feel shocked and also like everyone’s doing gods work making theatre somewhat accessible and archiving these performances #and juliet musical