#Theater Stuff

[scythematrix66]

Me as a Propsmaster: *enthusiastically making endless, constantly revised lists and hiding away for hours upon end painting wooden staffs, goblin mode at 50% capacity at all times* "ALRIGHTY WHAT'S NEXT? HIT ME. HIT ME!"

Me as a Stage Manager: *thinks going to bed at 11 is early, loopy from exhaustion at all times, running on caffeine and stress, +3 dex from writing endless emails, is terrified of authority (somehow is the authority????), is totally confused at all times, just Trying My Best* "Alrighty guys, welcome to rehearsal today we're doing scenes one and two, remember we're off book next week so please learn your lines...please..."

#theatre #musical theatre #stage #stage management #stage manager #stage managers #props #stage props #prop making #school life #student life #study blog #theater stuff #theater kid #theater tech

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby as Alfred Redl in A Patriot For Me (posted by Nicola Stephenson who played Hilde) in 1995.

#James Wilby #A Patriot For Me #Theater Stuff #Alfred Redl #John Osborne #Royal Shakespeare Company #Hilde #Nicola Stephenson #Instagram Posts

[jacktoria4ever]

my toxic trait is thinking I can hit all of eurydice's notes in wait for me reprise...

Its not good..

#hadestown #theater stuff

[sapphireisverygaymydudes]

Standing backstage during a tech rehearsal and a guy came up behind another guy and grabbed his hips and pinched his ass.

All I heard was “did you just bite my ass?”

And then I looked over and the first guy was brushing imaginary hair behind his ear saying “nooooo”

#theater #saph says #rehearsal stories #what is happening #I mean these two have had a #kinda confusing thing going on #wonder if they’ve fucked #he’s a massive dude #and the other one #is strong and buff but shorter than me #so I have no clue #I could see it tho #theater kids #theater stuff

[mj-thrush-gxn]

i love living within walking distance to my high school because i get to go straight from great gatsby rehearsal to my house

and on the way i get to jam out to marching band beats

like genuinely our marching band is so good and they are practicing at the same time i get out of rehearsal

AHHHH

it’s so freaking fun

love it

#thrush rambles #thrush talks #thrush shitposts #theater stuff

[inthroughthesunroof]

During the second act of the ballet I'm currently working on, one of the characters receives a breakup letter from another character. This is what it actually says:

#theater stuff

[engelsschwert]

When the director and the two lead actors are sick one week before the premiere o_o'

#theater stuff #txt post #the creature speaks #we are not even playing the scottish play #this production is just cursed

[therehavebeenstranger]

i know people on here who follow me aren't theater people necessarily but i am OBSESSED with this interview with Sarah Porkalob in Vulture about her role in the 1776 revival/the show in general.

Since I heard about the revival, I've been wary of it. I find, lately, that a lot of big revivals are doing these kind of under thought casting changes to try and "update" older musicals, often to the detriment to the complexity of, say, their gender politics (yeah, I'm talking about company. Putting A Woman There doesn't make more feminist. Girl Bobbi Company is less about gender than the original flavor, but I shan't go on about that here). Here, it seemed suspect--like, sure, while casting 1776 with non-white non-men could GESTURE at a reckoning w the white supremacy of the original text/the subjects thereof, to quote an entirely different musical, "it ain't necessarily so." asking a non-white actor to embody a slaver is not a de facto revolutionary statement (take, for example, hamilton's discomfort with thomas jefferson. casting a black man to play jefferson does not make "sally won't you be a lamb" a more comfortable line NOR does it, in itself, complicate that relationship. it just.... asks a black person to inscribe that on their body. not great bob!)

all of this just to say that porkalob is remarkably (and sometimes hilariously) frank about the failures of the production, both in terms of process and the resultant product.

tumblr isn't letting me upload screenshots, so here's my fave quotes:

"What do you think is the effect of that casting? The casting is providing resources. The resources include a weekly salary, but also exposure for actors who traditionally would not be cast in this show. In terms of visibility, it is showing our audiences all of these faces that wouldn’t typically be seen. It’s also inviting our audiences to consider how our country was founded without the consideration of people like our cast in mind. Those are the three things I think it’s doing successfully. After that it gets a little complicated … a lot complicated, I should say.

What do you mean?1776 was written in the 1960s by two dudes. It won the Best Musical Tony over Hair. When it was written, during the Vietnam War, there was a generation of people who had bought into the American Dream, and part of the American dream was fighting for democracy. Then there was this generation after them that thought, Maybe we are sending our young men off to die for no reason. So it’s funny to look at 1776 and Hair as two very different musicals written at the same time, but in response to the same thing. 1776 has this desire to humanize the Founding Fathers and feels like a call back to nostalgic Americana. It’s like, Look at these good ole boys. They were just guys doing this stuff. To me, the play is a relic. It is a dusty, old thing."

"Then there is “The Egg,” which presents all these great moments of American history that happened after the events of the show by projecting scenes from them during the song. It did throw me off given that your production seems to be critiquing American exceptionalism. What do you think of that number? I think the directors missed a very obvious opportunity with that song to point back at American history in the way they said they wanted to. What we see in the projection is a collage of America’s history of protest, but do you know what it was sorely missing? The protests that were happening on Capitol Hill in January. Those people were literally chanting “1776.” It’s a choice. I would have been like, Let’s have this be a rock-out fucking song while we show those images of white supremacists charging Capitol Hill."

"Are you artistically fulfilled being in 1776? No, I’m not. The salary is good."

"How do you see queerness interacting with the show? I’ll be honest and say that our directors never thought about that. When we were all in the room together, there wasn’t any conversation about how we marry our queer identities with these characters, which is disappointing. It was clear that they were prioritizing the social identifier of race as a driving creative choice more than anything else. Gender identity, sexual identity — those we weren’t talking about.

Were you directed to play men? Yes, but in a very specific way. We were directed in the beginning of our Boston run to play at being men. It was in the posturing and the gestural work that we were doing in the choreography. According to our choreographer and directors, it had a masculine energy. I think honestly, in that Boston run, that approach did a huge disservice to us as actors. A lot of people were caught up in wondering, Am I a man? Am I myself? Who am I? I decided to pull back in, because I felt, I can’t act in ways that are exciting to me if I’m just playing at being a man. I had to change some things on my end to make it better for me."

it's a great interview and not a super long read. i really appreciate Porkalob's insights and admire her refusal to capitulate to the commercial theater machine. and i'm glad she got that salary :)

#theater stuff #1776 #company #hamilton #probably should have saved some of these thoughts for the substack but i'll write the goddam company post when i get there #broadway #musical theater

[cullen-collective]

at risk of sounding stupid, re the theater twilight post: grams of what??

OMG no, okay, you do not sound stupid it is SO NICHE. basically some theaters (especially school ones) allow you to purchase little trinkets or candies that come with a little card and get sent back to the actors and crew. they're called grams!! I get them for my senior students every show!

#twilight #twilight saga #asks #answered #anon #theater stuff

[biruesque]

kindred spirits

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #kiryuu nanami #nanami kiryuu #himemiya anthy #anthy himemiya #anthy #biruesque art #gonna be posting less for now atleast through the month of june #there's still be stuff #just less frequent #ive got a theater show to put on AAAAAHHH

[scythematrix66]

My progress as a baby stagemanager

How it started:

How its going:

#musical theatre #student life #theater kid #stage manager #nerd stuff #theatre #theater tech #theater stuff #they let me sit at The Table #it's all coming together #i get to do cue sheets soon #I feel so official #college #college life #student #learning #finally we're getting somewhere #yay

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby as Phil in Helping Harry, January 2001.

#James Wilby #Play stuff #Helping Harry #2001 #Theater stuff #Adventures In Unwatermarking

[jacktoria4ever]

waiting to see if I got a callback 😗✌🏻

#Stop if I get one I'm gonna be so happy #Callbacks #Auditions #Theater stuff #Theater kid #musical theater

[sapphireisverygaymydudes]

Tech rehearsal is gonna kill me

No im gonna kill myself because of tech rehearsal

If you hear I’ve died remember my last dying wish for you non-theater ppl is to never do theater

Theater people I’m so sorry try and save yourselves

#saph says #theater #theater stuff #theater kids #tech rehearsals #I’m gonna kms #like stop taking time to give your actors note #this is for tech #don’t take up so much time #that’s what dress rehearsals are for #I am so excited for this show to be over #I have math tomorrow and it’s a dress rehearsal tomorrow #I’m gonna die #why did I think this was a good idea #if I could time travel I’d tell myself #to go home that first day #my back hurts #I got pizza tho #and it came a just the right time #I was hungry and it saved me

[thegoldenappleofdiscord]

all the spiderpeople juggling their secret identities and being squeezed into spiderpatties under the stress sledgehammer meanwhile pavitr is living his best life AND doesn't put anything in his flawless hair. king.

#hes my favorite one #pavitr prabhakar #“and this is where the british put all our stolen stuff! :D” had me cackling in the theater #across the spider verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse

[ao3-crack]

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#archive of our own #ao3 stuff #ao3 quotes #archive of our own quotes #fanfic #fanfic quotes #funny #ao3 #ao3 tags #a cautionary tale #of non-theatre kids getting drunk off the power of becoming theatre kids #I hate that theatre is spelled like that #it’s very pretty and nice to look at #but it should be spelled theater #im American sue me #(for legal and financial reasons this is a joke) #(im broke please don’t actually sue me) #(i will cry)