#community theater

[wanderinghedgehog]

Just watched a recording of a community theater production of Les Mis. It has taught me three things. Small theaters are great actually, the acting is best when people are having fun, and it’s kinda funny when they stage Javert’s suicide so that he falls from the back of the bridge instead of the front and they put a mattress behind the wall so the actor doesn’t die but when he falls the audience can hear very clearly the sound of him hitting the mattress.

#the orchestra was playing their reprise of stars and then WHAM #I think every production should do this #les mis #les miserables #musicals #community theater

[carpe-diem-ever-after]

Happy Halloween from the stage production of Dracula that I was in this past weekend with my local community theater! I'm slightly dead inside now that it's over. :')

Also, I enjoyed doing this at the same time that Dracula Daily & @re-dracula have been going on, with everyone's posts/analysis/art/discussion/memes fueling my obsession even more, haha.

#me #i usually don't post pictures of myself on here but yolo #dracula #community theater #halloween post #sort of

[zaftigpink]

#zaftig #cartoon #cartoonist #eurotrash #eurotrash opera #opera #community theater

[madrabbitsociety]

Rehearsal Stills - Sherlock Holmes & The American Problem Photo Credit: Markham Luke Kentlands Community Players in Partnership with The Gaithersburg Arts Barn 9/16/2023 - 10/1/2023

Dr. John Watson - Avery Morstan "Mayhem" Maggie Malloy - Jenn Robinson

#Dr John Watson #John Watson #Trans actor #nonbinary actor #sherlock holmes and the american problem #seriously this is one of my best bros though #isn't she so gorgeous #sherlock holmes #community theater #gaithersburg maryland

[lupusmusicis]

There’s something so beautiful about community theater. Sure Broadway musicals are good but have you ever seen a community come together to make art for the sake of sharing it with the community??? Fucking love community ensembles and community theaters. Please go support the arts in your area <3

#theater #community #community theater #the arts

[hansrillow]

my favorite moments from asl newsies (part 4/?) - the stages of davey, ‘you mean like a strike?’ to ‘we’ve got a union!’

#I love davey with my whole heart #newsies #newsies gif #.gif #gif #newsies edit #community theater #davey jacobs #les jacobs #jack kelly #character development #thats so my shit

[jewishicequeen]

Okay I don't normally do this but guys.

Go watch Janken Musical.

It's a parody musical done by the Israeli anime community, but it's just so catchy and good, with suprisingly heartfelt themes and characters and professional-level choreography and singing!

And while it's in Hebrew, there are English subtitles created by the original writers, and they're both extremely accurate and could be sung along with the melody!

It follows themes of hard work vs natural talent, of bullying in school, and of friendship and leadership, and it has the ONLY case I found of the childhood friends-to enemies-to lovers trope that I actually felt was resolved in a healthy way. It has a female and male leads and their relationship is strictly platonic.

It's about rock-paper-scissors.

It's been one of my biggest fandoms for the last year and a half, and now that it's out online I can finally share it with the world. If you about 1:39 minutes to watch a silly musical about rock paper scissors, I promise you this is worth your time.

#this is really so good and heartfelt and more people deserve to experience it #janken musical #ג'אנקן מיוזיקל #ישראלבלר #זה גם לכם #anime musical #anime #musicals #local theater #community theater #btw the guys on the picture are not. in fact. the leads #well the girl is but the guy is actually one of the support cast #Youtube #animusicals #אנימיוזיקלס

[celiaelise]

Bro now that I'm in a show with a three-person cast, I finally understand all those posts about three-person friend groups, how someone will always be left out and/or two people will end up coupling off.

I'm pretty sure I overheard my castmates planning a sushi date during our break. (I'm not an expert but it kind of sounded like an actual, like, romantic date?) 😑

#not that i think they SHOULDN'T have a sushi date!!! #just i know y'all are already friends and im in this cast too and would like to get to know you!! #not on your sushi date i don't want in on that #but if i didn't feel like i was intruding by just standing there while you vape on our ten that would be nice! #in contrast i have been in MULTIPLE very successful 3 person friend groups 💕 #my life #my feelings #by elise #acting #community theater #what does a girl have to do to build a repoire with her straight white castmates??? #they also both seem very country... which i am distinctly not 😬 #okay to be fair I'm not 100% they're straight but they're definitely like straighter than me

[shakespearenews]

#ghostlight #shakespeare on film #alex thompson #kelly o'sullivan #romeo and juliet #community theater

[shoesallinaline]

I got cast in a local production of [title of show], and I'm absolutely buzzing with excitement about it.

#especially since i'm working with people i genuinely love making theater with #personal #community theater #title of show

[wanderinghedgehog]

I think once I’ve watched a decent amount, I’m gonna put together a list of my favorite off broadway les mis productions.

#I feel like I’ve only just started to strike gold with these #so it’ll be awhile before that list is anything substantial #les mis #les miserables #musicals #community theater #high school theater

[contac]

#deathtrap #vhs #community theater #1985 #paducah #kentucky #market house theatre

[chaoticoctopi]

I'm entering the most terrifying phase of the rehearsal process for a show for me.

The opening date is looming. And I stand there on stage, words pouring out of my mouth, and I have no fucking idea where they're coming from or how I know them.

I mean, I've put in a hell of a lot of time to memorize these lines. I've been at every rehearsal, recorded my lines and cues months early and listen to them while silently speaking along with them at least once a day if not more (thank glob for a job where I can do that), wrote out everything I say in my own handwriting on index cards along with my cues... but it still feels like I get out on stage and just blindly reach into this white void in my head and Words Come Out.

I feel like I should FEEL them there, like they're a stack of newly typed notes with additional handwritten scribbles all over them for intonation, emotion and blocking. But I dont! It's like there's nothing there until I actually say them! The closest I get is when I'm running lines alone, just thinking them through, and I can see a kind of mini-me moving about on stage as if I'm watching a movie in my head. The lines are obviously linked to blocking and motion in my brain. But again, it's like watching a movie. Almost... passive.

But those moments when the right word slips away from me ("Damnit, I'm supposed to say that someone confirmed him, it's not governors, it's not Patricians, what's what's damn word?!?!" Dear reader, it was Senator. Sigh) the white void is merciless. Similar words flounder around its edges and get in the way, and the Right Word lurks inside, just out of reach. And then I butcher Shakespeare's prose because I gotta say SOMETHING, and it's as close as I can get without throwing off the poor actor who has to use my scrambled brain's interpretation of a line as their cue.

I may turn the middle of my speech into a pretzel, but damnit I will do everything in my power to get that last line out right to cue the next guy.

Long rant. I just... I love theater so much. I always, always want to be on stage, and to do The Most Possible. But every time I'm struck with how crazy it is that I basically end up standing there in a sort of waking sleepwalk, a fuge state, while Words Pour Out and someone else who isn't me but is inhabiting my body gets all emotional.

#theater #community theater #memorizing lines #acting #memory #my weird brain

[madrabbitsociety]

Fellow Actor, playing Sherlock: I can feel the hot wax dripping on me. 

Me, playing Watson: I think I read that one.

Fellow Actor: Shut up, you wrote that one.

#not yet #but I do appreciate the prompts #sherlock holmes and john watson #community theater

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

Got to be a walking advertisement today.

Me and 4 other people from the musical walked around in costume at our town's little fair. Paraded around with a sign that said show dates and handed out candy and stickers. Yippee advertising.

#it was decently fun #but also so so cold #i was freezing #i walked around for about an hour and then had to leave for rehearsal so the timing wasn't great #day in the life of a community theater actor #community theater #musical theater #theater kid

[env0writes]

Forever Breezy 2.13.23 "Sugarplum Starlight"

To the theater we went with cold hands Warm hearts, and low expectations For the evening, just begun Rough-stitched community theater rats Prance, dance even in that certain way Only childish confidence can Intermission nutcracker seeking shopping mission Back-row stifling giggling glee Unknowing prepubescent tin-men strut Innocent ignorant mistakes This is no touring grand show Too full of life is it played Stars crawled down Through the ceiling All we could do Was hold hands And simply marvel as it unfolded Before curtain call homebound bed calling Our names and hands A little warmer

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