#how to get a job in theatre

[dctrfate]

the master and margarita book that made me open thirty thousand wikipedia articles about christian scripture and had a cat with a gun and was one of the best commentaries on art i've ever read so what more can i ask for really

#girl the only reason i figured out pilate wasn't an original character was because jesus walked in the room 🥴👍 #the religious aspect of it flew over my head no shame in admitting i had no clue what was happening in the yershalaim chapters #like i understood the connection w/ state atheism but how it related to the idea of cowardice was ??????? help #+ im well versed on russian culture and this book had so many references to things i had no idea about hfffjs im a fake child of immigrants #also the context that bugalkov wrote a letter to stalin pleading to be allowed to immigrate b/c his satirical plays were getting censored?? #that he didn't see his family since the revolution and that stalin himself gave him a job at a theatre and refused b/c he liked his plays?? #aough. to see the book replicate that was so. AGH. manuscripts never burn. the theatre. and margarita. and MARGARITA. #followers read the master and margarita and uh maybe brush up on your russian history beforehand godbless #.text

[mokutone]

A dumb lil headcanon I have is that Yamato was assigned Naruto’s legal guardian in shippuden. (And that before it was Hiruizen, then Kakashi, then Jiraiya) just for convenience because he’s watching over Naruto all the time anyways.

oh god. sorry my response got really long but the fact is anyone even breathes a word of yamato being fatherly to naruto and i lose my shit and start beating my fist against the earth sobbing and shaking and etc.

now TO BE FAIR. i think if anyone should be naruto's legal guardian it should probably be iruka because iruka was the one who took care of naruto when naruto needed it most, and canonically naruto thinks of iruka as a father figure so much that he like, asks him to act as his father at his wedding, and he has this whole moment as a kid

THAT SAID. i like ur ask, and when it comes to the idea of legal responsibilities, i find the idea of Yamato being granted (even temporary) guardianship over Naruto to be extremely funny and entertaining.

i think yamato would personally take a lot of pride in that and really enjoy it. i think he would love nothing more than to have a practical, obligatory tie to enable him in his desire to take care of the people he loves. i also think that he would be obnoxious about it, at least a little bit. partially because his sense of humor is a little weird, and partially because he has no idea how to act as a guardian figure.

like i think he'd say shit like "bedtime! that's an order!" and naruto would be like "oh, piss off!" and then yamato would use his scary face and naruto would get even more frustrated, and the whole time yamato would be like "wow, naruto is a great kid (if a little disobedient!) and this is such a fun game we are playing, even if it tires me out :)"

unfortunately i think, out of all the guardian/mentor figures that naruto has had, (sandaime, iruka, kakashi, jiraiya, tsunade, those elderly frogs, yamato...) i think yamato is the one he is least close with, and would least like to be a permanent fixture in his life.

i'm not saying that he doesn't like yamato, just that...i would be really surprised if there's a point after yamato gets captured, where naruto is like "man, we should really save yamato!" y'know?

i could be wrong! i haven't gotten there yet. but like. i'm not anticipating it. thats okay tho i love naruto and hes got a lot going on.

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#yamswers #agstudio9 #sorry for SUCH a long response but i am constantly thinking about them bc yamato seems to care so much abt his stepstudent #that said. the idea of a story where yamato gets put in charge of naruto PURELY bc he has the mokuton + naruto has the 9tails #and naruto confuses and entertains tenzō #and tenzō upsets and frustrates and unnerves naruto #is an EXTREMELY funny concept to me. #especially if it happens before the shippuden timeline. now. listen. im being very silly here...but hear me out #imagine your name is [actually you don't have a name] and your ninja president tells you its time to be a ninja guardian to this ninja kid #and the kid is freaked out by you because you're impossible for him to get a read on and you scare him sometimes #and on top of that your former captain is laughing at you and the young man who was taking care of this kid is pissed and maybe jealous? #like it has all the makings of one of those wacky early 2000s movies about fail dads and their rebelious children #''THIS SUMMER...WATCH AN OUT OF TOUCH BLACK OPS SOLDIER TRY TO RAISE...KONOHAS DEMON FOX????'' #now in theatres! #oh agstudio9. now im thinking on this. now im really dwelling on it. #iruka being over all the time bc he does not like the way this is shaping out and feels frustrated that naruto's guardian was assigned— #—not based on care or relationship to the boy. but on kekkei-genkai. but trying not to take it out on tenzō whose just Doing His Job #tenzō who has to learn how to make food more complex than vegetables in a pan/reheated frozens/Survival Gruel #ah. and. and maybe kakashi + tenzō dual-leading team 7 from the get-go... :) bc sasuke needs a sharingan-using teacher :)

[halo--hall]

can't decide if the headache i have had for days is a gum thing or a sinus thing or both but it's pairing really well with the shoulder pain i've had for weeks lmao. mystery chronic illness is awesome

#i mean i'm pretty sure it is a combo of pots and heds and long covid but #i don't have money to pursue a real diagnosis or treatment of any of these things #so i just keep self medicating & going to my multiple manual labor jobs that will make all of my mystery illnesses worse before they kill me #mwah! <3333 i don't want to live like this anymore! #my chronic pain keeps getting worse bc of the manual labor & that pain stacked on the psychic pain of being in constant ptsd flashbacks for #the last month is making it impossible for me to get anything done & it's also turning me into a much meaner person than i even am as #a baseline lol #sorry to be vulnerable on main but i'm in excruciating pain emotionally and physically at all times and i can't cope w it anymore #i literally do not want to live like this anymore 😎 but i gotta go to the candy store in a couple hours so #time to load up on pot and ibuprofen! #i owe so many people texts and am behind on so much admin work for the salon and my bitch ass theatre company #but i just have to lay in bed and save my spoons so i can drag my bloated carcass into either of my jobs so i can be a good wage slave #anyway thanks for reading lets all manifest me making lots of money this weekend! #i've been short on bills every month since i got hurt despite how much i work & i can't fucking catch up on anything bc of that so like #would be very sexy if i made enough money before the first to cover my basic living expenses teehee #i prob won't tho lmao womp womp

[your-turn-to-role]

been working my way through the lovm s2 q&as that are on youtube

and like! love them as always, the cast is great, great to hear them talk about this stuff

but also. i took like a year ish hiatus from this fandom before tlovm pulled me back in, and in that time i, among other things, finished my theatre degree

and god does this hit different when you're a week out from the professional opening of an original musical you wrote with like 7 other people, and are also not just a performer in but the music director of

#my life for the last week has literally been rehearsal/choreo practice/typing up sheet music/watching cr/sleep that's it #and like it's great and i love it #but also we've hit the crunch time of every creative project where you have to just start murdering your babies #which is also why im never gonna be mad at the cr cast for places where the show didn't live up to the campaign #because nothing is ever finished to its ideal form #and i was leading band rehearsal last night just watching as parts of this show i poured my soul into get cut for time #and it's gotta happen! but god that is just The Mood right now #though on a lighter note just all the talk of going back on this or that or letting the creative people you hire do their jobs #also something i've been really enjoying the past few months #our live band is awesome and it's great seeing what they do to my songs #but yeah im just here watching and every aspect of this fucking show is flashing before my eyes #hey remember three years ago when the extent of my ability was making up that recreation of yasha playing her harp? #yeah i write for musical theatre now #how the turntables and all that

[2-kamikou-1]

can nobody see how agonizing this fucking feels

#i get to see everyone around me do things. #i get to see them have friends and be part of things like show choir and theatre and anime club and music extracurriculars #i get to hear stories about hanging out with your friends after school #knowing I get to do none of that. #''oh after school before my dad got off work i went to my friend's house and we got food and played xbox!!“ #cool. I'm not allowed to walk further than the dollar store. I'm not allowed to get a job except at the place where my mom works. #I'm not even allowed friends. #i have one friend that i only see on the weekends. #i have a couple other people sure like the kid i met in kindergarten but he hasn't seen me in years. #how am i ever supposed to make friends if i can't go to school or do /anything/ #because i have to stay in this online program which has enough of its issues in and of itself #because my parents feel like they have a monopoly on my time now that i don't go to school in person anymore. #I'm tired #i want it to stop #i want to stop feeling lonely. #i want to have other friends that i can introduce to my friends and i want to hang out after school and get food and play video games #and do harmless things I'm not supposed to #i wanna go to bed and feel like i lived the day to its fullest instead of feeling like it was just another day wasted #like time is moving forward and I'm not #i know there's no fucking. “highschool experience” like you see in movies. i know that. #but i know damn well it's not supposed to feel like this either.

[practically-an-x-man]

It's becoming abundantly clear that my mother doesn't see art as a real career path

#i mean i've known that my whole life bc she always talks about how my dad (graphic designer and voice actor) #doesn't make as much money as her and how our family benefits so much from her masters-degree managerial job #but now she keeps making these comments where it's clear she doesn't see my art commissions as real work #not to mention the way she treats my sfx school. which is like... it's only a real job once i'm a big shot success #everything here with my schooling and indie films doesn't count. even though it's a necessary step. i can't get big jobs right away #and she clearly thinks that i'm lazy for not having an hourly job #despite the fact that with sfx classes and theatre and sfx gigs i'm literally at a 40-50 hour week and am EXHAUSTED #and she didn't act like this when i was in college for anthropology

[grinchwrapsupreme]

i'm not saying this to make any sort of point but as someone who works in canadian theatre, the wga strike is going to have an interesting effect on live entertainment too, like i know multiple people who have lost their jobs or will lose their jobs soon because so much american television is produced here and obviously the iatse union is standing with the wga which it should and i also know that when film crew are out of work like this they often turn to theatre because it's a different local of the same union (and a lot of them started in theatre) and they wind up pushing permits out of work because film crew are usually members which means they get first dibs on all calls even if they don't have much live entertainment experience and even though attitudes in theatre and film are VERY different. And i really really hope the wga gets everything they want, they deserve that and more, but i also hope it happens quickly before young iatse permits get priced out of this city and we get into into another situation like the one right after the pandemic

#when the pandemic hit and live entertainment pretty much died for a few years #most established theatre iatse guys moved into film so when theatre started up again there was this huge crisis #and iatse was so desperate for permits they were literally advertising for them on facebook and weren't requiring advocates or anything #which is a massive fucking deal and also how i got my permit #but it also means theres a ton of experienced film iatse members who aren't averse to jumping ship to a familiar field #and all those new permits who found their opening in that crisis are now in danger of being out of work #in the most expensive city in the country #and as someone who works at a theatre that's labelled a learning theatre by the union (we get all the green permits) #it's going to be very interesting to see what happens next #fortunately we don't pay as well as many of the other venues in the city #but we're more likely to offer steady work #so film guys who want cash will take the jobs at the high paying venues doing dailies and weeklies #and the ones who just want to keep busy will wind up here #i have two very good friends who work for the film union #one decided to take a vacation during the strike (good for her) and the other was let go from star trek and intends to go back to theatre #but knowing the attitude of the well established members and people who got used to film there are going to be Problems #so depending on how long the strike lasts this could actually have some serious ramifications for a lot of people outside of the wga #again i'm not trying to make any sort of point here just getting my thoughts in order in the wake of all these tumblr posts about the strik

[dolokhoded]

the fact that people own ipads sounds fake to me

#🧅 #LIKE THAT IS 1000 DOLLARS AT LEAST #i've been saving up for seven years i am not kidding you and i havent managed to make that amount of money #and i keep saying that some day when i dont have exams and i dont have university i'll have the time to work an actual job that i;m not #called in once a month i might afford it but then i'll have pay bills so i still will not have that amount of money #technically for the next five years it's illegal for people to employ me because i'm in uni. which is. i'm a fucking idiot for signing up t #the university i got into this year without going and take exams again just so i can get student packs cause i dont even fucking use them #and i can't be legally employed. AND i've lost a year where i'm allowed student packs while i'll definitely need them when i ACTUALLY go to #university #i have zero money. well i have my savings but i am not fucking touching that ever because i'll move out next year and i'd like to not #actually have zero money #and like. greece is super based for free university and good on them. the way you get into said university is super fucked and impossible #bur whatever free university. BUT LIKE. why can i not work #not legally at least. i can still work and be payed without being officially hired but then than work won't count in any future subsidies #i'll definitely have because i literally wan to study theatre i'll be unemployed forever. #and i fucking hate it here #and this post was actually just meant to be about how expensive ipads are. but now its this whole rant.

[woodnrust]

I should treat myself <- does not have the time nor money to treat myself

#jelly.txt #first and foremost i NEED to see a professional ballet i'm so serious i miss the feeling of sitting in a huge fancy theatre #listening to great music and watching people dancing gracefully but SECONDLY i just once in my life would like to #get my nails done professionally at a salon because i'm always doing it myself and i love the look of metallic cat-eye polish #and i do own a bottle but watching how somebody else does it first certainly has its appeal #especially since i KNOW that it's always gorgeous when done right . but yeah those are like #the only two relaxing activities that i really wanna do but alas . they're both expensive :( #but hopefully by next year i'll have a license and maybe even a job so i could save up some of my money for this kind of thing...

[unclefungusthegoat]

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#i recorded a monologue yesterday for the first time in almost a year #the 'o for a muse of fire' speech from henry v #and oh boy #i really am just not very good at acting huh #especially on camera #there's no way i'm getting this job #i was too embarrassed about it to show my family #so i just sent it to the theatre company and can just try and forget about it now #i always seem to overact no matter how much I try and 'do less' #my face just goes 'BLARGH HAVE A WEIRD EXPRESSION'

[petrichorvoices]

we got a job out of nowhere and 7 minutes later aced an exam. someone is looking out for us holy shit

#we passed by a classmate from last semester in the hall and stopped and chatted for a bit. we got on the topic of work and how we’re looking #for a job and he said he can introduce us to his boss at the theatre. so we went and talked and holy shit. we’re gonna work as an usher!! #the boss will be sending us an email with the on-boarding and whatnot. once we get that done and a new pair of shoes then we’ll be on the #payroll. it was very sudden and we’re very excited!!! we didn’t even know they were hiring #rambling

[johnhughesdidnotdirectmylife]

College theatre really expects you to work 4 hours a day for 5 or 6 days out of 7 on top of being a full-time student and whatever actual paying work you might have, and not only do you not get paid for what is essentially a part-time job...you also only get 1/3 of the credit compared to a class that meets for 55 minutes three times a week.

#or at least my college theatre does #i'm interested to hear how other people's experiences compare and contrast #also i'm well aware that long hours for little pay on top of a day job is extremely common in The Industry #so i promise i don't need anyone to tell me that #i just wish i could get two more damn credits than i do

[caroloftheshells]

long post re theory pedagogy again

the other thing about that vid (and another thing! lol) being that hierarchically a lot of the people doing the more interesting or out-there research and diversifying the field from a content perspective (and, tbh, demographically) are like grad students or early-career people who don’t even necessarily have any pedagogical flexibility & tend to be slotted in to teach lower-level theory courses-- whose outcomes are predetermined not only by general screwy nasm strictures but by whatever the professor down the line in the curriculum is teaching / expects people to know when they get there. and we get paid (much) less also than tenured professors. which is really a generic “thing about all academia” that doesn’t necessarily become a nefarious personal flaw on the part of said scholars and instead ought to be addressed at a structural level bc the scale of the issue exceeds individual instructors’ spheres of influence.

BUT music occupies such a fucked “totally separate from society” space in many ppl’s imaginations that it’s like oh man how dare it have the same issues as every other field of scholarship bc it shouldn’t “really” be a matter of scholarship in the first place. ie music is culturally rendered a “nothing matters just feel it” / “everything is ephemeral and there is only Innate Talent and nothing can be taught” sort of field such that any intellectualizing thereof &/or suggestion of learnabilty / non-innateness is deemed, like, boring & regressive by some people & i’d say especially people raised with a certain awareness of the “composer-genius” culture of wam education. like i’m completely on the “fuck partwriting parallel fifths are awesome” train as a matter of taste (for example) but that does not mean that learning what parallel fifths are-- and why some old european guys didn’t like them *bc they preferred it to sound like there was more than one voice and it’s easier to create that perceptually w/o an overtone effect* (eg)-- is going to like destroy your artistic Essence and make you a worse musician bc now you’re no longer an empty vessel put on this earth to channel brahms or whoever. & plus i think perpetuating the synonymizing of theory-as-field with wam harmonic rules not only is like factually misrepresentative of current research but also is sort of a self fulfilling prophesy such that ppl who would otherwise have completely fascinating things to say & questions to ask are discouraged from non-platitudinous & open-ended (theoretical) inquiry re the content and aims of their own rep & listening, and tacitly learn that composers’ ~~genius~~ descended from the heavens & you either get it or you don’t, you either “have talent” as a composer or you don’t, et cetera

#Which I Maintain is dangerous not bc i think there is a set method of learning all music(s) obviously but bc that's how you get like #weird essentialism & i'm thinking especially abt anecdotes i've heard re: vocal pedagogy where ppl have been subjected to (...) #racial discrimination; gender discrimination; fatphobia / discrimination based on having or not having a certain 'look' to go w your voice #& told they are 'naturally' inclined to sing or study certain genres of music & shouldn't try anything else (not even ranges! whole genres) #which is maybe sort of tangential but i think stems from this same deal of 'you just have to Feel it' & such #the idea of music as ephemeral and quasi-spiritually channeled such that you lose something if you approach it w scrutiny #or if you have to break it down in a way that; in its detail & precision; reads as divorced from immediate aesthetic judgment #the idea that there's some magic there not to be explained; that composition thus is a special ineffable pursuit for special people. bleh #& the... in depth research and nuance and hesitancy to have a snappy take that like ime culturally describes many theorists. is good #& is; again ime; something valued by several music scholars who sought it out as a Way Out Of a certain brand of meritocratic bullshit #toward a different brand of weird pedantry of course but i think it has its place despite being hooked academically 2 a toxic music culture #in the sense that; for sure; there are egregious issues; but the repertoire bias is unilaterally present in wam circles #& it's like well. your problem is 'with' the textbooks but since when has a so called 'voice degree' #at your average som / public institution without enormous fucking tons of money #unlike idk berklee lol #actually regarded choral singing; musical theatre; art song; rock vocals; et cetera with the same seriousness as a wagnerian opera career #and made a variety of music available from a performance perspective as well. i mean my undergrad was vaguely ok here but On The Whole... #bigger fish re funding in notated-music industry and degrees as job prep for shrinking market etc #anyway though...... i value myself too much to be a youtuber lol #imagine me appending that 'just saying things recreationally' post to this post #carol overreacts to life #theorycomp tag

[leafblogger]

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#delete later #one of those days where everything went wrong immediately. dad yelled at me and then i didnt get a callback but my ex did. cant go to a job #shadow thing because im in a concert. there was a test in history. everyone kept pissing me off all day. my friends too even though i knew #they were just trying to cheer me up. math was stupid. had to do embarrassing shit in theatre. i dont understand how human interactions #work so im pretty sure all my friends arent actually my friends. have an appointment about my meds tomorrow and i want to get off fucking #zoloft but i KNOW shes gonna just gonna up my dose and probably say something about my weight. and i cant fucking shower until tomorrow or #the next day because of flooding. oh my fucking god. #and i am still fucking in love with my ex! #so anyways.

[sassmill]

We as a society don’t talk about this enough

#A 13 minute medley of some of the biggest hits of her fucking career? #all prefaced by the song she thought was going to be a hit #only for the B SIDE TO SHOOT HER TO FAME!!!! #I love Helen reddy so fucking much #also the I am woman biopic was really good and if I don’t get a stage adaptation of it I’m going to riot #rocketman too but that’s a rant for another time #I want rocketman and I am woman to become as ubiquitous to touring theatre as Jersey boys #but I know that’ll probably never happen because one is gay and the other’s a woman #so we just get fucking buddy holly #I have a lot of very intense opinions on bio musicals #because some of them. are just bad. #the Buddy Holly story is my arch nemesis #black musicians I’m sorry buddy Holly stole his career from you #and that the narrative framing of the Buddy Holly story completely glosses over that and acts like it was fine #i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again #the best musical number in the buddy Holly story is fucking la bamba #a Ritchie valens bio musical was in the works in December 2019 but I think the pandemic killed it #I want to learn more about the Mexican American rock star we lost when he was just getting started the fuck #ugh #I think this is why I have the job I do #because I think nonstop about how theatre is the perfect tool to critically engage with history #hey this might be the tangent of all time but I stand by it #Youtube

[berrymeter]

i Do want to get a job (i don't WANT to but i need money & let me tell u my art is nottttttt helping me survive) but i genuinely dont know if theres anything i could do except like. data entry i guess. but even then everyones so hellbent on how you need five years of experience & three diplomas bc they cant be fucked giving you proper training so what now

#perth.txt #data entry would be awesome bc im autistic about organisation but i also would need training. & i have 0 experience. #my 'credentials' are all dogshit useless like cool ive done theatre i can draw moderately im confident w animals i can sing #& if you walk me through a process carefully i can repeat it endlessly. however i cant talk to people really. & i have no diplomas. #no actual 'years of experience'. no nothing. getting a job as a 'singer' isnt exactly how these things work. also im disabled. #like. do i just die then. what are my options. what #i hvae a friend who could try to get me into voice acting but he told me its a field thats really hard to enter & like. man.