#i need theatre to come back

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

things are happening! i have an acting coaching for my audition monologues on monday! we are doing the THING, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#now i just need the company to actually post information about the production #theatre #theater #acting #it’s getting real y’all! i’m waiting for my headshots/photos to come back! i have a real live acting coaching! we are DOING IT baby!!!!!!! #the wonderful world of acting

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

Me: I’m over marvel. 

also me: *cries over an animated raccoon and otter’s head boop in the theatre*

#marvel #guardians of the galaxy volume 3 #guardians of the galaxy volume 3 spoilers #gotg vol 3 #im not over the walrus rabbit and otter #nope #that scene where he comes back OMG #then after #I was in the theatre going OMG HE KEPT THE KEY HE KEPT THE KEY #and like I knew when they had that afterlife scene the otter was going to say you'll fly with us but not right now #I KNEW IT #and loved it anyway #because you know my expectations dont always need to be subverted #coug

[meandmypagancrew]

In My Gif Era - Journey to Fearless

↪ You Belong With Me

can't you see that i'm the one who understands you?

been here all along, so why can't you see?

you belong with me!

#imge #jtf #you belong with me #taylor swift #yes i know this gif is shitty #keep in mind i'm still getting back into the swing of things #when it comes to more complex gifs #after i fled the musical theatre fandom #people were happiest when i just threw text posts on edits of their faves #so i need to relearn how to do cool stuff #but i will

[aro-ortega]

villain names

vanya: heartbreak

milo: power

sasja: terror

chuck: the challenger

xander: force

teddy: dionysus

josef: arbiter

#not sure that i love chucks name but. shes not shy about Something Worse Is Coming And Yall Need To Be Ready. Training Time #um vanya is hb bc. of my steps hb is influencing him the most #but also ! he is Nothing. he is reflecting back at los diablos. and being named hb is part of that reflection #also. become the thing that killed you #milo is power bc she has to be stronger than everyone else she was too weak before she needs to be better. the best #sasja is terror bc. he is. thats his thing thats his aspiration thats his goal. finally he gets to terrify the world back #punish it for how it terrified him. break it for breaking him. kill it for killing him #xander is force bc theure going to do whatever is needed to achieve their goals - and they will use all physical #and mental forces available to them. but also ! its bc it feels forced into this position. #this is the last option available to them this is it their backed into the corner. but its going to do whatever it takes to get out #teddy is dionysus bc hes beautiful and hedonistic and genderweird and mad (like. divine madness. the maenads. you know) #oh also bc hes a dramatic bitch (theatre) (loves to monologue and to put on a show and to look good doing it) #also bc dionysus eleutherios - the liberator #look it up on the dionysus wikipedia page its just in the intro paragraph. also read about the thrysus while youre there #josef is arbiter bc he is judgment. he is judge jury executioner. he knows whos on his list and if he doesnt he will find out #they have to pay #anyway. good night ! #vanya mikhailov #milo park #sasja jespersen #chuck kelley #xander wyatt #teddy harlan #josef richter #op #fh #sidestep

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Many, many thanks to all of you who participated in Elder Cats Appreciation Week! I cannot express the extent of my appreciation for those of you who participated, both big and small, every day or just one or two. It was wonderful to see a variety of new content and positivity for the older cats, and look at all the different ways you all contributed. This was so much fun and I hope to do this again sometime in the future!

I do encourage you that, in spite of the appreciation week being over, to continue playing with these characters and including them in your stories and HCs and fun - to reflect on why they are often left out/reduced to singular and otherwise flat roles/antagonized either due to their inherent age, or argued younger because they’re more “well liked” over others.  At the end of the day, the goal of this week was to shed some light and appreciation on characters that are often neglected in fandom, and the best way to continue that work is to open yourself further to those you may not otherwise consider. Even just a little bit. That’s how we continue to broaden our horizons.

Happy days to all <3

#anyway yeah - thanks for coming into my world for a little while <3 #oldiesweek #extemporize back chat #i have two more art pieces that i was late in producing that i will be posting soon in makeup - unfortunately my jobs made it #so that i didn't have enough time for all of them - but i will not neglect them <3 #i feel a little guilty but also i need to come to the realization that i produce the majority of content for these cats anyway #i also encourage you into looking into senior and adult cats in your area that may be in need of homes over their kitten counterparts #should you have the means to care for them #and - if you have older people in your life who you care for - to educate yourself on the current state of the elderly where you live #elder people are amongst the top neglected portions of the population in North America #1 in 10 individuals in these groups have reported abuse and neglect #10% of Canadian seniors are victim to crime every year with the number rapidly growing #and covid *severely* increased some of these statistics in cases of casual verbal abuse and violence #that the theatre and performance world greatly under values older actresses especially unless they are within a prime of diva-hood #and remember though it may seem far away - someday you will no longer be in your teens and twenties #your life does not end when you are 30 40 50 and beyond #opportunities in your life should not be limited as you age - your *worth* should never be limited or affected by your age #because if there is nothing else i hope people step away with it's education #anvil-y? yeah but some anvils need to be dropped

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

we need to liberate ariana debose from hollywood they cannot keep doing this to her. put her back onstage where she belongs

#she can keep doing schmigadoon but that is IT‼️ #miss maam I need you to come back to us. please #take the money and run queen. it is absolutely imperative that you don’t get stuck in film forever #sanders bullshit #musical theatre (I guess)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

asia kate dillon as a spirit in the tempest via shakespeare theatre company in 2014

#not to be confused with how apparently this same production was redone in 2016 (ft. different actors naturally & re: our purposes) #asia kate dillon #who also understudied for ariel but i found no record in text or image of them going on in that role #shakespeare theatre company the tempest 2014 #don't anticipate Needing a tag exactly; but for the [multiple posts] of it all & Why Not & that's the way it keeps intuitively coming to me #i'm also not sure we can see them in pic three but that's the ensemble / company / bevy of spirits ft a couple ppl who Could be them #lot of available pics of the gods puppets who were operated by the spirits but cannot see them in any.... #but they're definitely here as; in pic one: person most in front on the left but not the person crouching #pic two: person standing next to the ship mast with their back to the camera #pic three: [?] could be either the person who we only see via the top of their head either against driftwood or the shipwreck there #pic four: same moment as pic one so the noncrouching person furthest in front on the left #pic five: person furthest in front on the left #the tempest

[fierrochase-falafel]

The Northern Town Percy Jackson Peter Johnson Musical: (another) Appreciation Post

Quick Intro: So I made a previous appreciation post (short and sweet) about the official TLT musical here, a musical I would also greatly recommend to any Percy Jackson fan stumbling on this post who hasn't seen / heard of that musical, but that is not truly relevant to this post. I've decided that in the spirit of appreciating the adaptational musicals more in this era of us finally having a TV show, here's a post dedicated to a musical many of you have probably never heard of...

Calling all Percy Jackson and musical fans! Calling all Percy Jackson and musical fans!

If you haven't seen them, take this to be a recommendation post appealing you to check out the Northern Town Percy Jackson parodies!

To start on vibes: if you have seen or heard of Starkid's A Very Potter Musical (AVPM), the humour is quite similar I feel but a bit more Gen-Z-esque. This musical has managed to coalesce the entire plot of Percy Jackson and the Olympians into 1.5-2 hours in a way that greatly pays homage to the books and wraps everything up in a cohesive yet bonkers way (very similar to the way AVPM managed to form a cohesive yet bonkers Harry Potter plot combining the elements/events of all 7 books). You can tell from the watch that the people writing an acting in this are Percy Jackson fans, and have read the entire series again looking for ways to reference and and joke about the series in ways that convey their enjoyment of the original series too.

It has different vibes to the official TLT musical, but somehow is just as camp? The 1st version (linked above) is a jukebox musical filmed in essentially a patch of grass with a terrace, including some classic songs: for a start, it opens with I'm Just a Kid by Simple Plan (which is pretty PJO core honestly, and really echoes that "borderline-emo borderline-teenage borderline-angst" I associate with my first readings of Percy Jackson-), and has Poker Face by Lady Gaga in the Lotus Casino scene (I think that alone should be a convincing point). The 2nd version (linked below) is updated with snazzy outfits, 2 videos for the 2 acts and an original score with some banger songs (I would recommend Achilles Heel and Nobody's Sidekick as personal favourites- particularly Achilles Heel, which I believe has some really well done lyricism and composition).

The running jokes in this show are killer, with bits like Percy repeating his age constantly ("I'M TWELVE") and Luke's age increases pretty much every time it's mentioned. If you had to watch 1, I would say watch the 2nd version just so you can appreciate the original score more, which likely reflects theythe emotions are trying to portray much better as the lyrics apply specifically to this production. For instance, there's a song called 'Backbiter' sung by Luke, the title referring to the name of Luke's sword that I find makes a very interesting comparison. You also get better audio and lighting, aspects like that that make it better to watch on youtube, as well as more running jokes. However I'm always one to appreciate the silly 2000s energy of the initial version, and it feels like something you'd do for fun with your friends (which it was for them, according to this article!). If you appreciate that energy too, then here's your recommendation to watch that version right now.

All in all, I cannot stress how fun this musical parody is, even though it seems pretty underrated- at the very least, not many people are out here referencing it on this site. I believe this deserves to be recognised in the Percy Jackson fan consciousness for its ingenuity and just general fun nature. This post probably won't reach a lot of people, but I'd like to think it reaches enough people that more of us can appreciate this adaptation online. I've seen a lot of people say in the lead up to and the release of the TV series: "FINALLY we have a good adaptation". While I am as stoked as everyone else about there being a well-made show as well now, I'd also like to remember and appreciate the adaptations that came before and left a mark on this world as good adaptations of Percy Jackson in a time where the movies were all that most people knew about, and all we thought we'd ever get in way of adaptations. Between the TLT musical and the Northern Town parodies, I believe these musicals gave us the adaptations that the unhinged PJO gang and their just-as-unhinged fan following deserve.

#Youtube #I think I've said what I needed to say on why this goes hard but if I have more ofc I'll come back here and add to this #major props to northern town parodies for pulling this off AND putting the whole thing on youtube for free TWICE #it's always nice to have an official recording uploaded on youtube itself given some of us wouldn't be able to watch it at all otherwise #major thank you to all of the people who were involved in this production (even though they'll likely never see this) #OH YEAH also they ARE on tumblr even though I'm not sure how active they currently are on there so find them if you like! #they have character posters on there and stuff from the original version of the musical #it really was so fun to watch #northern town parodies #ntp #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson #peter johnson #riordanverse #percy jackson parody #musicals #musical theatre #appreciation post #posts originating from my brain

[mishapen-dear]

i lobve. dnd. I ran a 7 hour session yesterday for my favourite rpers and they all loved it >:} one guy sent the big boss to eeby deeby

#mishapen dms #i made a battle map but we dont use roll20 or anything #so it was still primarily theatre of the mind #which i think is fine for smaller battles but in the future ill play around with roll20 and see if we can get that workinf #hot tip for dms: USE. SPREADSHEETS #that way you can sort by initiative and see hp/ac at just a glance #genuinely saved my entire life #goddamn howd they live tho #i was Prepared for if they died i had sound effects prepped okay #but they DIDNT #they managed to come back from one pc and one npc against like 6 enemies #one of which was the boss who actively wanted them dead #and like??? #hot damn #now i need to think of a reward for them because Sometjing Happened so theres still gonna be consequences #(fun ones for the angst lovers) #but. how the fuck do i reward that they just kicked So Much Ass

[queer-crusader]

Nothing brings me closer to the edge of "huh maybe I do have a touch of the autism" than shopping

#anne speaks #as in i fucking DESPISE it unless it's specifically catered to me #i need to be warned about it in advance. i need to know what time we're going. ideally i need to know what time we're done #i have to mentally prepare myself and dedicate a specific amount of energy for the act in advance #and so help me gods if i bring my mum i will full on rage quit within two hours #she's one for 'oh this piece of clothing might be good for you' then holds up the least me thing in the world #or goes all 'uhh i dont know...' concerned if it either shows too much cleavage or is not neat and feminine enough #and then on top of that is like #okay but that costs money so how about we go to an extra store that you werent prepared for to see if they have the same thing but cheaper #you CANNOT add to my mental list of what im expecting im running FAST out of my prepped energy and i WILL start snapping at u #she asked what i would like for my bday and i was like 'well okay i do wanna refresh my wardrobe a little' #she asked what im thinking of style wise but like a) how do i say mum you cant buy me clothes without me feeling like a silicon valley wife #and b) how do i say 'i want butch i want gender i want playful i miss my theatre days i want artist i want boho' #anyway. i have now been convinced to go shopping with my sister who is a lot more tolerable bc she's young and hip and less scared to play #but im still like 'okay what time? okay give me a second to think if i want to go? i need to mentally adjust' #and my mum kept saying 'oh you can go then and after youll come back together' THATS NOT A TIME MOTHER #i need to know! when im going!! so i know how much time i have to mentally prepare #anyway. this is my essay on why shopping makes me autistic #there is Very Little that does this to me. usually i embrace chaos #but oh man. yeah no thanks #anyway fingers crossed everyone that i come back from town looking artsy and gender

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

They’re filming some sort of bigish tv show in the small mountain town I’m currently living in and there’s busses with the logo “Star Busses ⭐️” on the side for the actors and there’s big lighting things being thrown up everywhere and fancy looking crew with boom mics and other shit and I’m just tryna walk through the Main Street where they’re filming to go to the post office but I can’t without feeling like Brendan Fraser in Looney Tunes: Back in Action

#dodging all these fucking inflated theatre kids with the severance of a real disgruntled movie protagonist #like fuck off y’all this town’s been claimed by me there ain’t enough room for two main characters here #I just wanna get to the shops #and I can’t without hearing pretentious Hollywood voices using their AirPods to talk to each other like: #‘yeah we’re right on set five bring her through Mike’ #they done came to the wrong town with AirPods #this place is so poor and low socioeconomic that they’re all probably gonna get mugged #and if they block me from getting where I need to go one more time I’ll probably be the one beating on them #I know all the alleys by now and they’re gonna cross me in a dark one #and I’ll be there leaning against the wall and pushing myself off as they walk past like: #‘well howdy there Mike those AirPods look mighty fine’ #‘I could use me some airpods’ #was I a bully in primary school and it’s all coming back to me? #maybe #look I’ve had a redemption arc since but hey I can relapse every now and then #as a treat

[youremyonlyhope]

4:30am and spiraling about job applications woohooooo

#adulting #still not actually applying yet. i'll start applying at the end of the month i think #since i can't start a new job until mid-ish september anyway #still taking the summer off from full time job and just working on costumes for an opera and maybe a musical too #the freedom is nice. the lack of income is not nice. just paid my credit card bill today. not having that money come right back in sucks. #but i got enough saved up to be more than fine this summer with no consistent income and just the little bit from the opera #but anyway. i think i maybe know one of the job areas i'll start applying to since i need some non-theatre stuff too #because the odds of me getting a job in theatre is very very low right now #but maybe i can use my education admin background for something else sort of adjacent #i'm gonna talk it over with my therapist tomorrow yayyy #my therapy appointment's in 6 hours. i've stayed up way too late. but my bubble tea kept me up. #i was super anxious this weekend and i literally cannot remember why so that's fun. maybe i'll remember in my session. #because i could not breathe during one of the nights this weekend and literally i don't know what caused it. i blocked it out.

[warmpants]

I really liked this ep 😭 the first two felt a little weird to me because it felt like things were moving really fast n that (in some places) they were trying really hard to get this season’s key plotlines into place in a way that felt somewhat abrupt to me but they’ve gotten into the groove now… also congratulations to nandor on his transgenderism. and bisexualism

#I need to rewatch the first two because it was just overwhelming to me lol #theatre kid baby corob is so funny to me sorry… #like idk the premise of nadja n the nightclub and then laszlo therapizing the guide felt very . off to me personally #personally! #but I like the resolutions that those things brought about n the path we’re on now #don’t listen too hard to me I might take this back come rws

[queerbuckleys]

i wanna know more why that anon came to interrogate me about my theatre worker status....why did you want to know..?

#im just nosy #come back and talk about theatre with me #aj rambles #im a dresser i need the hot goss okay?

[daisyachain]

Donnie Darko stands the test of time because there is no deeper meaning. Any message the film is trying to communicate can be read as the exact opposite. Does Donne escape fate in the end by terminating the timeline that leads to the fated deaths? Or does he succumb to fate, and we’re all the mishaps along the way the natural consequences of fleeing fate? The plane only ever flies in the original, terminated timeline, it can’t exist if that world didn’t exist naturally. But it’s only because of the plane that the next world exists

#or fear < - > love. #the movie comes down on the side that love is often accompanied by great fear or that fear can only be born from love #but with that ending it’s all to easy to say that love has replaced/overcome fear #kelsey liveblogs movies #I do really think that a lot of this movie was put in with no significance or with no more thought than ‘we need a Symbol or we need a Line’ #and yet…I come back to the theatre scene. #like my father and his father before me. frank is the biggest mystery because he’s so mundane #Gretchen because she’s the link between this world and the next #and—in the end—what happened to her mother? what about cherita’s notes and her performance? #what does it all MEAN? nothing? yes!!

[littlebirdy0301]

I have decided. to stop desperately trying to search for a major that is seen as more viable. and to stop waiting for literally as little as ONE drop of approval from those around me. because people LOVE things made by artists but HATE to acknowledge their value. and if every artist believed what we’re told about the impracticality, & that it’s just some unachievable pipe dream. then the world would be a boring place without nearly as much joy and warmth and love. and no one would have their favorite tv shows or music or fun little house decor that makes them smile. and the world would a a boring place

#I always come back to that thing from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. That’s like “if I could do anything else in the world- I would” #& just the vibes of “i HAVE to do this” #it’s how I feel about art. Like there’s so many things that are interesting to me and if I could just pursue those things I would #But anything else always feels like settling for what I think I should do. Or for what the people around me would love for me to choose #It feels like a defeated resignation. And I can’t do it anymore #So yeah anyway I’m finally choosing to be an art & tech theatre double major #& I’m gonna keep slowly working my way through classes cause there’s no rules to this shit & idc if it takes me 2x as long as it “should” #This idea is the only thing that’s ever felt right. I finally decided I don’t need anyone else’s approval