#music dance and acting

[your-local-book-blog]

Six of Crows: The Musical

Just....

Think about it.

#Kaz acting all tough and then breaking into song #big musical number with Trouble #Inej does all the dance scenes with the most amazing shit you've ever seen #The only one who can pull it off is Jesper #Who obviously has Kit Young playing him #six of crows #soc #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #jesper fahey

[irrealisms]

so like the thing is. in many ways the dsmp seems like it ought to be more similar to film acting than it is to theatre-- you've got a close-up camera on you! a lot of the differences are often boiled down to that: theatre is more exaggerated, more full-body, because you're performing to an audience that is far away. film has a camera close on you so it tends more realistic and subtle. BUT the dsmp is actually!! way more like theatre in a lot of ways!!! to the point of REINVENTING theatrical devices that have largely fallen by the wayside in film

the dsmp has soliloquies. it's got asides. you see the same actors playing different characters. you have the tacit understanding that what you see on stage is not always what is literally happening in the story's world, but a symbolic representation. it's aware of audience, it interacts with and talks to the live-reacting audience!!

which i am. obsessed with, tbh! when tommy mutes in conversation with sapnap to say to chat "we're not going to team with him, chat, obviously we're not" before unmuting and saying "yeah, okay, let's team"--when wilbur on the 16th looks at the camera and holds up his hand when they're asking who the traitor is--when technoblade types and deletes "INVIS POTS DONT LAST THAT LONG" in in-game chat while talking to dream--these are all giving information to the audience abt the characters' internal thoughts, in ways that are much more typical of stage theatre than film! it's unusual for a character in a movie or tv show to say things (or take actions) in a conversation that are inaudible to the other characters in that conversation and intended for the audience. film tends to convey information about the characters' thoughts in other ways! it's a very Stage sort of thing, and i doubt they were thinking of it that way, it just sort of naturally emerges from having a live audience that they're entertaining + the ability with livestream technology to communicate things to the audience while being actually imperceptible to the other characters

and ofc whenever they are alone they are not silent, nor do they rely on voiceover or framing devices such as a diary to communicate their inner thoughts--they narrate their thoughts aloud, to the audience. they walk around and sometimes they have conversations with their donos but just as often they soliloquize! i'd include examples here as well but it's so ubiquitous, tbh, tommy does this, sam does this, ranboo does this, techno does this, wilbur does this, jack manifold does this, niki does this, everyone does this constantly. and it makes sense given the medium but that's also so fascinating to me! because again i really doubt they were thinking of it that way, it's just the obvious thing to do, the obvious extension of streaming commentary!

point is. dsmp stage show. I'm Normal About It

#the thing i mean wrt symbolic representation and it being Nonliteral #is like.... stage acting is very Representational #you pretend that an obviously-toy gun is (for the purposes of the story) real; you pretend that the stage crew is not there; #in musicals you often accept that they are not in-story breaking into song and dance; etc #and while i think there is definitely A Range of interpretations in terms of how literally vs representationally to view the dsmp #it's definitely more representational than most modern film and tv! #therapists dni #any british ants in the chat?

[lord-squiggletits]

TARNMA HOT TAKE: Tarn is the sophisticated one that listens to classical music and wants to do ballroom dancing, Pharma does NOT share these tastes and instead is the kind of dude who will dance to whatever generic pop music is popular on the radio this year and would do the Cha Cha Slide/Cupid Shuffle/(insert popular song everyone knows the dance routine to in your culture) and sing shittily with his favorite songs while drunk

#squiggposting #tarnma #tarma #like i can't stress to you enough that TARN is the only one who acts sophisticated and even that is kind of a pretense #pharma isn't high class he isn't posh he's just a normal dude #he knows how to dance to the top 100 radio songs and he just dances however he wants he doesn't know STEPS or anything like that #he's a guy just vibing and being unapologetically mundane #eventually he gets tarn to admit that liking top pop hits doesn't make you a philistine but they get into arguments about it #tarn sleeps on the couch a lot #normal tarnma things #down with posh pharma rise up silly whimsical pharma #he's the dude that would recreate famous dance scenes in movies and musicals because that's just all he knows

[shima-draws]

Suddenly got the inexplicable urge to watch the Cats musical again. And then I remembered this ask I answered on my sideblog and giggled like an idiot

#I LOVE CATS!! SHUT UP!! IT’S SO GOOD!!!! #The 2019 movie ruined its reputation 😭 #The OG 1998 stage version that was recorded…MWAH. PERFECTION #Anyway I love watching Tugger praise his boyfriend for four minutes in song form as Misto does his gay little dance #Forever salty at how the 2019 movie BUTCHERED Misto’s character #Me: He would NOT act like that #OG Misto is confident in his abilities and has every right to be #Misto: Yeah I can do magic. And? #Cats #Cats musical #Shima speaks #I grew up being like. OBSESSED with Cats. So it has a very special place in my heart <3 #Used to be a Macavity girlie now I am a Mistoffelees girlie all the way #I love the way Jacob plays him in the 98 version <3 #All the Jellicles: Deut is missing what do we do?!! #Tugger: WAIT #Tugger: Let him cook. #Misto: 🏳️‍🌈✨🩰 #And then he fixes everything. LMAOOO

[unchartedthelostlegacy]

Stray is cyberpunk.

Because Stray understands that unlike Cyberpunk 2077, the word isn’t just set dressing covering a pro-cop, pro-establishment narrative. Cyberpunk is an ethos of a make-believe future that increasingly seems less make-believe. The priorities of industry and corporate interests eventually cannibalizing themselves and leaving a sickly, foggy metropolis that always looks fun at night is only part of it.

It’s the pockets of humanity and love set against neon and danger that make cyberpunk. A future made bright not by the lack of suffering, not in spite of it, but because love and truth always rise to the surface, that inevitably empathy prevails and people help one another IS cyberpunk thank you for coming to my TED talk against your will

#stray #my sister played most of it #except for the heavy Zurk parts where she got scared and passed the controller to me #i'm so happy she liked it #the buckets and curling up beside the guitarist as he played were her FAVORITE #my sister is a really music and dance kid and has to act out the music and omg #what a game #cyberpunk #indie games #goty easily

[strawberryteabunny]

Went to see the Nutcracker with my friends last weekend🎄🩰

Coord rundown:

JSK: BTSSB Milk-Chan and Snow Strawberry

Headdress: Angelic Pretty

Blouse: Gunne Sax

Shoes: Liz Lisa

Coat: Collectif

Muff: Pleasant Company (American Girl)

Socks: offbrand

#lolita fashion #sweet lolita #baby the stars shine bright #egl fashion #egl community #mine #bunny #I was making a weird face expression so it’s stickered out lol #and YES the muff is Samantha’s from AG. I found it in an antique store and I’m obsessed #she’s my favorite #I also have her nightgown lol I really want to track down more human size Samantha clothes #the ballet was really good I love the music #the tree transforming and the snowflake waltz are always SO fun #and then the pas de deux in the second act those are my favorite parts #this one had dancing nuts and buffalo bill it was very funny

[gentleman-aster]

Reasons why Count Dracula is babygirl:

Fictional

Old man

Homicidal

Kinda gay

Beyond redemption

Spooky and isolated

Tries to act formal and like his plans work but is actually pathetic and kinda silly

#i can fix him :3 #Oh let's forget *certain* allegories from the book ok? #this is just a silly post! so let's just take the book literally:333 #your honor my bbg needed to eat and go on with his malevolent plans #I would play some romantic vampire music and sing and dance and spin him around musical style #while he acts like the character who isn't aware he's in a musical #cause he's not in a musical I'm just silly like that #and that's how he falls in love with me :333 #and I tell him cool science facts and intermingle them with talking about ecology and peace and love on the planet earth #and THAT'S how I fix him :333 #still a bloodsucker tho #count dracula #dracula daily #dracula

[snap-my-kneecaps]

I don’t think I’ll ever be the same after seeing tash as monty in operation mincemeat

Her voice is a life changing experience

#literally don’t know whether I’m in love with her as a woman or as a man #the definition of bi panic #literally stim like crazy just hearing her voice #and seeing her act on the stage omg #her little dances literally consume my every waking thoughts #I already miss this show #I want to go back :( #operation mincemeat #operation mincemeat musical #natasha hodgson #ewen montagu

[iaminatree]

day 17 - alternate universe

guys i fw genderbend aus sooooooo hard i love the girlypops

#tbom #the book of mormon musical #bomtober23 #tbom fanart #kevin price #elder price #more like all american GIRLBOSS <3 #cough anyways #i dont get why ppl hate genderbend aus #i get it if its one of those weird ones where they turn lgbt ships straight for no reason #but damn whats wrong with looking at a story n being like “i wonder what would happen if they weren't dudes/girls” #especially with stories like tbom where the gender can change a decent amount of stuff #for example: mckinley's whole irony is that he's so stereotypically gay-acting that its funny when he swears he's super straight #but if he's a girl then all of a sudden it doesn't work as well bc ppl wouldn't bat an eye at girls tap dancing and loving pink #so would genderbend mckinley be the opposite? or would she be faking it to hide her homosexuality? #or maybe the joke turns into that she's so obnoxiously straight girl that you get the feeling she's overcompensating #and thats the fun of it!! figuring that stuff out!!!!! #anywho rant over enjoy doodle

[tadpal]

hate being a guy who has solitary hobbies and prefers to do them alone. going to craft circles and bird walks and book clubs and skill classes makes me want to claw out my eyes but unfortunately that's where all the people are

#unfortunately i need new people to simply attach themselves to me like a barnacle and hold on for the ride #i DONT LIKE doing my skills and hobbies with other people but hanging out with new people without an activity is so tiring and grating #AND I LOVE CLUBBING AND LIVE MUSIC AND EVENTS but those arent Meet People activities to me like they are for everyone else #hearing my friends talk about meeting people at a club feels like stepping into a parallel universe.... #.... you guys arent just getting pleasantly tequila tipsey and dancing like an idiot and telling djs you like their set etc #.... flirting at the club??? real??? at THE CLUB???? WHERE THE CLUBBING IS HAPPENING???? ok. alright. #(making out/sex acts at the club is normal btw. but those in my experience just happen)

[the-mushroom-faerie]

the downside to being a Silly Lil Guy (gender neutral) is having to be Perceived

#this is about being seen doing a Funky Lil Dance #like im having fun vibing to the epic the musical hermes songs #and then my brain thinks 'what if someone sees you' and im like 😶 #or worse being an actor and having people Actively Watch And Film Your Silliness #i love theatre and being dramatic i cant handle acting

[ghostofchaos-past]

aziraphale if you're reading this its okay bb i know you were just doing what you thought was right and now you need to get your angelic ass back down to earth, find crowley, and APOLOGIZE FOR GODS SAKE

#he's gonna have to do a three act musical as his apology dance #i love him but wow did he fuck up #not mad at him tho #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #ineffible husbands

[spineless-lobster]

Just finished watching newsies, by god those boys were flying

#Y'ALL THE FUCKING GYMNASTICS?????? #like musical casts are already fucking insanely talented but WHAT #these bitches can sing act dance TAP dance AND they're doing backflips and shit #ALL WITHOUT MESSING UP!!!!!!!!! #god I love theatre #y'all theatre kids are something else and I mean that in the best way #newsies

[hauntingblue]

I have connected two dots... yamato kaido and momo (and kinda shirahoshi with her top) have clouds above their shoulders... and luffy in gear fourth has them also.... I can see the signs

#momo must be so emotionally confused omg poor child. this guy says he is my father and treats me like his son and also this samurai who has #been acting like my father just died. and now i turned 28 and a dragon and i need to save this island or my shougnate will die. jesus #FUCKING ROB RUCCI!!! I SURE HOPE NOT ONE STRAY ATTACK REACHES THE ROOM FULL OF CP0 AGENTS!!! #now the government is going to invade wano AND TAKE ROBIN!!!!! ROB LUCCI DIEEEE!!!!! AND YOU WILL FAIL AGAIN!!! #now how tf did the heart pirates get there... who can fly on there or did they just tag along on momos tail #the dinosaur head snake???? hello?? qjdhakshsk and it worked.... sanji... 'thats what a brachiosaurus is!' well i do not think so.... #wtf sanji.... so much of that wiggly dance he does with the heart eyes has brought him here... #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1053 #poor killer man.... why doesnt he cut off the arm kid doesnt have... that should do it right??? #jesus.... goodbye kid and law.... hawkins just hitting his head to a wall.... CUT OFF HIS ARM!!! oh no..... another self sacrificing mate.. #YEAAHHH THE ARM!!!!! is he gonna take it and give it to kid akdjsksj OH HE TOOK THE STRAW DOLL!!! killer your brain is so huge.. #the death card looking JUST like killer.... that was such a slay... they had this one thought out for a while..... #THE MUSIC!!! GOODBYE HAWKINS!!! KILLER OUTSERVED!!!! whats with the cutting of arms this arc.... kid now its your turn to slay (big mom) #episode 1054 #sanji having an existential crisis and queen just: WELCOME TO THIS MOMSTER WORLD #having issues with his body transforming doesnt help with the transfem allegations #APOO IS STILL ALIVE???? CUT OFF HIS HEAD!!!! #i was gonna say KINEMON!!! BUT I KNOW ITS THAT FUCKING KANJURO!!!!!! nami drawing the moon on his asscheek akdjsksj #KIKU AND KINEMON ARE ALIVE??? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS THIS IS A TRAP!!! DON'T GIVE ME HOPE!!! #NOOOOOO THE CP0 IS IN ACTION TOO NOOOOOOOOO #they are breathing.... omg.... kiku..... ORICHI DIEEEE!!!!! i knew this couldn't end like this for her... i have been completely bamboozled #kinemon appearing like the first time... just legs.... amazing #how does big mom ikoku inside the castle are we insane... yamato can you like bite off kanjuros head off or smth... finish him off PLEASE #why do they have steel beams in kaido's castle. everything else is wood and stone. who designed this. #bepo being in law's mid episode animation akdjaksns.... thats really his beffo (bff) bepo #big mom being crushed by some beams doesn't sound right... kid should turn into magneto and start bloodbending... or repel her into the sea #episode 1055 #episode 1056

[moonpaw]

Idk anything abt one piece so I’m sorry if I word anything wrong but. I remember you freaking out over gear 5 back when the og chapter issued. How’re u feeling abt it finally being animated?? Is it satisfying?

IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN!

this episode was basically just a teaser for the actual fight to come, but GOD.... THIS EPISODE WAS SO FUN

i was a bit disappointed with the multiple flashbacks, but it's still given me lots to hold on to til next week

‎

#they animated an entire chapter to the very T #so they needed to stretch it out a bit but god #the voice acting??/ the music?? the animation?????? so freaking good i cant wait for the next episode #one piece #one piece spoilers #wano spoilers #i LOVED the very beginning bit too #i havent seen anyone gif or video it yet but i need his little white boy dance

[lithuanianking]

Oh no I dropped my feminist Literature books (5'10" btw)/ref

My friend asked if my notebook full of monologues was a autism thing,this would only prove his point.

#little shop of horrors #lsoh #monologue #dance #theater kid #thespian #musical theater #theatre #neil simon #acting #hamilton musical #shakespeare #stephen sondheim #into the woods #angels in america #newsies broadway #newsies musical #julius ceaser #romeo and juliet #a midsummer night's dream