gonna make a tiny post cause this is so bittersweet:
today Abby leaves six and a decent amount of this account and my tik tok acc was built off of Abby’s Seymour and i made so many friends (that i still have and talk to) through our love for Abby. it’s ironic she’s leaving today because i also leave for college today which is something i’ve been looking forward to doing since i was a child cause i’m finally leaving a toxic environment. i actually wrote a lot of Abby!Seymour and Andrea!Boleyn fics because of the poor relationship i have with my mother and i would write about the relationship i wish that i had but never got. and exactly a year ago today i went to my first cosplay con which would later lead me down a rabbit hole of the god-forsaken cosplay community where i was overflowed with toxic energy and people who took advantage of my kindness on multiple occasions, and while in the community i had begun to prioritize cosplay more than musical theatre which is what my main focus is.
so much can change within a year and the fact that Abby and i are both leaving for new things today is really ironic to me especially cause seeing six reminded me of why i love theatre so much and why i’m so glad i left the cosplay community when i did. this is truly the end of an era even though i’m getting back into six and this acc and will more than likely go back to writing fics cause that was such an effective coping mechanism for me why did i stop doing that???
Photos from the 1st NA Tour’s tech week in Chicago. Samantha Pauly joined a day or two (can’t remember why now) which is why Mallory is filling in in one of those photos.
First three rows: 9 May 2019, @/nila_kyoungmi
Fourth row: 10 May 2019, @/sampauly
Fifth row: 13 May 2019, @/mallorymaedke; 9 May 2019, @/nila_kyoungmi
here is a short montage of abby mueller being adorable and forgetting she has to sing into her mic mostly because she’s too busy dancing with andrea sorry not sorry
smthn that’s been on my mind after watching dozens of megasixes bc pain, is all the comments under US megasixes saying that the Broadway girls don’t have as good of chemistry as the og West End girls. like, of course, no 2 casts will have the same interactions and dispositions, but it’s always used as a constant to degrade them, in line w/ people who comment about Millie on vids about Andrea. i think the biggest thing we should take into account is that they were the first cast to perform outside the UK, first cast with big-box theatre as the goal from the start, AND first replica cast. that in mind, the pressure on these girls was definitely stronger than it was on any other cast. where the og West End girls got to toy with the show, the US girls were given the task of copy and pasting what they were doing. not to mention but some of the WE girls knew each other prior to the show: Maiya and Grace had gone to uni together, Nat and Aimee had been together in the previous production of the show, Vicki and Courtney S were in BOH together, etc. the US girls didn’t have the same family dynamic on stage. yes Nicole, Sam, and Mal were in Seussical together and C Mack and Mal knew each other from college, but since the US alts don’t have set shows like the WE girls, and Courtney joining 1/2 way thru the Chicago leg of the tour, those dynamics aren’t something we get to see very often, or i’m such high doses when we do. In short be nice to the Broadway girls bc they are doing their best :) (PS- this is in no way hating on the WE girls, as they deserve so much love as well💜)