#stagetime

[officialleonn]

I just can’t get enough of my Red @tamburodrums volume kit. No matter where I am, when’s she’s ready to make noise EVERYBODY turns and shows love because she sounds soooo good… ♥️ On stage with @lukas_setto tonight on the @jools.holland.official tour. #leonn #drummer #tamburo #bosphoruscymbals #drums #volumekit #musician #tour #stagetime #soul #pocketdrums #chops #lukassetto #joolsholland (at De Montfort Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClWrzy3IyJ_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#leonn #drummer #tamburo #bosphoruscymbals #drums #volumekit #musician #tour #stagetime #soul #pocketdrums #chops #lukassetto #joolsholland

[ivmchamp]

I BELONG ON THE STAGE. ⭐️ NEW MUSIC SOON ! . . . #stagetime #stagephotos #liveperformance #liveperformances #bookme #gig #cologne #düsseldorf #nextup #nextup🔥 (at Cologne, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf19SdhsDRl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#stagetime #stagephotos #liveperformance #liveperformances #bookme #gig #cologne #düsseldorf #nextup #nextup🔥

[fitzrove]

For someone that's on stage for literally 10.5 minutes crownprince rudolf sure has a chokehold on me. Like cumulatively I have watched more of him than the other elisabeth characters combined 💀

#😂😭😭😭😭 #also in the original prod he is being gay gay homosexual gay for. a solid half of that (5 minutes) (he also has less stagetime cos no #vater und sohn) #vbw bring him back we want him gay and weeping............. #spam

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

Sometimes a family is a child, the child’s mom, the child’s three dads, and two women who don't get nearly enough stagetime

#musical theater #musical theatre #mamma mia #falsettos #mamma mia! #original #jamie talks

[secretmellowblog]

I saw Les Mis live for the first time the other weekend, and the surprising standout performance for me was Kyle Adams as Grantaire. He is a performer who has obviously read the Brick, and uses all of his stagetime to convey as many aspects of Brick Grantaire as possible; he also reads Grantaire’s love for Enjolras as explicitly gay and romantic (there’s a moment I’ll talk about later where he blows him a kiss.) I was actually surprised by how much he managed to convey in so little time!

Some highlights:

When Enjolras is asking for a “report on the strength of the foe,” Grantaire enthusiastically raises his hand, posturing and gesturing wildly at himself to volunteer. Enjolras casts him a disdainful look like “anyone elSE?” And that’s when Javert jumps in with his “I can find out the truth.” It’s like a small silent version of the Barrier du Maine scene; Grantaire was really giving that “je suis farouche.”

In general, there was this repeated Thing where Grantaire obnoxiously acts out in order to get Enjolras’s attention, and then flails around uselessly whenever he actually has it. Very in character.

Grantaire often goes on uproariously and jokingly about love; then, whenever he’s approached by Enjolras, he doesn’t seem to understand what to do about it.

Whenever Enjolras is singing dramatically about revolution— during Red and Black, Do You Hear the People Sing, and One Day More— Grantaire gazes at up at him with a amazed, awed, and overwhelmed look on his face, sometimes with his hand on his heart.

During Red and Black, there’s a moment where Grantaire “jokingly” caresses Enjolras’s face. Then during Do You Hear the People Sing, Enjolras passes Grantaire by and casually caresses his face; Grantaire acts a bit stunned, as if surprised Enjolras would deign to touch him. Finally, there’s a dramatic “reassuring face-caress” during the gay verse of Drink with Me.

There’s a repeated thing where Grantaire keeps offering Enjolras a bottle of wine, half-jokingly, only for Enjolras to reject it. In the last verse of Drink with Me, after Grantaire finishes his verse and walks away, Enjolras finally accepts a bottle of wine (though another character gives it to him.)

Iirc Grantaire doesn’t join in the fighting initially; he just stares at Enjolras in awe, and then mainly stands by Javert to “guard” him. I mainly mention this because I think Javert and Grantaire are a very funny duo, just as a concept. I think “being forced to listen to Grantaire monologues” is an excellent punishment for Javert.

During Marius’s verse of Drink with Me, Enjolras climbs to the top of the barricade, standing in the light. Grantaire is at the bottom in the shadows, attempting to sleep. As Marius sings about his love for Cosette, Grantaire raises his bottle to Enjolras, and then blows him a kiss. It’s very “let me sleep here until I die here.”

Finally, Grantaire has his "book death." After he spends the entire musical on the fringes being skeptical, he joins Enjolras in the final battle. He climbs up the barricade and says (I was close enough to hear) "Long live the Republic! I am one of them."

I'm genuinely impressed by how much of the Brick characterization he managed to convey with so little time-- some ad-libbing and lots of silent acting moments! It really gave me a greater appreciation of what a strong performer in a musical can do, and how they infuse even 'smaller' parts with lots of nuance and personality.

#les mis #grantaire

[madewithjavascript]

#stagetimer #madewithvuejs #madewithvue #vuejs #vue #madewithjavascript #madewithjs #speaker #presentation

[operafantomet]

FROM DESIGN TO COSTUME: The flunky / footman

OK, so maybe it doesn't get a lot of stagetime, and maybe some people don't even notice it during the show... But still, some love for the flunky/footman livré?

Unidentified, West End

Gabriele Cerotti and Christopher Carduck, Hamburg

Christopher Carduck, Hamburg

Charlie Baptie, West End (last night goof)

Courtney Combs and Scott Watanabe, Las Vegas

Unidentified, Copenhagen

Unidentified, Osaka or Nagoya

Maria Bjørnson's design (front)

Gardar Thor Cortes, RAH

Costume on display, Spokane, USA

Maria Bjørnson's design (back)

Costume in making, Paris

Closeup detail, Essen

Closeup detail, Restaged US Tour

Closeup detail, Broadway

Colin Zammit, West End

Scott Watanabe, Las Vegas

Peter Bishop, original West End

#flunkie #footman #phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera design #maria bjørnson #from design to costume #not tagging them all

[adridoesstuff]

Your wish is my command ;)

Some random questions that you can choose to answer (or not answer):

What is your favorite moment with the angels in the musical?

2. I know Lucheni is onstage more than in many of the other productions. Is there any of these additions that is your particular favorite? Why?

3. (Totally cracky) - Smrt accidentally touched little Rudolf during Mama, wo bist du?. How would you salvage the production for the night?

4. If you were going to change the Mayerling choreo to put a kiss in, how would you do it?

5. Tell me about a part of the musical that you most want to talk about :) (because sometimes there is that highly specific question that we want to answer but no one knows to ask).

6. And because of course I have to ask this, what is your favorite Pavel Klimenda in the ensemble role?

1. There are many moments involving the angels that I absolutely love, but I will highlight:

The angels taking a few souvenirs from Lucheni during Kitsch

The angels showing up in little Rudolf's room and luring him to them at the beginning of Mama wo bist du

The angels creating Rudolf's grave out of their wings

2. The additional Lucheni stagetime (which just makes this already tasking role even harder imo) is I think a genuinely amazing thing this production did. Lucheni did indeed truly feel like the audience's guide throughout the show and if not, then his additional stage moments just helped in fleshing out his character as more than just a snarky anarchist. You could see in these "in the wings" moments that the snarky sarcastic Lucheni you see when he is centerstage is just pretense and that Lucheni is from the start doubtful of his own effort to justify Elisabeth's murder. He clearly empathises with both Sisi's (Wie Du reprise) and Rudolf's struggle and pities them.

One touching moment was him watching little Rudolf interact with Smrt from the side of the stage with this sad gaze, already knowing how this will end and pitying Rudolf.

3. Indeed a cracky idea, but with how literally millimeters close Pavel as Smrt was to touching his little Rudolfs on the head, it could be a likely possibility.

If we were to go by pure show lore principles, then Rudolf dies then and there and we are done for. Therefore, I would maybe in this case encourage both whoever would that day be on as Smrt and Rudolf to make the conflicted pull Smrt and Rudolf have to one another more prominent and I'd especially encourage the Rudolf actor to really act drawn to Smrt.

4. I would see two paths here: the most in character would be Smrt kissing Rudolf after he has just died and before he lays Rudolf down onto the ground. The other way would be after the moment when Rudolf falls onto the ground at the very end and Smrt offers him his hand to take. Smrt would pull Rudolf from the ground to his feet and I just feel it would be nice if Rudolf, right before he dies, pulled himself closer to Smrt and just pulled him in for a kiss to Smrt's surprise. Or I'd be very happy if this version was reciprocal

5. What I found very interesting and refreshing was that this production didn't simplify the characters and didn't try to forcefully make them sympathetic, but presented them as complex flawed people and paradoxically, that is precisely what gave the characters that sympathetic aspect. Sisi in Act 2 was an outwardly harsh and unsympathetic woman who was just fighting her inner demons and mental health. Smrt was a supernatural being with a soul fully capeable of human feelings. Franz was a well meaning and kind man who was just forever haunted by his mother's upbringing

6. For the uninitiated: during the last few performances, quite a few people from the ensemble were sick following one another on show day, which meant that during these sicknesses, the principal actors who weren't supposed to be playing, but were in town filled in spots in the ensemble. That way we got Smrt actor Pavel Režný as Count Grünne/ensemble for one show and the aforementioned Pavel Klimenda doing a stint in the ensemble in Act 1 while he didn't need to be onstage as Rudolf.

I think my favorite of his ensemble roles was during Fröhliche Apokalypse because he was so tiny compaed to his fellow castmates that he had to try standing on his tiptoes or jumping up to peek over everyone's shoulders and he had the full potential to just goof off. Plus, that dumb little hat he got for the scene was so fun, especially in his last show when he had the already grown out Jesus hair

#elisabeth das musical #adri rambles

[aboutyoutoo]

♥️ Red: Do you ever feel anxious or scared while writing? If so, why?

💛 Yellow: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.

❤️ i feel anxious and scared all the time, hope that helps <3

akdkshs no sorry but yes I do, often x) I know it kind of contradicts my last answer but I sometimes feel anxious when other people know I'm writing xD it does help motivate me when someone else is anticipating what I'm working on, but it also makes me anxious because then someone actually expects something of me and I worry that what I deliver won't be as good as what they're hoping for 😅 in general it also took me a very long time to be comfortable sharing my writing, and that self-consciousness does still creep in sometimes.

💛 uhh. I thought really hard about this one and I'm actually not sure. I feel like I forget sometimes which todolf ideas I have are perfectly logical conclusions from reading between the lines of canon and which are just things I completely made up in my head xD I guess it doesn't help that they have very limited canonical interactions so it necessitates a lot of reading between the lines as well as applying historical context that isn't explicitly referenced in elisabeth but can be implicitly understood to be at play...

I guess I emphasise Rudolf's personal neuroses a lot more, and probably de-emphasise his political ones? xD considering most of his canonical stagetime is focused on his political thinking, I tend to write more about his emotional state and mental instability. maybe in the future that will change, because I really just like to pick out random neuroses to focus on in each fic, so perhaps one day the political turmoil will get its time in the sun (or shadows I guess...)

#thank you for asking !! #asks #writing

[earthly-apples]

Wheeee thank you Fitz @fitzrove for tagging me in a game😍😍

My top ten musical list!

1. Elisabeth 1992

(Was there ever any contest? Pia’s vocal technique is not at her peak yet (what a Queen in 2002) but I like the general atmosphere of 92 the most. Plastic Girlfriend Der Tod. Andy Bieber slamming the pathetic wet meow meow button on the line, ‘Mutter, ich brauch dich’. Blue everything. Cynical Lucheni. Boote in der Nacht.)

(Although Susan playing Sophie…in later prods…hmmm….😍)

2. Mozart! 1999

(The story feels more tightly structured, I like the staging design and the general approach to the characters more in the og prod. Plus GIVE BACK NANNERL HER STAGETIME)

3. Le Petit Prince 2002

(Banger staging. I love it.)

4. Rebecca 2007

(From the sheer times I’ve listened to Susan-Danny sing anything.)

5. TdV 1997

(Good songs and when it made more sense I guess? (Plz don’t kill me over my personal opinions) Also I don’t see the importance of writing the Chargal-Magda arc, Chargal could be a character on his own w/o Magda and keeping Magda is just being cruel. )

6/7. Dracula 2008 Graz & NDdP 1998

(I like the music a lot okay)

(Tied because I don’t know what to say about the plot ahhhh)

8/9. A stream of French and German musicals camping

(I like the music okay but the plot is um) (Also the French has amazing staging budget) (and choreo) (Je mise tout and Nous ne sommes from 1789 😳)

10. Les Mis concept album

(Disco-Enjolras is too iconic)

(Otherwise I have so many bones to pick on the writing of the LM musical hehehehehehehheehhehehehhehe)

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Tagging @pilferingapples @counterwiddershins @1982toyotacorolla @tomatobird-blog and anyone else who’d be interested…! Not so sure about which of my mutuals here are interested in musicals so pardon my ignorance if I skipped 🥲

#musicals #tagging games #list

[lunatic-fandom-space]

Ive been making subtitles for the 1997 proshot and because I love to be angry I guess I also have a transcript of the broadway version open in another tab to more directly compare them and god they made so many just baffling decisions that I barely even noticed just watching a bootleg

The thing that inspired this post was the revelation that they just completely cut Du bist wirklich sehr nett and like, DotV is way more of a comedy than TdV (or more accurately, its way more american) so I wouldve thought that they would definitely keep the song thats basically just the male main character acting like a total virgin while theres also a Sex Misunderstanding, uh oh how wacky

And like, Ive complained about Alfred's stagetime being severely cut down in the broadway show before and Im pretty sure I actually know the reason why that ended up happening, but putting that aside for a moment, I find it incredibly surprising that this 2002 show did not give him more attention, if only for the purposes of making fun of him. Like, Alfred is unapologetically portrayed as pathetic and he stays pathetic for the entire story, in the end he doesnt so much "get the girl" as much as the girl gets him, and the cherry on top is that a bunch of gay shit happens to him, hes practically a goldmine for incredibly low-hanging fruit jokes, no pun intended. And sure, all of that stuff is pretty thematically important but have you seen the broadway show? they do not give a fuck about themes. They also dont care if the jokes they make are incredibly low-effort anyway

#tanz der vampire

[officialleonn]

When the bass man got your back….. @leebassplayer 🔥🔥 @lz7ogram #lz7 #leonn #drums #bass #tamburodrums #bosphoruscymbals #wherestheclick #keeptime #manslost #butgotfound #meatandveg #stagetime #drums (at KingsGate Community Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjYZ7nIY8W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#lz7 #leonn #drums #bass #tamburodrums #bosphoruscymbals #wherestheclick #keeptime #manslost #butgotfound #meatandveg #stagetime

[leporellian]

time to be cringe on main its 11:27 pm. i usually don’t give a shit abt pairing fictional characters up with each other unless theres some dramaturgical relevance there Or it’s objectively hilarious. however i stumbled upon the idea of pairing up leporello with fiorello (count almaviva’s background character servant from barber of seville) as a joke a few years back and then realized it was a stroke of genius if on accident. heres why

matching names (necessary trait, in opera)

quiet servants to Horrid Sevillian Rich Dudes who are taken for granted (and often annoyed by their master’s activities)

existed in the same time period in works that are connected in some fashion (besides the mozart connection irt figaro operas, the barber of seville was actually named after the original don juan play, el burlador de sevilla)

leporello deserves a bass partner i think :)

i think more people should match up opera characters from different operas

yes fiorello has only 8 mins tops of stagetime but that makes it more special. if warrior cats fans can get attached to guys who have 2 lines i can have this one. sorry this is so cringe god

#i’m not tagging this one too cringe sorry #rambles

[riding-palominos-every-day]

sorry if i sound COMPLETELY OUT OF IT but who is Kenny 😭😭 is he like an oc or a newsie i have no clue about

He's a newsie you have no clue about, and that's completely understandable as he has less stagetime than Bill and Darcy-

Here is a post I made on him a while back with what few details we have on him (also apparently he was named after Kenny Ortega?), I don't really have good reason to like him as much as I do given how minor a character he is, I just think he's neat :]

#kenny newsies #asks #newsies

[theuncoupleddiningcar]

Day 10 of Starlight Express Appreciation Month!!!

Day 10: Duvay the Sleeping Car!!!

I've been SO HYPED to talk about her-

Fave actor: Shoutout to Kelsey Cobban for carrying her role through both tours❤️

Favorite songs/scenes: There's not too much footage of Duvay to my knowledge, but I enjoy seeing her in The Rap and Whole Lotta Locomotion! She's got so much sass and I love it!

Favorite costume: I. LOVE. HER. PILLOWS. THEY ARE SO CUTE! I think the outfit kinda differentiates her from Ashley because so many people know Ashley for her longer dress. I love Duvay's look!

Favorite ships: I will be a Duvay x Flat Top stan FOR LIFE (It started as a joke with me and my sibling and now it's so real)

Headcanons: Duvay hangs with the Freights a lot (due to her bf) and has become like a sister to the Rockies. She's also very close with Belle, as they are both sleepers and experience the same kind of judgement/discrimination. She likes Flat Top because he makes her laugh <3

Unpopular opinions: I wouldve loved to see Duvay get more stagetime and development! I would've preferred her over Belle the Bar Car tbh-

#duvay the sleeping car #bri stex appreciation month

[swan2swan]

Having watched the Jurassic World Live Tour for a third time--and the first time after watching Camp Cretaceous--it’s very much still in-line with canon. The only issue is the two added Bumpy scenes, which both feature Bumpy at incorrect stages of growth (pocket-sized just before Indominus attacks, and puppet-sized three months after the attack). Both of these are easily explained through two ways:

1. The scene where the interns arrive and learn about the Dino Decoder and see Bumpy actually takes place over several days, not the two minutes of stagetime before the Indominus attack (so they saw Bumpy fresh from hatching). 

2. The scene where they encounter puppet-sized Bumpy is actually them running into Adult Bumpy--the dialogue still lines up, but they just didn’t want to spend $500,000 on a new Ankylosaurus robot for a one-minute tie-in to a Netflix cartoon. Also they wanted to put something adorable in, not have the actors staring off-stage and shouting “LOOK AT THAT ANKYLOSAURUS THAT THE AUDIENCE CAN’T SEE! WATCH CAMP CRETACEOUS ON NETFLIX!”

As for why they don’t encounter the kids...there’s a list, but I can once again turn things over to the Plot Triceratops. 

#said triceratops also makes an appearance in the stage show #which is neat because it's a Triceratops Action Scene #jurassic world live tour #jwcc #camp cretaceous #but yeah in this show tricerratops is an aggressive charging menace #it's so good #go see it if it's in your area #or watch the video on youtube if you want