#accepted audition

[ryllen]

" ... as soft as talking to a new born, the voice you dream your children would hear during their bed time stories ... "

[toddtakefive]

thinking about todd and his resolve toward… not quite isolation, but being alone in a room full of people again. he goes along to the study room to sit on his own and do his homework, he sits at the poets table and follows along with what’s being said while keeping quiet, he goes to the meetings at all but doesn’t necessarily contribute (in fact, if you watch him when cameron is telling the story ‘from camp in sixth grade’, you can see that he recognizes it before any of the other poets but doesn’t voice it until they all have). he’s not alone, necessarily, if you want to get technical about it, he’s just lonely, and he’s generally okay with that. he doesn’t have friends and that’s fine, he doesn’t participate in class and that’s fine, he doesn’t have a relationship with his family and that’s fine—he could live without any real connection and he’d have been, more or less, fine.

the thing about when he says “i can take care of myself just fine!” is that he isn’t really wrong, you can infer that he’s been doing it his entire life anyway, it’s that ‘taking care of yourself’ isn’t the same thing as really living or being happy. todd’s an introvert, certainly, and even as he gets closer to the group he defaults to sitting quietly in the background, but he’s also denying himself community out of fear not introversion. todd isn’t friendless because he’s an introvert, although that definitely plays a part, he’s friendless because he pushes anyone that might want his company away. if anyone has every wanted for his attention in the first place. (neil’s unwavering interest in him is unique (even when it comes to the rest of the poets, who are fine with todd coming along and joining the group, but aren’t really hellbent on him being there in the beginning) and his refusal to accept it is a direct result of being so lonely growing up.)

there’s obviously something to be said about the implications of his parents neglect, and the more than likely fact that he grew up friendless, and how those both play a part in in him being so skilled at dodging social interaction/being so avoidant of it, but by the time we see him in the movie he’s all but accepted his fate as being alone his entire life. he’s already accepted being the family disappointment, and he’s already accepted he’ll never amount to anything, and he obviously doesn’t like it, but he’d have managed living with that knowledge without the confirmation that it was all wrong. would he have been miserable? almost certainly. but he’d have managed. he’d done it for that long already, anyhow.

[weneedatdcharacterwho]

we need a total drama character who is completely normal and is just constantly wondering what the hell is wrong with everybody in the confessional

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[ricky-is-too-silly]

I’m trying to find things for local theater, but I literally can’t find any. And I’m actually so sad about it. I really want to audition for something, but I can’t because the area I live in doesn’t have much for theater, or anything under the large umbrella of art. And like, I know I’d be decent at singing for a musical, but I’m still terrified to audition. Like, what if I don’t get casted bc of my tics, bc of the area I live in? Ik it’s probably an irrational fear, but like, that could stop me from getting more important rolls. aughewgsyshwhdyvs I hate this so muchbsgxgsj

[leecherish]

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[wabblebees]

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[bunnyb34r]

Survived work... barely 😩🤙

Probably a good thing I went anyway bc I had 9 individual item audits (I did 8/9 and had RC do the pants bc fuck those pants) and I was like oh god this is gonna take all daaaaay I hate audits!!

It took like 90 min tops and in the process I found the missing tees in the steel that I've been looking for for weeks

Also met the new temp manager... he seems nice I guess... idk the vibe feels off with him like idk if that's just him or if it's my authority issues sgdggdggd it really could be both idk

Anyways I'm still so fucking exhausted jfc

[makoheadrush]

Quietly bragging that my kid was accepted to the Berklee college of music

Quietly sobbing because it is heartbreakingly unaffordable

[rocknrollinbitchforu]

sorry I've been dead guys it's cause I died. might happen again...

[allbeendonebefore]

today in 'the frightening passage of time', apparently it was this month 14 years ago that i first auditioned for IAMP as both artist and a VA and i was waiting to hear if i'd gotten accepted, that's just weird to think about.

[thebirdandhersong]

YES

[brother-genitivi]

I'm gonna fucking explode idk how to act Shakespeare but I have an audition for a uni where I need to do a monologue from any one of his works and HEKWHFHAHAA POOOOOOOO WHAT AM I DOING

actually u know what I'm going to look @ Ian McKellen doing Shakespeare bc he's my gay dad and he'll fix everything

[kalmeria]

your gacha game could never

[avocado-frog]

so this is kinda random but it's been on my mind for like two weeks but i sort of don't like how in ride the cyclone they introduce a disabled character, and then take away that disability within like four minutes. I get how it was supposed to be "oh wow he died so he isn't disabled anymore" and how he's in a musical so he sort of needed to be able to talk but like. if ricky can talk/walk in the afterlife, shouldn't constance no longer need glasses by the same logic? would she have perfect eyesight now?

[archivedcoach]

brendan  killing  it  at  jeopardy,,,,,,,  yeah  <3

[maurypovichofficial2]

there's an audition for our town, i might go for it the stage manager monologue is the first monologue i ever learned