#(it may just be me but. tang/pigsy and pif/dbk makes most to focus on. for obvious reasons)

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Theatre AU

I said I was gonna contribute to the Monkie Kid fandom so here it is; It was suggested the Theatre Au see the light of day first, so... *Will Smith Arms*

As expected this Theatre AU is mostly me projecting my love for Musical Theatre onto a proper AU, and since it's just me projecting it's gonna be using musicals I both know and like.

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So Our boy MK is an actor for the Flower Fruit Theatre, a local theatre troupe that puts on, you guessed it, musical productions. MK is technically only a trained singer, but a lack of experienced actors means he tends to get a fair few named roles anyway. 

Oftentimes he's in the 'lead boy' position beside his best friend/Adoptive Sister Mei. Since they're super low on manpower most productions, usually taking in green actors from highschools and colleges who are looking for proper theatre experience, everyone kinda does what they can around the stage. Mei is a huge part of their Tech Crew for instance, and MK is brought on with the Theatre's owner Sun Wukong to work on sets in between rehearsals.

Basically everyone in support staff can take up a role too if they're needed, but some of the 'grownups' either would rather not or are needed more strenuously elsewhere.

Pigsy for instance apparently can be quite the actor, and has a running dibs on Max Bialystock in case anyone ever takes his damn suggestion for The Producers but rarely does roles otherwise granted he's directing the orchestra, so 90% of his time is spent in The Pit (that lower ground between the stage and the audience that the orchestra plays in, depending on how new the building is The Pit could be quite literally beneath the stage) yelling at the cello players.

Sandy works props and choreography and personally prefers to be allowed to focus on helping others with their performances without having to worry about his own. However he is fond of playing comedic side characters and in particular had a blast playing LeFou in their production of Beauty and the Beast some time ago. Apparently Pigsy was Gaston and it was hilarious on juxtaposition alone.

The two most Likely 'grownups' to actually be in the play itself are Wukong and Tang. Tang as head of Costuming and research (re: finding bootlegs for Sandy to study for choreography purposes) isn't exactly what you may think of as a powerhouse on first glance, but holy shit can this guy put some energy in his voice. He's a very weak dancer though which means when he IS involved he's usually a villain since villains don't often have dance parts, so much as they strut across stage with dancers around them. You would be surprised at the amount of menace this man can attain when he puts contacts on and the ominous music starts.

And Wukong as the owner of the whole damn theatre not only is the one running the numbers and doing the odds and ends like sets and vocal coaching and is usually the director of the productions, he's kind of their 'Shapeshifter' actor if you'll pardon the pun. Basically if a named character is left uncast for whatever reason He's most likely the one filling in. And it works every time because he's a fucking MASTER at it, he can be the Stuffy Dad in Bye Bye Birdie one moment and Nicky in Avenue Q the next and there's NO gap in quality. It's possibly because he's the only one here whose actually a fully classically trained Triple Threat, but it does mean he's easily the most stretched thin out of everyone, so of course, he takes their new kid, full to the brim with untapped talent, under his wing.

Flower Fruit Theatre is currently in the middle of a sort of rivalry with the Bull King's Theatre, a hoity Toity 'Musicals are for chumps' type theatre. You know the kind, the ones that only put on Shakespeare productions and are the most likely to say things like 'Musicals are an unsigtly tumor on the dignified body of acting' and 'It makes no sense why people would just be singing' that makes every musical theatre kid roll their eyes so far back into their skulls they can see their own brain. And by Rivalry I mean Flower Fruit Theatre is for the most part completely unconcerned over the Bull King's Theatre's 'Bitch Eating Crackers' complex (Wukong is the only one who cares and he only cares enough to laugh about how their own productions keep selling more tickets despite their considerably smaller budget and manpower)

Bull King's Theatre is run by, you guessed it, DBK and PIF, legend says that they first met during a highschool production of Antony and Cleopatra where they were, you guessed it, Marc Antony and Cleopatra, or at least that's the story Red Son tells about his Parents.

Speaking of Red Son though, he was just prepared to be Benvolio in their production of Romeo and Juliet (he'd WANTED to be Mercutio but his mother reminded him he doesn't have the skill for a meatier part like that) when his parents came up with 'the plan'.

Despite only being trained as an Actor, Red has a fair singing voice and was in choir for most of junior high and highschool, and their 'rival's were used to having people with little skill(ouch) So Red is tasked with auditioning for Flower Fruit Theatre's next production, to gather information and of course, sabotage the troupe whenever possible.

Their next production? One of the most well respected pieces of Musical Theatre, Les Miserables.