#Lincoln Theatre

[fionaapplerocks]

[dorothy16]

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via Darren Criss’s Instagram story (Dec. 15, 2022)

[akajustmerry]

Can someone please explain this richonne van lore to me? I can't listen to the podcast you mentioned

oh, I will GLADLY. so season 7 episode 12 of The Walking Dead is called 'Say Yes' and is widely known as the rick and michonne honeymoon episode by cast and fans alike. It aired in 2017.

For context, it's not a literal honeymoon but those are the vibes. it's the first episode dealing with their relationship properly after they first get together in season 6. Rick and Michonne hornily volunteer for a sneaky cheeky supply run to go retrieve supplies surrounded by a herd of Walkers.

Rick and Michonne are horny as fuck so the episode has lots of them kissing and so forth. now, the VAN SCENE™ is them in the back of the van they've been driving around making out very aggressively. it's as close as TWD can ever get to a sex scene where people are not having sex because TWD was a cable TV show. It's a very brief scene, less than 30 seconds but it's uhh VERY hot.

after the episode aired, Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln were asked about shooting these scenes on a panel (I can't find a link but if I do I'll put it here/if anyone has one lmk). both of them mention that, while shooting the van scene, there was a take where they got so "carried away" the footage would never be released. the director of the episode also joked he keeps the footage locked up. None of them ever really said what was in the footage but....well, we're all adults and we can all have a guess. and that's all we could do.... UNTIL NOW.

So, there's a podcast called Richonne Revelry, hosted by some huge fans of TWD. In an episode they released earlier this year about the trailer for The Ones Who Live, one of the hosts mentioned that they met, TWD director Greg Nicotero. Nicotero directed 'Say Yes' and so the podcast host says that she asked Nicotero to tell her about the van scene shoot.

ACCORDING TO HER, Nicotero spilled the beans. Apparently, they just set up the gear in the van with no crew as a closed set and told Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln they could just do their thing, which is pretty standard for scenes like that. BUT, according to the host of this podcast, Nicotero said that when his crew got the footage, it was wayyyyyy too raunchy (she says he told her danai was topless for most of it) and danai and andrew were making out so uh.....intensely that the footage couldn't even be spliced to make it appropriate for the show. Danai and Andrew, apparently, were very shocked they had to reshoot because they were actually really happy with it, but Nicotero insisted they do it again and rein it in so they could have some usable footage. The version of the scene we see in the show is the "tame" reshot version, allegedly.

All of this is alleged, of course. A lot of people joke like it's a sex tape, but honestly nudity guidelines for commercial TV are so strict and specific it doesn't take much for any intimate footage to become unusable. Plus, unsimulated sex is a hugeeee no no in mainstream entertainment. Productions get crucified over it. so if that had happened we absolutely would not have heard about it, let alone hear actors joking about it for years. But anyways, that's the lore! One thing we can all agree on is that Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln are DEDICATED to their craft, by all reports lmao. personally, I'm just glad to hear a behind the scenes story about actors getting carried away in the moment which DOESN'T involve anyone getting hurt or mistreated 🥰

[deadpresidents]

After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.

The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.

It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.

Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.

The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.

[ren-from-mars]

Sydney cast of ride the cyclone? On my blog? Yeah of course who the fuck do you take me for

If anyone is going to the evening show on the 12th I’ll be handing out a5 prints of this! And if you aren’t going to the show and are in the area, the show is running until the 22nd at Hayes Theatre!

[secondstar-acorn]

nerdy prudes must die and the teens from dndads s2…the parallels….the chaotic energy….the shitty eldritch town and fate they’ve all been saddled with……

[shakespearenews]

Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken in the stage production Macbeth at Lincoln Center

[rmstitanics]

WEBWEAVE: With Malice Toward None

WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE is a new musical currently in development that recontextualizes the well-known narrative of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency by focusing on his struggle with mental health. Narrated by the Robert Todd Lincoln of 1922, this musical is a complex commentary on the issues of mental health, leadership, and historical memory.

FEATURING QUOTATIONS AND IMAGES PULLED FROM Tumblr, Pinterest, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Jon Meacham), Joshua Wolf Shenk, The History Channel’s Abraham Lincoln docuseries, The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln (Susan B. Martinez).

[shippingdragons]

Toby and I in NYC.

[rkoarmy]

You have 9 chances spread across New England to catch The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Thriller with us!

Get your tickets here 🧟‍♀️

[dig-jules]

insane leap

[kodachrome-net]

Three Penny Cinema, Chicago, October 1990

[tobbogan-13]

OFFICIALLY IN NEW YORK

ft. my horrible picture of the NJ/NY boarder in the lincoln tunnel

HOUR AND A HALF UNTIL GUTENBERG!!!!!!!!!!!

[deadpresidents]

Booth had died onstage dozens of times in Richard III, Hamlet, and Shakespeare's other great tragedies, but tonight he was not playacting. He wanted to go down fighting, not hang like a petty thief. "I have too great a soul to die like a criminal," he wrote in his diary a few nights before. "Oh may he, may he spare me that and let me die bravely." For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at the improvised theatre of Garrett's farm, but also for history.

He had already perpetrated the most flamboyant public murder in American history. Indeed, Booth had not only committed murder, he had performed it, fully staged before a packed house. At Ford's Theatre, Booth broke the fourth wall between artist and audience by creating a new, dark art -- performance assassination.

-- James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

What I think the Clone High clones' favorite musicals would be

Long post ahead!

Joan: Great Comet

It's weird as hell in a super artistic way. The whole show screams her, especially The Opera scene.

Abe: Assassins

Not gonna lie, I chose this one mostly because it's funny to me (like the one scene in the school election ep in s1), but I can also totally see him singing Unworthy of Your Love about Cleo or Joan, depending on what part of the show you're talking about.

Gandhi: Avenue Q

It's outrageous, brash, but full of heart, just like him. Also there was an Easter Bonnet skit that crossed Avenue Q with Fiddler on the Roof (Avenue Jew, no I'm not kidding), which as a Jewish theatre nerd myself just SCREAMS Clone High Gandhi to me

JFK: Book of Mormon

I almost put Assassins for him too but I just think he'd enjoy the humor of the show more, idk why

Cleo: Aida

The Egyptian aesthetics, lavish nature, and romantic themes remind me of her

Frida: Rent

I think she'd like the characters, music style, general aesthetic, and message behind the show. She'd totally drag Cleo to see it and get her into it too

Confucius: Be More Chill

Come on. Come ON

Harriet: Heathers

It's canon she's a theatre kid, and I feel like Veronica would be her dream role. Maybe the brightly colored costumes of the Heathers and Veronica inspired Twister a little /hj

No idea what to put for Topher lmao

[d-criss-news]

[UHQ] How Darren Criss Spends His Sundays (Photo by Gabby Jones for The New York Times)

Photo captions

"Truth is you’re always writing, whether you like it or not."

"At home."

"When we downsized to Hell’s Kitchen in October, we stumbled upon this cute, 47th Street coffee shop called Frisson," Mr. Criss said. "Been going there ever since."

"For exercise, "give me an hour and a park bench," Mr. Criss said, “and I’m good."

"Upon leaving my apartment, I encounter one of two genres of person: tourists or theater people."

"At the Café Carlyle."