#Queens Playhouse

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - February 28th, 1986 - Queen Story!

Queen shoots promo video for "A Kind Of Magic" (from 'A Kind Of Magic' album)

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Filming Location: Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, London, UK

Filmed in the disused Playhouse Theatre in London's Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross, the video was Queen's first to include animation since Save Me, with computer graphics bringing the characters from the cover of the new album to dazzling life as, among other things, the band's backing singers.

The theatre was once used by the BBC to record programming for radio, and this was the inspiration for the video itself - Freddie is the magician who returns to the abandoned theatre where he was once a star and turns three down-and-out squatters (Brian, Roger and John) into his band. The shoot itself was somewhat less magical - the theatre lacked central heating and was very cold, much to the discomfort of the band and the crew.

(➡️ source: queenpedia.com website)

📸 Pic: 1986 - Quee with Russell Mulcahy (director)

[crispy-dib]

Chronic fatigue is starting to fuck off so get ready for me to post things every five minutes

Things that are coming

• the final day of serennedy pride week

• an update to my main Sam and Max au, a masterpost explaining everything included

• Ramón Salazar/Queen Plaga painting

• more serennedy lmao

• oc art and maybe lore

• an animation on the date of TDPHR’s release.

• gameplay of BOTH Rem4ke and TDPHR through my new ps4

Thanks, stay tuned everyone :)

[lavendersartistry]

So one of the fans of the AU @eclipsewarrior101 made a idea some time ago about how Theodore's soul wouldn't be able to stay at rest so it possessed a mini CatNap.

At first I didn't think of it and was like: "Yeah, that'd be a cool thing someone within the fandom did." and my dumb self watched videos of brown cats and I couldn't stop thinking about the idea so now I'm like:

So "Theodore's soul possessing a mini CatNap" is now canon to Matron in the Playhouse. This idea was made by @eclipsewarrior101 so please check them out.

Feel free to ask about this, because I'm thinking about this a lot now.

[rickyrainfrog]

NOOOO WAYYYYY

[onceuponatimeinthe70s]

The Opening Act - A Musical Minefield

Alan Fairley: August 2024 During the early part of the 1970s there was a popular saying within the music industry-‘If you want to be successful, open the show for Mott the Hoople.’This philosophy was largely based on the experiences of two hitherto unheralded British bands who had latched onto the coattails of Mott’s ever increasing popularity around that time and who supported them on their UK…

[strazcenter]

Jobsite’s Love Affair With McDonagh

By David M. Jenkins In 2003 we staged our first play by London-bred Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. During that run, Straz Center then-CEO Judy Lisi made us an offer to become their resident theater company and effectively take over programming of the Shimberg Playhouse. Now that our residency is old enough to drink, we’re returning to this pitch-black tale as part…

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

Bon Voyage, Monsieur

On July 13, 1952, Charles Boyer was on his way to America aboard the RMS Queen Mary. He is shown here at Waterloo Station on the day of his departure, catching the boat train for Southampton. His film Happy Time, set to be released in October, would win him a Golden Globe nomination. He also was appearing at the time in the televison anthology, Four Star Playhouse, for which he was nominated for…

[thatawkwardmoth]

I'm sorry but if you think Logan would be a bad dad or just straight up not care about his children, read the comics or watch X-Men evolution.

Yes, Logan is a brute and he's 'not nice' a lot of the time. But if you think that this man wouldn't raise Laura, Gabby, Jubilee and all his other little shitheads out in a cabin in Canada, far away from people (but close enough for cell service, he gets it Jubilee, please stop yelling in his ear about Instagram), you're dead wrong.

Gabby's room would have built in bookshelves and she'd have a killer treehouse outside, her bedframe would be hand carved wood with pieces meant to withstand her claw for a while. She'd have plushies and posters and whatever she wanted. Logan could go without food for a while just for her to get the things she liked. She could not go without food and neither could the rest of the shitheads. Yes, Laura is her main adult but Logan won't let Gabby have a lackluster childhood.

Laura's room would be covered. With whatever she wanted. Even if she changed her mind and redecorated a thousand times, it's her room. It's not a cell or some blank white room. She's not X-23. She's his girl, the Wolverine. She can have a small gym set up to train and keep her active, 100%. But she'll come to eat when called and won't overdo it, healing factor or not. Or Logan will lock the door and ground her. He keeps the porch light on for her every night, knowing sometimes she just wants to run, to stretch her legs and feel the freedom she has. He'll wait on the porch, beer in hand and offer her some food when she's back. Tell her Gabby's asleep and she's fine, like Laura can't hear her snoring. She's got his attitude and they butt head but he'll always be the first to remind her she's not an experiment. She can put up a hundred dumb posters and read a hundred dumb books that aren't educational, he doesn't care. He'll even listen with minimal grumbling.

Jubilee's room is more adult than her old one is. It's got a jack and jill bathroom that leads to Shogo's little nursery. It's not used very often, but it's got all the updated supplies, for her and the baby. She's got the whole lawn to use her powers and not deal with complaints (unless it's the people inside the house), a hand made playhouse for Shogo when he gets older. She's got it all, whenever she wants to just run away. Whenever she needs a vacation or just to come see him.

Kitty's got one too, it's not changed. She can be the Red Queen to Krakoa, the fearsome Shadowcat to others but she's still got a room at his cabin with pictures upon pictures lining the walls, plush X-Men toys bought with Jubilee to annoy them, little notes from Rachel and Illyana. It's like a piece of the old Shadowcat Logan refuses to let Kitty Kate get rid of. She's got her own bathroom so she stops phasing through the doors and walls of the other ones without knocking and she's got a little balcony for her plants to die on because she never remembers to water them and Logan also forgets even though he tries to remember.

Logan's got a room that he hardly ever uses. He finds the girls in it (and his sons sometimes) in it more than he is. His bed is the communal 'i had a nightmare but we're not talking about it' place. It's the only reason he's got a TV in there. To turn on whatever dumb thing they want to watch, even if he hates it, he'll sit through nine seasons. There are stickers on his dresser (on most things actually, Gabby's personal signature), a giant plush dog bed for Jonathan the Wolverine, multiple pillows he doesn't use but they do. He even made sure to buy a comfortable blanket set even though he doesn't care at all when it comes to himself. He's survived worse but if it brings them comfort, he's going that extra mile.

He's stunted emotionally and sometimes messes up but this cabin, the one he's fixed up and added onto, he knows he did right by them with this. But he refuses to fix the creaky steps or the painted light switches, the chipped tiles or the old decorations that he shoves in the attic. Those are the character the house has, memories he doesn't want to lose like he's lost so many before.

[darkbluekies]

While waiting for new onwshots, may I interest you in rereading some my favorites?

Silas:

Secrets [♤♥︎🖤👥️☆] Stolen part [♥︎♤🌧] Be mine (you have no fucking choice) [♥︎🖤♤ ☆ ] Intruder 2024 vers [♥︎🖤👥️☆]

Dr Kry:

Make things right? Or make them worse? [♥︎🖤👥️🌧] Sea sick [♥︎♡] (UNDERRATED PERSONALLY ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITES!!!!!) The cynical playhouse [♥︎🖤👥️☆🌧♡] Deja vu / welcome home [♥︎👥️️]

King Edmund:

In the dungeon [♥︎🌧♡] A little game [♥︎🖤👥️🌧☆] Cannot take what was never meant to leave [♥︎🌧🗣🖤] Dance, my puppet [♥︎] Catch the queen[♥︎🖤] (I want to make a 2025 version of this but the original has potential so im still putting it here!)

Jerry:

Trick or treat, end in defeat [♥︎🖤♤] Starstruck [♥︎♡] Hunted [♥︎🖤👥️️♤]

Hedwig:

Like a fly in a trap [🖤♡♥︎🌧] Young Love ♥︎♡🌧 I'd kill for you! [♥︎♡🌧☆] I've got my eye on you [♥︎♡]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Mildred Natwick - ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, a play produced at Mt. Kisco's Westchester Playhouse (1937)

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Dame Julie Andrews: Polly Brown in The Boy Friend (1954 Broadway); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1956 Broadway); Queen Guinevere in Camelot (1960 Broadway)

Dame Maggie Smith: Viola in Twelfth Night (1952 Oxford Playhouse); New Faces of 1956 (1956 Broadway); Doreen in The Private Ear (1962 West End); Belinda in The Public Eye (1962 Oxford); Mary McKellaway in Mary, Mary (1963 West End)

Propaganda under the cut.

Julie Andrews:

Maggie Smith:

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

“I had no idea I was going to shoot Queen as the record company just told me to turn up outside The Playhouse Theatre on The Embakment. I was told Freddie wasn’t very well and he only appeared to perform and then went back to rest. He did perform and looked great as the ‘dark magician’ character"

- MacKenzie Matthews photographer

👉Late February 1986 - Freddie Mercury on the set of promotional video ' A Kind Of Magic'.

Director Russell Mulcahy; Filmed in the disused Playhouse Theatre in London's Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross, London, UK

📸 Photo Credit Photographer Neil MacKenzie Matthews

👉 Source: "SNAP! Music Photography Vol. 1" book

👉👉 March 17th, 1986 - Queen Story!

'A Kind Of Magic' / 'A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling' released in the UK

👉 Taken 'A Kind Of Magic' album; Reached No 3 in UK charts

👉 'A Kind Of Magic' written by Roger Taylor but...

🔸"We all have our own ideas of how song should be, because I mean a song can be done in so many different ways, depending on of who is doing it.

But sometimes I just feel that it's not right and like in case of Roger's track, which is Magic, I mean, he did it in totally different way, which is quite good, but I just felt that it was another commercial streak, and I just realized that he was going away to LA, and I just got hold of it. I just changed the arrangement completely. And when he came back, I said, 'What do you think?', and he said 'Oh, I like it!'.

It was a completely different song, but you know, it's something, sometimes you can see something else in other people's songs"

- Freddie Mercury

Interview 1986

👉 Roger's version is at the end of the film; Freddie's version is on the album

[bunnelbaby]

With the winter season upon us, here is a list of miscellaneous specials to help you get in the spirit of the holidays.

❆ Olive the Other Reindeer

❆ Santa Claus is Coming to Town

❆ Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

❆ Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

❆ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

❆ Wild Kratts A Creature Christmas

❆ Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

❆ Blue’s Clues: Blue’s Holiday Adventures with Josh (Compilation)

❆ Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah

❆ Elena of Avalor: Festival of Lights!

❆ The Magic School Bus: Holiday Special

❆ A Rugrats Kwanzaa

❆ Sesame Street: Kwanzaa

❆ Dinosaur Train: Don’s Winter Wish/Festival of Lights

❆ The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas!

❆ Miffy and Friends Winter episodes

❆ The First Snow of Winter

❆ Postman Pat’s Christmas Special

❆ Maisy the Mouse (Miscellaneous)

❆ Kipper and the Igloo/Kipper and the Snowy Day/The Big Freeze/Tiger’s Sled/Christmas Eve

❆ Jack Frost

❆ Nanalan: First Snow

❆ Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theater: The Year Scroogenip Swiped Christmas

❆ Hello Kitty Santa’s Missing Hat

❆ Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

❆ The Nutcracker: Starring Elmo & Tango (Sesame Street)

❆ Little Bear - Snowball Fight/Winter Solstice/Snowbound

❆ Max & Ruby - Max’s Christmas/Ruby’s Snow Queen/Max’s Rocket Run

❆ Elmo’s World: Happy Holidays!

❆ Frosty the Snowman

❆ Franklin’s Magic Christmas

❆ A Muppet Family Christmas

❆ Sid the Science Kid: Sid’s Holiday Adventure

❆ Scooby Doo Haunted Holidays

❆ Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas

❆ An All Dogs Christmas Carol

❆ Super Why!: Twas the Night Before Christmas

❆ The Snowman

❆ The Snowman and the Snow Dog

❆ Father Christmas

❆ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Snowflake Day

❆ The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree

❆ Barbie in A Christmas Carol

❆ Care Bears The Nutcracker

❆ A Garfield Christmas

[lavendersartistry]

The Survivors

Among the heretics are child survivors, saved by most of the critters and CatNap during the Hour of Joy.

Since the Safe House is structured under the Home Sweet Home mansion, a lot of resources within the area are used to make the Safe House feel like a better home for the children.

Children are assigned to 1 or 2 BBI experiment and have a specific accessory to define which children is connected to which critter.

Smiling Critters:

Bobby Bearhug - Rose/Heart necklace

Bubba Bubbaphant - Book charm bracelet

CraftyCorn - Rainbow headband

DogDay - Sun charm bracelet

Hoppy Hopscotch - Green lightning bolt leg warmers

KickinChicken - Star bandanna

PickyPiggy - Apple charm bracelet

[ There is nothing for CatNap. ]

Magical Zoo:

Eve Ewe - Lotus charm bracelet

Dee Dragonette - Dragon horn headband

SillySquirrel - Spiral necklace

Wally Webbs - Spiderweb backpack

[ There is nothing for Ginger K. ]

Bolt - Stormy cloud bandanna

Zuri - Fake pearl bracelet

Perfect Pets:

Lovely Lady - Light blue bows

Danny Doberman - Spiked headband

Clara Cowbell - Bell attached to belt

Insect Friends:

Betty Bumblebee - Honeycomb charm bracelet

Barbie Bumblebee - Bumblebee necklace

Molly Mantis - Cherry Blossom backpack

Flora Faerie - Fake fairy wings

Ladie - Ladybug backpack

Anty Ant - [Favorite Food] charm bracelet

The children are not allowed out of the Safe House unless with one or more of the heretics.

All children are given a series of fake names to be called by if they go out of the Safe House with a heretic so no enemies are able to know their true identity.

All children are partnered up with a sane mini critters as a pet companion.

[shakespearenews]

Elizabeth Russell was just as fiercely territorial in London, where she maintained a mansion in the upmarket district of Blackfriars. In 1596 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the playing company to which William Shakespeare belonged, was facing a crisis. The lease for the land where the acting troupe’s main venue, the Theatre in Shoreditch, stood was about to expire. Facing an uncertain future, the impresario James Burbage, who had created the Theatre, sunk a fortune into a new venture: a playhouse in Blackfriars. It cost a colossal £1,000 to purchase and renovate the property.

Unfortunately for Burbage and the players, the theatre was just over 120 feet from Elizabeth’s doorstep. Neither she nor her neighbours had objected to a previous theatre nearby, which had operated under the guise of a ‘private’ rehearsal space for the queen’s choristers (even though the paying public had attended performances there). But when she discovered that a ‘common playhouse’ was about to open in her elegant neighbourhood she was furious.

Galvanising her local community into action, Elizabeth got up a petition against the opening of the Blackfriars Theatre. Among its 30 signatories were Richard Field, Shakespeare’s first publisher, and Sir George Carey, the playing company’s patron. Neither dared object to Elizabeth’s anti-theatrical uprising.

[ofmdrecaps]

10/18/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Con O'Neill; Vico Ortiz; Boris McGiver; Guz Khan; Gypsy Taylor; Selenis Leyva; Tim Heidecker; Cohen Holloway; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Today's Taika

Hey crew. I spoke too soon on my dad, he's been sent back to the hospital so I'll be back to "who knows" when these will be posted-- which is basically as I have time. Sorry all. I would just expect them to be delayed a few days. Take care and stay safe out there, ya hear?

= Rhys Darby =

Rhys is back to his Murray duties and spreading the word for his son Finn's band-- Great Big Cow! Check them out Live at Heaven Can Wait NYC on December 16th!

Source: Rhys Instagram

= Taika Waititi =

Taika back at the TIFF!

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Source: Tiff Instagram

= Con O'Neill =

Con O’Neill’s film The Men will be one of the films screened at Alnwick Playhouse 25th October. 7.30. £6. Get your tickets here!

Source: KrisDeeds

= Vico Ortiz =

Vico was out with Jack at -- well Nights of The Jack! Two years in a row!

Source: Vico Ortiz and Rabbit Glitter Instagram

= Boris McGiver =

Father Bonnet's new show -- Teacup is getting rave reviews from Stephen King! New Episodes every Thursday on Peacock if you're into horror shows!

Source: Boris McGiver's Instagram Stories

= Guz Khan =

More shots from Man From Mobeen!

Source: Guz' Instagram

= Gypsy Taylor =

I couldn't find anything specific on "The Minkie Awards" but it looks like director Minkie Spiro gives out these fun awards to the talent that works with her! (If you happen to know more please let me know!) As you can see, Gypsy got one for being the Queen of brilliance she is!

Source: Gypsy Taylor's Instagram

= Selenis Leyva =

Hey! Do you remembe Selenis Leyva, aka Nana? She just got married!

= Tim Heidecker =

Hey! Fabulous news -- On Oct 18th, Tim Heidecker, aka Mary's beloved Doug, has a new album out called Slipping Away! He had some interesting things to say about it in Variety! It's up on Spotify if you wanna check it out!

= Cohen Holloway =

Cohen Holloway aka Pop Pop has more news! He's been nominated for the New Zealand TV Awards for Best Actor in Dark City - The Cleaner! Gratz sir!

Source: NZTV Awards

== Love Notes ==

I hope you all are being kind to yourselves lovelies. I know this life can be hard. I really do. You got this though ok? Good luck this week.

Source: Stay Close To Yourself Instagram

Source: Tania'sCreativeWander

== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

Don't ask me the theme on this one, they just made me smile. Gifs courtesy of the wonderful @kiwistede and @noneviljen!