#Someone Spectacular

[frontmezzjunkies]

Something Almost Spectacular Waits Inside Feraud's "Someone Spectacular"

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #DoménicaFeraud's new play #SomeoneSpectacular d: #TatianaPandiani w/ #DeliaCunningham #AlisonCimmet #GamzeCeylan #DamienYoung #AnaCruzKayne #ShakurTolliver at #PershingSquareSignatureCenter #OffBroadway

Gamze Ceylan, Delia Cunningham, Alison Cimmet, Damien Young, Shakur Tolliver, and Ana Cruz Kayne in Someone Spectacular. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Someone Spectacular By Ross The dynamics of the group start long before the lights in the theatre dim, even before we are all seated in the small theatrical space of the Pershing Square Signature Center for Someone…

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

someone spectacular

August 5, 2024 | Off-Broadway | Signature Theatre | Matinee | Play | Original | 1H 30M

Six people gather for their weekly grief session, but when their counselor is a no-show, things go a little off-the rails. I'm a big fan of stories of grief and mourning. The visceral ache of it is a feeling I love to experience secondhand. While I didn't get much of that here, I still really enjoyed the concept and the characters, all of whom are distinct and familiar. It's not a particularly revolutionary show in terms of what it does and says (and while I got a good snicker about the flagrant Sondheim "No One is Alone" references, it was a little too precious). Some of the acting came off uneven at times, with line deliveries falling flat, which isn't unusual during summer theatre. It's off-season. Most established companies are dark. Experienced stage actors either pick up a few TV guest spots or travel for summer stock. I don't want to say that there's no high-quality actors in new shows left in NYC this time of year, but like... And the direction too wasn't quite strong enough, though I chalk that up to a young director still finding their footing. The ending was, apparently, changed late in previews, and while I don't know what it was before, I do know that this wasn't the answer.

In all, I liked it. I enjoyed myself. I'm glad I saw it, and I'm glad I was able to get a comp ticket. I'd like to see this show go through another round of workshopping, have a more experienced director and cast, and capitalize the title.

Verdict: A Lovely Night

A Note on Ratings

Unrelated, but one of the actresses looked strikingly like a younger Judy Kuhn stretched vertically.

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

TARA: Wait, someone was kidnapped and tortured?!?!

MORGAN: Oh, yeah, standard.

EMILY: Pfft. Tuesday. I have a membership card.

JJ: Been there.

SPENCER: Been there, bought a house, moved in, now I’m remodelling the kitchen.

PENELOPE: *winks at Tara* Don’t worry, you’ll get your turn.

TARA: What the f-

​talented. brilliant. incredible. amazing. showstopping. spectacular. never the same. totally unique. completely not ever been done before.

[baejax-the-great]

My brother died very suddenly yesterday.

He was the kind of person who always had dozens and dozens of friends everywhere he went because he was easy to talk to and funny and treated people with respect, and his friends ranged in class, race, age, social ability, introversion and extroversion--no matter who you were, he could and would befriend you.

He would scold me for not asking him for help when I needed it, and he would mean it. He taught me to tip well. He loved helping people. He played practical jokes on the new kids at work, including getting one guy to "chop flour" because the flour they had in the kitchen was "too coarse."

He introduced me to some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. He would always help with a recipe that wasn't working. He would tell me what to buy my foodie friends for their birthdays, and he never got it wrong. He loved meat and whiskey but also wine and fruit and he got me to eat beets even because he knew how to make anything good.

Mostly, he thought that people were all deserving of respect and decency. He was outspoken on this. For all that his friends ranged across demographics, he didn't tolerate anyone being hateful around him. But even then, he was nice about it. He would try to get people to come around to his side. He saw the good in people.

And he was happy. He had finally quit chewing tobacco and managed to stay off it for three years. He had a girlfriend he really liked. The pandemic had put him out of work for over a year, but he was back at his job and doing well and he liked it. He was good at it. And it's complete bullshit that he's gone.

[grymmdark]

we need more preening content in the trigun fandom. vash got all those feathers and yet i haven't seen that much fanart or fanfic of what if he needed help preening them. the intimacy of something like that, especially combined with how vashs wings are something which he views as terrifying and monstrous, and yet needing someone to gently and carefully comb thru those feathers for potentially hours to clean them just. aughh it drives me insane

not to mention that if it's wolfwood whose doing it that adds even more angst and intimacy. the way he sees himself as unfit to hold the children at the orphanage, and how his hands are only good for violence. the idea of vash, who is angelic, asking him to use his bloodstained hands and to be gentle and to not only touch his wings but groom them just. auagajai...

[sukibenders]

Anthony doesn't get enough flack from this fandom if I'm being honest, like most of it is pushed onto other female characters while he gets the "he was struggling," excuse. And while he was struggling, there's definitely validity to that, he also should not have his actions (eg. playing with Kate's feelings, putting her and Edwina in a difficult situation, etc) excused because of that.

[kennethbrangh]

Ian McShane in American Star (2024)

[clownprince]

hi don't mind me just thinking about how harley interpreted batman showing up at joker's execution in his dream as joker's desire for batman to save him (maybe from the execution maybe in general?) and the implication that she finally left him because his dream implied that if anyone were to save him it would be batman not harley...

[caliburn-the-sword]

The School for Good and Evil (Somain Chainani) to Ever After High to Descendants to The Land of Stories (Chris Colfer) to Once Upon a Time pipeline is REAL and needs to be talked about more

[lostlavenderer]

I too would love a Haymitch POV, but you know what POV I'd love to see in sunrise? Haymitch's mentor.

Allegedly, at least according to the Capitol, there's no previous victor of district 12, so I'm assuming the mentor must be Capitol-assigned. However, other districts like 1 and 2 will have had countless of winners after 49 games, in fact I'm guessing most districts will have victors as mentors. But not district twelve, not yet.

I wonder how it would feel, as a Capitol citizen, to be so excited to be assigned a mentor position, to dress up all flashy for it and to then sit in a room filled with anxious, deeply traumatized people watching what you consider the Eurovision of your youth as they quietly despise every second of it and watch in horror as you laugh and clap. It must be so strange, so isolating and uncanny, so unlike everything you've ever known to hear these victors' snide comments towards the gamemakers, their ungratefulness for what they've gotten from their own victories and their unfiltered hatred that hides behind the famous, glorious personas you know them as. Every second in the training center with your two tributes, in the moments shared with your fellow mentors as they gear up to talk to sponsors as if they're readying for battle, it all leaves small cracks in the worldview you've gotten so comfortable with for all your life.

Yeah, I truly wonder how that mentor must feel.

[rebka18]

babygirl pose:

[pushing500]

i desired to try out your mod list, and figured i'd make it easier for anyone else - here's a link to a steam mod collection matching the content of your modlist as of sept 12th. Simply add back in the . before com to make it work, as the ask box did not like the link.

https://steamcommunity com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3330063892

I couldn't find one mod, While You’re Up (PUAH), so that's not included, and it'd be great if you could specify the author so I could fix that?

This is so amazing!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I'll pop the link to the collection here for easier access.

I also checked, and it looks like the 'While You're Up' mod had its name changed, but it's this one. A very useful mod to have, for sure!

[tinyclowndancer]

pspspsps porretta besties from the dark place who refused to bring this song to its end here's a little something for you. 🎙️

[grymmdark]

i really like the idea of an AU where vash and wolfwood kinda get forced into co-parenting a baby independent plant. like vash hears about a towns plant thats dying and goes to check up on it and then he walks outta there holding a baby and both him and wolfwood are very confused and stressed cus they cam barely take care of themselves let alone a baby let alone a baby whose development and care neither of them know jack shit about.

i think being forced into a situation where they both have to care for another living being together would probably be enough to force them to confess their love, or at least be much more obvious about it but technically never say anything even though they both very much are aware theyre in love.

[lalalaugenbrot]

Musst keine Angst haben. Jeder hat mal so angefangen.

Coming Out (1989), dir. Heiner Carow

[kpopulr]

Seeing Hangyul in all these different group-making shows really breaks my heart. He's so freakin' talented and clearly born to be on the stage. Why he's not just having heaps and heaps of attention, success and love wherever he goes is baffling to me. :'(