#THeatre

[cherriielle]

Melpomene & Thalia ☄

[nicolovespancakes]

This is absolutely what it feels like.

And I stage managed a major production recently. I would know.

Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.

[very-tired-rat]

i understand why they usually call darry 'darrel' in the musical, because guys, we need to understand that this is live theatre and Darry and dally sound very similar. One person slips up and suddenly the plot has completely changed.

[invisibleicewands]

‘I’m bursting with ideas’: Michael Sheen launches new national theatre for Wales

Michael Sheen, a global star of screen and stage, is spearheading a new national theatre for Wales, promising to create big, bold plays that bring vital stories about his homeland to life.

Sheen said he was bursting with ideas and promised to appear in the newly forged Welsh National Theatre’s first production, a “foundation” story about Wales staged at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

The actor, who has been announced as artistic director of the theatre company, told the Guardian that Wales’s stories were “under-explored in the English language”.

Sheen said: “Could you tell me the name of the great play about Aberfan or the Merthyr Rising or the Rebecca riots? Where is our Welsh canon of great plays? We can’t do Under Milk Wood for the rest of eternity. I’m bursting with ideas people are bursting with work that they want to do with us and that’s what’s really exciting about it.”

Just before Christmas, National Theatre Wales, which was established in 2009, announced it had “ceased to exist” after its Arts Council of Wales funding was cut. It has evolved into Team (theatre, education, arts, music), focusing on grassroots work.

Sheen said his new company did not yet have funding. “But that suits my way of thinking. I like the idea of starting small, simple, lean and building it up, working with what you’ve got. Don’t pay for swanky offices if you don’t need them, build it slowly with care and with passion and with vision and with ambition.

“We aim to represent the Welsh people so I would hope that public bodies would be prepared to work with us. I think probably history tells us that relying too much on any one source of funding makes you a bit vulnerable so I first and foremost would hope that this company can stand on its own two feet but we are open to working with whoever wants to get involved.”

Sheen said he was thinking big.

He said: “My instinct has always been, rightly or wrongly, that when people around you are saying: ‘No, you can’t have that, you can’t do that,’ to go even bigger and bolder and go, no we’re not going to do that, we’re going to do 10 times that.”

Sheen said he was not in a position to reveal details of performances but said the plan was to do one production a year. “The plan to begin with is do big plays really well for big audiences. I’m starting to commission writers.”

Sheen said he was also speaking with organisations such as Welsh National Opera and the Welsh language company Theatr Cymru about working together.

He said: “I’m talking about big bold ambitious world stage productions of plays about who we are, where we’ve come from, how we got to where we are and where are we going.

“The first production will be on the Millennium Centre stage. It will be a new Welsh play, it will star Welsh actors including myself, and it will be one of the foundation stories of who we are as a nation.” Sheen said the first production should be staged next year.

He was working on Nye, the hugely successful play on the life of the Welsh politician and NHS architect Aneurin Bevan, at the National Theatre in London last year when it became clear that National Theatre Wales was in deep trouble.

The company was close to Sheen’s heart as he starred in and co-directed its most celebrated work, The Passion, a modern re-telling of the crucifixion featuring hundreds of local people. “That was a life-changing experience for me,” he said.

Sheen spoke to fellow Welsh actors about what should come next. “I realised I was probably the leading candidate for what could happen now. My feeling was very strongly that it should be a completely new company. It should be a fresh start, a new charity, a new board of governors. I didn’t want to take something over I wanted to start afresh.”

When Nye transferred to the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, the experience reinforced Sheen’s determination to launch a new national theatre for Wales.

Sheen said: “You know that phrase: ‘Build it and they will come.’ It was rammed every performance – they were bringing chairs from the bar to get more people in. The appetite for it was extraordinary and it was hugely moving to perform that to a Welsh audience. People were seeing a play about them and their lives and their history and their story. That was revelatory to me.”

[soupsoupsou]

when i was a sixteen year old theatre kid, another sixteen year old theatre kid proudly proclaimed that he would be performing "Bohemian Rhapsody by Panic! at the Disco" in front of a state competition. my poor 30-something bisexual theatre teacher looked like she'd just watched someone die.

nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed

[ncuts]

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Coming soon to certain cinemas worldwide and online

IM SO EXCITED

[isaiahpadams]

[teenytinysandwiches]

JJ's Gatsby Finale Countdown | Day 8 ↳ Jeremy dancing in socks during Shady

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who likes this change!

Honestly, I kinda prefer movie Fiyero? I love the stage version too, don't get me wrong, but Jonathan Bailey brings such a tenderness to the role.

It kind of reminds me of the movie version of Raoul from Phantom of the Opera (though Wicked is a MUCH better movie). I'm not a big Raoul girlie, not because I prefer the Phantom with Christine (I'm personally team "they both suck and Christine deserves better than both of them"), but because I never really liked how Raoul didn't seem to take Christine's concerns seriously.

He always seemed so dismissive of her in the stage version, though I guess that's more accurate to the original novel. With Patrick Wilson, though, he's a lot more gentle with her. You can tell he cares about her and means well, even if he doesn't understand. The best version of Phantom, including casting, is the 25th anniversary, but I'd love to see a version with Hadley Fraser performing the role like Patrick Wilson did, if that makes sense

Anyway, no disrespect to stage!Fiyero or any of the incredible actors who have played him, but Jonathan Bailey might just be my favorite version: not just because he's a fantastic actor and singer plus he's ridiculously hot and I love the chaotic bisexual energy he brings to the role, but also because you can tell right away how much he truly cares about Elphie.

#rip to another iconic fiyero line

[garadinervi]

Philip Glass – Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts, Text by Christopher Knowles, Dance diagrams by Andy de Groat and Lucinda Childs, Dramaturgical essays by Richard Foreman and Vicky Alliata, EOS enterprises, New York, NY, 1976 [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. © Robert Wilson, Philip Glass]

[hannah-lou]

Saw phantom of the opera in london today!!!

That also had some props from the 2004 movie! 😍😍😍

[yourhelenwolf]

J. P. Verhay's (?) sketches of the scenery for the play "Robespierre" based on the drama written by Romain Rolland in 1939.

All sketches from The Gedenkstätte und Museum Trutzhain. Collection 1939-45: Kriesgefangenenlager STALAG IX A Ziegenhain ( https://hessen.museum-digital.de/object/172050 , https://hessen.museum-digital.de/object/172004 )

Tableau 12, 21 and a "Portrait with a guillotine" belonged to prisoner of war Reé Huc.

[thedeadleafs]

The dancer, singer, and actress Spinelly discovered Charles Gesmar at the tender age of 15. He designed costumes for her. By 1917, depressed and neurotic, he threatened to kill himself after an argument with Spinelly; the bullet went into the basement water-tank instead, flooding the house. That was the end of the Spinnelly-Gesmar relationship; Mistinguett would then take the young prodigy under her wing.

1919

[etherealpixie8]

okay I need to talk about this bc it’s actually pissing me off 😭😭

let’s make this clear - at the end of the day what celebrities do with their lives in NONE of our business. Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster and Debbora Lee are NOT obligated to share anything about their personal lives whatsoever.

second, there is no solidifying proof that he cheated on his ex wife. do you know how many rumors explode when some divorces and gets with someone else? Hugh and Debbora have also been divorced since 2023, so that’s a considerable amount of time to get with someone else.

“oh, she (Debbora) liked a post (posted by a GOSSIP blog abt him cheating) about it from her private instagram!” how do you know that’s her account? is there any proof of that? just because Debbora’s friend says she’s gonna “move on” or whatever does not indicate he cheated on her. it’s literally making me so mad seeing people be like “oh, leaving Hugh behind” or “deleting all my posts!” LIKE STOPPPP AND PLEASE DO UR RESEARCH.

do you know how many celebrities have cheated on their spouses? it doesn’t make it okay, but when someone ACTUALLY cheats they fan base is still there, but when it comes to Hugh and it’s a RUMOR everyone is suddenly gonna dip??? like hello???

it’s the SAME thing with Barry and Sabrina. he literally had to deactivate some of his social media bc he was receiving sooooooo much harassment for it. for something that may not even be true!!! js bc a couple breaks up doesn’t automatically mean one of them cheated 😭

guys we learn how to not spread rumors, so can we like not? leave him alone and leave Debbora and Sutton alone? if Deb actually got cheated on then that really sucks. but again it’s THEIR PERSONAL LIVES and we have ZERO credible and solidifying proof that Hugh cheated.

sorry needed to rant bc it was making me so mad.