#f/o: graffiti pete

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Made these a while ago

(Idea taken from @haretobeloved )

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☂ ( frOM PETE ABT SONNY ; his handle is @slushieking )

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- I(tm)

- AM(tm)

- S T R E S S E D (tm)

- So like first let me say: The kids were FANTASTIC. Best performances of their lives!!!!

- everything that could have possibly gone wrong went the fuck wrong

- A DISASTER

- You know in horror movies were like one person gets infected or some shit but you think everything is fine until suddenly everyone is dying? Literally.

- May I remind you that mics have been perfectly fine all week,

- Opening number, Vanessa is doing her little bit and there’s just a tiny. Glitch.

- Like her mic dropped for half a second. It was hardly noticible. Tom and I literally double checked like “you heard that right?” But it was completely fine so we were like “It’s probably nothing”

- WELL GUESS THE FUCK WHAT

- IT SPREAD LIKE A PLAGUE. IT STARTED SLOW BUT IT SOON CONSUMED THE ENTIRE CAST. THE MICS WOULD GLITCH OUT LIKE EVERY FIVE GOD DAMN SECONDS. JUST IN AND OUT AND IN AND OUT IT WAS T E R R I F Y I N G

- I’m fucking. Borderline screaming. Tom looks like he’s going to punch something and is running around checking for what the problem was. THERE WAS NO VISIBLE PROBLEM. THIS SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN HAPPENING.

- And then it just???? Fucking stopped on it’s own???? What the FUCK. Sometime right before 96,000 it all just went back to normal holy shit

- BUT THEN THE MUSIC WAS LIKE “Is it chill if we just...stop working at random intervals? Gucci.” SO SOMETIMES WE’D HAVE FULL ORCHESTRA AND OTHER TIMES IT WOULD JUST DROP TO ONLY KEYBOARD

- AND something was up with the fucking keyboard’s speaker??? Because of course.

- Guys seriously we literally STILL DON’T KNOW what happened! At intermission Tom and I were just dying and finally he’s like “I don’t care anymore I’m just gonna see what the hell is wrong with the keyboard” and returned 3 minutes later, still no answers, and was like “You know what? ‘Blackout’ sounded fucking amazing and that’s what matters to me” like we honestly just quit oh my God

- However the kids really powered through all the issues and didn’t let it trip them up so that was good

- Meanwhile, though, the audience was FUCKING HILARIOUS I LOVED THEM

- I’m...fully convinced half this audience had never been to a musical before in their entire lives, and even if they had they had never seen or listened to In The Heights so their reactions were great.

- Lot of gasping holy shit it was so funny. “I got more hoes than a phone book in Tokyo” *GASP* “What do I do with this winning ticket?” *G A S P*

- The opening of act 2 when Benny and Nina are on the fire escape and clearly had sex the night before? G A S P

- Guys it was so funny. And they were clearly loving the music and laughing at all the jokes- every scene got deafening applause omfg

- They were all clearly very much sucked into the story so that was just so fun to see

- They tried to cornrow Benny’s hair

- That was quit half way through thank God omfg

- Also mildly off topic but when I was getting his mic on him he hadn’t done his bun yet and that boy has a fantastic head of hair holy shit

- “OH MY GOD THAT HAT CANNOT HAPPEN YOU LOOK LIKE THE PERSON FROM THE LORAX”

- There was a moment before they opened the doors and the entire theater was quiet but suddenly all (like...8 or 9) boys could be heard singing “Baby” by Justin Bieber at the top of their lungs in their dressing room. No explanation as to why

- They announced that the fall show was Pippin and Steven got a fucking baseball bat and starting balancing it on his fingers yelling “JUST IN TIME” (he had apparently ‘just discovered’ this talent on Sunday and has been talking about it like non-stop since)

- The girl playing Graffiti Pete had a bunch of school friends come to the show. They all shrieked every time she opened her mouth holy shit

- Before the show the director was giving notes and she said something like “This is right after Claudia’s death-” and half the cast was like “Tag you’re fucking spoilers” omfg

- And then when mic checks were happening Steven sang “atencion” and Tom cut him off yelling “SPOILERS, SPOILERS” instead of “good” lmao

- Okay so like...is there a little kids show character that I resemble or something????

- There were a lot of kids in the audience (probably like actor’s siblings or something) and like...during intermission an alarming amount of them were staring or waving at me with shy smiles or pointing me out to their parents who seemed to know what they were thinking and I was just like....Who do you think I am?????? Oh my God

- No one actually tried to talk to me but a few looked like they wanted to??? A few even got some of that gentle parental shove thing??? What is happening I’m so confused over this????

- Oh my God you know how in Boy Meets World, Rider Strong hated his fucking hair and as a result we were blessed with Shawn constantly aggressively raking his hair back with his hands???? There was a boy sitting directly in front of me who did that literally the entire show to the point where I was like....You need to stop I gotta see what’s happening on stage omfg

- Also lol I guess he was there for his ensemble sisters(tm) or something bc he cheered for everyone who came out for bows except he booed for one specific group of girls lol

- I was on my phone before the show and the directors husband made Tom get my attention just so he could silently give me a thumbs up before walking away so we were laughing at that

- He did give me free skittles at intermission tho which was rad (he tried to give me like the entire table for free lmao)

- The choreographer was working the spotlight (which she admitted she was confused by) and she was super tired and lowkey joked about falling asleep and falling over on the job before the show started but somewhere during act 2 I fucking saw the sliding spotlight and panicked lmao

- Her and Drew were bonding over being bad at spotlight and everyone in the back area said “you guys are better than Jimmy” in perfect unison lmao

- Usnavi was borderline sobbing by his last line in the finale omg

- We couldn’t fucking get a sound effect for the fireworks so for the final part of ‘blackout’ when you’re supposed to hear them the pianist deadass just whistled the noise omfg

- Nina and Abuela Claudia were the fan favorites, as I predicted

- Benny was a little off his game but I still support him

- Lowkey there’s a couple guys in this show who have never done any shows before and I’m not sure if he’s one of them??? He seems like he is so I think he was probably just nervous or something

- Everyone was sneezing and coughing bc why not

- Before the show the Piragua Guy was berating himself as per usual and the only cheer-me-up anyone could think to give him was “It sounds great! It’s just like, the words that you’re having trouble with!” lmao but he KILLED IT I was v proud the audience loved him

- Like 20 minutes before we let people in we had the directors daughter, in heels, on a fucking ladder painting over parts of the shop signs bc we realized that even though they had professional looking signs made they all had Philadelphia area codes on them lmao

- Oh God. So remember the not-screwed-in door I was complaining about???

- Well. They screwed it in. Backwards.

- And it makes an obnoxious noise when it opens and closes, and also doesn’t close all the way l m a o

- The programs all went missing lmao

- I found one box hidden away thank God but??? Apparently there’s supposed to be more. So we might just run out of programs during the second show

- LMAO DURING HER OPENING SPEECH THE DIRECTOR DEADASS PRONOUNCED LIN MANUEL MIRANDA’S NAME WRONG COULD YOU GET ANY MORE #ICONIC(tm)

- Tom fist pumped multiple times in pride and excitement when the show finally ended lmao

- THE GOT THE GRATE WITH ABUELA CLAUDIA’S FACE ON IT HOOKED UP (another audience gasp moment) AND HONESTLY???? I TEARED UP

- Lmao I’m pretty sure Tom was also lowkey crying at the end I didn’t say anything tho

- There’s more but it’s almost 2 in the morning lmao so anyway!!! Hopefully tomorrow runs a little more smoothly!!! And hopefully we get another great audience!! Overall it was great so I’m all pumped

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- musicals that were sung from tonight at the In The Heights rehearsal: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, Dog Fight, Rent, Legally Blonde, West Side Story, Cabaret, Les Mis, Fiddler on the Roof, 21 Chump Street, Chicago, Shrek, Cats,

- musicals that were not sung from tonight at the In The Heights rehearsal: In The Heights

- Oh God so for like the first 40 minutes Tom was trying to get the lights set properly so he had me turning the house dark and shit except for one light at a time to make sure the positioning was right. During this entire thing, the pianist played the ‘halloween’ theme music

- “some mics just don’t fucking have batteries in them I'm not sure which ones and honestly I just don't care”

- apparently half the cast is afraid of Tom because he yells when he does mic checks lmao

- Tom, high pitched, confused and fake emotional voice “I’m not yelling I’m just projecting-”

- Nina’s Dad(tm) went up on the fire escape to practice his ‘atencion’ song and he’s like “What if instead I just did Javert’s suicide. Like what the fuck could you guys do to stop me”

- “I’m getting great reactions!!!! ...From some people.”

- The piano’s speaker lowkey stopped working for like 5 minutes and the whole time Tom was just staring at the soundboard saying “interesting” in the most forced casual voice

- “This is definitely a three or four coffees kind of day”

- THE PIRAGUA GUY IS SO FUCKING LOUD

- During his two solos he’s like??? A normal person??? But any group song he has lines in he’s SCREAMING. Holy shit we literally just had to turn his mic off because he was gonna blow it out omfg

- Usnavi still is barely acting but on the bright side he’s getting better at his LMM impression

- Sonny KILLED it tonight I felt like a proud mom(tm)  (bc he’s been kinda stumbling all week lol)

- During ‘Benny’s Dispatch’ the kid brought out the entire box instead of just the microphone and almost died as a result lmao

- The dancing is getting better!!! There are just some spots where it’s like, vaguely uncomfortable and doesn’t seem to fit in

- “Drew stop you can’t play Phantom of the Opera for the scene transition music”

- Could people like....know their cues for props and shit?

- “Guys that sounded INCREDIBLE! I’m BLOWN AWAY! I could really feel the emotion!”

- “Mrs. P that was the Broadway cast recording”

- “...oh.”

- Literally I think she’s now seriously considering just having the bway recording and have the kids sing along to it o m f g

- Much debate over whether or not they’re actually pronouncing some of the Spanish words correctly

- The act 2 opener ‘sunrise’ is just...a Problem

- Like it’s SO BAD

- Both Benny and Nina are great singers but it’s all over the place and the ensemble??? Isn’t doing their part half the time??? Fully wondering if they ever bothered to run that before

- “Yo, you paged me?” “I thought she fucking moved the year to 2017″

- Honestly say what you will but the best part of the entire show is Graffiti Pete appearing from an alley and just saying “Yo, buy my fucking t-shirt” to Usnavi lol

- Usnavi like,,,put on a different shirt for Act 2. why,

- The red one just feels the most #iconic(tm) you know??? And he hasn’t changed during the other rehearsals I Was Not On Board

- Act 1 is still....so fucking much better and well rehearsed than act 2

- Usnavi’s beard stayed in place today!!! Vanessa was safe!!! lol

- tomorrow is the Final Rehearsal(tm)....paciencia y fe(tm)