#little Theatre

[barbielore]

Back in the earlier days of Barbie, when the brand was only just developing, Mattel already had their eyes set on sets themed around characters and archetypes known to their audiences outside of Barbie as an aspirational figure herself.

We may think fondly about sets like 1999's King Arthur and Guinevere, for example.

But 36 years prior, in 1963, there was another Guinevere and King Arthur release: as a part of the Little Theatre series.

The Little Theatre series featured costumes, scripts, and a stage setpiece for Barbie, Ken, Midge, and any of their other friends to put on a show.

Not all of these are necessarily particularly culturally sensitive, as we can see by the inclusion of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "A Thousand & One Nights". Perhaps sticking with Red Riding Hood and Cinderella was the better choice after all.

I am quite charmed by the whole set, cultural insensitivity aside, and I think they show a delightful creativity.

Of particular interest to audiences might be this old print ad which reminds us that all of Ken's clothes fit Allan, and all of Barbie's clothes fit Midge. Just in case we forgot!

[spawksstuff]

The De Completionist Checklist Part 2/?

1950-1952

Note on the dates: I will mostly be going by when a show/movie was shot (or when De was signed to do it) rather than it's release date.

My score: 4 / 9

Need To Find: Taxi, Danger, Plainsclothesman, Armstrong Circle Theatre - Breakaway, The Web

Favorite Movie: N/A

Favorite TV Show: The Lone Ranger Death in the Forest

Favorite Quotes:

"(Chuckling) Why you healthy old hypochondriac..." (The Lone Ranger)

"Well what do you know, I can't even afford to die!" (Little Theatre)

[ajl1963]

A Little Rochester Art Deco: The Little Theatre

The Little Theatre 240 East Avenue, Rochester, NY. Photo by the authors. September 29th was Silent Movie Day and to honor it the Little Theatre in Rochester, New York screened G. W. Pabst’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box. Starring silent film icon Louise Brooks the film played in historic theatre 1 which will be celebrating its 95th anniversary on October 17th. I haven’t been to Little Theatre 1 since…

[voguemadrid]

Wigston Amateur Operatic Society presents Grease at Little Theatre Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tickets gifted for review I don’t think anybody needs an introduction into what Grease is all about. It’s Greased Lightning! (And yes, that Greased Lightning mobile makes it on stage at the Little Theatre!). Get your hands at the ready, find your shiniest leather trousers and be prepared to hear some fabulous renditions of this iconic show by Wigston Amateur Operatic Society. Though……

[trashpidgeon48]

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.

[wtf-tfw]

an ocean of pancakes

a sea of cheese

and here i sit

hungry

[whoareyoueventhough]

Shoutout to my tragic theatre kids. My girls born to play Elle Woods who have dark hair. My people destined to be Misha Bachinski who are 5'2". My people who should be analyzing newsies choreo who have face blindness. My Cats fanatics with no flexibility. My girls made to be a Veronica but are forced to be a Martha. Female Audrey II s. Male Janet Weiss's. The wrong range for the right role. You are meant for this character but they weren't designed for you and there's nothing you can do

[ndtcjamaica]

Set for Wednesday, December 6 at 7;00 pm at the Little Theatre, the event will see all proceeds going to Whylie whom the NDTC described as a “stalwart of the company.”

[musicalmoritz]

I will never understand how some ppl have such little imagination that they can’t even suspend their disbelief long enough to watch a musical without asking why the characters are singing

[biteofboredom]

"fuck it we ball" *cries to oddly specific musical theatre songs*

[cry-ptidd]

” Am I not right to weep? O my children, cursed children of a hateful mother - ”

[littlequeenies]

9 curtains!! And you read about the role she played!! Jane was, and still is, an amazing actress, very underrated.

Jane Asher hugs a big bouquet as she reads a good luck message after her first night performance in Cleo. 🌸

Teenage fans pack the theatre by John Coe.

Miss Asher's boy friend, Beatle Paul McCartney, did not turn up for the premiere, at the Little Theatre, as had been expected. But scores of teenagers did, whispering and wondering

where their idol was. I have never seen the Little

Theatre so full. The House Full boards were out long before the time of performance. Miss Asher's TV reputation and her friendship for Paul have ensured good houses for the run. Mr. Ken Cowley, the Corporation's entertainments manager, said last night that advance bookings

were "very heavy."

STAYED ON

After the show, while many teenagers stayed on in the hope of meeting Jane, Miss Asher was declining backstage to say whether she had received from Paul a first night good wishes telegram. But there is very little doubt in the minds of the rest of the cast of "Cleo" that he will be coming to Bristol sometime during the three weeks the play is on.

Little Theatre, Bristol: “Cleo,” by Frank Marcus.

Cleo is an amoral 17 year old, a rebel against convention, a girl who flits from one assignation to another. We find her in a coffee-bar with a boy barely out of knee pants, in an attic studio with a coloured man, in a bachelor flat with a divorced photographer who, takes pictures of models and so on.

In the words of the singing compere little Cleo is always hoping the next one will be better than the last. The play is sad and funny but turn, and, of course, episodic. But it is also unusual and therein lies its attraction; that and the presence of Jane Asher. A programme note calls it “an opposite comment on the attitude of present-day teenagers to sex, morals, environment — and life in general.” What in fact Mr Marcus has done is to give us a faithful picture of an uninhibited type of youngster. A girl who is a product of a broken home , who has no roots and is determined to flaunt her independence at all costs.

The play sets a lively place to start with, and we warm to it and Cleo, but the flat cliches begin to get tiresome, and after all the interval, it drags and ones interest tends to sag the more repetitive the episodes become.

The best scene of all of Cleo’s meeting with the divorced photographer, for is written with real insight into character. Here is a man, basically unsure of himself, who yearns for the experience that an ardent youngster alone can give him. This was the only time the play became really moving. The world premiere brought a full house of teenagers and their parents, all anxious to see Miss Asher for the first time in he live theatre.

She did not disappoint them, for the 19 year old actress, on stage without a break for 2 hours, gave a performance that was at the once completely assured and intuitively perceptive. In Val Mal’s production for Bristol Old Vic, the linking passages are played by Norman Beaton and sung by Sol Raye. It is a tuneful arrangement. James Cossins is excellent as the photographer, Max and Frank Berrie makes the most of amusing lines as TV actor auditioning for a live theatre part. Audience reaction was strong and sympathetic, there being nine “curtains.”— John Coe. Twenty-nine evening post, november 10th 1965.

[emptyjunior]

take a walk with me. come with me. Ratgrinders side campaign? Ratgrinders full side campaign tonight perhaps?

[ashoss]

im back but a little different (obsessed with these little hedgehogs)

[voguemadrid]

April in Paris Review. Little Theatre, Leicester (2024)

A descriptive escapade around Paris ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 It’s not an easy task to open a show in January, and I imagine it’s even more of a task when you’re a two-cast amateur show opening in January, but the cast Steve Feeney and Kat Seddon, along with director Leigh White deserve all the success and more with this comedic yet easy-watching play. Set in Yorkshire, Bet and Al are on a turbulent relationship…

[kaleidoscopiccc]

oh you hate musicals? oh so youre allergic to all fun and whimsy then? youre against all joy and giddiness brought in front of you huh? you just hate any and all happiness and silly times dont you?