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[iloveplayrehersal]

I love them all so much 💖

[sawthemusical]

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We feel so incredibly privileged to be able to share this fundamental love story around the nation, and to have had such a vocal and receptive support system on our #SAWTheMusical National Tour opening night, last night. Thank you to all those involved who have worked so incredibly hard to make this product the most daring, bold, humorous, heartfelt, and stellar project it can possibly be. And thank you to the #SAW creators and crew for gracing us with their presence and love during the evening. It meant more than we can put into words. We sawed it through together and cannot wait to continue sawing in new places for new people who have yet to witness this bittersweet parody musical!

[tessva5728]

BEHIND THE SCENES OF OUR PRESS PHOTOS for RTC Stone Soup

[cartrunkent]

I mean, y'all get that Ride the Cyclone is basically Cats for high schoolers, right?

[starlight-youth-theatre]

Audition for Ride The Cyclone in Washington!

Hello, we are Starlight Youth Theatre! I'm happy to announce that online auditions for Ride the Cyclone in Washington have started, while in-person auditions are on September 14th, 6:17 PM. if you want to audition for a character, here's our website!

if you want to audition for tech, text +1 (512) 234-0681 with "TECH" or DM prxtty on discord.

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TOP HAT/TAKARAZUKA [FLOWER TROUPE AND COSMOS TROUPE]

Who is your favorite Jerry and Dale?

Asaka Manato was the first to play the lead role in Top Hat at the Takarazuka Revue. Her performance made a significant impact. Later, Yuzuka Rei revived it in 2022, bringing her own style and energy to the character, which attracted more people to the production.

[mttztrading]

Did somebody say NEW RELEASE??

That's right! 4 new videos today, including Beetlejuice with Matthew Michael Janisse and Jackera Davis, and Funny Girl with Hannah Shankman! Join my discord for details! https://discord.gg/CTstY4CdeQ

[p3nny-l4mb]

Noel Gruber was known for a lot of things in Uranium. Mainly the 7th grade winter play, of course, but in a town with a population that could fill a single neighborhood, people seldom forgot a single fact about you.

Fact. Noel Gruber played with his mothers clothes and makeup well into middle school, and only realized he was supposed to be ashamed of it at age 8, when another little boy punched him in the nose.

Fact. Noel Gruber, ages 6-9, used to convince kids to play 'Ophelia', where they would all lay face down in the community swimming pool. He is still banned from said community pool at age 17.

Fact. Noel Gruber, at least once a week, is seen riding the bus around town. He'll stay on for three full loops, eventually getting off at the same stop he got on.

I made them kiss in a silly little oneshot

Also peep me being terrible at tagging fics

Oh also I stole the ophelia thing from @criesinauthor

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Shows I saw in 2023, Part 10: Swept Away

First time at DC’s Arena Stage to catch the new Avett Brothers musical that’s trying to get to Broadway. I went in with zero knowledge of the show until I was getting in my seat and my friend, who had read a WaPo article about it mentioned something slightly, well, unappetizing that takes place. Let’s just say that shipwrecked sailors have to resort to desperate measures to survive.

I enjoyed it. The story is transporting and takes the audience on an emotional journey. The audience was definitely into it and there are some numbers in the first half (note: there’s no intermission, but there’s a clear break in the show) where I could see a whole theater clapping and stomping their feet.

I don’t normally like jukebox musicals because I think many are made just to be cash cows and not good art. This is technically a jukebox musical but it’s definitely not about “hey listen to Avett Brothers music!” In fact if you came to be transported on the same emotional wavelength that Avett music normally does, you’ll probably be disappointed. But if you come with an open mind of just wanting to see good art, you will not be disappointed.

It is quite dark, but the music is good, the set design is stunning, and the cast is excellent. I hope this makes it (esp considering that there are several Not Good shows on Broadway right now that just need to go, as well as empty theaters). If you can get to DC, I rec. going before its limited run ends.

[huzzahswirlz]

While listening to ordinary days, i got this horrible thought. This horrible thought of jason being jason from falsettos 😭 And now its like implatened in my brain. So whenever i picture jason from ordinary days, i picture an older version of jason

[no-gays-in-russia]

"J'ai perdu pour l'histoire" (Victim De Ma Victoire, Mozart L'Opèra Rock), "You'll be remembered forever for this" (Judas' Death, Jesus Christ Superstar) and "Now I'm the villain in your history" (The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton) have the same exact vibe, change my mind

[iloveplayrehersal]

I want a Hannibal AU but it's like Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Hannibal would be Mrs. Lovett

Will would be Sweeney Todd

Abigail would be Toby

Mason would be Judge Turpin

Cordell would be Beetle

How does it sound? Also if you have more ideas you can tell me

[sawthemusical]

Join us for this extravagant #NEWYEARS weekend! With two shows today playing at @amttheater45 there will be performances every day leading up to New Year's, where you can also join us for a special new year's day #SAWTHEMUSICAL to start 2024 with a bang (or should we say, a saw?)

We are extending the holiday discount code SAWMAS which you can use on any ticket for 25% off! Happy Holidays, and we can't wait to #SawRightThrough another year with you #Saw#OffBroadway

[tessva5728]

Truly crazy what was going on before shows in that green room LOOOL

[cartrunkent]

My Favorite Musicals (#2)

Another favorite is Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. I’ll put it number 2 on my list, but I really don’t quantify them like that. For organizational purposes it’s number 2.

I knew nothing of this show before the performance of “I’ve Decided to Marry You” on the Tony’s. That was the best advertisement this show could have and the only one I really needed. It’s really the one I had. I have one friend reach out after having seen it and recommend it to me. It became a “let’s go see it” with my wife. We had already only been to Broadway together once, so this was the second time I took her to NYC. We loved it. A few months later, we heard it was closing, and we went again-catching it in the final two weeks. We saw it on Tour in Baltimore and we almost saw it again. (That's not my wife with Jefferson Mays, just that's the best pic we had of him. That IS me with Bryce Pinkham.)

What made this show sing to me was the interplay with the audience. I love shows that find the space between presentational and representational and exploit it in interesting ways. The narration aspect of the “book,” and Monty’s winks towards the audience break the fourth wall in ways that were delightful. The music box aspect of the set and the less than realistic props and settings…and of course this was this guy playing 11 different characters! The music was funny and accessible. It was just a fun treat. (Image Below: The Broadway set with about a week to closing, after the show, the ghostlight is on.)

It immediately found its way onto my list of shows to direct. The small cast and stylized somewhat unit set really made it fit into my wheelhouse for directing.

I used “I Don’t Understand the Poor” as my audition song for that director in 2017 for the role of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast. I got that part. ( Image Below: Show art from the 2022 production of Gentlemen's Guide that I was part of.)

When it did come up in my area for a production, the timing was bad. I wasn’t even going to audition. I’m not a singer and with only two male leads I only had a shot at ensemble, and with a small ensemble, I’d be doing a lot of singing. It really wasn’t something I could do. The audition turn-out was low, so I got prodded into auditioning by the choreographer.

I decided to audition for Miss Shingle because they didn’t have any older women. Mind you, I’m not an older woman, but she doesn’t sing that much, and I could handle her singing as character. Character singing is something I can do. I spent my afternoon preparing Wouldn’t It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady. I felt good, but there were six older women. I still did my piece as planned…and that led to me being heavily read as the D’ysquith family. My choreographer friend told me that I almost go it…but it went to a different guy.

I was cast as part of the company and was able to play a variety of roles including the Inspector who sings in That Horrible Woman, which is one of my favorite songs from the piece. 

Our production of Gentlemen’s Guide sold out and was well received. I cracked up laughing one night as one of the Ancestral Portraits, one of the tour group whispered something rather inappropriate to me as he passed and I just couldn’t control myself. It caused a lot of laughter. We all lived to perform another day.

I joke about being an accidental victim of Monty Navarro because I pretended to eat something off the table as a servant, “got sick”, walked off the stage and then never appeared again. It was a little thing and since the director was not in tune with the comedy of the show I assumed it would get cut (as he did with most of the humor in the show,) but he didn’t say anything (probably didn’t notice we suspect.) It’s the little things.

It took me a while to listen to it again after the production, but it’s back in my rotation now.

Favorite Song: Foolish to Think. -Might use that for an audition someday.

Favorite #4: Jekyll and Hyde

Favorite #3: Jane Eyre

Favorite #2: A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder

Favorite #1: Assassins

[truce2headrush]

Swallowed it down #jaggedlittlepill #jaggedlittlepillthemusical #jaggedlittlebroadway #artsdc #dcarts #dc #dclife #nationaltheatre #nationaltheatredc #alanis #alanismorissette #truce2headrush #musicaltheater #likeajaggedlittlepill (at The National Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1Yf1Ps_rf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=