#ppgw lullaby

[personinthepalace]

Nancy singing the ppgw lullaby during rehearsals!

[peacockpenis]

ok understudy CENTRAL at ppgw was a joy. stephen!chris, bianca!annie, fred!max, ryan!francis, and brennan!lucy today. some fun things:

- preshow is BACK! without gill there wasn’t a hammer bit but that did mean there was far more chaos of the three boys (jonathan, chris, and trevor) doing lil bits

- bianca is a STELLAR annie. that girl can SING! we were cheering for her lullaby and her accent as mary and as liza is ridiculous — liza is a little like her gill accent (vaguely jamaican?)

- stephen is still a joy as chris — somehow gayer and more anxious but a joy. his bottle bit went OOOON tonight (i may have instigated it) and he was having a very fun time with the other understudies. he’s somehow less pathetic but more of a little mess

- as a harry kershaw stan, ryan is SO FUN AS THE NARRATOR! he played with a lot more bravado, and when he appeared naked he looked at us and went “you’re welcome” cause that man knew he was sexy. he also couldn’t find the pistol when searching for the compass and stephen made fun of him.

- god brennan is adorable. a lot more noises rather than shrill screams from her but soooo fun as lucy. she was fully reading the last sequence from the book cause first she had to find it (went through a lot of pages) and then messed up and said “the crocodile” twice when trying to read it. but she killed it!

- no gill, so i was curious how they’d cover — brennan wore her gill costume for the first part to do the dog door and some early moments and to hold the sea and do some other moments, and occasionally they used francis to stand in (holding the sea, holding trevor’s cue cards). francis stepped into the world of make believe dance as well but in his narrator costume. you wouldn’t even notice if you weren’t looking.

- no gill did mean trevor had to put everyone on harnesses for “flying alone”, which made me laugh, and meant he had a lot more to yell during the turn table — he was YELLIN OFFSTAGE AND IT WAS FANTASTIC.

- also the turntable was definitely slower tonight — probably because fred just stepped in and there’s so many folks on new tracks, but chris leask didn’t even notice until i mentioned it

[personinthepalace]

Dennis's Headset Compilation

[personinthepalace]

WON’T YOU SING US A LULLABY MOTHER

*cues aggressive singing*