#stage: gutenberg

[dailyrannells]

[jgroffdaily]

Jonathan was at Gutenberg on Sunday with Katie McCarty. Photo posted on Facebook by Heather Logan Melick.

[phierecycled]

christian borle gutenberg cameo when

[ginnyweatherby]

does anyone still wear a producer hat?

Patti LuPone at Gutenberg 11/15

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[rhianna]

The Mediaeval Stage, Volume 1 (of 2) by E. K. Chambers

About this eBook 

AuthorChambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954TitleThe Mediaeval Stage, Volume 1 (of 2)Original PublicationLondon: Oxford University Press, 1903.CreditsTim Lindell, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net(This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)LanguageEnglishCategoryTextEBook-No.73000Release DateFeb 20, 2024Copyright StatusPublic domain in the USA.

[transboypatrickmurray]

my villain origin story will always be that during gutenbergs run jonathan was the guest producer AND THAT MF. GOT ON STAGE. KISSED. ON THE LIPS. BOTH ANDREW AND JOSH. AND THERE IS LITERALLY ZERO FOOTAGE OF IT.

[stopandimagineloveforever]

Hey, I made my Broadway debut last night!!! Huge thanks to the insanely funny Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who were kind enough to let me eat dreams with them on stage at Gutenberg Broadway. (10 📸 by Tricia Baron)

*via Weird Al Yankovic on Instagram

[mthguy]

Andrew is the Man!

The multi-talented Andrew Rannell's iconic stage and film roles ...

as Elder Price, in the Tony award winning Broadway musical comedy, The Book of Mormon, with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (2011)

as Hedwig, in John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, on Broadway (2014)

as King George III, in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical masterpiece, Hamilton, on Broadway (2015)

as Whizzer, with Christian Borle as Marvin, in Falsettos, book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn (2016)

as Larry, with Jim Parsons as Michael, in the Netflix film of Matt Crowley's play, The Boys in the Band (2020)

as Trent Oliver in the 2020 American musical comedy film, The Prom, directed by Ryan Murphy 

As Doug Simon, with Josh Gad as Bud Davenport, in the hilarious Broadway musical, Gutenberg! The Musical! (2023)

[ncisfranchise-source]

Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly dropped into Cannes to talk NCIS: Tony & Ziva and gave the MIPCOM crowd a surprise first look at their upcoming Paramount+ series. In the clip, Weatherly’s Anthony DiNozzo could be seen bouncing off car bonnets, as he and de Pablo’s Ziva David indulged in their usual snappy dialogue and locations including Paris flashed on screen.

The NCIS stars joined Paramount Global’s Chief Content Licensing Officer and President of Republic Pictures Dan Cohen for his MIPCOM keynote, bringing some U.S. star power to Cannes. Cohen brought the business to proceedings by spelling out how NCIS is a serious earner for Paramount Global Content Distribution. “Keep in mind there are 1,000 episodes — we’ve done over four and a half billion dollars of licensing on NCIS,” he said.

Cohen’s keynote got off to a madcap start as Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob and Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants, introduced the veteran exec with a short skit in character.

When they took to the stage, De Pablo and Weatherly shared the short teaser clip and then got into the weeds on their new show.

NCIS: Tony & Ziva picks up after Ziva’s supposed death when Tony left the NCIS team to go raise their daughter. Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris. Since then, Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together. When Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe.

In the clip Ziva tells their daughter: “If anyone tries to hurt us, we’ve planned for it.”

“We haven’t seen these characters since 2013 and I think the fans have always wanted to see what happened between them,” said de Pablo. “In our first season, they’re going to get a fix of what has happened.”

Asked why the series came about, the actors and series exec producers said they had experienced huge recognition around the world from fans and that made the international setting feel right.

Weatherly added that when they started out they had no idea that characters would be on the air over 20 years later. He said that the series will have an “international, global feel”, given the location and shoots, which took in Budapest and other European destinations.

Before the Tony and Ziva show somewhat took over, Cohen had kicked off his session by announcing that rights for a new movie had been snagged for Republic Pictures, the revived label he runs as President. The label has taken North America on Adulthood, the latest project from Alex Winter, who helms and appears in the movie. The cast also includes Josh Gad (Gutenberg! The Musical!), Kaya Scodelario (The Gentlemen), Billie Lourd (Booksmart) and Anthony Carrigan (Barry).

Billed as a darkly comic, modern-noir, it follows a brother and sister who when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parents’ basement, the are pulled back to the hometown they ran away from and into a rabbit hole of crime and murder.

Cohen said Republic Pictures is in the market for “interesting indie films to complement the huge tentpoles the studio has.”

[auckie]

Really unfortunately and regrettably entering a stage in my life wherein I’m eligible to third wheel. but not even in a friend way I just think. Not poly people see me, and think ‘we’re not poly but what if we incorporated this little overgrown post-witch fattened Gretel into our relationship and see what happens?’ And they don’t try to have sex with me they just start putting me in the backseat and waving toys at me and taking me on expensive food and bar tours and showing me their childhood homes and letting me act as a palliative nurse for their 300 year old dog and make me sleep in their guest bedroom under their bed while they have sex and whisper that I can hear and that I have nice hair and take me to see the Gutenberg and buy me expensive ballet shoes to wear around the house. And I just keep letting it happen.

But I guess that’s just a queer housing situation waiting to happen

[novella-november]

What's your favorite thing to write about?

I love fantasy and scifi!

One of the Big Works I'm planning on doing in the future is a big old series set on the same planet across multiple eras and stages of development, which starts off as your typical Fantasy setting, full of various species of people in a lower-technology era of settlements, kingdoms, and a few bigger cities in each region, up to steam technology, then "modern" equivalent, all the way up to space-faring times, etc.

One of my biggest issues with xenofiction (any fiction where the main character is Not Human, usually in fantasy settings but also scifi with Aliens) is that people come up with these really cool designs and concepts that are interesting, but they usually have some form of Biological Essentialism baked into them that is never actually addressed, or if it is, its ultimately dismissed as

"We evolved this [oppressive culture] eons ago, therefore we cannot [do not want to] change it ,and it is in fact *correct* and *natural* for our kind to be this way."

Like, as an example:

Say a fantasy series where there's cool fantasy animals inspired by hyenas with extremely rigid gender roles and abilities, where its matriarichal and the males of the species are commonly beaten up by the females who are asserting their dominance? Neat, I wonder what kind of role they play in the fantasy ecosystem!

But if you take those same hyena-inspired fantasy animals and make them a fantasy sentient species who are *People* and their behavior stays the same...

.. you do, in fact, have to actually put in the work to say that just because their ancient animal ancestors behaved in this way does not make it right or just for them to continue to beat down and oppress literally 50% of their population, and what kind of movements are going on either currently to change the status quo, or decide at what point in the past they mostly stopped such Explicit Behavior, while they perhaps continue it is more subtle ways, much like how misogyny, heteronormativity, and associativity are still widespread even in ""progressive"" countries.

TL;DR:

My favorite thing to write about is taking a generic trope and *Actually Thinking About The Implications* if it were something in an Actual Society of living people.

My other, less complicated favorite thing to write is I am planning on writing some (*cough cough* A LOT *cough cough*) original Arsène Lupin stories in the future once I have finished reading all of the books that are currently Public Domain in my country :D

If you are curious about Arsene Lupin, here is a link to the first book on Project Gutenberg, and here is a link to a fantastic audiobook on youtube made by Games and Gutenberg :)

[dailyrannells]

andrewrannells: My boyfriend and my show husband make an adorable couple. 🧡🧡

[pseuddamntired]

Needle Lace Resources

This is a very long post, so I'm including a cut.

Tutorial-like Things, Others' Work

An overview of the stages of needle lace (specifically learning from Alençon, I believe. They link to a documentary type of video on Alençon lace): https://www.taixtile.com/needle-lace-first-steps/. This blog has links to other resources (one link is broken, if I recall correctly).

A very approachable first project, I think. From a lace maker who has done very cool illustrations with lace, Maggie Hensel-Brown: https://youtu.be/OLuRpJ96p4Q?si=gqBWqYxa755gFozr

This channel has videos of the stages of needle lace making. They specifically demonstrate Irish lace, I believe. But the stages are very similar to or the same as the stages in Alençon lace. https://youtu.be/dZVagIFCnLc?si=d8lRnPsmz5iTM0Z_

Pierre Fouché has a video about making dense filling stitches and even doing short rows to makes curves (something I tried but did not yet succeed at): https://youtu.be/DK5cMQND3b8?si=qySmT9yaoTcpsUV9 He also does really cool bobbin lace illustrations by constructing patterns in cell-like units.

An embroiderer tries needle lace in two videos. In one of them she tries different styles from different places: https://youtu.be/eTO7dA4oyl4?si=VInx35kql115bIIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Wa6-Qf5xw

Example of a different style of needle lace: https://youtube.com/shorts/7DFogWC3tDI?si=uju74sPFbRj3_wrn

Sampler directions: https://youtu.be/oDKBfjDYBnU?si=shQYvaT4kAZD7BgV

Again, a more geometric style of needle lace. I don’t know the particulars of this style (styles?), since I’ve mostly been looking into styles similar to Alençon because I’m aiming for more illustration-like lace. This channel has multiple videos demoing and explaining that process: https://youtu.be/gJd6mkrsUCQ?si=AfVIiwljHvfismrX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dk721UwW4

Not so much instructions but video of a very skilled lacemaker working on a project: https://youtu.be/01H2GdEXLrs?si=2suFHSG4Kwa6Yl2m

Another lacemaker's work on their blog. I don’t know if they do as much lace making as they do other needle arts https://www.robesdecoeur.com/blog/needlelace-my-work-so-far

A lacemaker's work... the site is older and kind of tricky to navigate. Like. there's no home button, as far as I can tell. Album of their work: https://www.lacemakerslace.oddquine.co.uk/album/index.html Home page, I think: https://www.lacemakerslace.oddquine.co.uk/

Useful/Interesting Things to Know

Alençon lace -- specific French style from the Alençon region, which has a history of point lace and a current institution dedicated to preserving the skills and producing lace. This is the style that I was looking at examples of to try and learn from.

The terms "needle lace" and "point lace" are both used to refer to lace made with a needle. I'm unclear on if there are subtle distinctions between them or if it's simply a matter of location.

Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese De Dillmont is an excellent resource to learn how to do different stitches. HTML copy of book available on Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/20776-h.htm I recommend using ctrl+f to search for "lace stitch" on the page. The end of each chapter in the HTML version seems to have a link to the Table of Contents that is at the end of the entire document. It has chapters for plenty of other needle arts, so it's a good resource all around.

If you want to find examples of needle lace, look on Wikimedia Commons! Using a variety of search terms will help you find more material for inspiration/observation than otherwise

If you want to design your own needle lace depicting objects, it might be worth looking at stained glass to see how larger shapes are broken up into smaller shapes that still feel complete.

You can use multiple colors! Let yourself use multiple colors, like stained glass!

Thoughts from the Learning Process So Far (some terminology used here, look them up so you know what the actual definitions are, but I’ll define what I mean by them)

Tacking vs Couching... I'm unsure about the actual definitions so I may be using them wrong here. In the videos I’ve seen tacking seems to be making a stitch that runs along the way the cordonnet will run. Couching seems to be just when the thread that secures the cordonnet comes up through the backing and goes down through the backing at the same point. With these definitions… Tacking went faster for me than doing couching, but it feels a lot less secure and precise for the form of lace I’m making. Unless I made the tacking stitches perpendicular to the cordonnet's path, the outline cord moved too much due to tension. If it's perpendicular and not a very short stitch, it might get in the way of your filling stitches or binding off stitches. Which might be fine, since you pull them out anyways. But it would also mean more holes in the backing, and at some point the holes are too close together and might tear the backing and pattern. I don't like that. Couching—much, MUCH more tedious for me because I’m not practiced at making the needle come up in exactly the right spot. but it feels more secure to me. The outline seems to be less affected by tension as you work. And I took some shortcuts for couching that helped. I don’t couch the doubled cord, instead I whip stitch back over the already-secured cord. I might make a post to demonstrate what I mean. It kind of messes with the shape/placement of my cordonnet, but for the sake of my impatience I’m willing to sacrifice the precise shape.

Backing material... To use fabric in backing like the instructions usually say, or not? Idk. For me, it’s hard to find the right hole for the couching stitches when I can't see my pattern from the back. It took a lot of trial and error until I got a feel for how to predict where my needle would come up. I don't like the way the poke-and-check method of stitching the cordonnet down tends to rip the pattern up (at least, with my easy-to-access materials. Probably better with better materials and more practice. Using my thumb to find approximately the right spot helped, but not enough). So I just used a sandwich of tape/paper/tape as my backing. If you're willing to fuss around with fabric in your backing, it might make it easier to remove the couching threads after you're done, and when I tried. The directions I've seen usually say to use a backing of doubled-up fabric, clay paper (I'm unsure what this is. might be a thicker paper than cardstock, or it might be paper made to contain clay particles. Probably more like the first option), and contact paper. My last attempt at making a backing used notebook paper (or other type of paper) with packaging tape on both sides to provide a smooth surface and structure. I think it worked fairly well, and I didn't have to figure out where to buy contact paper (or figure out exactly what contact paper was).

[frozen-snowflakesandsunflowers]

Santino Fontana in Josh Gad's Gutenberg Broadway (Hans' return tease?)

Yesterday, Josh Gad posted an IG photo of a collage of Jonathan Groff, Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell in his Gutenerg broadway show and of the stable door scene in the "Love is an open door" sequence with the song playing too, teasing Santino Fontana's guest star to the show too.

Santino also reposted that photo

And today we finally saw him arrive on stage via Josh Gad's IG story.

Josh posted some photos of it too and Santino too reposted that saying:

“..shake their hans.” 😆 lol that's a joke because when people try to type Hans name it autocorrects to Hands so when Santino should have written hands he deliberately wrote hans.

Okay I know what some of you may be thinking? This means nothing. But the way I see it could mean something. With Frozen 3 and now 4 recently announced, it's given that the main cast of Frozen will make an appearance in Josh Gad's show. But Santino?? Hans?? But that's not all, as I've mentioned quite a few times, if we go back in time to around 2020 (I think it was), Josh and the cast and team were face timing and told them hed only ever do a Frozen 3, if Santino returned as Hans (redeemed too I recall). Josh really loves and has a bond with Santino and he clearly loves his character too so there's another hint (to the several hints this year) that he's almost certainly returning to Frozen 3 and 4. I mean with all the Hans and Frozen 3/ 4 content lately, is it really just a coincidence, is it really just for nothing? I personally don't think so but alas we are yet to find out whenever the cast/ teaser gets revealed.

[human837]

Christan Borle has 4 more chances to get up on the Gutenberg stage and hand Andrew Rannells a broadway contract before it's too late

[astagsart]

Gutenberg Recap

Okok so the pianist starts the show w an announcement it’s very funny, Andrew and Josh come out and start explaining the show, there’s a lot of funny physical bits involving stage crossing and kicks and an inhaler, and also repeated jokes like thatched roofs and stuff

Andrew and Josh interacted with the audience a lot, there was a lot of looking at specific people for approval which was super cool bc Andrew and I nodded at each other and I gave him a thumbs up and Josh waved at a lady whilst laying down after an inhaler bit too

There were a couple breaks where smth would make Josh laugh and Josh would make Andrew laugh, examples:

Andrew was getting some water upstage and Josh was downstage doing some lines and someone yelled ‘yes!’ to which he wagged a finger and said ‘no”, which people laughed and one man towards the back coughed and Josh stopped his monologue and asked ‘you okay there?’ and people laughed, and he started to laugh and it just became a mess bc Andrew came up laughing, and then Josh coughed and said ‘I think I’m catching what he has!” Cue more laughs, then they got back to the scene

There was also a strong choice by Josh where he said a line very strangely and it broke Andrew, “that was an interesting choice” and they did some improv a bit, very funny

Andrew is very flexible and explicit in the show, especially as Gutenberg. Lots of body rolls at a wine press, high kicks, and 3/4 of a split very very close to me which was honestly impressive

Josh was killing it with random kicks, hand movements, and gyrations

Bud and Doug both work at a nursing home, and have some interesting backstory tidbits through the show, and there were a couple moments that made me think: yeah, tony nominations

Both had some really stunning vocal performances including andrews beautiful tenor belt, Josh’s falsetto, and lots of accents. British, small children, and German, where andrew sounded like Hedwig

At the end, there’s a little call and response singing bit where they sing we eat dreams and have the audience sing we eat them to and they had the gentlemen and then the ladies do it

Not so humble brag, I was front and center so I had a lot of nods from Andrew and played along best I could so when he said now the ladies, he held a hand out to gesture to me

It was very neat and honestly possibly the best show out there right now, not to mention it’s incredibly funny. I could not stop laughing and was in tears at some points