So who’s doing a podcast with David and Michael about how they died 10000 times on stage in 2023/2024? Like here is an excuse to get them together and chat with them about stuff.

These two geeking out together would be a joy to watch/listen to.

hapoy 32 years falsetto broadway!

Ethan Freeman, Hass and the original production of Elisabeth

Recently, @behindthemirrorofmusic shared an interview clip from her radio show with me (thank you so much!). In it, Ethan Freeman (original Lucheni) talks about, among other things, Hass and the criticism the number has gotten over the years.

Dannii: Several Jewish fans of the show have said it's a rather triggering song and makes them feel uncomfortable - making them feel that Lucheni is turning against them. Did you think about that or does this raise any feelings in you? Ethan: Ah, no. Lucheni is a cynic, but he certainly did not ally himself with the fascistic transition that happens in the course of that number, as it begins to look into the future and towards the growing demonization of Jews in the Elisabethan world moving towards the period of the Nazis. Again, as Che is with the Peronistic fascism [in Evita], Lucheni looks at it with bitter cynicism. I can see people being uncomfortable, but the scene and the number were designed to make everybody uncomfortable [laughs]. And the Austrian audience, who at the time had to - and perhaps to a bigger extent even now still has to - deal with its fascist and antisemitic past... That number was always met with a kind of deathly, breathless silence. Sometimes applause at the end, but first it was always this reaction of "[gasp] This was us!". And that's what the number was there for. Obviously, Harry Kupfer, the director, was a tremendous antifascist, and so he directed the number to hit very hard. I remember we performed the show [one night] and Jörg Haider, the leader of the ultra-right party in Austria at the time was in the audience of the show - and he walked out after the number! I knew I had done my job when I heard he had walked out. Because the number points a finger at exactly the kind of ideology he seemed to purvey. So... As a Jewish person myself, I want to show the world its ugly reflection. If it made me uncomfortable in any sense, watching the Jewish character getting beaten up in that scene, it's because it's supposed to make people feel - "oh, this is not good". I think good theatre is for people with strong stomachs, and if people are extremely sensitive to that sort of thing, then they have to figure out how to deal with it. I don't think for any reason that that [scene] should not be in the show. Because it was a reflection of the history of that time - but not only that time, obviously.

(Interview by Dannii Cohen, September 10, 2023. Emphasis mine. Transcribed from the first episode of the new series of Behind the Mirror of Music. Source)

MACBETH (2023-2024) dir. by Simon Godwin Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth Indira Varma as Lady Macbeth

do u have any production photos? im soo intersted ur show seems so cool so far :3

also as the official jane question guy i would loveee to know what kind of doll ur jane is inspired by? any specific things u do different with her? ooo and does ur jane have any backstory or character relationships u came up with.....

I'm not sure about production photos (we had some, but I can't find it)

My Jane is inspired by antique porcelain dolls (I think they're cute)

Specific details about Jane from our production:

Jane eats cake instead of cupcake

Jane appears during Fall Fair Suite and then disappears

Jane's voice sounds more like voice of Strawberry Shortcake in 1980s

Sometimes Jane just falls for no reason

Jane is trembling all the time

Sometimes she wants to say something, but others just don't let her

Also she's the only one who pays attention at four rats sitting in the background (Virgil, Virginia, Vincent and Evlampia)

#BOYCOTTTONYS

For my pro Palestine theater kids

Since the Tony nominations was announced today, we will boycott this year's Tony Awards like we boycott the Oscars in past March

Ariana Debose who will hosted again this year's awards comes out as a Israel supporter from last October.

Like Ariana, some of your faves like Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Kristin Chenoweth and Jeremy Jordan are outed as supporter for Israel

I know it's quite devastating to hear who won or which musical won a Tony but we will rightfully boycott Tonys. It's very crucial.

Theater is form of activism and we theater kids to show our solidarity with the Palestinians.

Palestinians rightfully deserve to live and their land belongs to them

Theater kids for Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸!

222aghoststory & colinodonoghue1: 🚨 MEET YOUR DUBLIN CAST 🚨 @shonabmx @birdspotting @colinodonoghue1 @thewhitmore will be taking #222AGhostStory to Dublin’s @3olympiatheatre this Summer, 21 June - 11 Aug. For a strictly limited run 🚨Do you dare to join us? Book your tickets now! Link in bio 👻📸 @seamusphoto

Colinodonoghue1: Woohoo!! So excited to be a part of this show!!

[Get your tickets here!!!]

Runaway Entertainment in association with 3Olympia Theatre presents

2:22 - A GHOST STORY

Shona McGarty, Jay McGuiness, Colin O’Donoghue, Laura Whitmore, Announced for The Very Special, Standalone Irish Production

The smash hit play by Danny Robins Makes Irish Debut At 3Olympia Theatre This Summer For a Strictly Limited Run

Directed by Matthew Dunster & Isabel Marr

“A slick, chilling, romp of a play” The Guardian

‘A modern classic’ Sunday Times

Producer Runaway Entertainment is delighted to announce the stellar cast for the critically acclaimed, smash hit, supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story opening at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre this summer for its debut Irish performances.

Shona McGarty (Eastenders) will play Jenny, Jay McGuiness (The Wanted, BIG! The Musical, Rip It Up), who is currently on the UK tour in 2:22 - A Ghost Story, will play Ben, Colin O'Donoghue (Once Upon A Time, The Tudors, The Right Stuff, The Gray House) will play Sam with Laura Whitmore (Love Island, Finding Joy, Queenie, and Jenny in 2.22: A Ghost Story in her West End debut) stepping into the role of Lauren.

The very special, standalone Irish production, produced for Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre, will open on Thursday 20th June 2024 with performances until Sunday 11th August 2024 - for a strictly limited run only.

Full list of performances below. Age Suitability: 12+ 

Tickets priced from €26.50 including booking fee and €1.50 restoration levy on sale now with Ticketmaster Ireland

2:22 - A Ghost Story began in summer 2021 at the Noël Coward Theatre, starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood, and where it won the WhatsOnStage award for Best Play. It then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre for 10 weeks from 4 December 2021. The production there starring Stephanie Beatriz, James Buckley, Elliot Cowan and Giovanna Fletcher completed its run on 12 February 2022. For the first season at the Criterion (May - September 2022) the cast was Tom Felton, Mandip GIll, Sam Swainsbury and Beatriz Romilly. In late September Laura Whitmore, Matt Willis, Felix Scott and Tamsin Carroll took over. 

The box office record-breaking run at the Lyric starring Cheryl, Jake Wood, Scott Karim, and Louise Ford, concluded its run on 23 April. The West End season at the Apollo Theatre starred Sophia Bush, Frankie Bridge, Ricky Champ, Clifford Samuel and Jaime Winstone, and set off on its UK tour in Autumn 2023 with Joe Absolom, Charlene Boyd, Nathaniel Curtis and Louisa Lytton in the cast. Current cast on the UK tour: Vera Chok (Lauren); Jay McGuiness (Ben); George Rainsford (Sam); Fiona Wade (Jenny).

2:22 is written by award-winning writer Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist, and is directed by Matthew Dunster and Isabel Marr; it’s an adrenaline-filled night where secrets emerge and ghosts may or may not appear…

Danny Robins said: ‘I'm really looking forward to seeing how Dublin audiences respond to 2:22 this summer. The tour continues to be a great success and I can't think of a better place to round off the journey in 2024 than here with a brand new cast to be announced soon!'

What do you believe? And do you dare discover the truth?

“THERE’S SOMETHING IN OUR HOUSE. I HEAR IT EVERY NIGHT, AT THE SAME TIME"

Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Can the dead really walk again? Belief and scepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up... until 2:22... and then they’ll know.

2:22 - A Ghost Story features set design by Anna Fleischle, costume design by Cindy Lin, lighting design by Lucy Carter, sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound and illusions by Chris Fisher. Casting by Matilda James.

2:22 - A Ghost Story is produced by Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons for Runaway Entertainment, Isobel David and Kater Gordon.  [source]      

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2024/04/09/indira-varma-lady-macbeth-game-of-thrones/

Never one to leave a tale untold, the cheerfully loquacious Varma sent a voice memo the next day. She started the recording by recalling a performance of “Macbeth” in Liverpool that was briefly, charmingly interrupted by a butterfly fluttering between her and co-star RalphFiennes. A few days later, Varma recounted, she saw that same butterfly onstage, reached toward the creature and marveled as it crawled onto her hand for Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me here” speech. Later that night, when Ben Turner’s Macduff learned of his family’s murder, the butterfly flew back onstage and landed on the actor’s shoulder.

deaf west theatre just announced that they’re doing american idiot and i am begging for someone to get ANY footage of it, this is so important to me

Makin’ love, oh just loooooooove~

more SABM content because this number is too iconic

lol I want someone to put a QR code of this exact gif on my tombstone pls

marvin hits trina thoughts (3:30 am edition):

- marvin being abrasive coming in with much harsher music after games i play just ended

- whizzer's surprise at how marvin is acting now that hes gone im geeked i can't. marvin is not so uncouth??. UGH

- mendel trying to warm up to compliments (which hes not used to because most of his interpersonal relationships[work] involve him being the worst on his end) but having to suck it back up because its being used to put down marvin

- "trying to ruin my sleep" "chosen to make me look bad" marvin brain warping back to in trousers marvin's narcissistic behavior when whizzer is gone because obviously a marriage is not trying to bring his life down but. tunnel vision

- whizzer AND trina singing about their relationships with marvin together and you can look at it from either way and it matches....the reflections between them+marvin respectively make me crazy ok

- one thing i'll give to marvin: if my psych said "i am so ashamed." id actually go batshit too

- marvins little "c'mon," half smile to whizzer before he says no.

- the DEAD stillness/silence after he says no and after he slaps trina. reflections this, i am feral that.

- mendel holding onto jason + trina but when he moves away from jason the face jason makes looking at marvin

adding onto that: - the face whizzer makes watching them too

ALL: Everything will be alright!

I love being a theatre student! 😂😂

(I made both of these)