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#Theater mistakes
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Allow me to try to impart to you some small idea of the absolute lunacy that has been our final Midsummer show.
For context, I (an idiot) am Puck. Brian (aka BGEltonJohnPimp, a dear friend and only an occasional idiot) is Oberon.
Before we even get into costume I have to explain the concept of ‘mid morning anxiety shits’ in front of both my directors as well as our costume manager.
Our company has a tradition in which those who won’t be returning give highly emotional (and usually very long and rambly) speeches about important experiences/ fond memories/ advice about the program and everyone sobs their little hearts out together. Anyways, one of our unhinged (affectionate) crew members came out as trans to the whole company, then immediately and without pausing to acknowledge anything about what they had just said, transitioned (hahah lol funny ik ik) into a performance, word for word, of that Lin Manuel Miranda Orders A Pizza video for their speech. It was insane.
Act 2. The long story short is that Brian misses his cue to enchant Titania’s eyes during Act 2, probably due to a mighty combination of heavy bawling and emotional distress from earlier in the evening and the uncontrollable fascination our strangely hypnotic fairy song produces (original music written by our director; upon hearing it most people feel the uncontrollable urge to salute and stand at attention or to go to sleep!!).
After several long moments where, despite our whole company having run this show with little to no incident for the past week straight, there is inexplicably not a single person who remembers who is supposed to be on stage right now. Hermia and Lysander accuse me (the nerve! You accuse Puck of miss the cue??! How dare !!!), I accuse Oberon (not my proudest moment but I panicked), he accuses Helena and Demetrius (not even remotely a possibility given that they just left the stage, but he was getting desperate). Suddenly Oberon turns very white and stalks out of the green room. Keep in mind, friends, the stage has been completely silent for several minutes at this point. Our director has appeared backstage.
Oberon materializes in the wings at stage right, the SR ASM, upon seeing someone who might save this, panics and all but shoves him on stage with the wild-eyed desperation of a drowning man. I now watch Oberon from the stage cameras. He walks, uncertain, across the thrust. He has forgotten his monologue. I know this because I can see the fear in his eyes. Also because he has not said a single damn word yet. He is in the belly of the beast and not even he knows what will come out of his mouth when he opens it. He then proceeds to utter the most plaintive cry for help I have ever heard from a man in pink jazz glasses and neon eye shadow,
“Puck? My most loyal servant Puck where are you, Puck?” It is clear he wants someone to come out and save him, but all I can do is watch my lord from the shadows, watch him finally cross the stage and melt back into the dark of stage left. The rest of Act 2 goes exactly as planned with the strange scene— wherein Oberon appears to get lost in the woods and then, whilst extremely high and paranoid and fucked up, stumble his way across the stage while trying increasingly desperately to get Puck to come help him— is never mentioned again.
We spend all of intermission trying to cheer Brian (he doesn’t take failure well) up. I make the butterfly kisses on his cheeks with my fake eyelashes (they are very long you see). Our director— a very put together and collected woman tonight— says the word fuck. Brian, inexplicably, feels much better. Everything is going smoothly at last.
Act 4. I suddenly cannot find Brian. I am supposed to be onstage, but so is he. I look in every backstage place. The green room. The boy’s dressing room. The girl’s dressing room. Underneath the fucking bathroom stalls. It is then that I become aware that our prop’s master, Carly, is trying to tell me something. Our rapid and hushed conversation goes a little something like this:
Carly, whispering furiously: Gabe, why aren’t you onstage, they need you right now!!
Me, panicked: I’m looking for Brian, it’s his scene and he’s gotta give the monologue to disenchant Titania!! I think he’s missing his cue again!!
Carly, seriously regretting being friends with me: You fucking acorn, Brian is already onstage. He’s been onstage for the whole scene. Go!!!
I have been backstage trying to not let Oberon miss his cue up again while Oberon is onstage, wondering why I’ve missed my cue. Luckily, he can see my hazard orange jacket from the wings and he doesn’t go through with his split-second improv plan which, he explained to me later tonight, was just to make up a story about how the Athenians had killed me, and then make up as many gruesome details as he needed to include in order to give me the time I needed to get in position.
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strawberryshortpace · 30 days
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I don’t know what theater kid needs to hear it, but making a mistake (or multiple) on stage is not the end of the world and you don’t suck for it
Brought to you by the fact that today I saw Jeremy Jordan drop something on stage, break character mid song to go ‘woops’, and stumble over multiple lines in an official Broadway Production
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alice-ness · 12 days
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leaf!!!!! leaf leaf leaf!!!
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dailyanimatronics · 16 days
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[ID: a draiwng of sally sashay against a lavender background. she is drawn chubby and with curly hair. she's wearing a bright pink jumpsuit with long frilled sleeves andn frills at the neckline, along with a brown belt at the waist. she's posing with her left paw on her hip and the right on the upper thigh. the right leg is bent. /end ID]
beauty of biloxi
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lorephobic · 5 months
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here are my delirious saltburn notes if anyone actually wants to see them. mostly im just laying out scene order for my own reference, but theres definitely some incoherent observation & analysis in here if any of you are crazy enough to look thru it
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mono-blogs-art · 4 months
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Revue Starlight Sports Festival Draft!
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As you know, the big Stage Girl Sports Festival Revival will take place in February - literally just a full day event of the various cast members of Revue Starlight (from anime, game, and stage plays) will participate in a funky pretend-highschool sports festival. Today the full teams were decided via draft stream!
The team leaders had previously been announced:
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Koyama Momoyo (Aijo Karen, Seisho) - Yellow Team "ZERO" Tomita Maho (Tendo Maya, Seisho) - Blue Team "This is..." Nomoto Hotaru (Yukishiro Akira, Siegfeld) - Red Team "HOT" Nanaki Kanon (Yanagi Koharu, Seiran) - Green Team "shuThuarunomi" (集中あるのみ; "sTay focused")
Also quite funny to me that 3 of the team leaders (all but Maho) are former Sera Myu performers... the Sailor Moon squad has taken over
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As is tradition at this point, ensemble member Jinko Moe is the MC for this stream and explains the rules. In the first two rounds, all leaders are free to pick 1 stage girl of their chosing per round from the roster as their top picks. If any chose the same person, they will have to decide by draft - the loser can then choose freely again. After round 2, all other rounds are chosen by draft completely by luck. We already knew not all cast members are going to be there so not every stage girl is available for chosing. Suzuko Mimori (Hikari), Emiri Kato (Tsukasa) and Shiina Hekiru (Souda-sensei) are going to be the MCs at the event, so they won't be participating as athletes either. Also, Tsukui Minami (Suzu) and Kobayashi Yuka (Yakumo-sensei) are a "2 for 1" deal, as they won't be able to make the whole event (iirc).
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Team Zero's name is the most easily explained. Moyo gets a lot of praise from her colleagues and chat for her genius team logo design. The E is a crown with tomato jewels... I'm in awe
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Maho explains the pronunciation of her team: The "..." is performed dramatically with the eyes, like the above. Lol
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Nossan's design of course features Hot-kun, Akira's favourite food & beloved plushie. The Hot-kun icon is actually the inside of a chili, not a sun. Apparently.
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Kanon struggled quite a bit with finding a team name, and after consulting with the other leaders in their Line chat group, she wanted a good Koharu line as the team name. Koharu's "うるさい." ("Shut up.") came to mind, but she thought that was too rude for a team name, so shuchuarunomi it became. She placed a big T (position zero!) for the "ch" sound. Complicated, but clever.
Time for drawing the teams! In round 1, everyone is asked to present their top picks for their team.
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Moyo's is: MATSUZAWA! Aka Matsuzawa Kanon, who plays Shiro from Siegfeld Middle School!
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Maho's is the one and only Sato Hinata - student council president of Seisho herself, Hoshimi Junna.
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Nossan's top pick is: Ikuta Teru of Futaba fame!! And funnily enough...
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Kanon's pick is also Teru!!! She even drew a tiny Ponzu (Teru's dog) to sway the public. The crowd goes wild. They have to let fate decide who wins over Teru for their team, and Nossan comes out on top. So Kanon gets to choose again, and her next free pick is Haruchan! Aka her fellow Photon Maiden bestie, Iwata Haruki of Mahiru fame.
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Time for round 2, and last round of free picks! Again, Moyo goes first.
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Moyo's second pick is Saeki Iori, who plays Rinmeikan's Yuyuko!
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Maho's second pick is Sasaki Mikoi aka Mikoron, Shizuha of Frontier!
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Nossan's next pick is Koizumi Moeka aka Moepii, who plays the one and only Banana! Complaints from the other leaders are heard for her making her team too strong. Lol. We'll see about that.
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Kanon's pick is Kuge Kokoro of the Siegfeld Middle Schoolers, who plays Minku! No overlaps this time, so everyone gets their first pick!
The next picks are all made by random draft, so it's really just up to luck. Kanon is praying to get at least one other Seiran member for her heart. Everyone is praying not to get Aiai (lmao). Kanon manages to draw Tsumutsumu, another Photon Maiden member, making it a 3/4 for her team (with the fourth PM member, Hinata, sitting in Maho's team). For Nossan, she manages to draw two people very close to her - Ozaki Yuka (Michiru) and Kadoyama Yoko (Hisame), two of Akira's girlfriends. Moyo gets both of the Yumeoji siblings. Maho gets to draw her bestie's wife, KDHR. Kanon's wish is fulfilled by drawing the 2for1 duo of Minami&Kobayashi, her fellow Seirans. The crowd goes wild when Nossan draws Aiai, her team being declared the noisiest for sure (they're not wrong, this will be utter chaos).
Final distribution:
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Yellow Team "Zero": Koyama Momoyo (leader; Karen), Matsuzawa Kanon (Shiro), Saeki Iori (Yuyuko), Tono Hikaru (Shiori), Fukagawa Ruka (Ryoko), Kurachi Reo (Fumi)
Blue Team "This is...": Tomita Maho (leader; Maya), Sato Hinata (Junna), Sasaki Mikoi (Shizuha), Ito Ayasa (Kaoruko), Kudo Haruka (Yachiyo), Takeuchi Yume (Mei Fan)
Red Team "HOT": Nomoto Hotaru (leader; Akira), Ikuta Teru (Futaba), Koizumi Moeka (Nana), Ozaki Yuka (Michiru), Kadoyama Yoko (Hisame), Aiba Aina (Claudine)
Green Team "shuThuarunomi": Nanaki Kanon (leader; Koharu), Iwata Haruki (Mahiru), Kuge Kokoro (Minku), Tsumugi Risa (Rui), Sato Yuria (Kuina), Tsukui Minami (Suzu) & Kobayashi Yuka (Yakumo-sensei)
Info & Graphics can be found on the official Revstar twt , the stream was archived so you can watch the shenanigans yourself here!
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bassforte · 2 months
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Apollo has the same energy of being that one friend who never got into performing arts, but has a bunch of friends who are just theater/musical/band kids.
Like the man knows all of the latest theater and art drama through sheer association. People assume he was a theater kid himself and he just shrugs, “Nah, I actually just want to be a lawyer,” and it confused anybody who just met him.
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littlemissbigears · 1 year
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*voice crack* can’t wait🙃
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fauxfickle · 26 days
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Another month, another info dump of things you already know, or the search for "The Great All-American Pizza Show!"
Last time, we talked about the Citrus Heights commercial produced by Bob Wilkins Advertising Inc and it's potential showing at the Orinda Theatre. The bad news is that I don't know anyone from CA and I don't have anywhere near a big enough platform to spread the word. Was it there? Was it not? We'll never know! Good thing is that the Psychotronix Film Festival is putting on another show in May at Foothill College, also in CA.
But on to other news! I finally got a response from PBS about Ben Wattenberg's segment on PTT. They said they didn't have it so yeah...
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I've been looking around for Ben Wattenberg's 1980 and PM Magazine listings on Ebay, hoping for maybe a DVD copy or something but nothing comes up. These aren't really my top priority since they aren't part of TGAAPS but it helps me from burning out looking at a million commercials
Let's move onto the real meat and potatoes, the ads themselves. Starting with the Citrus Heights commercial, I've been doing research on Bob Wilkins' ad company and you'd be surprised how scarce info is on it. His obituary states that he made ads not only for PTT, but Lay-Z-Boy as well. This newspaper from 1981 says that his agency makes over $1M annually and was doing "amazingly well" which makes it all the more stranger that there's so little documentation of it. I also found a house in Oakland, that was used by the company at some point. I won't link the house, the company is so far removed from it and I don't want the people living there to be bothered. Something funny I found while looking on other search engines for traces of BW's agency is that Bing's AI assistant literally uses my post as a source. It's surreal seeing the info I wrote be regurgitated back at me by an AI. Weird...
Now the animated ad! I'll admit, I've been slacking a bit when it comes to looking for this ad, however I found 3 people on Linkedin that worked for Colossal Pictures during the late 70s. Also found out that Adam Savage from Myth Busters worked for (C)P at some point. Hmm, having your company initials be CP wasn't the smartest move in hindsight. Maybe that's why they added the parenthesis.
Something that wasn't found by me :( was a storyboard for one of the live action commercials. From what I've heard, it was posted in the showbizpizza.com discord server and spread from there. In the bottom left it says UBC which I can't really link to anything. I thought maybe it could be a production company, or an acronym, but I've got nothing. Maybe it just says Inc. Bottom right isn't much better, it's completely illegible and the first page of the storyboard is in even worse quality. An exciting find for sure, but not one that really helps me.
Or so I thought! In the end card it says (location tag), not just "Kooser and Blossom Hill". Unlike the radio ad, nothing in here denotes any sort of specific location like having a certain guest star or cabaret act. Sure it uses the Winchester bots, Kooser bots, and Mopsey sisters but people aren't really going to pay attention to whether the backup singers are mops or crows and they probably wouldn't even notice the small diffences between the portrait bots and a cyberamic in a 60 second ad.
Here's my big theory though. Oh yeah, we're getting conspiratorial! Someone asked me about that forum post I discovered that mention a PTT jingle from 1978 - 1980. Way back in my first post, I found that this person was most likely from the Detroit area, and probably didn't see the ads that I thought at the time were only in the Bay Area and aired during early 1980. I thought that because the ads ended around spring and the first store to open in MI was around November, this person was simply misremembering the "Smile America" ads from 1982. It's been a few months, and in that time I've learned probably more than any sane person should know about this campaign, and while looking at the store lists on the Cheese-e-pedia after that person mention the post, I realized something that made me feel like a complete idiot. The first PTT to open in MI was in Westland. I looked up where that was, and low and behold, Westland is A SUBURB OF DETROIT. I felt so stupid but also really happy that this tiny detail actually meant something. My theory is that maybe, just maybe, one of, if not a few of these ads were aired outside CA with the location tags edited for each store. PTT has done that before, so I feel it's not totally out of the picture for them to have done it few years earlier. If this is true, then it expands this search from just CA to Nevada, Utah, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina, and of course, Michigan.
I still want to keep most my searching in the Bay area, but I think this could lead to exciting things. Or I could be delusional, who knows? Until next time!
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the-valiant-valkyrie · 4 months
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noticing a trend w all my faves which is that it is an unpopular but simultaneously very real fact that they don't get bitches and their swagger sucks
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starblaster · 8 months
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so i went to a 1pm showing of saw x yesterday and the only other person in the theater with me was this 84 year old woman who got there the same time as i did (20 minutes early) and we were seated really far apart, and at first i thought she was literally there by mistake except i didn't want to say anything, but then she looked around and saw i was the only other person in the theater and started trying to make conversation with me so i moved to her row so she wouldn't have to raise her voice. and she starts talking to me about the saw films and then we chatted pretty much exclusively about shawnee smith over the pre-show ads and trailers.
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maddy-ferguson · 7 months
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failed my driving test twice, no actual friends in college, applied to a cool thing and was rejected, no bitches...thank god i'm seeing goodfellas in theaters in a few days because what do i have going for me rn
#the only ones who understand me are cher horowitz and pacey witter. and pacey got his driver's license later (i don't remember but#like i'm sure he did lmao) we don't know if that'll ever happen to me#what's annoying is i still don't think i'm a bad driver. delusions of grandeur maybe. but like yes for like 30mn after i failed the second#time i cried like while walking to the bus stop (i only saw like three people because YEAH it takes like an hour for me to go to the place#where you take the test like it's so annoying i have to take 2-3 different buses AND THEN i don't even have it. plus the money...) and#i was like you are the dumbest bitch ever but it's not because i don't feel capable it's because i DO and i make dumb avoidable mistakes#like it's just very frustrating#talked about the no friends at school thing like a month ago. we were together on wednesday and it's actually not as bad as it felt the day#i posted that but i don't hang out with them outside of school and don't want to is my point. they're like acquaintances that i'm not sure#i like#the thing i applied to i really wanted after i failed my test i was like i need ONE GOOD THING to happen to me this month and then i was#like no i can't post that because what if i don't get it. well#no bitches is self-explanatory#and goodfellas in theaters is real remember when it was already playing earlier this year but there was only one showing and i couldn't go#and i was so annoyed. there's three this time and i could even go to all three if i wanted to. one scorsese movie every monday at 1 from#now on for me please#and like i say: brf slt
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gamesception · 10 months
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So I finally got around to seeing the new Pixar movie, Elemental, and it's pretty great actually? Like, I know the marketing made it look very generic. The trailers seem to give the whole movie away, make you feel like you've not only already seen this movie, you've seen it a dozen times. But believe me, that's not true. There's a lot more going on with the main character and her relationship to her family and her culture and the pressure she's under as a second generation immigrant trying to honor the sacrifices her parents made for her sake. And the love interest water guy who seems so deeply mediocre in the trailers actually has a lot more going for him as well, putting so much effort in and so much on the line. Like, yes, it's a different-worlds odd-couple romance with a kind of strained racial / immigrant metaphor, but it's a really good and earnest and heartwarming version of that.
And it Just Looks Breathtaking - the colors, the use of transparency, the water and fire effects especially, the way the characters are always flickering or bubbling or flowing, every part of them always in motion even when they're standing still. If you're an animation fan you'll be watching it in awe wondering 'how is that even possible', which, I mean after having the same feelings watching Spiderverse 2, it really is a rich summer for animation.
Sure, from a business perspective Elemental looks like such an obvious mistake. And maybe from that angle it was. I mean, to spend so much money on an original movie with an honestly rather subdued plot and concept - like, there's a reason romance movies are generally relatively low budget affairs - and then to throw it up against Spiderverse 2 of all things? The executives at Disney are out of their goddamn minds. But as irrational as Elemental's budget might have been, every penny of it is on display. If you're an animation fan you really shouldn't miss the chance to see it on the big screen
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curioussubjects · 1 year
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Ok so I have some spnwin-spn connection spec I wanna share with y'all from back when @alwaysanoriginal were spiraling over some interview about The Winchesters (as we do). The second to last question is about John's journal being created, which of course made me think of plot hole vampmimes. Of course.
Or maybe not so plothole-y?
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That was mostly a joke, though I did hope tonight was going to maybe for the lolz address that. Well, little did I know because that old convo continued with this:
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DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING YOU WATCHED TONIGHT
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DOES IT
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Char, then, decided to come for me in the night and point out that the Running on Empty montage in 19 has some pretty choice scenes featuring Changing Channels, Wayward Sisters and the AU rift, Dean time traveling, and The Heroes' Journey (which I always argued was essentially the intended finale metaphorically).
Side note: sorry to expose y'all to my private ravings lol
A lot of this actually comes back to a point Billie made in s15 about Chuck building reality with himself at the center to keep it ticking. So how can you possibly beat him? By letting him think he won. I can't help but remember that delightful line from Dean in s12: "‘Cause we’re not trapped out here with you. You’re trapped out here with us." You know, that one time Dean and Sam pulled a death gambit to escape a black ops site.
But back to The Winchesters: last week we had Carlos refusing to play Loki's game (a god who can affect reality, or one's perception thereof) and winning. But to do so, he had to put his life on the line. He had to be willing to lose everything. By the way, I am once again feeling very emotional about Carlos saying he sacrificed everything for hunting, but he gained so much more because that's it! That's the thing! So yeah...cue Carlos singing Hard Times Come Again No More to his family.
This week John is the one with the seemingly inescapable fate of death (courtesy of vampires because of course), and while he doesn't tap out of the game, he realizes he knows nothing about the context of what he saw. He only got half the story, and the rest was up to him. It's appropriate, too, that this week we get another Supernatural classic with Mary reassuring John that they will find another way. And yeah, John does and wins.
And, I mean, if we're talking fate and god and gambles, why not remember a nifty piece of advice Sam and Dean received from Fortuna in The Gamblers: “Don’t play his game. Make him play yours.”
My point is if we look at 19 and 20 much like we would a vision from an amulet, none of the plot of Supernatural needs to change. It's fated. But as Millie says, and John says, and Dean say: fate is what you make it. And if The Winchesters is about how Sam and Dean became the Winchesters, then what else is this show but the context we've been missing all along.
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(send this man to stan jail tbh)
[also what is more Winchester stupid than the cosmic consequences of saving your family...like...say...releasing the Darkness or...causing an Akrida infestation...though who knows that could've been on purpose for reasons. I'm putting nothing past spnwin.]
Don't ask me how Dean goes from pulling a death gambit to get into heaven to time travelling to tweak with his parents' past. We're through the looking glass here people and we'll simply have to wait and see -- but the puzzle is for sure getting less mysterious. Something free will, knowledge, family, and Growth, something. Therapy. You know, The Winchesters.
Or I'm totally off the mark and I'll have egg for face who's to say, but for now, as a treat, I'm feeling very
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epicdogymoment · 8 days
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dream log: movie theater. and hachi was there.
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*improvising a scene*
Actor 1: This is why your parents don’t love you.
Actor 2: Wait y’all have parents -
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