fuck man i just love theatre and broadway and musicals and plays and community theatre and regional theatre and new york city and touring productions and auditions and rehearsals and tech week and opening nights and closing nights i love it all UGH.

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FACE REVEAL??!?!?!? and costume reveal for newsies :3

here is the face behind your local newsies artist

THERE’S ME!!! FINCH!!! we’re gonna dirty up the costumes and i’m gonna use the fabric from the sleeves we cut off to wrap around my wrists (cuz i have bad joints) and i’m gonna cover my tattoos and stuff. We have 16 days until opening night!!!

and also our race had a class in college with ben fankhauser???? and AKB just knows some of the people in my cast and he’s also an alumni of this theater???

pov our jane doe & ocean are dating irl <3

only TWO more shows left!! come see rtc august 11th & 12th in NJ! tickets available here!

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Sometimes I post theatre stuff so here’s a production I did recently.

I got to play the role of Katherine Plumber in my local community theatre’s production of Newsies and had the time of my life! I still miss the cast 🥲💙 Hoping this isn’t the last time I get to be a part of such an awesome show.

Here's a look at the opening of the Cafe scene from our production of Les Mis last year! (a behind-the-scenes of the set up before the curtains open can be found here!)

ITS HAPPENING—

Slay my dude SLAYYYYYY /jokes

hey exposure and accessibility to theatre is incredibly important btw. theatre teaches people so much about empathy and compassion for others btw. professional theatre sure but also children’s theatre, high school theatre, community theatre, all of it deserves attention and love btw. theatre is a very powerful force for humanity btw. just! by! the! way!!!!!!

Directing community theatre plays is like what I imagine childbirth to be like. When things get down to the wire, I'm like out of my mind being like "Why did I agree to do this? This is brutal! I'm never doing this again! I don't think I can withstand this stress!" and then afterward it's like my memory immediately erases the stress and I'm like, "...Shall we have another?"

I’m extraordinarily biased because I played him in a community production but I keep seeing the “Karnak is the true villain” thing come up a lot and I disagree, and I’m brainrotting HARD right now so here’s my reasoning.

(Note: all of this is /lh; obviously you’re entitled to your opinion and if you disagree that’s completely fine! If we all had exactly the same thoughts about every character then fandoms would get pretty boring, I just wanna share my thoughts!)

Firstly, an argument I see a lot is that he’s unfair to Ocean at the beginning, even going so far as to avoid telling her about the unanimous vote until after her song is finished. I get where that’s coming from, but my problem with that argument is the fact that Ocean,, kinda needed to be knocked down a little? Don’t get me wrong, I love her, but if Karnak had been up front about the rules from the get go, Ocean likely would’ve just sung a longer version of “I Love You Guys” then spent the rest of the musical assuming she’d won the vote. If she’d felt completely secure in her self-proclaimed authority the entire time, she wouldn’t have gotten the chance to grow and change as she does throughout the story. Ocean needed to see her own behavior reflected back at her.

Secondly, there’s the whole Taco Bell thing, and like… yeah?? It was kinda rude, but again, I feel like Noel kinda needed that for the same reason Ocean did— he just needed a reality check before his song instead of afterwards. Karnak’s whole thing is getting the kids to recognize that even though they dreamed of futures they never got to have, they still did things over the course of their lives, and they need to accept every facet of themselves instead of just the trope-y, “likable” parts. Noel Gruber was a novelist-and-sexual-provocateur-who-never-wrote-a-novel-or-had-sex, but he was also Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell and was kind of a dork. Those things are not mutually exclusive, and he needed to see that.

I’ve heard a few variations of “he was pushing them to vote for Jane Doe and they were never really in control.” My take on that is that yes, he was hoping they’d choose Jane because, y’know, they had lives already and all that, but I don’t think he forced them to. [MILD HADESTOWN SPOILERS] In my mind, it’s a bit like how at the end of Hadestown, Hades didn’t trick or deceive Orpheus— it was a test, not a trap. Hades wasn’t going to stop him from passing, but he wasn’t going to stop him from failing, either. [END OF SPOILERS] (Sorry that was the best metaphor I could think of)

So uh yeah, I don’t think he’s the villain— I personally don’t think RTC has a villain. It’s not a game, after all. :)

Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions on this, I’d love to hear!!

me: *pours my heart and soul into a show, sings entirely male parts, plays all male characters, lists my pronouns in the playbill*

old lady: great job, ladies!

me:

Every selfie with Karnak

CHAT WE ARE STARTING KING OF NEW YORK TODAY IN REHEARSALS!!!!!!! IM SO HYPED!!!!!

Audrey Two has officially tasted blood... (cut myself on the edge of the hand-puppet pot today. ironically while we were rehearsing Grow for Me)

Premiering the BACCP's Official B*tch of Living Music Video! You're not going to want to miss seeing all our boys in action 🥵

Spring Awakening runs April 12-21, get your tickets now at:

In our final week of shows we all came down to the theatre one night to take group shots from any major ensemble scenes in full costume, to make sure we could all appreciate the fully-lit efforts of the costume team for years to come.

This was our biggest group - the Beggars in Paris. It's still only about half of our cast. The full cast were genuinely never all in the same room at the same time!