theatre life is not real. i have an audition next week for a black swan musical written by dave molloy. and i have to just be normal about that

A responsible press would either decide that whatever real backlash there is to a comedian’s special isn’t newsworthy; if it is newsworthy, it would cover it through the frame of engaging with whatever specific criticisms there are, not knee-jerk “free speech” framing despite lack of a “free speech” issue. But we do not have a responsible press. We have a press that loves chaos and controversy. We have a press that frames everything as a “culture war,” in which two equally valid sides score points. So they love this stuff. The result of this is a slew of comedians who pose as far more edgy than they actually are.

But at the risk of stating the obvious, the fact that the world’s biggest comedians are getting paid massive amounts of money by some of the most powerful companies in media to record these variations on the same jokes that others have told for years already… should probably lead us to tap the brakes on the “OooOoOoh, they’re so edgy!” claims.

The whole piece is so good (and if you hit the paywall and want more, I have a handful of 3 month subscriptions I can share), but I also wanted to put a spotlight on this comment because it really cuts through some bullshit:

back on my bullshit thinking about how Dust and Ashes (from natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812) is so fucking ricean it hurts my bones.

Somebody needs to do something about all the IWtV posts I keep reblogging as a Dave Malloy fan

Well... from the 1-8 seasons, if it's possible:

Aristotle Amadopolis

Rex Banner

Molloy

Dave Shutton

Hollis Hurlbut

Don Brodka

Frank Ormand

Well... if it's inside your possiblities and you're not busy...

Bro I'm laying in bed rn i am literally the opposite of busy LMAO

Aristotle Amadopolis and Dave Shutton both didn't have any appearances in this book sadly ;-;

just saw a production of ghost quartet ^_^ it was good and also made me realize how ridiculously distinctive Dave Molloy’s style as a composer is, at least between this show and Great Comet.

Why are we getting a Goncharov musical by ALW when Dave Molloy was right there? 

sorry but daniel molloy having such a close name to dave malloy is like…….horrifying. and i had a lot of different thoughts about that fic before i realized what was going on.

oh you think it’s hard for YOU anon?! I misread his name every single day of my life. once thought a post was about IWTV but instead it was just the first post about Dave Malloy to show up on my dash in DAYS. I literally had Daniel’s name spelled as “Malloy” in second-to-last draft of the fic I just posted and had to Google it to double check

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mw southeast asian faces, and what roles do u see them fitting?

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IPC - WeThe15 from Sam Pilling on Vimeo.

A film to launch the #WeThe15 movement – spearheaded by the International Paralympic Committee and International Disability Alliance.⁣⁣

-- 2022 AICP AWARDS - WINNER (Cause) CANNES LIONS - SILVER / Casting (film craft) D&AD AWARDS - Wood Pencil / Casting BRITISH ARROWS - SILVER / casting BRITISH ARROWS - SILVER / Entertainment & Sports Promotions BRITISH ARROWS - BRONZE / Innovation & Immersive Experiences CDA AWARDS - WINNER / Commercial CREATIVE CIRCLE AWARDS - SILVER / Editing SPORTS EMMY - nomination

-- 2021 SHOTS - SILVER / charity CAMPAIGN - #11 / Top 15 Film Ads of the Year 1.4 AWARDS - SILVER (FLYING HIGH) / commercial - planet positive ⁣⁣ The movement, #WeThe15, takes its name from the 15% of the global population who have a disability: the world’s largest marginalised group. With the goal of putting the rights of the 15% at the heart of the global inclusivity agenda. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics start today! Our film launches the #wethe15 movement and will be shown as part of the opening ceremony to a global audience of over 250 million people. Made in partnership with Adam & Eve DDB, the International Paralympic Committee and the International Disability Alliance, we hope this film helps to shift the narrative around people with disabilities - away from one in which they are either stereotyped as objects of pity, or put on a pedestal �

Huge thank you to all the Cast & crew across the world who gave up their precious time to help bring this film to life ��

STARRING: Kirin Saeed, Crystal Marshall, Wayne Huggit, Brinston Tchana, Martha Ciana, Chris Coxon, Cindy-Jane Armbruster, Asa Bebbington, Asif Ali, Rajesh Kalhan, Jacob Chambers, Yusef, Bethany Asher, Ekow Otoo, Jessica Margraff, Frank & Cindy Williams, Mukandi Mashamba, Camphill Football Team, Evans Maripa, Nathan Hanekom, Rory Avenstrup, Monica e Lino, Max Ulivieri, Loredana Grandi, Lorenzo Casarini, Carlos Neme

THANKS TO: C-Talent and Dan Edge, Bev and Gatehouse, Pulse Italia and Giorgio Testi, Jenni Haberstock, Ryan Booth, Dav & Hillary, Bird and Indochina Productions

CREW: Agency: Adam & Eve Agency producers: Hannah / Rebecca /Jack CCO: Rik Brim Creative Director: Laura Rogers Creatives: Gen & Selma Production: Pulse Films MD: James Sorton & Davud Karbassioun Executive Producer: Lucy Kelly Producer: Dave French PM: Kishan Patel PA: Ellie Sanders Wright PA: Honey Cairns DP: Alex Barber & Chloë Thomson Focus: Merrit Gold Production Designer: Beck Rainford Set Assistant: Grace Bailey Props: Lloyd Vincent Grip: Johnny Donne Gaffer: Paul Molloy Stylist: Hannah Hopkins Stylist Assistant: Adam Martin H&MU: Gaby Winwood H&MU Assistant: Georgia Ryan 1st A.D: James Sharpe Playback: Alan Muszynski Sound: Stephen Hodge Boom Op: Esther Aside-Ofei Casting: Anna Stark CAPE TOWN Gatehouse Commercials EP: Beverley Wynne Producer: Karin Tanchel PM: Daniel Stoffberg 1st AD: Jaco Nel DP: Shaun Harley Lee Focus: Khalid Manuel Art: Willow Howell Make-Up Stylist: Annette Keet Sound: Henau Marais Location Manager: Bhut Gladstone MILAN Pulse Italia Executive Producer: Giorgio Testi Producer: Giulia Negretto Director: Tobia Passigato DP: Diego Indraccolo BANGKOK Indochina Productions EP: Nicholas Simón Producer: Atrachariya Pinitsanpirom (Bird) DP: Nicolas Axelrod Art Director: Salem Kardeeroj 1st A.D: Napon Limsomwong (Kwan) Casting Director: Sarawanee Yodnoon BOGOTA DP: Mauricio Vidal Editors: Ellie Johnson, Liam Bachler & Elyse Raphael at Tenthree Colour: Simon Bourne at Framestore Colour Producer: Chris Anthony VFX: Untold Studios Track: The Mohawks - The Champ (1968) Sync and Music Composition: Luis Almau at Soundtree Music Sound Design: Sam Ashwell & Mark Hellaby at 750mph Film Stock: Kodak Scans: Cinelab London Print: Dejonghe

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly, 2022)

Cast: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Bill Murray, Kyle Allen, Deanna Russo, Paul Adelstein, Jake Picking, Joe Adler, Archie Renaux, Will Hochman, Kristin Carey, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis. Will Ropp, Matt Cook. Screenplay: Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Pete Jones, based on a book by John “Chick” Donohue and J.T. Molloy. Cinematography: Sean Porter. Production design: Tim Galvin. Film editing: Patrick J. Don Vito. Music: Dave Palmer. 

I subscribed to the Apple TV+ streaming service so I could watch CODA (Sian Heder, 2021) and The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021), and I stuck with it because I got hooked on the series Severance and For All Mankind. (I haven't yet dipped into its most popular series, Ted Lasso.) And having invested in yet another streaming service, I felt compelled to check out its other movies. Compared to the major streamers, the offerings are fairly thin, so I gave The Greatest Beer Run Ever a try. Unfortunately, the movie is as clunky as its title and surprisingly inept, coming from a filmmaker who won two Oscars for Green Book (2018). Based on an improbable but true story, it's about a civilian who decides to take a duffel bag full of beer to his buddies in Vietnam at the height of the war, spurred by a kind of deluded patriotism and boozy camaraderie. But Zac Efron doesn't have the acting chops or the confident screen presence to carry the central role of Chickie Donahue, and he's not given much help by the screenplay's failures of tone. Is the movie a comedy? An anti-war satire? A story whose subtext is the way American politicians exploit the naïveté of the citizenry? It could have been all of those things, but it just falls flat, with an ending which implies that Chickie has been changed by confrontation with the terrible truth of the Vietnam War but doesn't find an adequate way of demonstrating it. There are some amusing moments, such as the way Chickie gets mistaken for a CIA agent and is able to exploit the misconception. And there are good performances from Russell Crowe as a combat photographer and Bill Murray as a World War II vet who buys into the official line that the war in Vietnam is being won and condemns the media and the protesters for their lack of patriotism. (The pro-war blue-collar milieu from which Chickie comes is treated with sentimentality, such as the woman who wants him to take a rosary to her son, who is MIA.) The real story behind the film is an intriguing one, but it's wasted in the final product.

Adidas MYSHELTER from Pomp&Clout on Vimeo.

Directed by Ryan Staake Production Companies: Pomp&Clout Executive Producer: Ryen Bartlett Head of Production: Kevin Staake Producer: Dustin Highbridge UK Production: Riff Raff UK Line Producer: Kate Brady Director of Photography: Kristian Zuniga Editor: Rigel Kilston Music: Scott Storch Photographer: Andrew Alvarez Lead VFX: Jeff Beukema Additional VFX: Michiel Krop Colorist: Nick Metcalf, The Mill NY Sound/ Mixing: Rob Albrecht Production Agency: Whale BV Whale BV Producer: Ezra Xenos Agency / Client: adidas Creative Director: Paul Mann Art Director: Rob Glad Senior Creative Producer: Jaime Watson Lead SFX: Jeff Moratti SFX: Jarrod Lvey, Karl Thwaites, Tom Tracey

Production Supervisor: Anastasia Counihan Assistant Production Supervisor: Mike Vitiello 1st AD: Reggie Banniester 2nd AD: Sunny Fehlig Casting: Big Apple Casting 1st AC: Haley Wetherington 2nd AC: Yasmeen Jawha Steadicam Op: Michael Klein DIT: Celeste Perez Gaffers: Ben Hunt & Pat Dillion Swing: Paul Alban Key Grip: Bryan Landes Jig Tech: Mike Kirsic Stylist: Renata Gar Hair and Makeup: Heather Wolverton Parking Coordinator: Robert The Coneman Photo Assistant: Aleja Ramirez, Alberto Torres Office PA: Lyla Rose PA Key: Jason Morrison PA (Prod Cube): Ryan Arnold, Ed Louis Set PA: Anna Langston, Devine Mcrae, Lin Xu, Sara Falco, Tasha Saminjo, Henry Komaros PA: David Tiger Cortes PA: Michael Pluchino Driver PA: Jimmy Germaine Communications Manager: Camila Soares

Cast Models: Kai Moran Jordan Smith Hannah Kerr Theodore Lee “Hero”: Odalys, Jimothy Lacoste Body Doubles: James Campbell, Karina Bik Featured Friends: Roisin Tapponi James Fan Leojjie Estacio Geena Rios

Supporting Artists: Charlotte Marie Oliver Fritz Helene Goldthorpe Adonis Kapsalis Old Woman: Bailey Rosen Extras: Norka Vasquez George Fasbinder David Jenkins Jr. Cassidy Napolitano

Camera: Panavision Camera (Stills): KM Camera Catering: Broadway Catering G&E: Handheld Films Insurance: March Jib: Empire Jibs Payroll USA: CAPS Permits: NYC Environmental Protection Permits: MOFTB Prod. Supplies: Wits End Group Shipping: FedEx Special Effects: J&M Special FX Trucking - Production: Edge Auto Rental Walkies: Hinterland Communication ___________

UK

Production Manager: Laura Duffy Location Manager: Rupert Bowkett Location Manager: Joe Storelli 1st AD: Tom Kelly 2ND AD:John Robinson Runners: Lucy Kelly Dan Hasson Elia Redondo Charlotte Miller Security: James Dimmock, Dave Cook

Steadicam Operator: Jess Doxley PA: Miri de Villers 1st AC: Barney Batchelor 2nd AC :Toby McKay Camera Trainee: Robyn Skead DATA WRANGLER: Jason Hunte Camera Car Driver: Anthony Bugge Camera Specialist/ Remote Car Operator: Jonathan Dennis Jimmy Jib Technician: Sean Webb Sound Recordist: Roger Cutting Gaffer: Paul Molloy Electrician: Rob Stewart Electrician: Ryan Delahunty Trainee Electrician: Jordan Gosling Rigger: Graham Petherick Production Designer: Sean Fenn Prop Master: Graham Cole Props Transport: Tom Hamilton SFX Senior Technician: Matt Beckwith SFX Technician: Ryan Crew Costume Designer: Kerry Saxton Costume Assistant: Lucy Pugh-Bevan Seamstress: Louise Halswell Hair and Makeup: Lu Hinton Traffic Management Team: Bill Stanley, Dean Mitchell, Paul Kybert Wardrobe/ Makeup Split Driver: Geoff Eley Dining Bus Driver: Manj Dhaliwal Client/ Agency Driver: Akbar Ali Mini Bus Driver (12 seater): Djamel Dokkari Mini Bus Driver: (16 Seater): Greg Sommer

Dave Molloy, I love you, but what on actual earth was Ghost Quartet