#Theatre AU

[ghostofcorsetspast]

Headcanon that the batfamily starts a theatre troupe.

Jason is obviously the lead in all the tragedies cause he loves a good dramatic monologue. Bruce cries at all of the performances.

Jason asks Tim if he wanted to join and Alvin “I’ve had a secret identity planned since I was a small child” Draper goes 100% in. He scoops up Stephanie and they become the comedy improv duo.

Cass is stage crew, Duke does lights, Babs does tech but she also helps direct. Alfred is the main director.

Dick is the costume designer and everyone hates it (“discowing, how can we trust you???”) but he does a fantastic job.

Damian got roped in against his will and he turned out to be really good at it so he enjoys it now.

Bruce sometimes gets to play dramatic lead roles but mostly he just supports his kids.

[crowscadence]

BSD musical AU where Mori and Fukuzawa are co-directing it. They clearly have beef with each other but never blow up at each other in front of the cast.

That is until tech week when they have a loud argument during cast notes. Everyone is sitting there, still micced in costume and makeup, watching this happen.

There’s money exchanged later because cast members placed bets on how long it would take for that fight to happen

[jovenshires]

endless au edits: smosh theatre's seasonal lineup (1/4)

SMOSH'S SEASONAL LINEUP: A COMPLETE GUIDE by mac kahey smosh theatre, a musical theater company known for its diverse and inclusive productions, has just announced its show lineup for the year, and it is safe to say that fans are far from disappointed. starting off strong, the company kicked off its announcement with its winter showcase: a production of hadestown, led by stars damien haas and jacklyn uweh, and directed by none other than returning smosh co-founder, anthony padilla. padilla made his comeback to smosh a little over six months ago to collaborate with his fellow co-owner on their spring and summer musicals. this will be padilla's first solo show at the playhouse in nearly six years - and what a show to start off on. coupling this tragic tale of love lost with padilla's edgy direction style is a bold move, and fans are, rightfully, excited. the casting choices are also impeccable. the star-studded lineup includes previously-mentioned damien haas, an openly neurodivergent and queer actor making waves for representation everywhere. he'll be taking on the role of orpheus, a hopeless romantic, poet, and musician, and as someone who had the pleasure of sitting down with him for an interview last spring, all of these qualities describe haas to a t. this will be his first time leading a show with smosh in his near-six-year run at the company, and his first time working with padilla as a director. the actor shared the show to his instagram and expressed his excitement for the production, saying, "anthony is such a great director. it's been an honor to work with him and my amazing castmates." speaking of his castmates - his leading lady is none other than superstar jacklyn uweh. returning from her recent stint touring with the cast of spring awakening, she has rejoined the smosh cast for another performance that's sure to be amazing. the actress is known for advocating for women of color in theater spaces and never being afraid to speak her mind. she also, notably, has one of the most incredible singing voices of our generation. taking on the mysterious yet powerful role of eurydice will be no easy feat, but somehow, i think she has the power to manage it. just with this one casting, smosh has shown that when the perfect cast falls into their lap, they aren't foolish enough not to utilize it. the stacked cast doesn't stop there, though. playing hermes, the play's narrator and father figure to young orpheus, is ify nwadiwe, a booming comedic actor who has been known to feature in smosh productions. his fun-loving demeanor and natural swagger are sure to bring a natural carefree energy to this rendition of hadestown. he, too, spoke of the production fondly on social media, posting on x: "this is one of the greatest things i've ever been a part of. come see us next december to february at the smosh playhouse for one of the most incredible, f***ed up things we've ever done." long-time smosh player keith leak jr is taking on the role of hades, the rich, powerful, and egotistical king of the underworld, and his friend and partner in all things theater, olivia sui, will be beside him once more as persephone, hades's free-spirited yet suffering wife. watching these two together is always a delight, and i cannot wait for their dynamic to shine through the characters that they play. as far as the winter production is concerned, the community's shared high hopes for padilla's return may very well turn out to be grounded in reality. with an all-star cast and an incredible crew, such as returning stage head erin dougal, it is easy to see that padilla knows what he's doing. though only time will tell, i am confident that this production will be a huge success, and very well may be my favorite show of the year - although, i must mention the other productions first - because they all have incredible potential.

[hotdamnitsmoony]

ok but imagine an au about stage manager james potter and theatre actor regulus black, with playwright remus & musician sirius. james gets employed to work on the show that remus wrote & sirius composed for, that regulus is starring in, and falls head over heels for regulus and often gets distracted by him while standing in the wings.

[leafy-mints]

Jujutsu Kaisen Theatre AU Headcanons

Satoru Gojo

head director!

the drama teacher.

has his bfa & does some acting at the community theatre.

loves the stage & wants to share that with the future generations so he became a drama teacher.

definitely the type to post callback lists & cast lists LATE ASF 😒.

Suguru Geto

co-director & choreographer!

gojo's assistant some days.

doesn't work at the school, but he does pop by often to help gojo out.

got a minor in dance cause he was bored, but he lowkey loves it 😭.

always comes to help to choreo for the school's productions.

Kento Nanami

set builder!

gets hired to do most of the set building.

very good in woodworking & really makes set ideas come to life.

Ieiri Shoko

set manager!

an art teacher at the school.

her & toge do pretty much all of the painting & set design.

they do the sketches, run them by gojo, & get to work 🙏🏽.

Yuuji Itadori

actor!

a track athlete that's always wanted to try drama & doesn't get taken seriously at first since he's a jock.

actually does really good & gets a lead.

juggles both extracurriculars, but his heart is honestly more on the stage.

gets incredibly emotional on closing nights.

Megumi Fushiguro

crew member!

doesn't like all the attention from being in the spotlight, but loves all the technical stuff about the stage.

mainly does lights.

an excuse to focus on a certain someone 🌚...

assistant stage manager.

gets a little emotional on closing nights & posts about it a lot.

Nobara Kugisaki

actress!

runs the drama club's instagram account.

a true thespian honestly.

she's loved the theatre since she was young.

she's an incredible actress & has hella stage experience.

does great with any role she's given; she's pretty versatile.

SOBS on closing night, like she cries as soon as the curtains close.

Toge Inumaki & Panda

crew members!

the two most efficient crew members at that.

everyone fears for the productions after they leave.

panda is the head stage manager, so he does a bit of everything.

but mainly curtains & set moving.

toge mainly paints & draws set ideas.

don't get super emotional until their senior show.

they honestly just start planning for the next show/possible shows.

Yuta Okkotsu

actor!

definitely a theatre nerd

he becomes a different person when he preforms & honestly dissociates a little while he's on the stage (real).

a very versatile actor. give him any role & he'll deliver!

he gets so nervous pre-show & auditions though.

not-so-fun-fact: every opening night he either has a panic attack or throws up :(

toge or maki are always there to help him through that though.

Maki Zen'in

actress!

contrary to popular belief, she actually got really into theatre.

mai & her were originally forced into it by their parents, but maki's determination to be better in it than mai oddly made her love it.

she's a very serious actress though & doesn't bullshit AT ALL.

so she gets EXTRA stressed during tech week, anything going wrong just sets her off. it's never pretty 🙁.

[not-so-allegiant-general]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO. It's Kylux theatre AU.

Hux is a method actor. He puts his soul into the characters he plays. He becomes them on stage. He need to understand them, know them, feel them. He is truly brilliant. He has respect of a whole company.

And then he is forced to work with Kylo Ren. The disaster of a director who refuses to give him any details. And have the audacity to call him outdated. The audacity to tell him he should try something new. Play with it. Disgusting. Hux refuses to work with him after few rehearsals and this bastard just shrugged and told him that he will find someone else. Who does he thinks he is, to throw Hux away like that??

Kylo's performance was immense success. Critics called it truly innovative. Something fresh and new. Hux hated it. He hated it because it was so good.

He found Kylo that night to tell him how much he hates him, but they had amazing sex instead.

Hux have no idea what went wrong.

[kibbits]

Theatre AU I'm tentatively calling Break A Leg!

In light of the recent info on how they used to be a theatre bot, this is a "what if the switch to daycare workers REALLY didn't work out" AU

So the boys' theatre was a popular attraction for both kids and adults. But eventually, the novelty of acting animatronics wore off and their shows got less popular, so management decided to take back the theater and make it into the glamrocks' new stage.

The plan was to repurpose the boys as daycare bots, but management didn't even have them reprogrammed before chucking them in the daycare, so of COURSE it was a disaster! Both boys had never interacted with humans directly, and their only point of reference was to treat this as yet another role, they don't know how to be their own people (yet) (Moon: So I'm the Naptime Attendant??.... And I always play a villain. So evil naptime attendant. Got it! >: ) ) Thinking of Moon ending up being too in character and rough and breaking someone's leg (hence the title djdj)

So the boys got shut down and put into storage (and mayhaps forgotten) for a while

Until an unwitting and expendable intern named y/n is hired to clean out/take inventory of the storage in parts and services, finds them, and accidently reactivates them.

Specifically, Moon.

They manage to survive the encounter by being an experienced dnd/LARP nerd (jdhsdj), because they use that to rule-lawyer and improv the scene to their advantage, and survive intact!

And management is like "Oh shit, we can make money out of this!!" And so the intern is tasked with rehabilitating them both to be safe enough around humans, and especially more kid friendly, and if they succeed, the boys will take over comedybot's theatre and do kids' shows, with them as their handler. Y/N only has until the end of their internship to accomplish this though, with a job and the boys' lives on the line!

So that's the mise en scène cjdnd

(yay 3am sketches)

Their main problem right now is they don't know how to interact with humans! They were always on stage, or rehearsing (alone together) in their 'lodge', so they're in character 100% of the time

For Sun, that means projecting his voice and over-acting every single movement and emotion so it can be read from afar... Which is not ideal when it's just you two and he's within arm's reach. The only quiet persona he knows are the less confident, nervous support roles

As for Moon, well, he only knows how to terrify. And it doesn't help that management gave them STAFF bots as co-stars and props, and encouraged their destruction for the thrill and realism of a scene. He does still have the whole hook and cable system! But he wasn't security: he used it to rig the lights, speakers, moving props, etc on the grid above the stage. And for special effects like flying et on stage, of course!

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Their costume change was part of the act --Every one of their costume has a reversible outer layer, so when they switch out, the pants change colors (you don't want them to take them off on stage..) And they spin their faceplate as it transforms while they take off their jacket/cloak/whatever, turns it over, and put it back on in one transformation

They would also sing duets by stepping in and out of a spotlight and mostly just transforming their faceplate, usually taking advantage of the clothes' inner lining to display one side/color or another

Now, though, they haven't been maintained in years, and so their colors are faded since they're meant to be retouched for every role, their pupils are missing, their favorite jacket is missing, and the gears in their faceplate that spun so smoothly is gunked up with debris, grinding clunkily

[darlingkirstein]

thespian’s coquetry — eren jaeger 🎭

[coulsart]

My OC for my girlfriend @crow-matronic’s theatre AU!🫣 Her name is Astella and she has a thing for a certain celestial body🌘

[wolfstarhaven]

Hi! I'm looking for a fic I once read that was a theater AU. I think Sirius was an actor and Remus was a costume designer and the show was Hedwig and the Angry Inch?

Hi anon🌸 Could the fic you’re looking for perhaps be this one?

Midnight Radio (12k)

by EverythingButColdFire

Sirius is an actor in his late twenties. Enter Remus: the wardrobe supervisor and dresser for his new show.

xx

[xxnotinmylobbyxx]

I like to think that as soon as the show is over he deflates like a ballon. ||

[ficfinder-general]

I found a really good theatre AU codywan from a certain author and I loved it!

So I was thinking, can you help me find other codywan theatre AUs?

Thank you! <3

Hi,

Okay, I was so ready to recommend a WIP, The Truth That Once Was by @goddammitjim – An AU in which Obi-Wan and Cody are Broadway actors performing Les Misérables. Don't get me wrong, I'd still recommend it, it's really good so far, but I can't seem to find any other fics like this, so I'm starting to think that this is the one you're talking about?

And in that case I'd like to share this one with the crowd, maybe someone has some suggestions I'm not familiar with!

Other than that, however, there's

Rhapsody in Blue by kckenobi (@kckenobi) - another modern AU in which Obi-Wan and Cody are still performers (but in an Orchestra). You might like this one if you enjoyed the above-mentioned fic, there are some similarities in that they're all colleagues and there're plenty of secrets and flashbacks to Obi-Wan's past – admittedly, it's less focused on Cody, but I don't think it's that big a stretch and it's a great read And there's this huge mystery thrown in there too (which really keeps you on the edge of your seat despite knowing who the bad guys are).

[jovenshires]

tommy and spencer spend valentine's day together - in every universe.

[acourtofladydeath]

@erisweek2023 AU Teaser

INTRODUCING: FALSETTOS

The latest production by Prythian Productions at the Court Theatre, founded by Aurelia Vanserra-Spellcleaver. Director Helion Spellcleaver is excited to announce casting calls for his latest show. Do you want to be one of the jews in his room bitching, or maybe even a lesbian from next door? Union and non-union actors are welcome to audition. Stay tuned for more details.

Hello all, I am happy to introduce my next multi-chap fic “Lovers Live and Die, Fortissimo”.

Are you interested in a modern theatre AU featuring an entirely overworked and overwhelmed stage manager Lucien? What about retired actor and now stage husband and father Rhysand? Featuring Azris (literally and figuratively) center stage, and a scandalous backstage polycule Feytamsand. Nessian, Elucien, Helion/LOA will also all make an appearance. Buckle up folks, this is going to be a ride. 

Why did famed union actor Eris Vanserra have a very public onstage breakdown? What happened between Rhysand and Tamlin to make them hate each other so much? Where the hell did new kids on the block Cassian and Azriel learn how to act? For answers to all of these questions and more, stay tuned for my next fic, which will include one chapter per song in the show for a grand total of 43. Will you be able to find all of the song quotes? Keep an eye out!

Given the amount of research and number of interweaving plots this fic will take a while to write, and will not have a regular posting schedule. I’d rather give you good content than rushed content. But I'm incredibly excited for this, and I hope you are too.

[ask-attendant-mansion]

Oh gosh I've completely forgotten to introduce myself in my excitement, utmost apologies you lovelies (Location C) ahah

I'm Ray :3

It's a pleasure to meet you!

Hope I'm not coming off as too strong ahah

"Well, Ray, I dare say you must be a ray of sunshine with how nice you've been~!" Apollo chimed, struggling not to giggle at their own joke, "A pleasure to meet you as well! Not coming off too strong at all, it's always nice to see some enthusiasm~!"

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"Hello, Ray... You are a tad overzealous, but it is far better to be genuine and happy than stifled and sad, no? In any case, continue as you are, there is no point in trying to pretend to earn people's favor if you don't have to." Artemis waved her hand off to the side. "It's draining."

~~~~~

Astraeus nodded, then bowed in a sign of respect, swishing their hat. They were still in quite good spirits, according to their body language. "You are just fine."

[sea-breeze-19]

Guys I was in the shower earlier and I was thinking how funny it would be if the Good Omens crew was in a musical and that spiraled into thinking how everyone would fit into Monty Python’s Spamalot and somehow I ended with Crowley being a stage manager so here’s a (shitty picture) of a wip I’m working on!

His apron thingy was gonna say “hot stage mom” inspired by one of my friends actual aprons but it wouldn’t fit :(

Anyways lmk y’all’s thoughts n shit on my wonderful idea

I thinking that Aziraphale would obviously be an actor because of his magician stuff, but I can also see him working in costuming/makeup!

Can y’all tell I’m a theatre major yet