#at the local theater

[magnetostits]

the barbenheimer experience i had was so funny i saw oppenheimer first and in a quiet scene we could literally hear ken singing in the theater next to us and then during barbie it when was quiet we could hear a fucking explosion coming from the oppenheimer screening

[audible-smiles]

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

[riocinn]

those were the lyrics right

[verystressedcollegestudent]

god ive just completely wasted the last two months of my life haven't i 🙃

[florallylly]

eddie munson stumbling over his words, speaking absolute gibberish to steve and steve's eyes have just glazed over bc he's already named their children in his head

[bisclavaret]

📺💥💕💕

[forgthetheaterkid]

This is your PSA to go to local theater productions

Because they’re pretty freaking good

[violetrains]

i love you tinker bell i love you silvermist i love you rosetta i love you iridessa i love you fawn i love you vidia i love you clank and bobble i love you terrence i love you queen clarion i love you fairy mary i love you pixie hollow i love you neverland i love you pixie dust i love you lost things i love you cute little fairy dresses made of flower petals and leaves i love you pompoms on tinker bell's shoes i love you music box with the ballerina that belongs to wendy darling i love you nature magic powers i love you tinkerfairy inventions i love you animal companions i love you fairy humor i love you fairy lore i love you tinker bell soundtrack i love you credits at the end with the cute illustrations i love you disney fairies movies i love you tales of pixie hollow books i love you tinker bell franchise

[finelythreadedsky]

in the production of ajax that exists in my head, when athena brings ajax out of his tent in the prologue she makes odysseus go sit in the audience to see him without being seen by him

[wuntrum]

not that i necessarily stan Any celebrity but, earning massive dev patel stan points at the moment (most likely the first person in maine to watch this film... because most of the theaters are closed today 😭)

[honetii]

saw a local production of newsies today and I need everyone to know that for some reason I cannot figure out they gave spot this goofy little top hat and cane. like just full magician fit. kind of inspired if you ask me.

[bodiesinourcellar]

live theater with a lot of passion low budget and audience participation will have you fully appreciating what it means to be a human being and what we’re all here for basically

[painfullyprickedandticked]

okay so to further explain that whole "Stolas doesn't need a rebound" post that I made 2 days ago

I wrote this during a rough morning where I was fighting for my life and saw bad takes. Do you know what it's like to see so many people who can't understand the idea of two people overcoming their flaws and working on bettering themselves to enter a proper relationship? That's been me since late May, sitting through this bullshit and having to filter out garbage takes because God forbid I like this owl/imp pairing I guess

My main beef is that people keep using Vassago, who is only described as a "good boy", to shit on the pairing. I used to defend Stolas/Vassago solely on the principle that I liked this pairing in another fandom that got "they're family" allegations despite not being biologically related, and that shit being used solely on queer pairings pisses me off. But seeing the fans of Stolas/Vassago shit on Stolitz while propping up a ship with basically nothing going for it but aesthetic? "Oh, but it's health-" Shut up. Oh my god. SHUT UP. THE WHOLE POINT OF STOLITZ IS SLOWLY OVERCOMING TOXICITY. IT'S A SLOW BURN RELATIONSHIP. IT'S NOT ALL GOING TO HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY. BE PATIENT.

People like the above are so annoying and too common in this altship, that I immediately have grown to be exasperated by it. The notion that a rebound romance would be totally swell also just feels weird? Like, you guys know how that'd go? Blitzø has bad self esteem and doesn't see himself as good enough. How would he react to seeing another Goetia demon courting Stolas? He'd give up, thinking he was right in his self loathing. Similarly, again, like I've said - Stolas needs to get over his own inner prejudice and learn. Rebound won't help. He needs to learn of imps and their perspectives. Needs to come to truly understand Blitzo’s view.

Some of you are just impatient and want to rush this. This rebound idea only enforces that and as it's so weird to me. It's clear they both want each other but they're both faulty and need to get over their own flaws first.

Again, what's there to this parrot dude and owl boy pairing besides the aesthetic? Sticking characters together because they're the same species rather than how they'd clash in personalities or whatever is so weird to me and that's what a lot of the same species pairings in this fandom feel like. Pairing Blitzø with other imps, Stolas with other bird dudes - it feels weird and sticking to same species is just so odd given, well, what I just explained?

Im tired and the more I think about this the more drained I get

[radiojamming]

[shannonallaround]

GUYS

I GOT IT

[birdybirdnerd]

👀 bifrost incident stage play????

youve opened pandoras box my friend. get ready

okay so i had this idea back in 2019 when i first got into the mechs and specifically first heard tbi. im a theater kid and have chronic amv/animatic brain where i visualize things real easy, so when i first listened to this album i was SLAMMED with the realization that, actually, tbi is PERFECT for a stage adaptation

imagine, if you will:

inspector lyf, at his desk side-stage and in front of the curtains. stalking across the stage, talking direct to the audience as he waves the black box, setting the stage and the story ahead and theorizing as to whats going on

the first chords of odins launch speech are heard, and the curtains open wide on the exterior of the train, odin at a podium, and a crowd listening intently

during each of lyfs speaking parts (cold case/person of interest/etc), he walks across the stage and explains things, as the set changes behind him. new characters arrive, spotlights shining as lyf wonders what theyre doing there, if they were the one that sabotaged the train

in the style of kabuki theater, the stagehands are dressed all in black, silently moving the set around the actors, changing things and completely invisible, the audience accustomed to ignoring them at this point

lokis song comes, and the whole time she sings, she is beset by these stagehands, dragging her around like another set piece, harassing her, interacting with her but still invisible to everyone else. sigyn tries to get her attention during her song, tries to pull her into their wedding dance- but the stagehands keep pulling loki into dances of their own, all while sigyn has no idea why her wife wont so much as look at her

losing track, lyf is losing track and the suspects are lined up onstage, singing, taunting as lyf stalks among them, grabbing their arms and faces and demanding answers. as he loses his mind, falling into despair, they turn to him and grab him back, pull him down, yell the only words they have left at him as he despairs.

the live band is dressed in theme, all steampunk-ed up, on a mini stage off opposite lyf with minimal lighting on them, until- expert testimony comes by, lyf bemoans having to go to the imprisoned bandits that annoy him so, as he crosses the stage, only for the lights to rise on the band and guess who theyve been the whole time!

red signal. lyf stands center stage, frozen in place as he chants, summoning that squamous something from beyond the veil, as those stagehands, all-black, all-invisible, shift and change before the audiences eyes, pulling out rainbow scarves, makeup once hidden shining bright and vivid in sudden black light. they dash off the stage as the rip between worlds widens, run amok the audience, slamming through doors and screeching as lyf voice raises higher, higher, until-

intermission

and when the audience comes back, the stage is... wrong

more black light, the set has warped and twisted. rainbow lights shimmer brighter on the backdrop, splashing in pools on the stage and the actors faces. the stagehands run free now, the monsters from behind the veil, the unholy things now attacking the actors directly, tearing them apart as the train falls into chaos

thor confronts the all-mother, transformed; she stands at the top of a podium now, the top of a platform while her costume has expanded around her, grandiose robes melting into a massive, writhing puppet manned by the stagehands, a bright and staring eye projected behind her head, staring at the audience, watching. thor fights off the hands, loses, and finally throws his hammer at the eye- replaced with a bright, white crack as the stars claim them both

loki and sigyn share a final tender moment in the engine room, they get their dance in before sigyn slips the line into her wifes arm. they share a final kiss as the curtains close on them, leaving...

lyf, standing center-stage. bottle in hand, exhausted, terrified. he bids the audience good luck, laughs wryly about the bandits disappearing - at some point, the live band quietly disappeared from their side-stage - and slips behind the curtain

terminus

the radio static fizzes, and as we hear the panic spread across the galaxy, the curtains part for bows. the bell tolls, flashing that bright, staring eye back as all other lights go off, plummeting everyone into dark and stark relief

-

so yeah, ive thought of this a normal amount